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?

LT, possibly some of your opinions might be recognizable

oh LadyT was very involved in slagging off other Mner's!

Seriously, they were proper eyebrows.

Maybe, But I have only based any of it on things that people have actually said. Rather than trying to second guess/pick apart/psycho analyse people that ive never met based on things that some one in RL did to you once.

Yes Trolly. Spot on.

1. The thread being referenced was mostly inane crap. It was 40 pages long and covered a whole range of subjects. Some quite personal hence the OTBT. It was the 3rd or 4th thread we'd had there, very peacefully.

1. The posts that refered to other MNs were either toungue in cheek or because it was thought better to go and vent elsewhere than engage with some posters who get their kicks out of going onto the SP threads and causing trouble. There were a lot of

They were very nasty abusive personal attacks!

Slimbo - words fail me.

Out of interest - there has been a row going most of the day between some of the more vocal posters here who are telling you how nasty we were.

You may want to examine their motives - its in Lone Parents about step parents. I think you will find some very reasoned posts in there.

You may find it enlightening.

who did you slag off then?

Nasty abusive and personal... do quote...

The point, which some of you appear to be actually wilfully disregarding, is not that you are step parents talking about the people in your life who fuck you off.

No one cares. No one gives a shit.

Slagging off other mumsnetters ON MUMSNET as if you are in a private place, when you are not, is the point.

Anyway I'm done talking about it anyway - I want to see some more pictures of DIRTY MARTINI

It was one sp, who was going to sp's board! it was many sp's that were recruited and bitching that came along to lp's board!

dooh, one lone parent who went on step parents board!

I agree babyheave. As someone who has read the posts, it was clear the OP was using AIBU to cause a maximum amount of embarrassment to the posters he/she had disagreed with in step parenting.

That was somewhere for us steps to post and confide a bit in each other. No, its not nice, but until RW announced it how many of you really knew it was there?

If it was only chat about your lives as step parents no one would give a toss.

Your comments were far more than merely tongue in cheek.
You didn't overstep the line, you cuaght a cab and drove straight through it.

you were bang out of order and if you had any integrity you would be apologising rather than trying to defend your actions.

oh god what if you are both, identity crisis...

Also, am not sure about the 'nasty, abusive attacks' either.

I'm going to hug my DDs step mum tomorrow.

And huggings not my thing.

If you are talking to me ask mnhq ladyT, I have some pm's that were shared with op today on that single parents thread, and she was around and not posting when this all went off, as I asked her about it and she did not seem bothered by it, which seemed odd to me as she was very upset earlier today!