war topic

[Samcro]

any chance of a covid style war topic for all the "are we going to war " threads please.

"Emergency of the Year" topic?
or
"Crisis threads" ?

Would have been Swine flu, Ebola, Covid, Ukraine...

[quote AlexaShutUp]@saraclara, I know it's annoying you but it's annoying me that people are shallow enough to get annoyed by trivia like this when a sovereign country has been invaded and innocent people have been killed. It's petty and offensive that people want to just tidy it out of view so that their entertainment isn't disrupted.[/quote]
I disagree with this sweeping viewpoint.

Personally, I think a separate board could be a good idea. I certainly don’t view that as me wanting to sweep it under the rug or to bury it in a corner.

I want to keep up with views on here. For me, that would be easier to do if all posts were in o e place - rather then checking through AIBU and Chat etc. I think the COVID board was simple enough for everyone to get used to and to know where to go.

Labelling people as shallow, petty and offensive is a tad arrogant!

Why on earth do posters persist with the belief that creating a dedicated topic = 'sweeping it under the carpet' or 'hiding it away'?!

If there was a big sticky at the top of AIBU / Chat saying - this is where the threads on Geopolitics are, then it might work.

This is a really important topic. There are so many topics, it could get lost amongst them.

Having a really big 'signpost' so people know that if they click on it, it will take them to those threads might work.

But just creating a topic without making it blindingly obvious to any poster on the main topics that there is a topic about the geopolitical situation is hiding it away amongst many topics.

But just creating a topic without making it blindingly obvious to any poster on the main topics that there is a topic about the geopolitical situation is hiding it away amongst many topics.

It’s only hidden if there are no active conversations, in which case the thread would quickly drift off the first few pages of AIBU and chat.

Why on earth do posters persist with the belief that creating a dedicated topic = 'sweeping it under the carpet' or 'hiding it away'?! because many of them think we should have these topics shoved in our faces, and they know that if there is a dedicated topic people will hide it.

I remember when the COVID topic came into being there were people saying “this is important, everyone should be made to see it.” When actually a huge number of us (me included) hid the topic so we didn’t have to see the constant fearmongering and conspiracy crap on it.

I have the feminism topics hidden for similar reasons.

I currently have 11 topics NOT hidden. it makes such a difference to my Active list. So much better.
I also don't understand how a seperate topic is sweeping it under the carpet. It's making it important enough for it's own topic.

The MN collective logic on this seems to be that if at any time you don't want to hear about horrific suffering and the supposed imminence of nuclear war then you're being a feeble-minded ostrich, but if you express any sadness about the situation you're virtue signalling and making it all about yourself

(Incidentally, ostriches don't actually bury their heads in the sand to hide from predators, which is pretty obvious if you think about it because as an evolutionary strategy that would be crap. They do it cos they have their nests underground and occasionally turn their eggs so they get heated more evenly.)

@psychomath

The MN collective logic on this seems to be that if at any time you don't want to hear about horrific suffering and the supposed imminence of nuclear war then you're being a feeble-minded ostrich, but if you express any sadness about the situation you're virtue signalling and making it all about yourself

(Incidentally, ostriches don't actually bury their heads in the sand to hide from predators, which is pretty obvious if you think about it because as an evolutionary strategy that would be crap. They do it cos they have their nests underground and occasionally turn their eggs so they get heated more evenly.)

Because unfortunately, it seems the majority of people posting about it do actually fall into one or other of those categories. They’re incapable of posting about it without reference to how they feel.

As far as I’ve seen (and I’m prepared to be corrected) most of the posts on MN about the war have been from wet lettuces worrying abstractly if it will affect their broccoli in Hook Norton, people without a grip on reality wanting to donate to Ukrainian pet shelters/stream Ukrainian music to show solidarity and preppers buying tins of beans.

It’s not that people don’t want to hear about it, it’s that they don’t want to hear fearmongering, arrant nonsense and pointless speculation.

@Juno22

I will be furious MN if you do this just to pacify one person who seems unwilling to hide threads they are not interested in.

I agree, I am not keen to read about the war personally but is is pathetic for everything to have to be hidden - we all know it is happening.

And once again. A separate topic would not mean that it would be hidden!

they don’t want to hear fearmongering, arrant nonsense and pointless speculation.

I'm startled by the number of posters who express the view that Ukraine is tiny with all the confidence of those who are so convinced of this that it doesn't occur to them to Google this assertion. Substitute any other claims such as Ukraine not having any borders with relevant countries or being nowhere near Poland etc.

@labyrinthlaziness how would its own topic be hiding it?

Is the covid board hidden?

I am not keen to read about the war personally but is is pathetic for everything to have to be hidden - we all know it is happening

How would it be hidden? The threads will still come up in Trending (you can't stop that, sadly) and if you want to discuss it just open up the topic and there are all the threads.

They would also show up in Active Convos.

Definitely not hidden!

@Sparklingbrook

I am not keen to read about the war personally but is is pathetic for everything to have to be hidden - we all know it is happening

How would it be hidden? The threads will still come up in Trending (you can't stop that, sadly) and if you want to discuss it just open up the topic and there are all the threads.

This! I really don’t get these comments.

I mean, if the COVID board was a human then they’d be totally shite at playing hide and seek!

Oh yes, the very difficult to find Covid topic? Or the impossible to find Sex topic? All hidden away where nobody can find them.
When I want to discuss my cat I have to spend all that time searching and searching for the Litter Tray topic.

PLEASE

then the ambiguously titled threads can easily be identified as being related to the topic and not clicked on unintentionally.

@Sparklingbrook

Oh yes, the very difficult to find Covid topic? Or the impossible to find Sex topic? All hidden away where nobody can find them. When I want to discuss my cat I have to spend all that time searching and searching for the Litter Tray topic.

I only discovered very recently, because of a thread moaning about a sex thread not being in the correct topic, that there was a sex topic.

Not everyone goes into the individual topics and instead uses most active.

[quote Associatepeggy]@labyrinthlaziness how would its own topic be hiding it?

Is the covid board hidden?[/quote]
I mean I don't understand why people need to hide from all reference to it.

Not everyone goes into the individual topics and instead uses most active.

And they would still be in active conversations.

I mean I don't understand why people need to hide from all reference to it.

They aren't hiding from a reference to it.

@Associatepeggy

I mean I don't understand why people need to hide from all reference to it.

They aren't hiding from a reference to it.

Why do people want it in its own topic then? I thought it was so they could hide the topic?

I don't really care what topics are in AIBU etc., it has always been a mishmash of what is on people's minds.

@labyrinthlaziness that's what the the thread is about. You could read just one or two pages and find out a myriad of reasons.

Some people would like to hide the whole topic. But there's a ton of other reasons.

@FinallyFree2022

PLEASE

then the ambiguously titled threads can easily be identified as being related to the topic and not clicked on unintentionally.

This is what I mean - what terrible thing happens if someone clicks on a thread 'unintentionally'?

I click on loads of threads I am not interested in or that are about things that stress me#.

People can not seriously expect to be online and not see discussion/reference to Ukraine.