The Board Police

[Menomenon]

Posters shouting at OPs for putting their thread in the wrong topic. It’s crazy. How should the OP know that there is a specific topic, when they think their issue belongs in ‘Chat’?

It’s so rude. Just report or send the OP a pm. Don’t fill up the first 20 posts shouting at her.

I think it is reasonable to make the op aware so they can ask for the thread to be moved. I would be annoyed if someone sent me an unsolicited pm.

If it's a Harry and Megan thread then some people are completely fed up with the sheer ludicrous volume of threads about them, have hidden The Royal Family, and then get very cross about still seeing them. I agree that their anger is disproportionate to the actual crime of the specific OP (unless the OP is a repeat offender) but it's a straw breaking the camel's back scenario. Can't be arsed to care either way myself.

Depends what it is TBF. Royal Family-put it in that topic. Please!
I thought everything just hit posted in AIBU these days as posters are terrified nobody will see it anywhere else.

And a huge no to sending PMs telling posters they’re posting in the wrong topic. That really is policing threads. 🙈

Unless people are unable to read, in which case what are they even doing here, surely they can spend a bit of time looking around the site and grasping that there are different boards for different topics. It's not rocket science.

Afternoon, everyone. Yes, we hear you. While we know not everyone wants to read, for example, threads about Prince Harry endlessly, it does derail threads when people post heavily on them saying they're in the wrong place, so we'd always prefer people to send us a report if they have concerns rather than do so on the thread.

For what it's worth, at times like this, when a subject is front page news, we don't feel we can insist people post in the dedicated topic to discuss the issue. We had a similar policy with Brexit threads and also Covid. Largely, we try to keep them in their relevant sections but we do recognise that there will be times when a story puts those topics on the front page of all the papers, and a topic then becomes more 'general interest'.

If you see spamming of 'Oy! Move your thread over!' do just hit the report button and we can deal with it. And similarly, we're always happy to have a look if you think a thread is in the wrong section.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/in_the_news

For what it's worth, at times like this, when a subject is front page news, we don't feel we can insist people post in the dedicated topic to discuss the issue.

Not even in the 'News' topic?