What ways have you found to tell posters they're being a cock but without getting your post deleted?

[AgentZigzag]

Of course you could use calm, reasoned debate.

But where's the fun in that??

It's not often I feel the need to personally attack a poster, but one of the two times I have I said that if anyone said that in RL I'd feel obliged to tell them they're were a fucking prick (or some such words).

I suppose you could censor yourself and substitute swears for benign words.

If bloody became chubby, and cock became chicken, the poster you were insulting might feel a bit of an idiot complaining to MN about being called a chubby chicken?

Would scoring out the insult mean you've still attacked them do you think?

'Now you're just being a fuckwit silly billy ShittyPoster'.

Yeah, yeah, it's immature/not nice to be horrible to other posters, but needs must and all that.

I think you're clever stealth, even if nobody else does

Perhaps the rabble just didn't get the genius of what you did?

they will learn, when they have lived in the real world for a while

I liked one I read yesterday, which was something along the lines of:

Poster 1: "The OP called me names!"

Poster 2: "No she didn#t she told you to fuck off. It's not as if she said you were an idiotic fuckwit, is it?"

:o

My other favourite tactic is to tell the posters "That's nice. I read your nasty/inappropriate/offensive comment but I can't be arsed to entertain you by rising to it." because some people are so predictably stroppy that it's plain bloody boring to give them the reaction they're seeking.

There is one surefire way you can really, really get someone's back up on here, I've found. It's not by calling them a twat or saying they are speaking nonsense.

It's by starting your riposte with:

"Look."

Well that was a cock up on the bolding front, wasn't it? :o

I have noticed a rise in "See..." - is that related?

UQD, you're a little sod! That would pee people off, wouldn't it?

The 'look' can be especially effective if it has a before it's said.

Oh yes. The sigh is needed. And hands apart, palms facing each other, as if shunting an invisible brick along. Blair used to do it all the time.

Look UQD, the smiths were shit and all their fans were sad 80's emos.

any good?

hmm

"Look" makes me think of someone trying too hard to be patronising. It's like someone is getting quite exasperated and involved (yay) and they need to show you you're a bit stupid. But it doesn't work if you know you're not stupid. "See.." is the same and is soooo over.

Funny thread, making me at the different tactics!

One of my favourites in real life has annoyed people on here "Once more, for the hard of thinking"

Courtesy of my late father.

Question: any tips for subtle retorts aimed at multiple posters on a thread?

Singling them out, ie "Seeker, MadamDeathstare and LibraPoppyGirl (choosing the first 3 I see) are a bunch of numpty twunts" would be too obvious and just asking for deletion.

But the more subtle "Fart sniffin' muckpuppets: You know who you are!" may mean that the wrong people take offense.

What to do...

This is why we could do with "like" and "dislike" butons, then you could be as rude as you like but if enough people "like" your insult it makes it more plausible.

Mob rule on Mumsnet seems to win every time

I told someone their behavior was chav-like once.

That seemed to go down quite badly.

JessRabbit - god, no! Can you imagine?? All those competing Likes and Dislikes... It would become like the Daily Mail comments! Death by red/green arrow!

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Val please don't give us to many clues about your MO you are becoming to transparent as it is lol

Well, I am a fairly placid mumsnetter, i think. I do get in to fights with people sometimes but tend not to keep fighting my corner to the bitter end because I tend to get bored and sometimes even go away and do something in rl.

However, I am on a thread atm, where a particular poster is just generally posting like a numpty. I am not in an argument with her but I am really really really having to sit on my hands to prevent myself from posting

"Oi, X, you are coming across as a right royal twat, if you don't mind me saying".

So I'm saying it here instead .

I am hardly ever deleted.

I once got deleted having written a truly fab and lengthy rebuttal to some twat.
But then I got to the bottom and put.

I hope that is explained in simple enough terms for even you to understand.

You massive twat.

And the whole lot was deleted.
Dammit.

I also adore the folk who post

"all you silly people complaining about anti sn language are just looking to be offended. You are such wimps"
and then I post
" oh do fuck off"
And they report me
and [cunts]

I have just seen an absolute peach of a Patronising Comeback - it's on the "religion in schools" thread. The poster was attempting to sound clever and pithy, but just ended up sounding like a pompous, patronising prick.

Are you ready fir this classic?

Ahem.

"I think maybe if you talk to people who have different opinions to you it might be clearer."