To seriously think wtaf about at least 50% of the threads here

[PleaseBePacific]

I don't know if I'm being simple, or a total bitch, but at least half the threads I click on are a total non issue. Won't mention specifics as don't want to start a TAAT but does any one else find the same? I mostly just click off then but occasionally comment, which doesn't often go down well

Well of course they are non-issues, just as yours is. This is a place for letting off steam and chatting garbage about this 'n' that, as your opening post does. Big stuff gets dealt with in the real world.

They may be a non issue to you and a huge issue to someone else. That’s the beauty of subjectivity. You may be terrified of spiders and chilled about the prospect of flying. Your next door neighbour may be the exact opposite. Takes all sorts.

Yeah I know what you mean but wasn't actually including those threads. I mean the ones where people seem to think they have an issue. And yes I know my thread is pointless too, just felt like putting it out there 😂

Well sometimes I get the impression an OP has started a thread purely because they want to start a thread and have cast around just for some topic because in reality there is nothing particularly controversial or important going on in their lives.
However these are more than balanced by the number of heartbreaking threads where the OP's life is truly horrendous and they have very real problems they need to air.
If we didn't have the " non issue" threads to alleviate the very real misery and heartache of the serious threads MN would have serious effects on our mental.health.

It's getting worse for totally fake made up posts and journalist baiting.

But you're criticising people for doing exactly that? You do realise that people moan tl their friends about pretty inconsequential things in real life too? Well that's what people do on here. It's a chat forum. Not an 'only post if you have a serious problem' forum.

I agree. I've just come from one thread and I can't believe someone thinks their OP was worth minutes of their time typing it. Who on earth whinges about a person taking the box they put free items in? Either don't put them in a box you want to keep or put a big sign up saying leave box. Sure, moan to friends or workmates about it but to post it on a forum is a little bit wtf.

I hope the ones that are so anti social, misanthropic and downright unkind are fake. That the tally keeping, small minded, pulling up the drawbridge my little family posters aren't real....

No. I know I don't have a real issue. I'm talking about the ones that think they do. That's why I said not sure if I'm being a bitch or just too simplistic.

It's mostly threads like "It's 9pm, should I feed my kids a sandwich" that I find amusing. I don't know how some people get through life without being able to make a simple decision. But hey, I don't know their circumstances so what seems a strange and trivial question to me, may seem like a life or death situation to them.
I also always wonder what people do after they receive an answer on "is this rude" type of threads. Do they then go back and look for a stranger who offended them to show them MN consensus?

I know what you mean. Sometimes I wonder how an OP gets through life without knowing certain things.

And there is your point, OP. Other people want express their frustration with the colour yellow or muse that they can't understand why anyone wears a side parting with designer sunglasses. They just feel like putting it out there.
Some threads on the other hand are about big serious issues, and others about everyday issues that are unremarkable but heartbreaking.

I can't get out my head the abuse that poor bloke received when he posted that his wife had left him, no sympathy at all, a similar thread and the husband had left the wife and the responses were the opposite. A lot of man haters on here.

YANBU. I'm amazed by the things people feel the need to ask Mumsnet.

@kateluvscats Of all the threads on here the one you can't get out of your head is one where a man isn't given the sympathy he was asking for? Not the hundreds
where women are being treated like shit-seriously abused or just treated with everyday contempt or ignored and disregarded?

Sympathy isn't mutually exclusive. @kateluvscats can still feel for the many women who are getting shitty treatment from men, and also feel bad for the man on here who got hardly any sympathy when his wife left.

@CurlewKate

I hope the ones that are so anti social, misanthropic and downright unkind are fake. That the tally keeping, small minded, pulling up the drawbridge my little family posters aren't real....

And the sheer hypocrisy of you, talking about people who are anti-social, misanthropic, and 'unkind,' and then making a snide dig about people who like to spend time with their family, and don't want to let many people into their lives. You don't know the reasons why, or how many people have let them down, (or treated them badly or abused them,) or what's going on in their lives.

Pretty shitty thread actually. Not even one page in and people are already making snarky, snide, rude, nasty remarks about people, and certain threads (and having a go at the posters of the threads at the same time.)

@LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway "making a snide dig about people who like to spend time with their family,"

If you think that's what I was doing that's fine. I wasn't.