to hide all threads about depression which pop up on Chat and Aibu?

[Mintyy]

I always feel guilty, but I come on to Mumsnet to look for proper chat (ie. a two-way kinda thing about matters relatively trivial), practical advice, and a laugh.

This is why I have the mental health topic hidden and I would hide relationships if I didn't want to lurk on brave babes.

But aibu?

The posters starting new threads might be the tip of the iceberg though, you'd can't know how many people read the old threads.

I sometimes look on here for advice about stuff before doing a more general google.

And tons of posters have found MN by googling a problem they've got, it's how I found it.

Oh, definitely.

People don't even check Active Convos before they duplicate current affairs threads. Hence all the McCann threads/Roma threads/RIP Lou Reed threads.

True BOF, maybe some people can't be arsed aren't able to search out whether they're starting the same thread if they're on a phone or are techy incompetents?

It's interesting to see the unbelievably different twists and turns the same subject can spawn in two separate threads, and shows the posters saying all MNetters are sex crazed pervs nasty bastards that we're not a (an?) homogeneous group.

Interesting conversation.

I dint know if anyone else remembers this, but awhile a go, maybe even over a year ago, HQ moved a thread fr

Fuck.

Moved a thread from Chat to a more "appropriate" topic without asking the OP and were vilified for it. It's what led to their policy of checking with the OP before moving anything,

People claimed HQ were "hiding" a difficult subject, although I can't remember what the thread was about.

So it's not just a matter of "keep to the topics" or "you'll get better advice elsewhere."

I think most MNers do give considerable thought to which topic they start their thread in.

Also, lots of us do use the archives. That's why so many zombie threads are revivified - and that's not always a bad thing - you can get a discussion going again, based on what people originally posted, while recognising that times change and things move on. It's interesting to compare. Eg, info about historic child sex abuse might look different in the light of Jimmy Savile's monsterhood being revealed.

I probably use the archives at least once a day, sometimes loads more than that.

You can hide whatever you like but yabvu to announce it imo.

You feel a bit pants clicking hide all the time? Seriously? What you do in the privacy of own home is up to you! Why are you telling me?

And your issues are well documented here but others should be moved?

Well so long as you're alright then.... I'll be ignoring this thread now and feeling no guilt.