I included this gripe in my post on the thread about all the annoyingly intrusive Ads that obstruct content - thought it deserved one of its own.
I hate it when MN Ads are included on boards but are made to look like an ordinary thread. I frequent certain boards where I read most threads so I always look out for ones that are still blue which means I haven’t clicked on them yet - the ones I’ve clicked on already are purple/pink. I HATE it when I go on a board and see some unclicked-on threads and think there’s some new content and then realise it’s just a sneaky disguised MN ‘thread’ about Pampers nappies or Boden ‘must have items’. There used to be the odd one of these but now there are loads interspersed amongst the boards.
It’s particularly galling to have these ‘chirpy’ threads interspersed on a board that’s dealing with heavy content. So, for instance, the Feminism boards - I’m reading about violence against women or menopause issues and then there’s a post saying ‘Getting Married in 2 weeks and no dress!” or ‘What exactly is combination feeding?’ I can’t believe no one else is annoyed about these. I wish they were just consigned to Chat or AIBU or boards that are appropriate rather than stripped wholesale across all or most boards
I understand MN wanting to get people to fill out the Census and advertise that across all its boards but the other random stuff is annoying me more than having to navigate past all the huge, annoying, flashing Adverts (almost!). I appreciate that there is a small ‘AD’ added on to the end but at first glance this can be missed. If you’re going to insist on doing this can you at least make them more obvious so that they don’t look like new content on the board - put them all in caps or in another typeface/colour? Please?!