has anyone noticed how the answer to AIBU always used to be no but now it's almost always yes?

[bossykate]

anyone else? people seem so much harsher on mn these days!

no

Wasn't there was a thread a while back complaining about people posting questions to which the answer is obviously going to be no?

tis a busy evening so what do people think?

no

hadn't noticed but you might have a point.

well these kind of threads were a bit hidden in the middle before and were always entitled something like "am i being unreasonable number 5987354584579857". it was always a bit dull and i never really bothered to read them.

its the first thing you come across now and i must admit to having developed a strange fascination for them.

ha ha yes, you're right. Maybe it's because now it's used for any old shite (hazarding a guess given no of threads and length of tmie it's been there) and therefore statistically unreasonablness would have increased?

we've all got AIBU fatigue!

i like them.... summary justice and all that . cruel but fair.

www, i was thinking of you when i started this - i remember a long time ago you saying (i paraphrase) "i love these threads - people almost never are [being unreasonable]...]

I too find them strangely fascinating.

The best ones IMO are the ones where the OP think the answer is "no" and mumsnet thinks the answer is "yes".

(cue wounded outrage and much backpedalling from the OP).

ha ha Bk, yes, quite so, they almost always weren't being unreasonable before, you're right.

I agree, people frequently say YABU, it’s a superiority thing.