Too much ‘promoted by MN’

[TrinnySmith]

I feel like I’m being constantly lectured by a snotty, superior (ex)friend.
All this bollox promoted by MN - haven’t the MN team realised that most threads gradually drop off the bottom of the screen -usually never to be seen again whereas their witty and catchy🙄 promotions go on and on and on and on - I try my best to ignore but it’s not easy.
I need to spend less time on mn - this is annoying me and will encourage me to do something more useful so it’s not all bad.

Hi OP

Thanks for your feedback- we're always glad to receive it and we will have a chat about our promotions.

Hear, hear! Couldn't agree more.

Yes, it's so annoying. They stay for far too long as well.

Yes I agree. I completely swerve them once I see the promoted by tagline. So not v effective then

Hear hear! Annoying and off putting.
I guess you have to make a profit but iI never knowingly look at an advert.

Yes same here

Yes, especially 'Do you need a new toy for the bedroom '

They are irritating to scroll past to get them out of the way. Especially the vomitous combo of masturbatory aids + pissing yourself sneezing.

Definitely agree, they stand out as out of place from the topic they’re in, especially the ‘do you need a new sex toy’ one.

Couldn't agree more

Yes, please sort this, there are far too many and they stay up for far too long. I didn't have any questions about pensions last week and I don't have any questions about pensions this week. Even if one did interest me I refuse to click them on principle now.

Yes, far too many. Sick of seeing the ‘so you need a new bedroom toy?’!

Agreed, too many and they are too monotonous.

I am so irritated by them I deliberately wouldn’t click on one even if it exactly matched something I was passionately interested in.

Couldn't agree more! HATE THESE, especially the 'toys in the bedroom' one

They're multiplying for sure. Very annoying. I wish I could hide them. I don't need new sex toys or advice on pension etc. Just make them possible to hide if you add so many.

I count 9 in active right now. Just irritating.

Yes, they seem to be breeding like rabbits, and it’s getting tiresome. No, I don’t have questions about gut health, and I don’t want some special mum vibrator.

YANBU.

Mumsnet is a fantastic site and I don’t begrudge its owners the advertising money they make from it, or the revenue they make compiling user comments into books to sell, or even any money paid to the journalists who mysteriously write articles about popular threads almost immediately (what’s more likely, journalists spending all day on Mumsnet, or a Mumsnet employee pitching stories to journalists in return for money?). I don’t begrudge that.

But, the entire value of the site to its users is user-created content. When Mumsnet makes that harder to find by sticking promoted and sponsored stories all over the top of my screen, that gets annoying and damages the relationship between Mumsnet and its users who are after all unpaid content-creators.

And so I drift away…

Right? The flavour of promotions lately is over-familiar, too personal, and obsessed with female biology. I don’t come on Mumsnet looking for sex toys or gut advice thanks.

Maybe they’re hired some men?

This! 🙄

If you reject the consent to cookies I've noticed they disappear.

This.

Yes I agree it’s getting too intrusive , I can’t imagine it’s even having the desired effect for MN as there are just so many, being one of only two or three for only a limited amount of time gives each a good chance of being noticed and users clicking on it. Being 1 of many that sit there “forever” just puts users off and I for one just avoid them like the plague for fear of MN being inclined to have even more if they get a large no of clicks. Sometimes you really can have too much of a good thing.

Agreed. To all of the above.