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is there a moldies part three?

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Tortington · 03/01/2009 15:31

just wondering, as i can't find it.

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VinegarTits · 05/01/2009 15:17

As i said in my 'infamous' quote used by the DM, i personally, am glad about Moldies, as i think that cliquey feeling has gone from MN

I remember when i first started posting on MN, there were a lot of prolific posters who would shout you down for being meek and mild, and asking(in their opinion) stupid questions that had already been asked before, becuase you werent allowed to repeat questions that might have already been discussed, oh no, you would get told off or [yawn] or [boring] or

I realised that to survive on here, i would have to namechange and have more of a 'i dont give a shit who you are, i will say what i like' attitude, which is why i came up with VinegerTits, it made me feel i could 'tongue lash' my way through the cliqueyness without being flamed, and you know what it worked.

That feeling has gone now, i really feel it is a much calmer, nicer place to post

That is not a personal attack on Moldies btw, but i just feel there are some posters who are better off there, bigger fish in a smaller pond iykwim. Having said that there are a lot of posters who have gone that i miss, i used to enjoy reading their posts, like kewcumber and colditz, those people who made vaulable contributions with their wisdom, and didnt just flame people for their stupidity.

revjustaboutwipestheslateclean · 05/01/2009 15:11

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FairLadyRantALot · 05/01/2009 15:10

lol rev....

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GeraldineMumsnet · 05/01/2009 15:09

Well, I did toy with getting BigTech to remove them before Twelfth Night, but thought better of it! So they'll be here until tomorrow, Jan 6th.

ilovelovemydog · 05/01/2009 15:06

geraldine,

How much longer can one use the festive smileys?

GeraldineMumsnet · 05/01/2009 15:04

Hi there, my post repeating Carrie's post (!) wasn't in response to any particular post/poster - it was just an [unsuccessful] attempt to pour oil on troubled waters and possibly head off another retreading of the same ground.

LucyJones · 05/01/2009 15:03

lol SaintGeorge

SaintGeorge · 05/01/2009 14:52

Can I just point out that the Twig post is totally irrelevant to the whole argument anyway as she was objecting at the time to a live chatroom, which is a completely different entity to a forum.

FairLadyRantALot · 05/01/2009 14:45

Fio, so, how would you have felt if you were excluded?

elliott · 05/01/2009 14:43

well, I've not posted before on this as it all blew up just as I went on xmas break. But let me put myself firmly in the 'its just not cricket' camp.
I'm one of those who has been here a long time but doesn't have much 'presence' and tbh, I'm happy with that. I don't want to create RL friendships from MN because to me, part of the point is about discussing things that you wouldn't say to people if they 'really' knew you. (like, nerdy databases for keeping tabs of finances )
So, yes, I do miss some familiar names (and had been wondering where they had gone, until it all became horribly clear), and it does leave a nasty playground exclusion type of feeling, but you know, I think there will still be a few people around here to share holiday tips and recipes with . There are lots of names disappeared from when I first started, some have namechanged and some now gone to moldies, but I guess that's life.

Anyway I know I'm about 10 days too late with this but just wanted to say my piece...

Tortington · 05/01/2009 14:41

the greatest insult is to try and defend it - becuase you can't.

you have all done something spectacularly mean and spiteful, and if your answer to that is a metaphoric 'fuck you' thats like the shit cherry on top of shit pie

if non of you ( i have thus far counted ONE!) have the humilty to say - what we did was spectaculary mean and hurtful, you have a right to be upset and sound off about it...i completely understand, then best be rid of behave in this unspeakable manner towards others

you wouldn't accept if from your children.

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Tortington · 05/01/2009 14:36

nah, man. i'm telling you if 6 years of me telling you about my daughter becomming deaf, my husnamd being a prick, my eldest sons miriad of problems. etc.

i think this is a two way street here my 'friends'

there is a belittling of peoples feelings and strngth of feeling on this subjct

pronouncing 'tis only the internet'

tis only the internet , why run away set up your own secret forum, appoint a tech even and invite everyone.

internet friends are pretend then why - i need somewhere to talk to cod and twiglett and the rest.

a fish and a marmite pretzel

or does that do a disservice to the yers andhelp and advice that somepeople have listening to others problems and advising on it

this is out of order stuff fio - please don't patronise me by trying to defend the fact that a secret forum was set up with well known mumsnet members that was kept a secret. polls and lists of who should be members were discussed and voted on

so please do not dare to boil this down to a single issue of my friendships.

it is one of a few issues that this whole horrid affair.

constant simplifying of my feelings of 'not real' internet friendships - when those same people run off and create a bloody forum for the same thing...give me strength.

so excuse the fuck out of me if i am genuinley upset that people who have seen me through 6 years of my and my families life, do something like this schoolground elitist stunt of picking who is the best for the netball team.

take your netball team and shove it

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LucyJones · 05/01/2009 14:30
Flightattendant7 · 05/01/2009 14:28

LJ, thanks for the

I do see what you mean

however she could rereg and say something if she wanted, nobody's stopping her iyswim.

Anyway shall we forget it now.

FairLadyRantALot · 05/01/2009 14:28

but she de-reged by choice, I assume....and the post quoted, well...it kinda did show just how she had changed her mind on that point....

Flightattendant7 · 05/01/2009 14:27

hmmm...(goes and reads dictionary as only source of comfort)

Well I've reported my own post and this is what I have said in the little box:

'Hi,

have been in for some flack about this and tbh would rather not upset anyone; Geraldine if this is what your comment was about last night I apologise.

Please do feel free to delete it if you feel it is an attack, it isn't meant to be as I don't feel an attack is warranted. But I might find it hard to take if someone searched my old posts to demonstrate that I had said something that appeared counter to my present arguments.

Can I let you be judge of this please - I'm not impartial enough and could be deluding myself..
thankyou and sorry for the trouble.'

I hope this helps. MNHQ might have a better head on than me.

LucyJones · 05/01/2009 14:27

oh I don't know
i don't want a ruck either
I just liked Twiglett and feel sad that she has dereged so isnt here to defend herself so quoting her seems pointless

FairLadyRantALot · 05/01/2009 14:26

Fio, the "entry requirements" of moldies seem to imply an elitism....they really do....we have heard from people, who are well known and well established mn being vetoed for moldies....etc....

I can understand why people want to talk in private, etc...but tbh, why be so secretive about the set up, etc...? I think it was the secrecy that got some peoples hackles up...

FairLadyRantALot · 05/01/2009 14:23

FA, I think sometimes it's more a matter of who you doing what "to" rather than what you do....iykwim....

Flightattendant7 · 05/01/2009 14:21

...and how can it be a character assassination if there is nothing to assassinate?

Flightattendant7 · 05/01/2009 14:20

Thanks Fair - but why?

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