Would it be too much...

[MoonWoman69]

... To ask that people put questions about their children in the children/parent section?! I see it a lot on the site. The title in Active or AIBU gives nothing away, click on it and it's about posters children! It's a waste of time when you aren't interested in the fact that little Betty isn't sleeping for more than 2 hours a night!
Yes, I am aware it's "Mumsnet" but I find it both annoying and misleading when people don't categorise their posts correctly.
Am I being unreasonable here?

I think YABU.
There's no reason why people can't put parenting queries on AIBU.

You can always scroll past once you've read the OP.

Yes, YABVU. And I say this as someone who can’t have kids. Specialist boards get less traffic. Sections like Chat and AIBU are for whatever people want to post about! If everything had to be filed by topic they’d be empty!

If more posts were in the relevant topics, those topics would get more traffic because they’d appear in Active more often.

I would wager that there are more people who want to write about specific Parenting problems than there are people who want to read about them.

Hence they get worded in a way that people will click on them in AIBU.

Those clickbaity titles piss me right off and I deliberately don’t open them.

’AIBU to have done this to neighbour?’ then you look and it’s some pathetic twat crowing over giving Doris from next door an Asda own brand tea bag instead of a Typhoo one.

Hi @MoonWoman69 thanks for raising this. We do sometimes get reports from people asking us to move threads out of AIBU and into more 'suitable' topics, and we'll occasionally move threads over if we feel they're totally out of place. But really AIBU can be for any subject at all - we don't have any hard and fast rules about what people are being reasonable or unreasonable about

This is a parenting forum. The assumption should be that the majority of posts are related to, idk, parenting? Why would people limit where they can post when the site is designed to ‘make parents lives easier.’ Maybe Reddit is more suited to you

What would you allow to be put in chat though?

Questions about children - in the parenting section
Question about work - in the work section
A partner - in relationships
A pet - the pet section
Tv - the tv section

You get my drift. What is left to go in broader areas like chat if you insist on everything being categorised? Plenty of the AIBU posts could go in a different section if you start being strict about it?

Or is your issue just with child related questions? Why is that more annoying than anything else that could potentially go into a different board?

Thank you @DawnMumsnet @ChockysChimichanga and @WalkInAStraightLine for your reasonable answers.
And thanks to all for your comments.
And yes, like I said in my post, I know it's Mumsnet, a parenting board. But it's also an open forum for anyone, regardless of parental status and whenever I've had a question to post, I have put it in the relevant category.
My query is not only limited to questions about children, I've noticed it about other posts, but I come across the misplaced (in my mind) children queries more than any other.
Thanks all again, I hope you all have a lovely weekend planned! 🌸