AIBU: The threads that annoy you most

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Like those where the OP writes hardly anything and expects others to entertain them.

Now you go.

Definitely the cliquey threads, but moreso the conception threads that always pop up in active threads with increasingly twee titles.

All aboard the jizz bus to wankerville in 2017 or similar.

All aboard the jizz bus to wankerville in 2017

This made me smile, because spitting coffee over your keyboard isn't the done thing anymore

@BreakfastAtStephanies

Have you ever considered the reason WHY some of us have cliques or what you class as inane drivel threads? The clue is in your very post.

Because we use MN as a source of support, and amongst that 'drivel' are often problems and issues that we come to each other with and those threads are our safe threads. Safe from people who hoik up their judgey pants from afar just because they don't deem it an appropriate use of MN space. It's a support group, often full of our day to day drivel but often full of our problems and cries for helps that we sometimes don't always feel brave enough to throw into the vipers nest. Personally I don't want a thread all to myself about a miscarriage or someone dying. I don't sometimes feel like I have enough energy to fend off vipers, especially having taken a beating over a misunderstood post when I first joined years ago. But I do want support from people I 'know' and am familiar with who aren't in my real life.

Most people are welcome to join the threads. We're a niace bunch.

I just wanted to defend cliquey threads far and wide as to some of us they are important.

Most baby name threads, especially the 'Is Jocasta overused?' and 'If I already have Persephone and Rahab can I call my third child Willow?' and even worse 'Is Sebastian too posh?' . Why would the opinion of total strangers matter?
Also on every thread involving a badly behaved child someone saying 'Does he have Special Needs?'.

Yes but Wombatron many of the clique threads aren't about specific support for specific issues, (eg. Stately Homes or Brave Babes) they are just mind numbing nonsensical chit chat. It takes up the first three pages of each thread for all the members to announce their arrival by virtual parachute or Tardis or something and thank the OP for starting the shiny new thread and picking a fabulous title, then 10 pages of 'banter' in which nothing of real interest gets said, then the last page is taken up with discussions about how someone needs to start a new thread.

I don't get the attraction.

The "Does anyone have a Boden code thread?" . If you search for "Boden code" on MN you can usually find a current one.

Larry Ugh yes and all the

"this person I know behaved like a complete and utter fucking arse a week last Tuesday"

"sounds like they're on the spectrum to me"

No it doesn't. It sounds like they were a complete and utter fucking arse last Tuesday.

When people write a long post then at the end put reader, I blah blah blah

I don't know why it annoys me but it does.

tibbawyrots that made me laugh! Yes to any mysterious 'hobby' posts

Yes! Anytime someone talks about their "hobby" I immediately think something dodgy like nude Morris Dancing or similar

To be fair, MagicChicken, those cliquey threads are very easily identified and ignored if they're of no interest. I don't think I've ever even opened one of them, having learned the hard way years ago on the BBC Archer messageboard that long-running threads like that are not for me. They had one for people to post while pretending to be their own cats (alternate logins and all) and it was toecurling.

Yes, I can imagine!

I do ignore them now. but back in the day I ventured into a few, thinking I should get in on the act and that they must be fun, if people were on the eleventy billionth thread. But alas, no.

The ones where the OP asks for help writing a note e.g I need to tell my neighbour her dog is barking too much but I have no idea what to write. You've written it here so surely you can write/speak to someone you actually know and we don't.

(Disclaimer: I haven't rtft )

Personally I don't like threads like this.

What should I cook for dinner?

Look in a fucking cookbook love.

bauble16 Oh and I've seen a few posts on the sex boards from women describing their partners anus as delicious. Delicious is just too far insert barf face.

Please tell me you are joking! Gone right off the sausage I was planning to have with breakfast, thanks for that

@MagicChicken

No one who is new to those threads needs to read them all to join in though. That's the wonderful thing. I'm travelling, I missed 2 threads of chat because of it, I've been on the threads for over a year....yet I found them again and didn't worry about what I'd missed. I'm currently the other side of the world to most of the members of mine. I'd like to think when my location becomes more stable I could be the person who's awake at 3am UK time to be the support for someone who needs it.

I didn't have to fill a form or meet criteria to join it. But I care about the people on those threads more than I care about any other poster on a MN thread. I believe my initial entry to them was along the lines of "I've fucking found my people".

The threads that support those with fertility issues, trying for BFP's, abuse and lord knows what else etc... I can only imagine the love and support they have for each other on those threads. As another poster said - they are VERY identifiable by their titles. People can hide them.

I just feel aggrieved that people are picking on cliques just because they don't see the point. Those close groups are groups that often mean something to someone.

But YY to the constant "am I pregnant i have sore boobs" - piss on a fucking stick. It'll soon fucking tell you (guess what clique I belong too).

Where the title has no explanation of what the thread is about.

Should I? Wwyd? What do you think of this? Wtf? Etc.
Then you click on it to find its about nappy changing, someone's pet fish or other random shit you wouldn't have bothered clicking on if only the title had more information.

Feckin time wasters.

Typos , grammar and spelling mistakes being pointed out.

Someone posts a picture and then it's been blown up and opinions given on paint work , non coordinating cushions or the smallest clutter etc.

Just general criticism about stuff that's irrelevant to the thread to look clever but fails to miserably.

What I hate more than anything (apart from trolls) is when someone starts a thread, replies to the first few posts then as they don't post again for hours people start getting testy and the "Where is OP?" type posts start appearing. And sometimes they get quite nasty.

It would be prudent to assume that the OP might just have other things to do. Like work, or looking after kids or driving or whatever, but especially if they posted about something of a crisis they might just get quite busy sorting shit out.
What is the fucking point in asking why someone 'disappeared'? They are busy ffs!

YABU to go to Starbucks
And I agree, picking up on a small detail or saying the poster is stealth boasting is just ridiculous

One's that try to attack women TTC or who are having babies as the result of infertility treatment.

They don't annoy me as such, as they can be quite funny, but threads started clearly tongue in cheek, or sarcastic tones, and the OP's further posts confirm it, but many pps take it too seriously and keep getting angry at the OP.

Lweji

Oh you should have seen the reaction to my thread when I asked if it was ok to crochet while sitting in traffic.
Some people got it that I was just frustrated at waste of time & daydreaming, but some took it seriously and oh boy were they nasty!
One poster was accusing me that surely I was posting while driving. Ugh.
But the funny peeps made it all worthwhile

I know what I really really hate

AIBU posts with the title AIBU - confusing which one you are reading

I do get narked with posters who scream 'racist' when they really haven't a decking clue about the poster they're criticising. I've had it thrown at me, which is quite amusing given my genetics.

Anyone who puts 'no?' at the end of a sentence.
Some of my relations talk like this... So when someone does it on MN, I hear various old cousins in the back of my head.

I used to be a bit about threads with 'lighthearted' in the title, until I was savaged for being horrible to my DD. Some posters have no sense of humour.

Light hearted posts where everyone gets to have a whinge then someone has to get all serious and defensive. Spoils the mood!