to think that the thread police hopping around saying ' this should be in.....section' are not really helping the site to seem welcoming!

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That's all.

It's jolly annoying.

I must admit when I open a thread, read a few posts and then see a TAMPON post I generally ignore the rest of the thread because....oh I dont know why really.....I guess the boringness of the TAMPON post just makes me lose the will to carry on with it

I've advised a couple of people posting about relationship issues that they might do better posting in that topic because a lot of the very helpful and wise women in that topic don't always read AIBU.

If the "thread police" make the site less welcoming to the type of unimaginative, screechy, attention-seekers who can only bring themselves to post in Aibu then....hooray! Good news!

It really is shitting over someones thread though and very pointless.

They're shitting over the site.

I've only said it once when I genuinely thought the OP would be better helped by moving the thread to wherever it was it was probably best being.

Otherwise, it is really annoying when people can't just let it be.

YANBU.

I have been getting annoyed about all the "... to ask you what is your favourite flavour pizza" posts in AIBU. I'm just too lazy to do something about it. So thank you Trillian, I'm with you.

Soupdragon - In what way is mum snot different from any other snot?

So, we have the thread police (Trillian etc..) we have the thread thread police (OP...) I reckon it's now time to contact Supernanny, she'll tell us all where we're going wrong

Agree with CharlieMcGee.

Thread police equals inflated ego IMO.

What is it you all have against AIBU?

Personally, I think it's awesome!

I think the thread police should stop helicopter parenting tbh and let the OP take ownership of where they post.

Sure, if they post in AIBU 'Just read the latest Jo Nesbo. What do you think?' You might feasibly say 'oh it was rubbish, but please come and join in with our discussion here (post link to fiction thread)'

(see, helpful but not be-littling)

I admit I have suggested to posters that their thread woudl be better in either Relationships or Mental Health when the threads have gone bad, and messaged MNHQ with the same suggestion too, but only very few times and not very recently.

I do think some posters really should think about the sensitivity level of their subject before deciding to open it to the dangers of AIBU though - it can get really nasty on this board!

AIBU already has a warning posted by MN. If the poster reads that and still wants to post then they should be able to without someone telling them off.

+1 to JeremyVile.

The thing that gets right on my wick about them spamming AIBU section constantly, is that some people post on here because they're isolated and trying to find support.

They know AIBU in MN gets a lot of traffic and are guarenteed lots of contact with other people.

They might test the waters with a benign subject, which possibly could be posted elsewhere, but they don't want expert advice, just someone to talk to.

And how many threads are there where it starts off with an innocuous OP and the OP then gets the courage to start talking about the real problem they're having, like a controlling or abusive DH?

Threads always go off at a tangent.

A lot of people don't find it easy to talk about some things in their lives, they might have kinder answers posting in relationships, but maybe for some reason they don't want to.

It's not for any poster to tell someone else they can't post what and where they like.

Or is it just simply a case of 'MN isn't what it used to be' and you should do as you're told by posters who feel their longer membership makes them entitled to a bigger say on MN?

LimburgseVlaai, you will have to post your snot question in the correct topic. probably General Health.

It is bloody annoying when people post a non-AIBU in AIBU because they want the attention numbers, but why can't people just report the post and suggest it goes in chat or wherever? I've done it a number of times and MNHQ usually move it wherever it needs to go.
Surely that's the job of the report button, all the keyboard warriors end up doing is ruining the thread.

I think it's a bit rude to ask for someone's post to be moved without telling them... I guess we have an etiquette question.

Oh look, we have an etiquette topic!

Shall I get the door for you Trillian

Oh no, I have usually suggested it to them first - and told them I'm going to do it. And as I said, only when the thread has already gone bad. Not before. (done it maybe two or 3 times at most)

Etiquette question for you dickiedavis :)

Ooh that's an interesting point.
Problem is the threads I'm referring to are usually of the following variety:

"OP, posting about the colour of your cat isn't really an AIBU"
"FUCK OFF, YOU ARE ALL A MASSIVE BUNCH OF BULLEEEEEEZ"

Surely if a thread gets quietly moved again and again it will deter OP from continuing to post absolute drivel about horrible elderly neighbours where it doesn't belong?

I haven't been here long but have started a few threads, all in the relevant topics (I think ). It really isn't that hard.

I think one of my threads has gone unanswered but that was a crappy one about a pram anyway. All my others I have received advice on or had my questions answered so there is people around to answer them.

But saying that I am getting fed up of reading a thread to end up reading "YABU for not asking an AIBU question?" or "There's a proper topic for this" and all the others the Thread Police seem to be keen on bombarding!

Why target Trillian? I largely agree with the OP but my admiration from Trillian has increased tenfold because of the very patient way she is dealing with posts which are naming her and being quite rude about it.

Well done Trillian!
Just stop telling people they've posted on the wrong thread though