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Trans identified Mumsnet member AidaP is scraping Mumsnet

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BambooLampshade · 28/04/2026 21:34

Hi Mumsnet, though you should know that a trans identified man - who often posts on Mumsnet as @aidap - is scraping the feminimism board, in order to create some sort of grading system.

It's basically electronic stalking.

What is this?

Oh yes, I have downloaded most of mumsnet and we will be doing embeddings of the content to try to understand how does the rot and hate builds and spreads.

I never had so much hate and delusion on my hard drive before 😅

https://bsky.app/profile/aidap.bsky.social/post/3mkklbtpgbs2s

Aida (@aidap.bsky.social)

What is this? Oh yes, I have downloaded most of mumsnet and we will be doing embeddings of the content to try to understand how does the rot and hate builds and spreads. I never had so much hate and delusion on my hard drive before 😅

https://bsky.app/profile/aidap.bsky.social/post/3mkklbtpgbs2s

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ArabellaScott · 29/04/2026 08:12

Beautifulhaiku · 29/04/2026 07:54

Completely agree. I understand that there is genuine concern about protection of women’s spaces but I’ve seen so many posts suggesting that trans women are doing it as some kind of fetish or to get access to be able to harm other women - it’s cruel bullying and I can’t believe it’s allowed.

Some transwomen are fetishists and some are predators. This is simple fact.

DownyBirch · 29/04/2026 08:11

borntobequiet · 29/04/2026 07:41

This is AidaP.

Notice the warped attempt at humour in the similarity between Rowling as in JK and rolling as in “splintery rolling pin”.

This is an entirely sexually perverted sick fantasy.

I can't see anything about rolling or Rowling in that post, nor anything sexual?

CruCru · 29/04/2026 08:05

Ollldy78 · 29/04/2026 02:03

Okay, so aidap comes across as an abhorrent human being, but do you think that the hysterical responses making up the majority of this thread are coming across well? Or are most of you channelling primary-school-“the teachers coming”-screamy-little-girl energy..?

..however, Im loving this “bill gates harvesting your dna” style explanation of aidap’s nefarious plot! 😂

The reference to “screamy-little-girl-energy” is extremely creepy. The women on MN are adults who write well and can get their point across.

ForCosyLion · 29/04/2026 07:56

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 28/04/2026 23:11

Now I can't get the aria from The Mikado out of my head.

Really? Not the Christmas song about Santa and his list?

ForCosyLion · 29/04/2026 07:55

WarriorN · 29/04/2026 07:01

Just a warning that another well known visitor has attempted to match up “signed” names on threads to names on petitions and crowdfunders, previously.

Also never post from Instagram as your name briefly flashes up. Unless your insta name is a pseudonym .

What do you mean "signed" names on threads? Who's signing their name on threads?

Also, what do you mean by posting "from" instagram? From instagram to where? Or do you just mean posting ON instagram?

Confused - could do with some clarification bc this identifying of names is a bit worrying. Thx!

Beautifulhaiku · 29/04/2026 07:54

JLou08 · 28/04/2026 22:16

This site is full of hate for trans people. I've not seen the level of hate I see here anywhere else. The amount of comments I've seen saying that trans people are doing it as some sort of sexual fetish or as a way to perv on and abuse women is disgusting. That kind of stereotyping of any other minority group would be quickly shut down.
I won't be replying to any comments. I've learned from experience that any support for the trans community on the site leads to a pile on from people who are not interested in actual debate, they are too fixed in their views. Some with concerns they feel strongly about due to fear enticed by others. Some who are nothing but nasty bullies who have found a place where they can put down a whole community and not only get away with it, but be supported with it.

Completely agree. I understand that there is genuine concern about protection of women’s spaces but I’ve seen so many posts suggesting that trans women are doing it as some kind of fetish or to get access to be able to harm other women - it’s cruel bullying and I can’t believe it’s allowed.

borntobequiet · 29/04/2026 07:41

JLou08 · 28/04/2026 22:16

This site is full of hate for trans people. I've not seen the level of hate I see here anywhere else. The amount of comments I've seen saying that trans people are doing it as some sort of sexual fetish or as a way to perv on and abuse women is disgusting. That kind of stereotyping of any other minority group would be quickly shut down.
I won't be replying to any comments. I've learned from experience that any support for the trans community on the site leads to a pile on from people who are not interested in actual debate, they are too fixed in their views. Some with concerns they feel strongly about due to fear enticed by others. Some who are nothing but nasty bullies who have found a place where they can put down a whole community and not only get away with it, but be supported with it.

This is AidaP.

Notice the warped attempt at humour in the similarity between Rowling as in JK and rolling as in “splintery rolling pin”.

This is an entirely sexually perverted sick fantasy.

