If you (still) feel the need to discuss Moldies, please do it here so folks can hide this if they want to.

nope, not watched any, ignorance is bliss, i say ! will wing it

ok hunker, it didn't read that way, what with my name being mentioned and then 'you' and as 'you' were... but now we all know it was a collective 'you' thats all good.

thanks for clearing it up.

"think about some of the people you know to be Moldies and then ask yourself if it WAS snide, unpleasant and bitchy, would they be involved in it?"

Yes, exactly - that's why I'm surprised and a bit upset.

nmc - you are riven??? I thought you'd gone, and was wondering who this nmc was welcome back, although I'll miss nmc!

Custardo, where did what come from?

I'm not having a go - please don't read that into what I wrote! I think there were four sentences in that post - the first one was a reply to what you had posted, the others were more generally to everyone.

Can I go now please? I've put in a full day and feel I deserve a bit of time off now.

that sounds like a satisfactory evening. Enjoy!

Sorry I was being michael douglas. I really hate him.

Hello Catherine Lulu.

have you watched one yet? Come on, only 26 left to grit your teeth through!

lick , kick I dont care - I JUST WANT A TURN !

see, for me the secret ballot is just such a kick in the teeth.

to be judged without your knowledge, and then to be found lacking , it's just nasty

for me, it is the thing that makes this whole business stick in the craw. there is no nice way to say 'people were talked about in secret and judged and some were judged as not being good enough/ the right sort for Mouldies'

it is frankly, inexcusable.

Oh wicked, I am glad about that. (or should that be justabout that)

sorry am descending into my evening sillyness.

Tell her she is missing rien. I hope she has some chocolate and a whisky to hand. Or whatever she is partial to. I expect there was a fair bit of revving over the festive bit.

ROFL at "time to lick the kids off the Wii"

Can I borrow that CU

Thank you pooka

I am really not that bovverred enough to trawl through it all.

Some posters have kindly enough answered my questions.

Now back to my life ... time to lick the kids off the Wii

I am sure MN will recover from this and due to publicity ( good or bad ) it will atract some newcomers and it will keep evolving.

Well basic gist is that other site was set up originally when there was some suggestion that mumsnet might be shut down. During the GF saga.

Then in october ish there was apparently discussion on a facebook group made up mostly of old-timers about reactivating said site for the use of some old timers and friends to chat in privacy without being googleable and subject to trolling.

Said site was reactivated, but too clonky for easy use and littlelapin was asked to tech it to try and improve the useability.

Initially there were discussions about who might be invited to join the group, but some moldies were uncomfortable with the open threads discussing mumsnetters, so that was changed to a secret ballot set up where moldies could nominate potential future moldies, and then existing moldies would email I think Twiglett if they wanted to veto said person.

There was at least 1 recruitment session in that way but there hasn't been any recent recruitment. None envisaged for the future either.

THe OP I linked to was started by Twiglett who was hurt at comments from MNHQ in their blog. During the course of that thread regular mumsnetters who had not realised that the private forum existed, realised that it did. Some were very upset, particularly at the way in which the moldies were recruited and the private/secret nature of the site.

There is some dispute about whether the private site is or is not like mumsnet. Some moldies say it absolutely isn't and some say it absolutely is. It has topics like mumsnet i.e. style and flouncer's corner.

That's as much as I can manage now but is a basic summing up of the hoo-ha.

hear hear rhubarb

the moldies site will never be mumsnet. i lurk and post and lurk and post here because i am interested in knowing what a wide spectrum of different people have to say, people who i might never come across in real life, hell - even people i completely disagree with, and the odd troll. moldies is a bunch of old mates getting together for a chinwag. it's a completely different thing and its limited membership will limit what it is capable of. i can't get upset about it per se, but i am sad that people's feelings have been hurt by the whole frenzy it has caused.

Hello Flihgt,

Scanning this so my wife doesn't feel that she has to ...

We got a lot of use out of that chair - thanks.

Hello MrJA!

no

Will this make Morningpaper's round up?

Hello mr Rev.

so it was a secret.

i thought the party line was it wasn't a secret

o riven is back hello!!!

at Riven

Thank you. Wow indeed..

Did you have a nice crimble Riven?