Tiptoes quietly into the corner...

[Typecast]

HAHAHAHA ONLY JOKING!!

TA-DA!!!! I'M FINALLY HERE after much moaning on Twitter and a lost application, Mumsnet have fast-tracked my application and I'm now officially a "Mumsnet Blogger". What have I let myself in for??

Some of you may already know me, in which case "Hi" - make yourselves known.
Some of you may never have heard of me, in which case "Hi" - where the frig have you been for the past two years?
Some of you may know me from a previous life where I had a different username, in which case "Hi" - and sssshhhh we don't talk about that any more.
Some of you may know me in real life, in which case "Hi" - isn't it time you rang me and we arranged a coffee date?
Some of you have probably clicked off by now and though "weirdo", in which case "Bye".

I have been described as Tigger, Quirky and The Queen of Rants. I blog at Typecast

"If music be the food of love, play on.
Give me eggcess of it, that in surfeiting the appetite may sicken, and so die."

Omelette!

"Although I'm happy to be told if that isn't the case"
That's definitely not the case. I'd have thought that was obvious. Maybe the head honcho(s) of MN should have run this concept by their regular posters. Is that where the problem lies? This section is the "blogger network" - separate from the main forum, or so I was led to believe.

"occasionally someone who turns up and seems to just rub everyone the wrong way and then instead of behaving in a grown-up fashion, stages a forum invasion"
Wrong again - I never asked anyone to come here and join in - I'm quite capable of defending myself and drawing my own battlelines, which appears to be the direction that this has turned.

CaptainNancy - again, where in those talk guidelines that are clearly linked does it say that it's ok for established members to call new members "a cunt" and get away with it?

There's enough information on my profile for people to be able to contact me directly if they feel the need to discredit me or actually call me a cunt. It's also not difficult to find me on the internet using a Google search.

I bid you all goodnight and will probably return in the morning to find more talk about chickens and unrelated nonsense with the odd snide and unnecessary remark interspersed.

I didn't call you a cunt, I don't think I've ever called anyone a cunt anywhere on the internet tbh, that's not my style. It isn't acceptable for any member to call another member a cunt, and the person that did was swiftly deleted- not sure what your argument there is?

You may not have asked people to come and debate, but you have spent the entire evening publicising it across other social networks- what did you think would happen?

One of MN's great strengths is that it allows swearing- we are all adults here, and adults should be allowed freedom of speech. Sites that do not allow open swearing become nasty, bitchy, passive-aggressive, and bile-filled in my personal experience. On MN you can have a stand-up blazing row, get things out in the open, and move on; this does not happen on many other sites, and they are the poorer for it. Instead, members are forced to garner support across threads from their cronies- much more insidious, and deleterious to their forums.

Typecast you have mentioned the word cunt more than anyone else on this thread. I think we have all got the message now that someone called you a cunt.

Now, I think this is now being misconstrued.

I never said YOU called me a cunt. Read back.

As for "publishing across social networks" - I've used my PERSONAL facebook page, my PERSONAL twitter account and my blog to express my feelings. If you (or others) follow any of those then that's your choice. If people you follow retweet my tweets because they are following me then that's their choice

On of MY great strengths is to have freedom of speech on whichever platform I use. I actually have highlighted the forum members "welcome" I have received and displayed the facts for everyone to view. If you believe differently then show me. This hasn't been about "moving on" - this has been about MN'ers coming over from the regular boards to the BLOGGERS NETWORK (how many times am I going to have to stress that?) and call me a cunt or try to discredit my blog.

Whoever any of you all are - you picked on the wrong person. I have no problem with saying what I believe and sticking by my words - whats the point in posting something on the WWW if you dont? However, I do believe that some people have spoken out of turn here tonight, although they will never admit it and I will have to continue to defend myself.

It's a real shame. I was hoping that this community could be of benefit to me but it appears, from reading, that someone who is open, jovial and a little bit forward from the outset isn't accepted.

Oh here's another one.

Thefarside - good - glad someone is noticing, finally!

Typecast, the bloggers forum isn't a separate unit to the rest of the MN forums. The reason so many MN regulars have been popping up is that it has shown up in the "Active Threads" section which applies across the entire board. This is a sub-forum of Mumsnet's overall talk boards, which they link to so that it is easier to find for those of us of a blogging persuasion.

It isn't a mass conspiracy to undermine you, it is simply that people had seen an active thread, clicked on it without really seeing what it was all about, and then joined in when they saw what they thought was either a returning troll causing trouble (which does happen here from time to time, sadly, and they tend to announce themselves with unfortunately similar references to forgetting things in the past), or just joined in the fight which had already started, what with new people appearing all over the place.

I think it got a lot out of hand, rather quickly, but I don't think that's a reason to complain about the chickens. All threads everywhere deviate eventually, and that at least had an intellectual theme .

King ChanticLear?

As you like giblit

Typecast
I am at a loss now.

