Is it worth having a sort of 'Clique Corner' or even a Quiche Corner?

[Bumperlicious]

Just to start with saying I have no problem with cliques! Ok, I don't mean cliques as such but the 'regular' threads that appear on MN, Elevenses, Shiney, Twilight etc. When I first started I was in a regular antenatal/postnatal group, and lord knows people griped enough about those!

But there are lots of regular threads that I am too scared to join don't wish to be a part of that keep appearing in my active convos. I can hide them, but have to do so individually, then a new one pops up. I was wondering, if it becomes apparent that you have a 'regular thread' (and I know they aren't usually premeditated, they often come about organically) could it be moved into a topic that can be hidden, or at least new threads started in such a topic?

Is that a really bad idea? Don't want to offend anyone, but would like to make my MNetting as efficient as possible

Aitch - we're Twi-Sluts to distinguish us from Twi-Moms. We don't want to mother anybody, if you catch my drift.

(We don't actually really want to cop off with the Twilight actors. It's all made up nonsense, silliness and pipedreams.)

That's a shame HD, you sound kinda nice...

aaaaaaaawh shucks

What are Twi Moms? I haven't seen any of them about.

I think Catinthehat made an excellent point earlier, and astonishingly, one person agreed with it. which must be a first for the old bat:

"catinthehat2 Mon 20-Sep-10 15:55:54
What about 2 topics:

Quiches - drop by and join in any time why don't you?

Cliques - if your name's not on the list beggar orf?

I think that would cover it."

Your own personal MN too, catinthehat?

Has the Shineoncd thread now morphed into two? What happened?

Also, I think I should be admired for being too idle to fire up one of my multifarious one and eightlegged (and indeed 4 wheeled, though we don't talk about that one since MN towers got involved ) alter egos to offer myself support.

Yes, I have toyed with the idea of blocking posters too, but in the absence of specialised technology I would have to do this by blinking as fast as I can while scrolling. It's not sustainable IMO.

shineon thread morphed into two? hot gossip that is, do tell?

There's the shine shine shine etc threads.

And the LIGHT ones.

I thought they were both the same thing at one stage?

I could be very behind the times ...

The Shiney threads are as they were.. unchanged.

Err Shiney, you just nicked my sentence there and changed the words around

Stop arguing, I'm in bloody labour!

Oh, here is an idea.

MNHQ divide us in to cliques randomly, and we are only allowed to post in our clique.

oooooo exciting stuff

An 'I am currently giving birth quiche' will be small and the membership too eratic IMO

[excited nonetheless]

I don't see the point of having somewhere special to put the cliques so they can be hidden away.

I don't think they clog up active convos - and if they do does it matter? Just skin over them and open a thread that looks interesting. There is all sorts of shite cluttering active convos anyway. Where do you draw the line.

(Though I do agree that there should be a special black hole of hell for the 'guess what I have just done' threads of pointlessness).

I think birth clique has pretty tough membership requirements

If your cervix ain't dilated you're not coming in

pag

rofl at

"If your cervix ain't dilated you're not coming in"

What Getorf said.