What SINGLE thing would make Mumsnet better for you?

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Thread rules:

1. please be respectful to mnhq, this is not a bitch fest about MN

1. only one THING per poster (or, if you must, you can have more than one but they must be on separate posts).

My thread. My rules. No arguments.

Right, I will start:

I do wish people would spend more time reading than posting. So often you have a thread (quite often an AIBU) where someone says "I haven't read the thread but YABU" or more often lately the highly unnecessary YABVVVVVVVVU when the thread has moved on hugely since the op, the arguments have all been had, everyone has bitched and moaned, made up, had a cup of tea, done a bit of ironing. If there is a slightly sparky looking OP and hundreds of posts on a thread, why not take that as a clue that the thread may well have moved on, questions asked and answers given, and read before you post?

Yipe at all of this
Ciao laragazzeinglese! Which acronyms have you found that you dunno? - email us and we'll add them.
Thanks
M Towers

Whole team meeting for you there Olivia

Edit the threads to get rid of the bitching, abuse and swearing. I don't bother with forums any more because of this, it's tiresome, scary (because these people are parents) and you're losing a lot of credibility. If I mention mumsnet to friends now they think I must be slightly deranged - "that's the website for mums who are nutters". Only on this thread because I saw it flagged up on home page whilst looking for weaning tips and wanted to contribute to this subject!

It would be good to have a 'thumbs up' or 'thumbs down' at the side to show you agree with what someone has said, without having to repeat it.

Would like a topic that is shortcuts to threads that have been highlighted as discssions of the day but are no longer.

On more than one occasion I have not been able to find threads that I had originally accessed via the Discussion of the Day links. I've either forgotten to 'watch' them or only later wanted to refer back to them for something and I discover that I can't ever find them again. very frustrating.

Think it could sit quite happily in the Mumsnet Stuff section - the threads themselves wouldn't need to be moved there, there could just be a link to them...

I'd also like a 'What would you do?' (WWUD) section in the same vein as AIBU but where you could just ask for straightforward advice rather than there needing to be any particularly unreasonable element in there.

There seem to be more and more of these creeping into AIBU where people ask for advice because it is a busy topic so you know you are likely to get a response but hopefully it would also take the sting out it that sometimes happens on AIBU.

zipzap, we have wwyd here

Mumsnet app for my iphone would be very handy!

I'm going to have two, because that's how I roll.

1. People would be banned from saying "off you fuck". It's not big, it's not clever and it's very rude
2. My posts would be highlighted so that people could appreciate my genius and insightful comments, and make appreciative noises along the lines of "that was GENIUS Abs" "you are so hilarious Abs" "you totally changed my mind on that one, Abs, thank you very much".

Please can you make the whole of MN look like Microsoft Project so I can MN freely at work without having the site minimised to the size of a postage stamp in the corner of the screen.

haven't read the whole thread (sorry first poster!) but it is 26 pages long!!! Anyway, what about sections devoted to the big cities? Urbanbaby.com has NY,San Fran, LA, etc and it's useful if you need to find somewhere to go/something to buy/how to get to, etc.

I'd like the ability not to have to log in every time! I've ticked the "don't log out" box - but if I exit Mumsnet I am logged out and if I go back in an hour or two later I have to login again. There are plenty of sites where your login details are saved so if you enter you go straight in. Would be good if that were fixed here too!

*Fizzfiend have you looked at Mumsnet local?

Mumsnet local IMHO (sorry!) is not that great if you want to use it for places that you may be visiting on holiday or for the day etc.

It's more for local folk. You should be able to 'browse' areas for things to do rather than having to make it your local

I think every mumsnetter who has been here longer than 2 years should get an iphone

Would love an edit button for my posts.

Also (going to have two and be a rebel) I hate cliquey in jokes or asides on threads which are supposed to indicate that the posters knows or suspects something about the OP that others might not realise. Especially when about 6 people reply with 'ooooh, I know what you mean'.

Just bloody well come out and say it if you think someone is BSing or they've contridicted themselves on another tread, don't be so f-ing smug and secretive about your superiour MN poster knowledge.

Phew, that feels better now.

I know it's a bit facebooky but a "like" button at the side of a post could be good.

Donbon - You can stay logged in until you log out - have you disabled cookies on your computer? If you use Firefox you can set which sites to accept cookies from so that they will keep your login details.

I like the idea by PaisleyLeaf and Trillian. Thread reappears in threads I'm on if someone (else) has posted on it.

Oooh...fruitshootsandheaves you are a genius!! I will second your suggestion.

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C'mon, MNHQ, this is a stroke of brilliance!!

Can there be a whole category (like education for example) on mum's running their own businesses and mums seeking new jobs ...it takes quite a while to search out threads on this and it would be so good to have it featured with more priority as this is what a lot of us are doing now? Or am I totally crap and have missed these somewhere (quite probably as I've usually had a glass of wine by the time I've got through the evening's slog and made it to MN)...

Big thanks
From a person who knows no-one on Mumsnet and has been bawled out a few times by feisty, but wonderful mums.

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less banging on about MN HQ or MN Towers, which I find twee, smug and irritating - just say site admin or something

For Melaniefhappy

but fabhead, they refer to themselves as MNHQ.