To wonder why some posters get so irate about aibus not being aibus

[Summerbreezing]

Just what it says in the title really? Why do some posters get so worked up about this? It's not as if it's compulsory to read every thread on here, so don't open the threads that don't interest you or have vague titles that don't make the subject matter clear.

It gets on my tits. I don't bother posting about it, except when I feel an OP would honestly benefit from moving to a more relevant & sensitive board. But, really, variations on "AIBU to tell you all about how lovely I am" are pretty damn pointless and should be in Chat for a bit of mutual backslapping. Likewise, "AIBU to ask you how to make a roux" - for fuck's sake, yes you are unreasonable to torture the language like that and abuse the nature of the board!

AIBU thread titles beginning with "to ..." should be programmatically moved to Chat, imo.

Anyway Summerbreezing YABU to have started this here.

You should have put it in Site Stuff where it belongs.

Get it moved at once, and be more thoughtful next time!!!

;)

Well, if you're going to be like that Sally I'm off .

Oops that should probably be in 'flouncers' corner'. And should that apostrophe be before or after the s? Is the corner for a flouncer or lots of flouncers?
Oh, I'm all confused now

I do (internally) go a bit when people post "AIBU to be angry and upset about murdered children?". Sometimes I want to say; YABU just to be a contrary arse.

Ha ha MyFairyKing you are not alone!

I honestly can't say I had noticed people getting particularly irate about this issue. Maybe I don't spend enough time on here

So what do you think is the point of having scores and scores of boeards.Why not just have one?
The AIBU is supposed to be a debating forum, to canvass full and frank ideas.I do not want to wade through 'aibu to take my cat to the vet?' There is a whole f*cking forum for cat related issues!!
AIBU to cut teh mould bit of teh cheese and use it ? We have numerous food forums.It is just plain lazy not to look for them!!!
.And then of course the old chestnut, 'I am posting here for traffic' Yes because people like you mean there is no traffic on teh relevant board.

The AIBU is supposed to be a debating forum, to canvass full and frank ideas

Lovely bit of polite understatement there.

I'm obviously a bit of a conformist and I am pedantic as hell, but I can't help thinking that if you are going to do something or use something then you might as well do it properly.

A large number of mumsnetters hide AIBU because it is full of vitriol and they miss what should be completely innocuous chat threads because of this.

For reasons best known to themselves, HQ have decided to keep and archive ALL of the aibu threads, whereas all the chat threads disappear within 3 months.

As I keep on saying, if they would just rename AIBU "Petty Gripes" and delete everything after 3 months then I don't think people would overuse it.

I think it's a pity when people don't use the topics.

OTOH, I think that the attitude in AIBU has been far more aggressive and shitty of late, so perhaps it's a good thing it's not contaminating more boards.

Too many on MN get irate at nothing.

I don't think op has any evidence to suggest that people get irate about this sort of thing at all.

It's all about control isn't it? The desire to control MN as per New Year's Eve, and the need to control all other MNers.

Mintyy I've seen people giving out about it lots of times and also someone started a thread about it last month.

What happened on New Year's Eve solong?

It happens all the time, Mintyy. Bloody annoying.

Yanbu to wonder
YABU to post it here

Oh, some people who thought they owned Mumsnet (but actually don't) closed it down.

They closed it down?? How did they do that?

Mintyy I have often been posting on an interesting or funny thread and someone comes sourly plodding on to post one line: Why is this is AIBU?

They posted "joke" threads all over the boards, some of which were completely out of order and offensive.

Summerbreezing - you misunderstood me. I know it happens - I may have mentioned it on one or two occasions myself but that's not the same as being irate about it though. It is an annoyance to quite a few mumsnetters, but IRATE is just an exaggeration.

Why post in an irate tone if not irate?

Some of the posters I've seen have sounded pretty irate, Mintyy.

I agree. There's so many boards that a lot of them feel a bit quiet and isolated. On AIBU threads move along fairly sharpish and there's plenty of lively debate going on. I think it's natural for people to tend to congregate on a catch all type board like this one.

It's not as if we're going onto the Relationships board to ask for recipes or the Baby Names board to discuss our favourite books. But AIBU is less clearly defined. As I said earlier, I think they should merge it and chat.

I agree Kim. Although then, no doubt, you'd have posters giving out that P&T spaces are not for lighthearted discussion and should be over on the serious board; and annoying MILs is not a serious issue and should be on the lighthearted board