To ask you to comment on other topics?

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Yes, AIBU is a brilliant, lively, often hilarious or deeply touching part of MN. I love it too. But so often we see people 'posting here for traffic' because everyone only reads this section.

AIBU to ask you, just occasionally, to take a look at some of the other topics and leave a couple of comments, to encourage a wider range of discussion?

Ooo give me your recommendations? I tend to be here, classics, primary edu or ‘active’ only AIBU ever tends to be active!

This thread has been done to death I'm afraid

The general consensus is that there are a ridiculous amount of topics on MN.

HQ know this and still do nothing about it.

I hate being told what to do.

There are too many topics so it dilutes them. A bit like left wing politics. A good first step would be to merge Relationships and AIBU?

I’ll read what I want, thanks.

MNHQ have recently being trying to see what posters think about amalgamating boards. All the replies I've seen have been "please don't do this" and with good arguments.

I’d hate to see relationships merged with Aibu. People who go to relationships board need sensitivity and support. That’s lacking on Aibu sometimes.

I do go to other topics. Health, adoption, baby names, occasionally legal and SEN.

I like the range of topics and go to different ones frequently. Employment, Relationships, Bereavement and Legal, usually. And I often avoid AIBU due to the bunfight element.

I definitely wouldn't merge AIBU & Relationships! Relationships is great for more thoughtful advice and especially important as so many people posting there are vulnerable.

When I'm on the desktop, I check the recently posted threads and unanswered threads a good bit too.

What people need to stop doing is turning their question into an AIBU in a convaluted manner, thus posting threads like AIBU to ask which house I should buy, which supermarket sells the best school uniform, for a recipe to use up all this rhubarb type threads.

I get the urge to post 'yes you are BU, you should post this question in property/some sort of school or child section/food and recipes' because that's what those topics are for.

AIBU is for 'AIBU to think that DH should do half the school runs' type threads but people seem to have lost sight of that and just use AIBU as a go to 'chat' board but where they want a bit of an argument about their post

Maybe putting the 'which house/supermarket/recipe' posts in chat would be slightly less annoying than in AIBU but then what is the point of all the individual topics that some people do try to use?

Yes YABU. Let people read what they want to read.