Are the self appointed Thread Police just lonely people who have no other way of expressing their power crazed tendencies?

[AgentZigzag]

Or are they just unhealthily obsessed in their determination to keep everything neat and tidy? at the same time as indulging in their infatuation of telling other people what do do

I'm not sure what I think.

Lazy people with a misguided arrogance that they want to chat to people online when you don't think they deserve to SoH?

Is that not overstating the importance of MN a tad?

I am but a sad lonely Mnetter

You don't have to be sad and lonely on MN Usual

Why don't you find someone to flame, it'll make you feel better

Especially if they don't deserve it.

ooh that was below the belt.

I think I will go and clean the bathroom.

Hehe, that was general advice rather than me looking at your entry on my spreadsheet aimed at you Usual

Nope, what I meant was that people have triggers. There are certain topics on here which I have hidden and I know others have hidden because they are very sensitive to the topic. When somebody puts something highly sensitive in aibu with a throwaway 'I know this is the wrong place but I'm posting for traffic', then this is arrogant yes. Your desire for an audience is not more important than the usability of the board for other people.

I am being highly specific and not talking about posting in general terms. I spend 98% of my time on here and the other 2% eating gingerbread. I have absolutely no defence for anything but can see the occasional need for a self-moderation where place of posting is concerned. I actually like that about MN, the members, the people who benefit from the place are the ones to step in and say something.

Of course you're also being lighthearted and there's a lot of posturing and moaning on threads where it really doesn't matter. In that you are absolutely right.

But not everybody asking for a thread to be moved is doing so because they're bored, lonely, sad, self-important sacks of nothing.

mmmm gingerbread

I don't think it's arrogant to put something highly sensitive in AIBU because it gets more traffic.

If that person feels the need to post at that moment in time and receive replies at that moment in time, it's because they feel they need the help.

In order to report it, you'd have to read the Opening Post anyway...so why not just hide the thread and allow that person to continue to post where they feel they need to?

Moderate yourselves and then others won't have to do it for you. Not too difficult really. Everywhere has rules, guidelines, norms and expectations. If you believe yourself above those, you're going to find people who will tell you otherwise.

What is it that compels you to tell other internet randoms what to do Joan?

Although it hasn't passed me by that I'm doing the same

Showy I think when most people post in Chat or AIBU "for traffic" it's because they actually want replies and advice, not just for an audience. If I have a question about vaccinations but nobody's answering in the Travel topic, I might repost in Chat. I don't think that's arrogance.

People posting in the wrong place here reminds me a bit of drivers who drive the wrong way in a one-way car park in RL. It doesn't necessarily do any harm but it bugs me a bit because why should some of us follow the rules when others feel they don't need to?

I only report bf v ff threads that are in AIBU because they annoy me.

Sorry

I'm thinking about the poster who has just lost her Dad today.

She posted here for help and it's a sensitive subject for many people.

But it would be beyond nasty imo for anyone to report and ask it to be moved to bereavement, rather than just simply hide the thread.

It's arrogant to assume we know better than the original poster when it comes to where to place a thread and why.

I don't actually, I'm just commenting on why others might. The one telling others what to do would be you.

Your attitude smacks of you believing yourself far too important to follow guidelines/rules and then sneering at others who point this out to you. I'd be asking yourself a few questions if I were you.

lord its a public forum

the only thing that needs to be stamped out is bullying and bullying comes in many forms but posting a thread on aibu and not in chat or relationships is not a crime, it is not harming anyone you are not forced to read or reply to it

seems some take mn far too serioulsy, while at times it is a great support network it is a place where many jsut come to chit chat or debate or be entertained when they are bored, what is the need for such control

Bit snippy there Joan, it's why the rules matter so much to you that I'm asking about.

Much as I am against new topics, we clearly need a "moaning about Mumsnet" topic, for threads like this and the "you are all bjullying bjitches" threads.

joan have you seen monty python's life of brian? I think you're in it

They don't. But generally the norms of a place are for the benefit of all users, and I don't appreciate those who flout them and then sneer at others who don't like it. Your opener was rude and dismissive. As, it seems, are you.

Indeed you are annoyed at a thread being moved to chat, by the owners of the site but for some reason you project your ire at some person you imagine reported it. Firstly, its equally possible no-one reported it and a member of HQ saw it and moved it. Secondly, even if someone did, the site mods agreed and did the moving.

So why does it make any difference to you,and why are you being so nasty about possibly imaginary people?

You are all individuals
We are all individuals
I'm not

I agree with Showy. You are not above using the board in a tidy manner. Remember that no poster can get a thread moved, all they can do is point it out to MNHQ. If MNHQ move it then it clearly was in the wrong place, because it's their website and they decide the rules.

If you were moaning about people going onto a serious thread where the OP was upset about something and saying "you're posting in the wrong place" then you might have a point, But nobody is doing that.

You might be reading too much sneering and general nastiness into my OP Joan, I can see how that might happen if it's something that really gets to you.

I'd have that as my home page Trills.

bloody marvellous race the romans

"This shouldn't be in AIBU" - and you CARE? You actually care which category a post is filed under? I bet you are an absolute hoot.