Trans identified Mumsnet member AidaP is scraping Mumsnet
Deutzia · 29/04/2026 07:34

What a bizarre thing to do when he is easily identified and linked to his threats. There must be many MN users who know who he is in RL. You'd think people who make such vile threats against women would be worried about their employers finding out and action being taken for bringing their organisation into disrepute.

TheBeaTgoeson1 · 29/04/2026 07:34

This thread is hilarious.

curious79 · 29/04/2026 07:33

JLou08 · 28/04/2026 22:16

This site is full of hate for trans people. I've not seen the level of hate I see here anywhere else. The amount of comments I've seen saying that trans people are doing it as some sort of sexual fetish or as a way to perv on and abuse women is disgusting. That kind of stereotyping of any other minority group would be quickly shut down.
I won't be replying to any comments. I've learned from experience that any support for the trans community on the site leads to a pile on from people who are not interested in actual debate, they are too fixed in their views. Some with concerns they feel strongly about due to fear enticed by others. Some who are nothing but nasty bullies who have found a place where they can put down a whole community and not only get away with it, but be supported with it.

It IS a sexual fetish in most instances, that’s psychologically accepted.

ArabellaScott · 29/04/2026 07:29

Aida is lacking in ambition. If he thought harder, he might be able to 'scrape' the data of every woman in the world who said 'no' to him or objected to his threats of rape 'with a splintery rolling pin'.

It is all a bit sad and grim, though. Let's hope all he's doing is footering about with a database and things don't go further - its giving me vibes of the computing equivalent of Ed Gein.

I very much hope his wife and children have support.

CassOle · 29/04/2026 07:20

Lugol · 29/04/2026 06:43

Some men really hate women don't they?

What I don't understand is, if he thinks he is a woman, why is he hating on women?

He came to FWR to 'educate' us. We told him that mammals can't change sex.

ArabellaScott · 29/04/2026 07:16

WheretheFishesareFrightening · 29/04/2026 07:13

This is so sad, because as someone who does want to debate this all I see on here is this.

In fact I see more people wanting to debate in good faith than hate, who are constantly shut down by people like you saying that they’re not entertaining a debate. And that seems to be true on every online forum.

I don’t understand the trans position, and my view is that they should not be discriminated against for being trans, all while being treated in all cases as their biological sex. I’d love to find someone that would try to change my mind - but it’s always the same brick wall you’ve put up.

It does lead me to question whether there is no debate to be had though, and people just don’t want to has their logic and beliefs trampled on by “terfs”.

Indeed. Except it no longer makes me sad. Its just bullying and aggression directed at women who wont do as they're told. Which now makes me angry.

Atoxicsewerofhate · 29/04/2026 07:15

BambooLampshade · 28/04/2026 23:52

He just wants to scold women. And has built a computer program to do that.

Frickin weirdo.

It's like "Weird Science" for the 21st century

WheretheFishesareFrightening · 29/04/2026 07:13

JLou08 · 28/04/2026 22:16

This site is full of hate for trans people. I've not seen the level of hate I see here anywhere else. The amount of comments I've seen saying that trans people are doing it as some sort of sexual fetish or as a way to perv on and abuse women is disgusting. That kind of stereotyping of any other minority group would be quickly shut down.
I won't be replying to any comments. I've learned from experience that any support for the trans community on the site leads to a pile on from people who are not interested in actual debate, they are too fixed in their views. Some with concerns they feel strongly about due to fear enticed by others. Some who are nothing but nasty bullies who have found a place where they can put down a whole community and not only get away with it, but be supported with it.

This is so sad, because as someone who does want to debate this all I see on here is this.

In fact I see more people wanting to debate in good faith than hate, who are constantly shut down by people like you saying that they’re not entertaining a debate. And that seems to be true on every online forum.

I don’t understand the trans position, and my view is that they should not be discriminated against for being trans, all while being treated in all cases as their biological sex. I’d love to find someone that would try to change my mind - but it’s always the same brick wall you’ve put up.

It does lead me to question whether there is no debate to be had though, and people just don’t want to has their logic and beliefs trampled on by “terfs”.

NortieTortie · 29/04/2026 07:11

Has he nothing better to do? What a loser

babyproblems · 29/04/2026 07:10

Iatethelastbiscuit · 28/04/2026 22:50

I don’t get what he’s doing? What is digital scraping?

He is essentially building an automated system to grade MN users & their comments into a results system green to red, indicating ‘how much hatred’ there is by doing a sort of mass gathering and analysis of posts.

Probably looking for keywords in posts he has decided are ok / worse / terrible etc.

It would result in a spreadsheet or similar of users with an overall score possibly per person. This could be used subsequently to harass people online for example.

