We're merging some sections into the Parenting area

[MichaelMumsnet]

Hi all,
We’re doing some work on making the Talk boards more useful and user-friendly for both regular and new users. After looking at some stats for the site, we think we could boost activity on the whole by merging some of the lesser used sections.

We’re proposing to fold this section into the general Parenting area.

This should increase the number of topics in the section - and hopefully lead to more posts and responses to members.

[FleetwoodStorms]

Think I've posted on wrong thread!

[FleetwoodStorms]

Perhaps some of the teenage- related threads in other places should be moved into teenagers

When they were thinking about merging the Teenage board, I reported a couple of AIBU threads and suggested they be moved to Teens. MNHQ said they don't usually move threads unless the OP requests it. They should change their policy and get shifting "for traffic" posts promptly to the right board.

[MrsWilkinsonAthome]

Excellent thank you.

And just to echo a previous poster having parents or babies and toddlers helpfully handing out advice on how to handle out teens (not counting those with prof experience) was not going to end and would probably have stopped those posters who needed help getting it.

[Lifeandbeans]

Yes I agree massively teen needs it's own section and I'm glad it is staying.

Parenting teens can be very hard. In my personal experience of people I know dealing with teens they are dealing with issues such as self harm, underage sex, anxiety, smoking and drugs and child to parent aggression.

I know other stages are hard but I would hate for posts like that to get lost amongst posts about nappies and potty training.

[Samcro]

((blush)) I get where I went wrong now. ignore me

[SoupDragon]

He linked to the Parenting topic. Which just happens to have baby related threads at the top.

[Samcro]

But micheal said they are folding this topice into the parenting topic, then linked to baby stuff

[SoupDragon]

They were doing that but now they aren't.

[Samcro]

im confused. so they are merging teens into the parenting topic?
thats how it reads to me.
followed the link and its all about babies!!

[MancaroniCheese]

Thank you MN for keeping the teenagers board.

And yes to moving threads to the correct section, I am another one that gets irrationally annoyed at the lazy and or attention seeking posts in AIBU. AIBU was supposed to be a place to settle arguments not "AIBU to ask you tell me what to cook for dinner" and other shite.

[Davros]

How do people feel about threads being moved to the "correct" section. It's not really in the spirit I suppose although it gets my goat 🐐 that a lot of people just don't look through the site to familiarise themselves with the available topics. Maybe they should be repeated/copied in the "correct" section with a message at the top of the thread e.g. " this thread belongs in x topic and can be viewed there where you may find better responses and further relevant threads". If there's any jobs going as thread/topic Police I'd like to apply

[Haffdonga]

Hooray

Perhaps some of the teenage- related threads in other places should be moved into teenagers.

This one is lovely for example and it would be a shame if it got lost in chat.

//www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3586058-tell-me-about-your-lovely-teenage-son

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

oh there is a banner! oops! I clearly scroll past it. I wonder if that can be rejigged a bit.

It's difficult because mn has evolved to cover all of life, not just parenting. But it should still keep parenting as its core focus.

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

Thanks for the update :)

There are redundant and duplicate topics that can go, which would help other topics become more visible, but maybe the main parenting topics could go in an easy to access side panel or banner or summat.

[BIWI]

Thanks @MichaelMumsnet - good decision. Now. About people posting in AIBU and Chat 'for the traffic' ...

[Loopytiles]

[MichaelMumsnet]

Cheers SoupDragon. Was just heading here to post an update...

We've got the message and we'll be keeping Teenagers as a distinct section. Thanks for all the comments and feedback so far.
We'll have a think about how best to promote the Teenagers section so that it continues to be a helpful and useful resource.

[SoupDragon]

I don't think we'll be merging the Teenagers section - the feedback from users of that area demonstrates how useful and valued the section is. So our challenge now is to increase the profile of that area of the site so that more people can find it and use it as a valuable resource.

This is from a thread in Site Stuff.

[meg70]

Please keep as separate section mumsnet!

[littlebillie]

Please leave it as it is as I find scrolling through helpful to read

[BertieBotts]

Keep the teen section! Preteens I never use despite having a preteen - merge that one with parenting.

And YY to moving stuff out of chat and AIBU when it doesn't belong there as nothing else gets much traffic these days in response to those so your post doesn't get answered.

[BertieBotts]

Keep the teen section! Preteens I never use despite having a preteen - merge that one with parenting.

And YY to moving stuff out of chat and AIBU when it doesn't belong there as nothing else gets much traffic these days in response to those so your post doesn't get answered.

[BertieBotts]

Keep the teen section! Preteens I never use despite having a preteen - merge that one with parenting.

And YY to moving stuff out of chat and AIBU when it doesn't belong there as nothing else gets much traffic these days in response to those so your post doesn't get answered.

[SoupDragon]

Are you trying to steer the site away from parents with teenagers?

It seems unlikely given they have proposed merging lots of different topics.

[avenueq]

RuffleCrow I'm a bit suspicious that that's what behind this :-(