AIBU to want to know (MN clique)

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if there is a MN clique? Someone mentioned it on a thread and I'm now wondering if everyone knows each other in person?

some do yes!

Yep. All of us. we're at massive garden parties in the park every thursday afternoon.

Well no, we all live in different places :o
Well some of us do - there is a huge amorphous mass in London

I've met a couple of MNers in real life, but we're certainly not a clique.

I think perhaps people assume there are cliques on here because there are posters who post a great deal and others less often, and sometimes the lurkers or less known posters can feel left out.

Some do, some don't

No. Some posters know each other in RL. Some posters know each other from hanging around the same threads. The "clique" thing in relation to MN is as old as the hills. Some will always say there are cliques. Personally, I have never noticed it.

There certainly is OP. I firmly believe a few of the clique are part of MNHQ and hover on threads, getting people who stray too far from the MN 'party line' banned from time to time.

great name btp

ooooo 'Party Line' do we get to conga

They wouldn't let me join

Only in people's imagination. Imo there is no "mumsnet royalty" either, although the term is bandied about

I understood the clique to be a mysterious vapour, which should you be unfortunate enough to breathe it in, will shrink you to the size of a teeny tiny person and you will be in danger from cats...

Oh no, sorry, that's The Incredible Shrinking Man.........as you were.

Certain people (those who have been around longer, 'respected regular posters' etc) IMO definatley get much different responses to new posters/less popular posters. People will deny it til the cows come home but I guess thats the way it works everywhere.

Hey RockStock!

Still blistering sunshine in your neck of the woods? It's hot here now. I got sunburnt today!

No, not cliquey at all......

There are threads where people are just talking bollocks and it is obviously some in joke. Perhaps this is what OP is referring to?

We don't know as the op hasn't come back yet maurice.

Don't you think of the conga when you read party line ?

Not saying it is. Just saying to OP, yes, there is an MN clique.

I don't think there are "cliques" as such. I have noticed there are a few people who generate toward each other and have a laugh but what's wrong with that? I find it hard to join in with them because they are so witty but they do make me laugh after a hard day :).

Blimey K that's a once a decade thing in your neck of the woods

Yes it is indeed, mid/high 30s.

maurice I agree sort of with you there, but are the talking bollocks ones just the generally silly ones? I've been on some undeniably stupid ones and had I not stumbled across them at the start I would have been of the WTF brigade. In fact, on re-reading some I have been WTF was that, as it made bugger all sense when not in the moment iyswim.