PISSING NETMUMS!!!

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Please share your experiences.

Bertie never actually noticed them hahaha. Maybe that will make my life a little easier.. What do you mean by customized?? How do you customise.. Come on girls fill me in so I can get converted..

Ok customized and its much easier now pmsl.

I have been here for farking years and only just realised you can customize

I find myself curiously drawn to the news and current affairs threads on netmums where I frequently fnd myself in a minority of one, mainly because I tend to disagree with the view that all the ills of this country can be laid squarely at the feet of illegal immigrants who come over here and immediately get given a Mayfair mansion and a million quid a week spending money.

There's a lot of borderline (and not so borderline) racist threads, loads of bitching about workshy/benefit scroungers - everything is black and white and hardly any shades of grey...

Someone above has referred to a netmums thread where rapists were being defended because their 12 year old victims were 'asking for it'. I was on that thread and was appalled at all these women (women for fuck's sake!) saying the girls were to blame.

Hate the swear filter - they could do with a bigot filter really.

I have a 'stalker' on there . Every time I post something on the 'current affairs' forum someone who obviously works for Tory Central Office comes and picks my post apart. I like to post stuff as bait for her when I'm bored... It never fails.

I discovered customise about a week ago!

My posts are highlighted in lilac now!

When i scroll down on NMs it goes all flickery, is that just me? it hurts my eyes

woolly,i might come and watch for that,sounds good entertainment!!

I like the features outside of the forum but I much prefer MN for a forum.

I won't mention who was talking to Justine and called this place netmums...

Looking at the Baby Names topic on any parenting forum gives you a good feel for what you'll find elsewhere, in my experience.

Different people like different things. netmums suits people who don't like conflict. Who don't like to be disagreed with and who don't like to be challenged.

And that's fine. That's their choice.

I don't like it - and I don't like that mumsnet is going that way too, which it is.

To everything there is a sownside. On here it can get quite rough and you do need to have a thick skin. However, on sickly sweet on the surface forums, you find spiteful and bitchy backgrounds, with nasty PMs flying all over the place. I personally feel that two-facedness is far worse than calling someone a twat right to their face. I don't know about you, but I prefer to know exactly where I stand. I've got my big girl pants on, I can take it.

But, quite seriously, there are those who can't. It's their personality, and I just think it's best to leave them alone and let them have their forum that suits their needs. It doesn't hurt anyone here in any way if there's a group of people out there who, shock horror, do things differently

sownside?

downside. clearly.

oh, but I have always wondered who came first, netmums or mumsnet and whether the other one chose the reversal on purpose.

I joined NM about 18 months ago. I joined as it gives local listing of events and doing an early years degree. I had never heard of MN.

I could not work out how you use it very well, and it never capivated me - it kinda beat around the bush.

6 months later my tutor mentioned MN. I came for a ganger and now neglect my DS spend far too much time here as it is definatly the site for me. I love the freedom you get when posting here and the directness of answers.

BTW DS is still in bed atm.

I used to go on there a lot, until I defected over here. Took me a while to get used to the different format, but I haven't been tempted to go back. Far too many daily mail readers and not enough honesty.

ThefirstMrsDeVere, I used to love your posts on NM too - always the voice of reason. (I was usually there on those BNP threads as well!) It just wasn't the same when you left....

Sssshhhhhhhhhhh confuddled

magic thank you. How lovely. It just got too much. I found I was thinking about those sort of threads in the night when I should have been sleeping.

woolly I got to the point where if I saw a 'juicy' story on the news I would head straight to NM to see how they were managing to pin it on the bogus asylum seekers.

And I bet I know who your stalker is too....

Bigot filter - genius!

hec I really think that NM is a much nastier place despite all the hunning and hugging.
Its more like school with the popular girls ruling the roost. I know that there is much talk of MN royalty but its on a whole different level on NM.

I still think NM has its place and has very possibly been a life saver for some women. There is very little troll hunting on NM so people who feel the need to make up stuff get the attention they crave. If they have geniune underlying problems perhaps this is a good thing?

I'm in a mini bun fight right now over there. Some people just don't understand that a different opinion doesn't need attacking or the view needs to be changed.

I personally don't feel the need to hover over my children 24 7 just incase a mad man walks by - so frustrating but very adictive

Just popped on and posted a few things.

The grammar and punctuation on there is awful! I have answered a few threads, have left one little bomb which I am going to see if anyone reacts to....
Hehehehe.

Confused to be honest, I use a few sites...all of which I like in varying degrees. If I didn't like them, I would neither access, use or be bothered by them.

Netmums isn't one of them.

oo i just joined again, DH is out tonight so i can jump on and see what is going on, i just had a quick look and the grammar is appalling - might put my Pedant head on and do some correcting

actually one of my friends is a mod over there - she was a liddle bit patronising when i told her i had joined here instead, she said something along the lines of 'well MN is ok but the moderating is vaaairy lax'

I have joined up to NM out of curiosity. I can't pick a chat nickname though?it just assigned me my first name and initial.

Clicked on a thread about the McCanns and wished I hadn't. My goodness the amount of spite, poison and dodgy facts flying about!

i can't STAND forums like netmums. wishy washy people who scream bullying if anyone dares to disagree with them or request them to justify their opinions with fact rather than bollocks anecdote. I also find txt talk brings out the beast in me- gah just friggin no!

And i like to swear. Sometimes only 'cunt' will do.

mumofalump i saw that one too, horrific isnt it? has Daily Mail written all over it (in really bad grammar and textspeak!)

I accidentally joined Netmums while trying to join Mumsnet. I didn't stay!

I did spend some time on a similarly huggy and hunny forum. I was entirely oblivious to start with but, as Hecate says, I eventually became aware that the vast majority of the interaction on the forum was going on via pms and facebook and involved all sorts of complex dynamics.

There was some meet-up where someone didn't talk to someone else and this led to half the forum officially falling out with the other half and everyone being categorised into certain groups, according to which aggrieved party you agreed with.

I eventually flounced over a thread where the moderators allowed their favourites to dish out some truly ridiculous advice, and deleted the posts of anyone who disagreed with them.