To politely request

[LuisSuarezTeeth]

That if you want to discuss Christmas, you post in the Christmas Topic?

Where you will find an abundance of others who want to discuss it too. All sparkly and twinkly and atmospheric and in my list of hidden topics

Cheers!

bah humbug YANBU!

Bit of a silly thing to get worked up about really, isn't it?

I'll post what I like where I like (within guidelines) don't like it? Tough.

Never said I was worked up Placid. Just making a polite request.

YANBU.

Polite request - rather rude response ...

Inevitable gordy

For the fact that for some people it is a distressing or triggering time of year, and not the happy sparkly place that others find it, then no YANBU.

MrsM that's my thinking too. It's one of the reasons MN has topics - not so people are "told" where to post, just to exercise a bit of sensitivity.

YANBU...

This request happens every year and every year it is ignored. If a post is also relevant in AIBU then it will get posted there sometimes, which I think is understandable.

Sadly, there are lots of things people may find triggering and it would be impossible to ban them all from AIBU.

By that reckoning we shouldn't post ANYTHING in AIBU as it would probably fit into a topic elsewhere on the site. If someone has a question then surely they should be allowed to post it here, whatever it is about.

To be honest I rarely give a shit which topics people choose, but YANBU at all OP.

Christmas is 3 months away and already the same old threads are starting to appear about it. By next month we're going to be inundated and still with another 2 months to go.

Not to mention most of January being filled with people moaning about their gifts (Can we have an ungrateful bastard topic?)

But you've just posted about Christmas in the AIBU topic!!

Is this part of the trigger orthodoxy?

Yabu.

OP, if you're going to post something AIBU about Christmas, could you at least mention it in the title, so that those that are avoiding Christmas discussions could see and avoid it?

*To politely request" really isn't much help in that regard.

You can argue about the same thing about the Facebook threads of which there are far more.

There's an entire topic for FB but it's hardly used. Most of the threads on chat or AIBU is about something that's happened on FB.

There are always going to be threads on MN which some people don't like/don't want to see. I've just seen one which really pissed me off. I didn't comment on it though, as the best way to deal with it is just to ignore it. Not that hard to do really.

It depends.

If you are posting about an issue that's affect you NOW, but involves Christmas 2014, than I think that should be allowed to be posted in Chat or AIBU.

It's an immediate problem/rant iyswim?

And nearly all the actually Christmassy. Christmas stuff is in the. Christmas topic, but people are complaining that people are using the Christmas topic at all, because they only think the Christmas topic should only be used at erm, well Christmas.

Exactly, people whinge when you use the Christmas topic so meh.

You can't tell people where to post just don't click on the thread.. its not hard.

Yanbu op and you did ask politely.

YANBU but hot has a really good point.

I am sorry for the people who find it a triggering time of year

Well OP, you did ask nicely, so i'm going to answer nicely - Christmas might be a tricker issue for some people, but there are a lot of other issues that trigger upset in others, Christmas does seem to bring out the "you must only discuss it in the appropirate places and other people's wish to avoid the subject must trump your need to ask for advice on an aspect of it." There are a lot of things that end up in AIBU that trigger upset others - weddings, mis-carriages, 'is this a line?', step-parenting issues, family relationship issues, diet issues etc.

Rarely are you finding anyone asking "what canapes are you going to serve?" anywhere other than Christmas or food/recipes section (and I would argue it's perfectly reasonable to ask about recipes in the recipe section rather than the Christmas section). Most people posting in AIBU really do have a problem and want advice, it's just it's Christmas flavoured.

Anyway, before we get to that, we have to have the annual grump-fest that is Halloween. I am certain there's going to be at least one thread from someone who decorates their house for halloween parties, but still thinks it's unacceptable to do trick or treating, and thinks that the fact their house is completely done up with the whole of the Tescos Halloween range is no reason for anyone to be so presumptious to think they are the sort of family who "does" trick or treating.... Someone will call it American imports and then lots of Scottish MNers will tell them they are wrong. Others will say it's a new thing, only done in England in recent times and those of us who remember trick or treating who were born in the 70s have just 'mis-remembered'...

I posted in AIBU because the threads relating to Christmas were posted here. I wasn't aware that people whinged about using the Christmas topic. I thought the whole point of having the topic was that people could post any time of year and chat to like minded people, without the Bah Humbuggers chipping in.

Gamer I'm not "telling" people where to post. I was asking.

Oh and we need a "fireworks must be banned, my dog got scared." threads.

I know this happens every year and ends up with people effectively being told to sod off to the Christmas topic.

That's why I was attempting to ask a polite question. But I guess some posters can't resist the chance to get arsey.