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It’s goodbye from me

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solongandthxforthefish · 19/03/2025 17:54

I’ve been on mumsnet since the early days, it’s seen my family grow up and become adults, seen me become a grandparent.

its been a happy place, a supportive place through thick and thin and I’ve made lots of contacts who I will miss.

the supportive threads are being lost amongst ones of hatred and intolerance for difference, for the others and by threads about high incomes not being enough, of how disabled people are increasingly hated, how children with SEND are an inconvenience. Boomers, of which I am not one, are hated.

is there anybody mumsnet members actually like?

im taking a break, however long is needed until the hatred is less.

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ArtTheClownIsNotAMime · 19/03/2025 18:05

OK, see you next week

Surfshoe · 19/03/2025 18:04

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Fetchthevet · 19/03/2025 18:03

I think @Surfshoe was just making a joke.

Birdist · 19/03/2025 18:02

I don't think the majority of MN have changed much- there are just more vocal troublemakers. For every person wanging on about "benefits scroungers" there are still ten people putting them straight.

Surfshoe · 19/03/2025 18:00

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waxymoron · 19/03/2025 18:00

I'm with you. I have been here since 2008 with many name changes and have seen a lot of awful postings, but the disability hatred this last week and especially today has made me so so sad and lose so much faith in what I thought was a kind place (once!). Some which have been allowed to stand would, as has been said many times, be immediately removed if they were about race or religion.

Along with other things that are allowed to stand, some basically, horrific, posts from, clearly just...nasty, people; the good is being taken away.
I may just hide everything except for the litter tray!

Surfshoe · 19/03/2025 18:00

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MerryGrimaceShake · 19/03/2025 17:59

Surfshoe LITTERALLY proving the point in the first reply. Well done. It’s people like you OP is talking about.

What used to be frank and honest advice on MN has just descended into people being nasty for absolutely no reason at all, contributing nothing of value at all to a thread. Just like Surfshoe here.

I get it OP. This place used to be great but every thread has a handful of just horrible replies. And admin won’t change the rules and actually moderate because that would require effort.

MidnightPatrol · 19/03/2025 17:58

I think leaving because people are writing about their income not being high enough to cover their expenses, when you presumably perceive it to be fine, is the most bizarre of your list.

coldcallerbaiter · 19/03/2025 17:58

Disabled people aren’t hated. The rise in claimants is not supportable.

User018475022 · 19/03/2025 17:58

I give you until 830pm.

Tiddlywinkly · 19/03/2025 17:57

Off to join Gransnet? (Genuine question)

Surfshoe · 19/03/2025 17:56

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