To think the AMA section needs to go

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It’s either

“I’m vulnerable as hell, ask me anything” (come and gawp at me)

or

“My job / life involves some sort of care for the vulnerable, ask me anything” (come and gawp at the misfits)

Fucking awful

I bet less than 10% of them are genuine.

I mean, anyone can be anything on here and no one can prove otherwise

I like them! It's a huge thing on Reddit, why can't we have it here?

I would love to do an AMA with something I do but it is so outing, I just can't.

I’ve reported any dodgy ones I’ve seen and they’ve been taken down pretty quick. Seems a shame to try to prevent them all when some have been so good (crem tech and funeral director, WAG). I haven’t opened many though so haven’t seen any gawping at vulnerable people. But I have seem some by vulnerable people.

YABU
I don't love it either but now it's own section at least it can be hidden

So I think you have to be in desktop mode to find the right Customise page. Don't know about the app. If you use the mobile site then you can scroll to the bottom and find the 'go to desktop link - the display is too small, but you can zoom in. Then find the Customise page and you can get to the bit that lets you hide topics. After just use the link at the bottom to 'go to mobile'

Ahhh sanity restored.

I bet less than 10% of them are genuine

But you might say that for any thread, in any topic.

Removing the topic wouldn't stop the threads being posted elsewhere and having them in a single topic means you can hide the topic and avoid them.

It's a new topic and is enjoying popularity because it's novel. I bet in six months' time, it will all have died down and will only attract occasional new threads, if it's used at all.

Saisong

At the bottom is a bottom....

I realise it was a typo that you corrected but I'm so bloody childish that I laughed for about 10 minutes while I reread that sentence. Thanks for giving me a giggle this morning :)

I think the AMA can actually be a great tool for people to expand beyond their daily life's into others, find out first hand information on things they may want to know or questions they've had about other lifestyles that they don't want to or maybe do want to lead,people posting about disability's and mental health ect could actually be doing something useful in educating people on symptoms and ways to help people they may know or maybe they're just curious about how something effects someone. No harm in any of it.

You are being very unreasonable. There have been threads from people who work in tax credits, an author, a Muslim, a dwarf...I didn't get the vibe that any of these were for the purpose of gawpinh but actually to give people an opportunity to ask something that would feel too shy to in real life or never get an opportunity to. The fact that the section is thriving means that a lot of people do like it. I'm sure there is something interesting about you in real life so you could well start your own and experience AMA section from an OP perspective. If not then just don't click any of the threads.

What is this AMA thread?

Thanks

Reddit verifies peoples claims off the boards before they post an AMA. Because otherwise it's pointless. And attracts huge amounts of trolling.

I’ve hidden it because 50% of active was filled with them and they were annoying me.

Reddit verifies the AMA threads. There are no checks on the MN ones, and I’d guess about 80% of them are fantasy/exaggeration.

Reddit verifies peoples claims off the boards before they post an AMA
How do they do that then? Genuinely curious because I've got one.

Most of them are piss takes. The higher education ones look genuine and have some very useful information, so, on balance, YABU.

They aren't all about vulnerable people.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/topic-choice 😉

On the vulnerability, I'm afraid I don't see it. I've read a few of the threads, and just taken a cursory glance through the first page. Which ones specifically do you feel represent an abuse of the vulnerable? The cleaner, the florist and the vegan are currently in the top 10. If someone vulnerable did post there, how is people reading and 'gawking' at their situation different to their doing that elsewhere on the site?

Similarly, on the authenticity, how is it different to anywhere else on this site? Are fake posters not just as free to concoct relationship woes, health crises or fertility struggles on those boards, or any other?

It seems that you just don't like it, which is your call to make. I don't like the endless threads about Brexit, for instance. I find them very dull indeed. Similarly posts by people who can't use paragraphing or construct a proper sentence. I don't read them. If I open one by mistake, I close it again. It's simple really. HTH.

I think it's patronising to generalise everyone as vulnerable or exploitative. Especially the former.
It's possible to educate others on certain conditions without being a poor unfortunate soul who needs protecting by someone who judges themselves in a better position in life.
Yabu.

There’s no way to verify if people are who they claim to be, so anyone can pretend to be anything, it’s full of people postingfartoo much information about themselves and in some cases, vulnerable people they have care of. And some of the more vulnerable posters are putting themselves in a potentially damaging situation. I think it’s a matter of time before it all goes horribly wrong

This, in bucket-loads.

I love it's, it's really interesting . What I can't understand is why people get so upset about stuff 🤷‍♀️..I don't see any vulnerable people on there !!

YABU

People don't need you to nanny them, they can make their own decisions.

I think they're a wonderful way to find out about little noticed roles that people often deserve acknowledgement for and the public benefits from knowing more about. Genuine knowledge rather than gossip and back biting.

They can be ok - chat got completely swamped by them at some point.

The thing I found frustrating was that a plethora of questions would come at once then it got a bit confusing trying to keep up with OP responses later

As an anonymous forum, where people can say they are or have done anything, removing AMA isn’t going to change anything. If you don’t like threads, then report or scroll past in exactly the same way you should for any topic.

I suspect once it has stopped being new and novel, there will be fewer AMA anyway until eventually most things have been covered and people aren’t interested anymore.

I like them. They do seem to fall into 4 categories though:

Really interesting and informative
Really funny
Rather lame
Blatantly untrue