Goading and group pile ons

Frankly, I don’t care. I’m keeping the name I’ve had for years. There have been numerous piles on in that time and much goading. I seem to attract it like a magnet on the political threads. I’m confident in my beliefs and perfectly able to defend them without hate speech or personal attacks.

@Thezookeepersneiceyes I hate that, no middle ground, eg I have said the “boat problem” is a complex issue & lots of governments have struggled with it etc, you then get posters replying & saying “how many immigrants are you housing” or I said “we have an ageing population that successive governments haven’t planned for & it’s expensive”, cue the “you want to kill old people and “you are ageist” retorts.

I corrected someone who had made up statistics and their response was I don’t care about what that says, this is what I feel. That is not debate.

Agree. Also irksome is the left are accused of an "omnicause" on here, implying we all think the same way about every political issue.

Re: AI I am not worried about that, people can find out far more about me from using the MN AS if they were so inclined.

There is absolutely no reason why you shouldn't get the chance? You are in control of whether or not you post within TG.

It’s in your hands. I think you need to toughen up a bit. You need a thick skin on the political threads.

If you don’t break the posting guidelines you will. MN won’t delete or ban if you haven’t done anything against the rules. nobody can make you do that. It’s entirely in your hands.

Op you don’t need to explain it here, you will just get more posts against. Send what you have to mnhq, they’ll take it up.

What do you mean? I hope you aren't implying our responses were co-ordinated. We all posted within a minute. If we were co-ordinating we'd be pretty damn stupid to do that.

Talk about proving the ops point!

I think LHF has already done that. See her reply to Becky.

Do you mean this thread is at the top of Active and attracting lots of attention/replies?

Have you AI’d yourself? 😆

Mumsnet moderators can often target any outlier on a thread, even when they’ve been perfectly polite about it. I’ve been that outlier more than once and simply said that I politely disagree, here’s why etc, only to get a million posters pile onto me with abuse - to which I don’t respond at all, then the next morning I get a ‘Mumsnet Calling…’ email, warning me about my posts not being “in the spirit of Mumsnet” 🤷🏼‍♀️

It really does depend who the moderator is tbh. Some of them are great and zap any posts which are in breach of the MN talk guidelines. However some of the others genuinely don’t see any problem with ableism (and I mean any problem with it at all…) and seem to think if you disagree with the majority on a thread, that this makes you ‘inflammatory’. It’s the luck of the draw.

that's fascinating!

I don't think the pile ons are nearly as bad as they were a few years ago. However, it does annoy me when folk say oh you must be thick if you think that or you must have a sad life if you think this.

Bear in mind that the stuff it produces is based on what you've posted - it doesn't make things up. And everything that anyone posts on Mumsnet is out in the wide world for anyone to see anyway ...

@lifeturnsonadimeyes, that would defo make me change my name more regularly

No why would I? , I already know who I am !

Yes exactly, I've called a certain group of posters out on here before about bullying and piling on to one poster. Have been on the receiving end myself a couple of times in the past.

@LuckyHazelFoxThey don’t usually respond to emails unless you’re replying to an email from them - so give that a go.

@jeffgoldblum why are you replying to me then? Who have I piled on by testing out what @BIWI said. I had no idea it was a thing!