to go through Active Convos hitting 'hide' to every thread I don't want to read

[LoopDeLoops]

... in my mind thinking:

Boring
Oh fuck off
Oh fuck off
Yuk
Again?
Boring

etc.

before actually reading any threads. I can do this for a good few minutes before my active convo page is tidy enough to actually read something. Then I go and read it and it messes the thole system up again, ad. infinitum.

Is this normal?

I think so. It's what I do so it must be normal.

I have hidden whole topics too though so i don't see anything conception or pregnancy related (because they upset me rather than bore me), I don't see any product testing either.

Do you need to hide some (more) topics as well as just individual threads?

I do it all the time. It's very cathartic.

I cba to do it but often I look through the 50 conversations and there are none whatsoever I am interested in. Tis why I post less and less.

[been here too long emoticon].

I have hidden nearly every topic, my active convos barely moves

Can you hide them without opening them up first?

I've never hidden a thread ever. I just ignore the ones that don't interest me. But YANBU, do what works for you, obviously.

YANBU.

Sometimes MN is like my wardrobe. Overflowing with too much stuff but nothing that I'm actually in the mood to wear.

It doesn't matter how many times I rifle though it all, everything is either too old and tired, or too serious, or too boring, or too frivolous, or it just doesn't fit me.

What I need is a capsule MN wardrobe of about 10 or 12 people who can be relied on for every mood or occasion, their style always suits me, they can be dressed up or dressed down, they never go out of fashion and I don't get bored with them.

Everyone else can go in the charity bag.

Zzzzz not this again?

I have hidden a thread very occasionayl. Those where I have been one of the first on them, and then there another 200 answers to a rather dull question, so that it keeps coming to the top of the "I'm on" list.

I do not hide any topics at all.
Just about anything can be of interest to me at some point.

And I have my settings on the the max of last 100 on active convo, not 50.
I would have it set at 200, if the system let me.

I occasionally hide a thread, only to find out later it's turned into a bun fight and I flipping missed it.

i do that
also hide ones with swearing in,( i know! get me the prude) boring clique ones twilight sluts etc
and ones about schools BORRRRING

Oooooooh you can hide whole topics?

Fab!

you see just BINNED the state versus private one
BINNEd the one about anxiety/

sometimes i comment on a thread hten hide it after as it drones ON AND ONE and annoys me

most ones about murders get PIAOOOWWWED too ( mcann pistorius etc) as the people on them are just weirdos

QOD i have hidden all the kid based topics really.
AIBU might be going next as its shit

the latest type " AIBU to eat a big cake ooh norty me"

oh fuck off

forumla feeding

PIAOOOOW

What's the point in even coming on then? If the threads don't interest you maybe find another site?

some do. but loads dont

I hide anything where the whole topic is unlikely to ever interest me, so everything to do with pregnancy and babies, for example.

I get the right hump if I open a thread in Chat or AIBU with really exciting sounding title, like 'I've just had the worst night of my life' expecting it to be about someone's house burning down, or their husband was arrested for murder or something, only to find that it's about a non-sleeping two year old. I feel cheated. There are topics for that.

This is an odd thread

I never hide individual threads just because I actively dislike them though, or because they offend me in some way.

I've tried both ways and I'm obviously an idiot, I can't de select or select... Well I can but whichever list I use it includes ....

You don't have to be interested in everything do you? I imagine reading every thread would be even more time consuming than reading every thread that interests me. I spend enough time on here as it is.

I hide thread titles about spiders or wasps or ones which make me feel sick.

The only other threads I hide are if I post on a thread about a TV show and then everyone watches it live and starts putting comments on it like "OMG I cried so much when X died!" before I've had a chance to watch it!

Belinda I don't mind the norty cake eater so long as they announce it in the thread title, and don't waste my time. It's when they do a tantalising 'AIBU to have done this terrible thing, in view of my wedding next week? .... and then you open it and they've just eaten a cake and risked putting on half an ounce. It's ten seconds of my life I cant get back. I could have been eating my own cake.