Does MNHQ Check Our Inboxes?

@yoloPenguinsEatfish I've just checked the other site as I was told you were copying and pasting your posts here over there and that one includes my full user name.

Please remove my username from your post and please don't copy it onto any other site again.

The ignore button seems to be a big plus though.

The mods seem oblivious to it.

I'm enjoying watching it. Not much else to do atm

I think that new site might have more trolls on it than here having just had a look at it.
I can see lots of undercurrents of backbiting and those Reddit horrors are sliming all over it.
It will be interesting to see how it pans out.

Well of course every site is a money making opportunity, no one would be silly enough to believe that ads themselves are what put people off using a forum (unless of course you are trying to make no ads a benefit for subscribers - which kind of fucks with the whole business plan anyway unless your subscription levels are high enough to make up fo the loss of advertising revenue... which seems unlikely in the current economic climate).

Arriety I thought you were questioning something I said? In which case happy to answer.

Blimey! The thickness is strong or they're just being intentionally obtuse. Best leave them to their new site.

Pretty sure I do understand the full picture here for once, thanks for asking

How long before your shiny new site has Ads. Do you think the admin is going to pay for it all out of their own pocket?

Post where you like, but don't be fooled into thinking that the admin is not looking at it as a money making opportunity.

Thanks for that Arietty please tell me what you find hard to understand?

And the "unseen gallery" is in fact of course the other place. No need for trying to hide it, as I've previously said I'm happy to post wherever I like - as we are all free to do so.

I just dont get why a site of this magnitude is so worried about another teeny tiny new site - unless there is something going on that we mere punters dont know about? Because it is us punters that enable the site to monetise itself - advertising, PR etc.

Perhaps @ArriettyJones

The returning hero, I think.

I think @yoloPenguinsEatfish is playing to some unseen gallery. Goodness knows she’s not making much sense.

It’s really simple. Neither the management or posters of NetMums or Reddit have encouraged posters to come to their site. They are not trying to take Mumsnet’s posters.

I don’t think Mumsnet is afraid. I think it’s perfectly reasonable that Mumsnet doesn’t want a new site actively trying to get its posters. The new site us trying to establish itself on the back of posters’ disillusionment with MN. That’s not professional. If NetMums or Reddit was doing the same, the response would be the same.

It's not afraid of a site that has only a handful of people posting, so I wouldn't flatter yourselves.

Well, no I dont get the difference LawrenceMarlow.

Because it seems ok on here to take the piss out of NetMums ("they're all huns") and Reddit has its own completely different vibe - very much wider, apart from the MNTrolls subforum, which is not a nice place to be.

What does MN have to be scared of? If MN can stand alone on it's own ethos and apparently massive amoutn of posters, then why is if afraid of a currently small offshoot?

Do you really not get the difference yolo?

Reddit and NetMums are established sites. Reddit especially is not a direct competitor.

The new site was set up at a particularly opportune moment, when Mumsnet announced it was struggling. It’s a direct competitor with layout copied from Mumsnet and users who mostly came from Mumsnet. It prides itself on being like Mumsnet but better. It doesn’t seem to want to coexist alongside Mumsnet, it seems to want to completely outdo it. Those in with the management of it have openly encouraged letting MNers know about it, including with tips on how to post or message without getting deleted.

No one cares that there’s other sites, but no other site apart from this one right now is setting itself up as a direct competitor for the same audience.

Maybe because those two sites haven't sent unsolicited PMs to members of this site.

But you can't tell members here about a particular new site they might like... while you can talk about netmums or reddit all you like.

So why is that, what's the difference?

Telling members here about a new site they can join is much different from spamming this site with links to a "better site than Mumsnet". I swear, some people are kidding themselves with excuses.

Hypocrites they are on that site, I tell you!

Good point. Maybe I should go and spam the new site with links to other sites I use. 😂

I suspect the ban hammer would fall very swiftly.

Seriously?

Personal recommendations don’t have to happen on Mumsnet.

I don’t think I’ve found any of the other sites I use via Mumsnet.

Personal recommendations are fine but I don’t expect Mumsnet HQ to put up with the poaching.

It would be interesting to see what would happen if another new site tried spamming the recent new site for members.

Arriety how then do posters (here or elsewhere) find other sites, unless someone says "oh you might like this place"? short of googling desperately, but most people seem to prefer some sort of recommendation rather than crash banging into a place they've never heard of before.

T'internet is MASSIVE, there's room for everyone somewhere.

There's a weird kind of vibe around the 'poaching' issue for me. Everyone is entitled to be on any site they like, whether they wish to pay for membership (in some cases) or not.

When posters are saying “poaching” they are referring to the deliberate posts and PMs over here that link to the new site and encourage MNers to click across. Which certain posters in the new site were apparently encouraging each other to do.

Nobody thinks there is a problem with belonging to multiple chat sites.