Trans identified Mumsnet member AidaP is scraping Mumsnet

Why worry? There isn’t any transphobia here.

How can you stop access to a board? They can stop someone posting. But they cannot stop anyone having access to Mumsnet. Its an open forum I thought?

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?

My hysterical opinion is that you're struggling to comprehend responses or follow links. Some posters have said that scraping is specifically against the Terms and Conditions. Here is that excerpt.

c. No part of the Website may be distributed, scraped or copied for any purpose without express approval and a licence to do so from us or our licensors. If you are interested in copying, licensing or using Mumsnet content for any purpose, then contact us at [email protected].

I'm away to put myself in an asylum, what with being an hysterical woman and whatnot. I blame my ovaries, what's aidap's excuse?

I will be showing my ignorance here as I don't know anything about The Mikado, but I thought to myself "why not embarrass yourself a bit more (@PlayingDevilsAdvocate.....) and show just how low brow you (me) obviously are?" So, I am rising to my own silly challenge:

I immediately thought of Santa when I read 'TheAutumnCrow's' comment, and I appreciated it as such 😉

I am now off to address Mr Google to see what he can tell me about 'The Mikado' ...
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Every day really is a school day!

I was just thinking this. Bless him, he’s trying so hard to be edgy and clever. It’s like when your 5 year old runs off to write a note about why mummy is a big meanie for saying no.

‘Screamy little girl energy’. WTF? Get lost.

So someone takes what people freely put on the internet and put it some place else and now there is hysteria over it?

I dont think mm has ever said they are secret or hidden same way people whinge about the government having access to details people also freely put out there

Hysterical? Screamy little girls? Why the misogyny?

Fascinating to compare the violent imagery of many TRA to the debate on this site and conclude that Mumsnet is the real problem.

What does he hope to gain from this? What is his end goal?

He can do whatever he wants but he will never have a vagina. Bwahahaha.

I originally only came on MN for housekeeping tips.

It’s explicitly against the Mumsnet terms and conditions. A while back Aston university academics were supervising a PhD student who was scraping Mumsnet data without permission to show what bigots we were (no, I don’t know how that got ethical approval either) and they got into trouble. Not sure how it ended. Of course, a university is easier to locate than some random on the internet with a made up name but fingers crossed Mumsnet can do something about this.

Beg your pardon, that was poorly thought through. Please change ‘massive twat’ to ‘tedious bellend’.

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! 😂

Yes, there is Dadsnet and posters can't be banned for being male only.

This

I hate that user but I'm not sure if scraping posts means they can be banned. The abusive language and derailing are surely ban worthy though.

He will love you for that comment. A twat is actually what he wishes he had, sadly being called one is probably as close as he will get, as unfortunately he has a dick instead.

*he

OK, I don't really know exactly what data scraping is or what it entails, but it seems that it's people who analyse what's being said on a website, is that right?

If so, I don't know what can really be done about that given that websites like this are public and anybody can access what people write.

No idea who this person is but they sound like a massive twat tbh

😂😂