Too many topics (aren't there?)

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Here's a radical proposal for 2012. How about any topic with below a certain number of posts per week/month, being moved to to a Mumsnet Dumper and they have to be lobbied out, or let nature take it's course after an announced amount of time, and then they get ousted to an archive. Anything that's just become a one-thread clique-zone can be moved to an active "club" section.

I'm not on here that often and have occasionally posted in what are clearly niche areas, which have all the excitement, urgency and dynamism of a game of chess by post, even though as topics they are worthy and interesting. Could of course just be me and my tumbleweed tendencies. Oh yes, and before anyone says it (who do you think you are?/ you don't like it, eff off/ don't give a sh*t mate) it's just an idea and a lot of people seem to complain about the maze of topics.

agree 100%

I agree as well - I don't understand why we have education, primary education and then secondary education

I agree

Ooh, I agree with the education divisions staying as they are, and you really can't lump Conception in with Infertility, but things like "Sport and Exercise" could easily be lumped in with adult health, or Gardening could be merged with Property/DIY, and poissonally I'd prefer there just to be one Pets section again.

Absutely and huge misuse of AIBU

Noo, not one pets section, I kept missing all the fish threads.

I don't think there are too many topics although there are some overlaps so sometimes it's hard to know where to look. We probably don't need a 'pets' topic because all kinds of pets are already covered by the sub-fora. Same with education and primary/secondary.

Some of the fora I have no idea what they are for or if anyone posts there, like flouncers corner or mumsnot. The royal family topic doesn't get much traffic now does it?

The Royal family never got much traffic, and the royalists complain as their nice threads in the right place received sod all comment, whereas a nigh on identical thread in AIBU would get loads of comments. So the non-Royalists didn't get their aim of being able to hide the whole caboodle either.

Either MNHQ moves threads into their "proper" homes (my preferred option, especially for eg the Olympics 2012 to try to avoid huge duplication, or unfindable useful threads); or else the quiet sections should go.

Other nominations for the chop: the subsidiary feminism forums - next to no traffic, and more or less duplicate of the "main" one; extra-curricular activities; wine (surprisingly low traffic!); World cup 2010 (past sell by date); swine flu (it's become just one of the seasonal flus now, so delete or rename as just influenza); ethical living (pity, but not much traffic, and easily covered in other topics); Facebook; eBay; Home front (no one knows what it is); ethical dilemmas (covered by WWYD and/or philosophy etc); Ford; most of the individual sections in "products" especially merging all the items for babies.

What is home front? (Hidden it, too lazy to look)