To think that the AIBU topic area doesn't work and should be abandoned?

[Westray]

Seems that every other thread is now started in this area of chat.
I guess it is often does because threads are guaranteed traffic, but it also seems to have become a viper's den, where anything is fair game to rip apart.
Yes many threads should be started in relationships, or infant feeding, or mental health, or finance, but seems that if posted in AIBU then all gloves are off, and people can be as goady or mean as they like.
New or non frequent posters may not realise this and end up getting a whipping.

It also make it far more difficult to find topics I am interested in lately, as everything seems to be posted in AIBU.

Even Mumsnet HQ post in AIBU- their recent ( laudable ) crusade to make sure women in post natal wards are given adequate food and drink for instance.

Is that really an ABIU?

I am always at the AIBU scenario where a poster has done something very mundane but claims 'a friend' said they shouldn't have done it.

I tend to think the friend does not exist.

"AIBU to think this was a racist comment?"

Cue a blatantly obvious racist remark...

I love AIBU but maybe it shouldn't appear in Active Threads?

I tend to think the friend does not exist

I am not sure, when you read threads about the "rules" about hanging your laundry/ironing your laundry or what is acceptable to wear at the school gates/ how acceptable is it to speak with your child in a foreign language (huh?!?), some people have very strong opinion on the most random things.

Totally unreasonable. You should have posted your query in 'Chat'

HTH

There is a thread running at the moment about culture shocks from other countries.

Actually you don't have to travel anywhere but only have to read AIBU to get a real culture shock. I had no idea - after living for 50 years on this planet - that so many things are sneered at or even abhorred.

It was me who suggested Petty Gripes and I stand by that .

However, I doubt AIBU is going anywhere when Justine Mumsnet used AIBU to launch her presumably perfectly serious campaign for better postnatal care there!

Bibbity - petty gripes would be a great idea I think!
And mousymary - yes I'm a bit shocked that so many things are frowned upon by more than an eccentric few.... Maybe I'm the eccentric....

I often wonder what % of AIBU is a) new trolls b) PBP trolls c) Not a troll but entirely made up to get people going d) An element of truth but heavily embellished and changed depending on the 'audience' reaction.It would make a good pie chart.

Poorly disguised stealth boasts such as "AIBU to be angry at Karen Millen since their Size 6 is too big for me?" and AIBUs about which baby items to purchase...these do my swede in

Yabu. Aibu is interesting because it's filled with different topics and opinions... On everything. I like seeing different situations from other peoples perspectives and the strongly worded and honest replies. So do others, which is why it's popular.

YANBU
it's an over-used troll magnet.