To think MN need to sort out the topics

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Am I the only one who finds the filing system of topics on MN needlessly confusing? There are sooooooo many different topics. So many.

Do we need so many? Surely we could do a cull. AIBU?

I know I should do a count of how many there are, but it's late, I'm tired, grumpy and have PMT, so I can't do anything complicated.

I agree there are probably too many topics. But don't find them particularly confusing.

What do you want to get rid of? You can hide topics if that helps.

Yes, hide the ones that you have no interest in. I've hidden loads, but I've never hidden Pushchairs, despite the fact my youngest is a teenager - but that's down to an ace thread years ago where the OP was complaining the pushchair she's bought smelt of Wotsits and I felt this was a topic worth keeping.

I like a good filing system and I feel multiple topics is like a good filing system. The real problem is everyone just using AIBU regardless - AIBU to ask how to bake a cake? Yes, use the Baking topic. AIBU to ask what you think of my house? Yes, use the Property topic. It drives me nuts.

I just discovered I can "favourite" topics, so that's a start. Can I hide them on the app?

After I ranted, I went back through the Topics list and discovered (to my horror) that there aren't as many as I'd originally thought.

But I'd definitely reorder some of them. Oh I don't know. I'm so Premenstrual, I don't even make sense to myself.

AIBU is nothing but a bunfight arena or a CBA to post in the right topic arena.

Cut out AIBU and it would all fall into place and possibly help cull some of the unnecessary sniping that goes on here.

Well you could help by putting this on "site stuff", where it technically belongs...

(Light hearted!)

I only have ever visited about ten topics on here. The main ones being Chat and (of course) AIBU (how I found this site). On the subject of the Chat forum aibu to think that it would lessen the tshrsD in aibu if the chat

@IanRushesInadequateFlushes That made me laugh! 😀

I'm fed up with the WAG threads on Chat and wish the had a separate topic.

@MissionItsPossible Yes! Me too! I've visited about 10 topics in total.

I'm sure there are some amazing threads buried deep. The Unexplained thread is AMAZING.

What other gems do you all love?

The what are you reading threads are fab!

@IanRushesInadequateFlushes Fab, I'll have a look. 👍🏻

Mumsnet should suspend aibu for a while to force everyone to use the correct topic.

Some of the topics have so few posters on them that asking a question and hoping to get a response can be pretty futile. So yes, some of them could be culled.

With AIBU you might get abuse and name calling but in amongst all the dross you'll frequently find some intelligent discussion and/or advice.

The dog house is great, lot of knowledgeable posters on there, lots of genuine for support for one another among the posters.

Hear hear! The Body and Soul group in particular is infuriatingly insensitive - it has miscarriages and pregnancy choices in along side style and beauty, tattoos and yoga.

If I want yoga, I need "body and soul" but if I want exercise, is under "health". Sports are under "fun and games" if I am participating (but not exercising) and "sporting events" if I am a spectator. Except of course cycling, which is "in the club".

Relationships and sex are "body and soul" but weddings are "fun and games".

Hungry? I'll go to "Feed the world" but then flummoxed as to what is the difference in "baking" and "cakes and bakes".

Postnatal health is not health but "being a parent", which includes a dozen other categories and "parenting". Like under "education", where you can choose home, primary, secondary, further, middle and plain old education.

But most infuriatingly of all, there is a vaccination section. WTF mums net?? Or all the bloody irresponsibility medical advice touted here, questioning vaccination must be the most harmful.

I am at the stage of thinking they must do it deliberately.

@sycamore54321 Thank you for summing everything up far better than I ever could. Yes, the categorising is sometimes bizarre, like topics got opened and just shoved somewhere temporarily.

@pigsDOfly YES to some topics being barren wastelands. I think it's very easy to come to MN and just scroll through the Active threads

I'm new, what does AIBU stand for? Also with regards to topics I would love to chat to mums who've decided to have more than one baby, like the transition from one to two? But not sure where to go because it's one babies or larger families

The real problem is everyone just using AIBU regardless - AIBU to ask how to bake a cake? Yes, use the Baking topic. AIBU to ask what you think of my house? Yes, use the Property topic. It drives me nuts

This!! Also, politics/Trump/Brexit; find me the name of this song/book/TV show and other non-AIBU topics jamming up the AIBU board.

I wish the trans threads had their own topic

@Kmills25 - Am I Being Unreasonable. Be forewarned its usually where people seem to throw a tonne of abuse around but if you can read around it then its still usefull. Woefully overused though - AIBU to ask about which jeans to buy? facepalm

The real problem is everyone just using AIBU regardless - AIBU to ask how to bake a cake? Yes, use the Baking topic. AIBU to ask what you think of my house? Yes, use the Property topic. It drives me nuts

I agree but every time I say this I get shot down

They’ll never close AIBU as too much traffic so the answer seems to have much fewer topics

What's wrong with the WAG threads, LifeBeginsAtGin? Surely they're just a bit of harmless fun and it doesn't matter if they disappear in 90 days if they stay in Chat?

Cut out AIBU and it would all fall into place and possibly help cull some of the unnecessary sniping that goes on here.

I suspect the sniping would still go on. AIBU fulfills a useful function, imo - it keeps the nastiness and bun fighting in one place, filtering it out from the rest of the topics, in the main.

I like the fact that AIBU is a free for all when it comes to topics.

It's like walking into a room full of strangers (some familiar faces) and listening in with whatever is being talked about. Sometimes i'll stick my oar in.

I very rarely come to MN to read about a specific subject. I glance at the trending list and pick from there if i like the title. As well as AIBU I lurk on Chat, Style and Beauty and Relationships. All topics which include a wide variety of content really.

I agree that the size of the list of topics is off putting. Fewer titles which are a bit more specific and a bit more sensitive.

... is what's needed.