Word of advice to MNHQ #2

Cheers faith I'm on reddit with the same username but haven't looked recently. I guess that means I'm also persona non grata.

'Rubbish. It's a complete bitchfest'
I can't find anything about mn or cockroaches on there, am I thick or is it very hard to navigate?

It's a bit more free speechy than here but it's no worse than AIBU. Better really because no one's being snidey or shitty, they are just saying it right to your face (screen?).

In many instances it's not saying anything to someone's face. It's gossiping about certain posters who aren't even on the threads.

How are they saying it to your face when you're not there to defend yourself?

'I was always under the impression that it was extremely bad form to bring arguments across forums? Has that changed ?'

Probably not for you and me...

And it does seem a bad form to do that. Petulant even.

Queen the Reddit threads are not brutal well not unless you're a snowflake.

What crap. Naming posters then picking them apart in the bitchiest of ways.

It's not a bitchfest. It's a bit more free speechy than here but it's no worse than AIBU. Better really because no one's being snidey or shitty, they are just saying it right to your face (screen?).

It's more like it used to be here when moderation was much lighter and you called a cunt out on a thread instead of reporting. It's much more honest.

Very good post, BrainSaysNo. Room on that fence for my arse too?

I've always liked Stratters but I didn't find the cockroach thing funny. And a member of MNHQ was named on the thread (not by stratters)

Genuinely not sure what's gone down here in the last 24 hours.

Maudlinmaud, a précis:

MNHQ likened some (troublesome) posters to shoplifters in Boots (the shop, not the shoe), then someone Stratters posted a pic of Milton the cockroach on Reddit & said it was MNHQ complaints dept.
Justine not happy, shoplifters not happy.

An interesting side note is that, as everyone knows, only cockroaches & Grifter bikes are able to withstand a nuclear holocaust, so MN should emerge unscathed when the dust settles on this.

Queen the Reddit threads are not brutal well not unless you're a snowflake.

Rubbish. It's a complete bitchfest.

Reddit has to be read from the bottom up and across. . I've given it a go but I've decided to stay here instead.

I think Mumsnet needs to re-think it's punishments. Banning from posting on certain areas for example, might work. Or a 2,4,6 or 8 week ban system. A permanent ban just means they re-register under a new name and there's no incentive to change behaviour.

My guess is that Stratters has been banned for stuff she's said on Reddit about HQ because she has the same name over there. When I looked a few weeks ago the other posters had different usernames to here. They'd probably be banned too if their names were the ones they have here.

Queen the Reddit threads are not brutal well not unless you're a snowflake.
I think it's dreadful that Stratters can be banned from this site for posting an innocuous photo on another site. Personally I think Justine has tried to use this faux outrage at a cockroach photo to draw attention away from the fact that HQ have not addressed ever their failings regarding David. HQ are very much 'move along, nothing to see here' rather than addressing problems. Much easier to ban. I guess we are interefering with Justine's aim to sell the site for shedloads of dosh.

I must open all the wrong threads. Because I don't remember Stratters being a difficult or rude poster

I was always under the impression that it was extremely bad form to bring arguments across forums? Has that changed ?

We need little arrows to give us karma points, not 'like' buttons.
I'll give you a karma point for that ^^ post SNF.

I missed it all too

Reddit hurts my eyes and my brain.

FightClub as some kind of insane asylum is a great idea.

Banning stratters not so much

Genuinely not sure what's gone down here in the last 24 hours. Some sort of a squabble over an insect and stratters has been ejected?

I like stratters

Penisbeaker was embarrassing.

Anyway, I like Milton, is he gender fluid?
[head tilt]

With regards to reddit, there are 2 subsections on there around MN, one just a group of people who are looking for the old style MN and re creating that, and one with posters wanting to discuss trolls/frustrations with MN.
The latter has had some brutal posts by odd posters (but they on the whole are pulled up by others on there), I am no wall flower and the odd comments has me .
However the trolls section on the whole it is a group of people speaking as they may to their mates down the pub, with no rules around what they want to say.
I think at the moment its raw for some people, who are mourning the loss of their community.
On the flip side I think the MN team do take constructive feedback, but there are times I think they take some shit that if I was an employer who had a duty to safeguard them I would have something to say to the consumer.
MN is a massive site, there is no way all the people all the time are going to be happy with decisions etc, I suppose its weighing up if on the whole it suits you and if it doesn't anymore, its a waste of our energy arguing?
Looks like I have a fence truly up my arse, as I can genuinely see both sides.

Another thing that makes me a bit is how MNHQ are forever saying they've never changed their policy on trolling.

Have a look at Classics! Tbh I think that's half the problem. You used to be able to post a funny thread that would become full of posters 'getting it' and taking the piss, mucho jocularity. Now you'd risk a ban for either starting or taking the piss on a thread like that.

Meanwhile the many 'live updates as I discover my husband's second family with a Russian transvestite' trolls run amok.