To tell all those of you who only post on AIBU that there is a whole world of very specific boards on Mumsnet for you to post on?

[BIWI]

MNHQ have, over the years, very kindly created any number of different boards to reflect the many and varied interests that Mumsnetters have.

Anything from pets to health to relationships to gay children to education to things for sale to comments on site stuff to general chat, etc etc.

So why, oh why, do you persist in only posting in AIBU?

Well if my willy isn't good enough for you....

I know but it just makes me feel uncomfortable really

I could Google some random legal advice and pretend I'm a solicitor...build up people's trust and then spout total shite...especially via PM.

I suppose I've seen similar things happen too often on forums.

The very best advice imo is to tell someone to ring a solicitor.

Oh, I should keep my nose out of threads I haven't read properly IWBU. Night!

I thought yours was a considered and sensible post garlic

(I'm a thick, lazy scrounger though, so my opinion goes for nowt)

I like the randomness of AIBU, I like the fact its never on one subject (though many repeated ones including this) I like that its a fast forum.

YANBU as you're correct.

YABU to be a pedant when it really really shouldn't make you so annoyed you post about it [innocent blink] because for all its guff and incorrect filing, its the best forum.

I like chat too, but thats a little too fast and too random.

I like here because well, I like telling people they're U or not.

I also think this is a great signpost forum... if people on here can't be of help, well send em elsewhere very quick.

YABU op UUUUUUUUU.

"if people on here can't be of help, well send em elsewhere very quick"

And there it is. Confirmation of the 'we' that exists in this part of MN.

Venture out into the wider world - there are some brilliant threads out there for you to see!

YABU

(I've committed a cardinal sin by not reading the whole thread).

I can be unreasonable (or reasonable) about any number of topics. So AIBU is fair game.

I have a prefect badge. It has nothing to do with MN, but I feel I can make busy with the Tippex and it'll pass.

Why doesn't MNHQ put someone work experience on AIBU Moving Duty for a fortnight, to move every thread that isn't an AIBU? I know they do the odd few, but really tidy up for a couple of weeks - to see if it breaks the cycle?

Honey - you is baaaad.

But all the other boards are either tumbleweeds, boring or have a extremestrong in-group that brooks no alternative views.

Not all of them are tumbleweeds. And anyway, they will only get more tumbleweedy if everyone posts here. We need a two-pronged attack - a topic cull and the Work Experience Mover .

Threads like the AIBU to be sad about Whitney's death - ? Why would that be unreasonable? It's just likely in AIBU to attract the odd eejit to say 'YABU, she was a cow' and then the whole thread'll twirl into a nasty bunfight (as opposed to the funny kind). If the same thread were posted in Sleb Twaddle, News or Chat and not phrased as a question, I think people would have more respect and consideration.

People will keep posting in chat and AIBU for as long as they get more response there.

It shows up most sharply when "multiple thread syndrome" strikes. If popular posters lobby together threads might get moved (happened recently with benefits threads), but doesn't usually (4 Bob Holness condolence threads, then more started on purpose to up the number).

I digress a bit, but Whitey Houston is in the news today. The thread in "In The News" has only 4 responses, in chat over 80 and in AIBU 50-ish.

I think this is a pity - no one place for a topic, no one way to see what everyone is saying. But - as the attempt at self policing was hounded out - there isn't really anything that can be done. Except as individuals to post on the threads you think are in the places you want them to be.

BIWI... Are you trying to drum up business for the rest of the boards? If the topics were that interesting, people would go there. Don't you realise that your presence here has halved their population?

Stop bossing people around.... WE like AIBU!

The problem is there are just too many topics.

It is ridiculous

You could spend half an hour reading through the titles trying to decide which section your post best fits into, posting it, then waiting, having no reply and finally reposting it in chat/aibu

How many times have you seen a thread that starts "posted this in X but got no replies..."

We don't need half the topics we've got.

Who wants to chat in an empty room? It's like going to a party in a hotel with a hundred rooms. You go searching for where the people are. Do you party alone in a room? do you find a room with one other person in it and party there? find a room with 5 people in it and party there? Or do you find the main hall, with a shitload of people in it and stay there?

People can't find people in a place with so many topics.

Hq are mysteriously reluctant to do anything about it Sue. There have been loads of threads on the subject, lots of helpful suggestions as to how to cull the topics, a thread about how to make it easier to start a thread (without already having to be in the Topic you want to post on) ... they just leave it.

I reported an aibu the other day which was from a poor woman saying something like AIBU to not like being physically abused by my dp?.

Overuse of AIBU makes individuals (and now, I think, Mumsnetters collectively) look ignorant.

Yes, granted in Education and the like Hecate. But how much time would you need to stare at the list, slack-jawed and confuddled, to work out where to put a thread about Strickly? TV? OK. Sleb? OK. Chat? OK - any of those would make sense. Am I being Unreasonable? Why?
Makes no sense.

Mind your own business.

I dip in and out of MN, sometimes just 10 mins every other day - I don't live on it so I haven't synced my life and interests with the boards on here.

AIBU is where the most traffic and most fun is.

I also go on Relationships (and Education and Chat ocassionally) because that is, as a grown up, what I choose to do.

Oh but I luuuurve AIBU.

BIWI - why don't you come back to the Crepey's in S & B? Tis very soothing -quite the opposite of AIBU.

Grrr. Crepey's Thread. That was not a rogue grocer's apostrophe, oh no, certainly it wasn't.

YY Bibby, I have long wondered why.
It's turned into a funny old fruit of a topic - loads of posters who won't leave the topic everand just as many who won't use it (and hide it), because of the posters who don't leave.