Is it true we are thought of as nutters by the owner of this site?

Well she's not wrong about some of the posters on threads that mention H&M, that's for sure. Utterly batshit, they are.

It was a bit uncomfortable and I know a lot of users left for a while.

the operative words being "for a while"

OP use of this site is a choice, nobody is holding a gun to your head.

there have been numerous controversies over MN over the years, not least of all Freeloader-Gate and now this. Do you always take what someone says in a general sense as an affront to you personally?

"deranged over H&M" could be either side but I've only seen the pro H&M side assuming that she only meant the other side.

Oh that is a fantastic expression 😁 😁

I think she was being kind. Nutters is a mild term for the Harry and Meghan haters on those threads.

whats wrong with her accepting that there are some posters who are a hinge or two short of a functional door?

It’s great to have a place for nutters go to

I've been here since 2010 and there are some posters and some boards that have more nutters than others. But overall, I think the proportion of nutters to normal people is actually far better on MN than other parts of the internet. There are certain subjects that people here get deranged about in particular compared to elsewhere, but every board or site has its hobbyhorses (see RoF on BigLaw, Pistonheads on exhaust fakery, etc)

I've been posting here for twenty years and agree that most of us are nutters and potentially unhinged. It all adds to the SPICE.

I think 🦇 💩 would’ve been a better description.

if interested;

our users are deranged jan 23

trans boycott April 25

eta;
How Mumsnet transformed Britain Mar 25

Have you seen some of the posts here lol I love the site but let’s be honest… there are some nutters 😂😁

(I post this as a "freeloader", by the way - although the amount of money they're making off all the bloody adverts plastered all over my screen I suspect far outweighs anything they'd make from me if I signed up to MN Premium, whatever that actually is)

I've not heard her calling users nutters, but there was some angry rant that she made earlier this year and she called everybody who didn't sign up for Mumsnet premium "freeloaders". IIRC it was the same week that a load of horrific explicit images of CSA were posted all over the site, and users were up in arms about the fact that overnight (UK time), there's no MN staff available, and they outsource the moderation of the forums to unpaid volunteers.

It was a bit uncomfortable and I know a lot of users left for a while.

Perhaps she's trying to get rid of us bit by bit? I wonder who will be next. It's a bit like watching Trump dismantle the US.

Who cares what she thinks. Is she having a Ratner moment?

And also if you go on many Royal threads & express an opinion that H & M are not the worst people in the world you tend to get accused of being a derailer, Sussex squad, etc because so many posters just want to vent about them. It is weird! 😆

It's really bad form to invite opinions and build a business then rip the people for it to say the least

But people will read posts & form judgements

Some of the haters of H&M are crazy, they are strangers after all who are not exactly mass killers but people create threads and rip them apart them for a choice of font!

I don't know about this site, which seems pretty sedate, but with my main site, Craigslist, I'm pretty sure the staff thinks most of us are wackos.

Another mumsneter said tonight that it's all over Google and the media how the owner of this site said that users of mumsnet were nutters.

So ask the poster who said it's all over Google to post a link IN the thread where they said it was all over Google to an example of the Google comments or, better, the comment those Google threads are referencing.

Agreed!

I think Justine does understand us.
Lots of us are nutters.

She does have a point if you look at the royal Family board. They are almost all nuts.