You came in MN, announced your arrival like it was the second coming, ruffled the feathers of a few regular MNetter (both bloggers and non bloggers), got huffy with the suggestion that a rather more modest start on MN would be more fitting with the way we do things.

Perhaps this arose from the misconception that the Bloggers Network is not part of the main board and read by non blogging members.

Ok, so you were called a cunt. I didn't see the post as MN had already deleted it - which shows that they disapproved and as far as I know they email the deleted poster to rap their knuckles. I don't agree with namecalling and neither do the other MNetters (generally). In fact, I'd I had seen it I would have reported the post and scolded the poster myself, for what good it would have done.

I can understand you commenting on twitter as you were upset but this went beyond that. And whether or not it was was what you intended, your twitter friends came on MN to troll and cause trouble. You could have put a stop to this but you were enjoying the attention.

Then you wrote your blog and linked several times on twitter to it, with hashtags and comments designed to make people nosy and click onto your link.

Don't be disingenuous and tell us that it is your private twitter account or your private FB account. This is the Internet. It is not your private Internet. Everyone can read and comment on your writings.

As to the accusation that we were nasty about you and your friends blogs, the only one I commented on was the 20somethingmums who came on MN to troll and was nasty to us.

I don't know what you want now. For MN to take out an ad in the Guardian apologising for upsetting you and the banning of everyone who participated on this thread?

Grow up. Sometimes someone doesn't like what I say or write. Sometimes someone on the Internet will be nasty and call you names. If you kick off like this every time someone disagrees with you, you are going to spend a lot of time in a rage.

Why don't you just leave it now and let is get back to chickens and hamlet.

Chickens
Could you do a blog post with one of the chooks falling or having a bad day then lighting up a hamlet? With the music from the ad?

ROAR at As You Like Giblit

And I like your Julius chicken cesar better than my Julius Caesar Chicken

Erm, nope I think the people who wrote anonymous shite on my blog yesterday are trolls- if I believe something, I put my name to it. I came over to mock you lot, which isn't hard as you all gave me so many reasons to do so.

I was attacked as well, being told my blog was shit, meh, bollocks, poorly laid out etc etc. I was asked why I feel my blog is "so good" by someone blogging "for longer than Nickie" (actually the person has said they've blogged since 2008- mine has been around in one guise or another since 2006), so quoted my achievements to back myself up after the "who do you think we are, we're soooo better known than you" (reality check, never heard of any of your blogs before this thread either).

As for Nickie's secondary post- I think it needed to be written as a warning to anyone misguided enough to join MumNet, be it the forums or the blog network, as they have said its a friendly, supportive place, and clearly from this thread its not. As its been said by longer term members as some kind of excuse (poor excuse though), this showed up as an active thread so others (although what their motivations were I cant comment) decided to bandwagon and start abusing Nickie too. That's not trollish behaviour then? One of those who was quick to stick the boot in for no apparent reason, except perhaps a high over reaction threshold, has also written a post, belittling Nickie, and those who questioned the motives of forum members here. Why not "rap her knuckles"?

You are a bunch of bullies, who do nothing to help the very forum you do so much to protect.

You are very welcome to your childish and frankly moronic thread on chickens. I, meanwhile will continue to blog, as will Nickie and write what I damn well please when people are acting in what was a ridiculous fashion, taking petty and pointless offensive to something, which, when its pointed out to them that someone was joking, they then get even nastier to justify looking like a prize prat in the first place for not being intelligent enough to get a joke.

There has to be an opening for The Taming Of The Chicken somewhere in here.

As You Giblit is actual genius

You are very welcome to your childish and frankly moronic thread on chickens

thank you!

Now...I'm liking omlete and am surprised it took you all so long.

How about 'all's well that egg's well?'

VERY worried that Chickens has lost her powers. Hope the night's sleep has regenerated you babes

I should be better at this. I don't know why, as I'm crap at puns usually, but dammit I should!

Well i've read it through again in the cold light of day and quite frankly - despite to op first few posts being a bit over the top - the mn bloggers network comes across to me ;as a few of you getting irritated by a new blogger offering helps and tips (unnecessary of them yes - but why did it get your backs up so much? - you're all competent bloggers i assume) and also if new bloggers don't do it 'your way' then don't bother.

The fact is that mn is getting bigger and the bloggers network includes 'professionals' now too - it's no longer the little world it once was. Get over yourselves.

Most of you came across as really small minded and rude quite frankly. Like someone from the real world came in and you didn't like it. Individual posters shouldn't pick up on grammatical errors in blogs or say they are boring IMO - that's not in the spirit really.

I can't believed I missed all this. But using the insult 'Time of the month brigade' tells me all I need to know about 20something. That's a shit insult to level at other woman.

I'm a bit embarassed reading all of this really. It's made me realise that I really don't want to get involved in all this sycophantic networking bollocks. I'm going to stop obessing about stats, just link up with blogs I like, especially ones from the lovely mm community. You may be a bunch of harridans, but you're my bunch of harridans.

lol Dilly