to think that Off The Beaten Track was a mistake

[rolandweary]

this isn't a thread about a thread, it's a thread about a topic, and some of the threads in it

so hopefully not bad form

I think it was amistake - it seems to be used for all the wrong reasons. For example the shiney crew feeling they ought to post on there because people were complaining about them being a clique - that seems wrong to me, MN is public and nobody should feel they have to retire to a private area. And the BoM thread which is full of personal attacks and insults - people seem to retire onto that thread to make the sort of remarks they wouldn't make on the main boards

I think it should be got rid of. What does everyone else think?

Bloody nora ...I can't read all them threads I'm too pissed knackered

Thats right round 'em up MH, everyone in to MH's coven for she is all knowing and all seeing....

Gleek, that nicey niceness won't work!

MJ, thank you for the personal apology, it is much appreciated, you have gained a lot of respect form me for doing that.

I'd go and have a gandt with your dh if I were you mj.

Its all gone a bit tits up on here.

dooh from not form, darn dyslexia!

Jajas - do you think it was ok then, so long as not many people knew about it?

I think I could do without your respect MH.

yes the Op of this thread may well have done so to manipulate us all into seeing the thread on OTBT.

but this has nothing to do with any step parent v lone parent threads.

it has nothing to do with any ongoing issue.

It may have been started to throw a low blow connected to such argument but essentially it has raised teh issue of poster abusing OTBT to bitch and post offensive posts about other mumsnetters. that is wrong.

MJ you have repsonded very well. you have been humble and eloquent. I think some of your pals could do with taking a leaf from yor book

Ironic?

Better out in the open, I think.

I'm a bonus cunt. FWIW.

Hardly anyone knew about it, probably only those it mattered to.

I think those that were being slagged off might have wanted to know about it actually.

UrsulaBuffey - does that not make you a hermaphrodite?

or married

pen, do you mean one of the sp posters wanted it outed? possibly?!

If a post is a personal attack you report it. The OP has clearly read the thread on OTBT and had the opportunity to report the posts.

That doesn't appear to have happened.