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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

to think you dont like the way MNHQ do it - then go elsewhere?

34 replies

FriedaRoam · 11/06/2011 18:01

criket - they oWN the gaff, surely they can do as they please?
they are only humouring you by making you think that you run it

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Hassled · 11/06/2011 18:05

Agreed. Thank you.

And everyone needs to stop bloody wingeing about the quality of the posters these days and who said what when and who looked at who funnily. Enough now.

FriedaRoam · 11/06/2011 18:06

just trot off

there are other websites
as Justine hail said on the mccann thread - dont like it - well TOUGH - bog off

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strandedbear · 11/06/2011 18:08

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MrsSchadenfreude · 11/06/2011 18:09

Yeah. There's always netmums.
Is Mumsonline still going?
If you don't like Mn, you probably won't like BMC either.

FriedaRoam · 11/06/2011 18:09

ANOTHER one has started.

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FriedaRoam · 11/06/2011 18:10

piss off if you dont like it!

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thisisyesterday · 11/06/2011 18:11

actually, I don't totally agree with this

MN would be nothing without the members... we are who ARE mumsnet. And I don't think it's unreasonable for members to say "hey, what's with this?" or "is there a chance we can do stuff differnetly"

MN has changed a lot since I first discovered it, and many of the changes have been suggested or campaigned for by people using the site.

so, i don't think it's unreasonable to ask for things to be changed if you think it's a positive change and you ask nicely.

the whole "if you don't like it fuck off" attitude I actually find really unpleasant actually

FriedaRoam · 11/06/2011 18:12

no
if oyu pissed off -t ehre would still be THOUSANDS of others as the "MOldie" thing showed

its their site

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thisisyesterday · 11/06/2011 18:12

i'm not sure what "we are who ARE mumsnet" means Blush
I think I meant that we ARE mumsnet

catinthehat2 · 11/06/2011 18:16

oh noes, I'm agreeing with Frieda Shock, have always said the same thing though, it's their name on the list of directors, they who get taken to court if someone gets nasty. THey're running a business (an unusual one), it's not easy.

What brought the OP on?

wannaBe · 11/06/2011 18:19

I think yes and no.

It is mnhq's site, and as such they technically can do what they like and no-one is obliged to be here.

But mn is a business, and the users are their customer base, their revenue generated from the adverts that are displayed by each click on the site. Therefore, if the customers are unhappy, then the customers are the voice, and the barometer for the revenue. If users start to leave because of dissatisfaction then the revenue drops and the business suffers.

Whether they like it or not businesses do have to listen to their customers if they want to continue to succeed.

Hassled · 11/06/2011 18:20

They're certainly reliant on our collective goodwill - but we've all made the conscious decision to register/post. And yes, we can all piss off and maybe they'd go under - but even the constant moaners don't want that. Where would they moan if that happened? So given that it's safe to assume everyone wants MN to exist, stop the constant moaning about what they do.

FriedaRoam · 11/06/2011 18:21

Where would they moan if that happened?

LOLOL

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thisisyesterday · 11/06/2011 18:23

ok... how about when tiktok and mears etc left because of the ads on the front page... was it nestle based? I forget now

they had a lot of support on here.

no-one told them to "jog on" because they didn't like something MN was doing

FriedaRoam · 11/06/2011 18:23

no but the place carried on
mears was back a while ago to say hi

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thisisyesterday · 11/06/2011 18:25

of course the place carried on, and yes tiktok and mears came back once MN had taken the ad down, and MN listened and said they wouldn't do it again

my point is... what is wrong with them saying "hey MN, we don't like this"

they complained, things were changed, everything went on...

FriedaRoam · 11/06/2011 18:25

ah yes

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pumpernickel10 · 11/06/2011 18:28

If I didn't like somewhere I'd leave it's as simple as that folks but I do like MN so I am staying but those that whinge about MN just naff off if you don't like it :) :)

TheFarSide · 11/06/2011 18:28

It's healthy to be able to make comments and complaints about a website (or any business) and unhealthy to suppress complaints. Without customers, a business is nothing.

Primalscream · 11/06/2011 18:29

YANBU - MN is full of professional moaners who like nothing better than a good moan, they don't really want perfection because once they get that they'll start eating each other - plus the smell of burning martyr gets on my wick - shut up & put your concerns to HQ in a private email.

Shoesytwoesy · 11/06/2011 18:32

your not wrong unless they are allowing racism/ diablism the they can make the rules(does help if the rules make sense though)

OracleInaCoracle · 11/06/2011 18:36

Im fed up with mn at the moment, I have moaned about it. its my right as a member. I dont like the way it is at the moment and there are a lot of posters who seem to be posting a lot who I dont like. Im not using mn as much, but i take exception to the point that I should just go somewhere else if I dont like it. why should I? this is my site too and I have the right to post here as much as anyone else, I also have the right to say Im not happy with it at the moment as a customer. If I had a shit meal at my favourite restaurant/pub I would complain about it, the same goes here.

DontCallMePeanut · 11/06/2011 18:39

Ia there an AIBU on netmums?

catinthehat2 · 11/06/2011 19:16

Come on, tell us:

What brought the OP on?

Glitterknickaz · 11/06/2011 19:19

Depends on the line of complaint.
If it's near the knuckle with regard to the law then fair dos.