To find these things about MN really irritating

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Kind of lighthearted (don't need to be told the obvious that if I don't like it I don't have to go on the site) but reading through some threads and there's some things that I find really annoying on here:

1. people hijacking threads, someonne will post something and someone will comment saying Hi all I need advice... And then go on to add in their question and situation, completely ignoring the original OP. Why not just start your own thread
2. sometimes I just want to tell people to stop being such pathetic walkovers, posting that they don't know what to do about a horrible person in their life who treats them like shit.... Just tell them to fuck off and never see them again!
3. in the pregnancy threads, asking people online if you could be pregnant as you had sex but have had PMS symptoms etc. JUST DO A BLOODY TEST! how can strangers online tell you if you might be pregnant 🙄 Sorry I feel better now... Please do share what irritates you 😁

Posters labelling the Feminists boards as transphobic without engaging with the issues discussed. Are you happy with male-bodied athletes competing against women - which is already widespread? Or do you think that might be unfair?

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I'm glad someone feels the same as me on that. So often I think there's no line and then there's pages and pages of gushing congratulations from people for what's likely a negative test done 4 days before a missed period.
Maybe I'm sensitive after issues TTC but I can't help but feel its causing an emotional rollercoaster for the OP (who let's be honest wouldn't be posting if it was definitely positive).

Many threads give me the rage, especially “am I pregnant” threads.

Also the ones that know there being walked all over with friends yet they don’t want to say anything as they don’t like confrontation

The political ones where the OP posts something goady (ie ‘let me know why you would benefit from no deal’, or ‘tell my why Corbyn would be a good PM’) then lots of people pile on to state their irreconcilable adverse positions. No one is actually listening to other perspectives and it all ends up shouty and nasty. Also, usually on these same threads, when a poster cuts and pastes long passages so the other posters couldn’t possibly respond to all the points made. If you want to write an essay then start a blog!

The pregnancy test ones on AIBU. There's an entire section for TTC & pregnancy.

Also the threads where a poster asks ‘what class am I’ or ‘am I posh’, then casually drops into the conversation that she comes from working class roots but now earns six figures, lives in a gorgeous house, sends her three children to private school and goes on holiday ten times a year. So, really the post is about OP drip feeding how well she has done in life...

Also the ‘how much do you earn’ ones.

These make me cringe!

On pregnancy tests/I am pregnant threads - once someone declares that they are pregnant or think they might be, you get pages and pages of gushing congratulations even when the poster has given no indication as to whether being pregnant is a good thing for her.

I don't like the threads,f ew as they are, about (anonymous) sperm donors. I've never 'got' how people would want a baby with a stranger and what kind of man just donates sperm without giving a second glance?

It seems to me to boil down to someone just wanting a baby at all costs and I don't think anyone has a right to a baby, it's selfish to think like that.

I laugh at the ones that post in AIBU then reply saying they only want supportive comments 😂

The numerous threads going on about how the OP's DP/DH is useless, doesn't doing anything around the house etc etc and then the comment 'and I'm pregnant with our 2nd/3rd/10th child ..... WHY??? Surely women realise that if their DP s a useless father it really isn't going to get better. I do think some women seem so desperate for children that they will put up with anything until it is too late. Not fair on them and certainly not fair on the children.
And then of course you get the comments about contraception failure ... if DP is so awful why are you even having sex with him?

"Am I pregnant" with a test picture never fails to go badly.

• Half the people can see it.
• Half of them can't.
• Two halves furiously argue, smattered with posts saying "Congratulations!".
• Not-seers called blind, stupid. Seers called out for giving false hope.
• Two outcomes usually: OP doesn't post again (I guess because they weren't pregnant and find the whole thing too upsetting), or OP IS pregnant and the 'seers' go all smug.

There was a horrible one just a short while ago where some posters with actual knowledge spotted that there was a likely problem, and the OP was actually in the early stages of miscarriage.

The only kind answer is get off the internet and wait for a clear test result.

Trolls.
People inventing Cheeky Fucker stories (trolls by any other name)
Posters who get taken in by trolls, encourage the CF creative writing and then slag off "troll hunters".
The nasty pieces of work who take pleasure in mocking other posters' grammar and spelling, to the point of having their own "safe haven" over in Pedants' Corner where they think they can copy and paste and point and laugh at the thickos. One in particular just seems to spend all day going onto threads to correct people and then running over to C&P. Nasty.
Overuse, and incorrect use of the words "safeguarding issue" and "GDPR".

The way that people make up a convaluted post and thread title to post innocuous discussions in AIBU.

'AIBU to ask you for holiday recommendations'

I have to resist the urge to post 'YABU, post your question in travel or chat instead' but that sort of stuff doesn't go down well round here.

The snark and downright nastiness of some posters: it's possible to disagree without being a shit about it. The dictatorial attitudes of others. The failure of some to understand that we all live in this society so really poor parenting decisions have a wide impact and are therefore a matter of interest to other people. (And that doesn't mean you can't have sympathy for an overwhelmed parent.)

Yes @XXcstatic if they are now legally female then of course they can compete with women in women’s sporting events!

The snark and downright nastiness of some posters: it's possible to disagree without being a shit about it

Totally agree with this.