There are obviously many possible outcomes from such a process; but I imagine online harassment / stalking and defamation against highlighted individuals is essentially the most dangerous. Not to mention the fact that this sort of behaviour still forces further debate / consideration to the conversation of trans / women’s spaces as a whole; which in itself is inflammatory because the parameters of the situation have already been defined and accepted by most people.

user1467978734 · 29/04/2026 07:09

Batties · 28/04/2026 22:53

Some men, and the odd poster on this thread, really can’t cope with women defending ourselves.

That’s the crux of it, mumsnet allows women, the real kind, to debate, discuss, educate, share, enlighten, and they can’t shut us down. But they keep trying.

Waitwhat23 · 29/04/2026 07:06

ProudCat · 29/04/2026 06:59

I'm confused. You're saying this person is stalking people and your proof for this is a Bluesky post they've made which you've found. Was this post linked on MN or have you been searching the internet? You do know what stalking is, right?

As for a digital scrape (a bot that goes through web content and retrieves it according to set perameters), it's a method of data collection. Something like half of all internet traffic is down to this. There isn't any unsecured data on MN, unless someone's using their actual name or has (unwisely) outed themselves on a public forum. What makes you think this person is targeting individuals? Digital scrapes, of the kind you're talking about, are generally looking for information for research purposes. Has anything they've said suggest they're doing something else? I mean, not being funny, but MN is probably being scraped all the time because AI is currently in the business of producing massive databases. Do you mind secret scraping by others?

As I say, confused.

The post was linked, by the poster himself, onto this site. As has been said upthread.

Iamnotalemming · 29/04/2026 07:04

Regardless of all the other disturbing stuff, he's broken the rules and admitted it, so he should be banned, no? Otherwise what's the point of the rules. C'mon @MNHQ

WarriorN · 29/04/2026 07:02

ProudCat · 29/04/2026 06:59

I'm confused. You're saying this person is stalking people and your proof for this is a Bluesky post they've made which you've found. Was this post linked on MN or have you been searching the internet? You do know what stalking is, right?

As for a digital scrape (a bot that goes through web content and retrieves it according to set perameters), it's a method of data collection. Something like half of all internet traffic is down to this. There isn't any unsecured data on MN, unless someone's using their actual name or has (unwisely) outed themselves on a public forum. What makes you think this person is targeting individuals? Digital scrapes, of the kind you're talking about, are generally looking for information for research purposes. Has anything they've said suggest they're doing something else? I mean, not being funny, but MN is probably being scraped all the time because AI is currently in the business of producing massive databases. Do you mind secret scraping by others?

As I say, confused.

my concern is that they try to match writing styles and content to other sources to dox

WarriorN · 29/04/2026 07:01

Just a warning that another well known visitor has attempted to match up “signed” names on threads to names on petitions and crowdfunders, previously.

Also never post from Instagram as your name briefly flashes up. Unless your insta name is a pseudonym .

ProudCat · 29/04/2026 06:59

BambooLampshade · 29/04/2026 01:02

AidaP posted that on Bluesky. Where he constantly links back to the threads he's on, on Mumsnet. So Mumsnet cannot pretend they don't know that it's him, on here.

I'm confused. You're saying this person is stalking people and your proof for this is a Bluesky post they've made which you've found. Was this post linked on MN or have you been searching the internet? You do know what stalking is, right?

As for a digital scrape (a bot that goes through web content and retrieves it according to set perameters), it's a method of data collection. Something like half of all internet traffic is down to this. There isn't any unsecured data on MN, unless someone's using their actual name or has (unwisely) outed themselves on a public forum. What makes you think this person is targeting individuals? Digital scrapes, of the kind you're talking about, are generally looking for information for research purposes. Has anything they've said suggest they're doing something else? I mean, not being funny, but MN is probably being scraped all the time because AI is currently in the business of producing massive databases. Do you mind secret scraping by others?

As I say, confused.

PlayingDevilsAdvocateisinteresting · 29/04/2026 06:58

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne

Oh, how embarrassing, it is even worse than I thought, as I used to really enjoy Gilbert and Sullivan's Operettas when I was a teenager/young adult, about 50 years ago. For some inexplicable reason I completely forgot about The Mikado, maybe because it wasn't one that I was lucky enough to see at that time. So it wasn't that I then got "snobby" about their brilliant satire, I just started having children .... 🤭

Maybe now that the children are all grown up, and I am an OAP, and have changed husbands as well - the last one is probably not relevant - I will see if there are any G & S's Ops being played anywhere near me, and particularly, The Mikado!

I was also a big fan of Gilbert O'Sullivan during - approximately - the same time period 😁

ThejoyofNC · 29/04/2026 06:51

I have no idea about any of this but I accidentally clicked a link from the OP thinking I was clicking on a photo to enlarge it. I'm now concerned about what I have clicked on and what might happen.