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AIBU to want to know (MN clique)

201 replies

joric · 03/07/2011 23:03

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

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GypsyMoth · 03/07/2011 23:04

some do yes!

Adagoo · 03/07/2011 23:04

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

StealthPolarBear · 03/07/2011 23:06

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

deemented · 03/07/2011 23:07

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.

Magna · 03/07/2011 23:08

Some do, some don't

K999 · 03/07/2011 23:08

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.

mauricetinkler · 03/07/2011 23:10

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.

BeerTricksPotter · 03/07/2011 23:12

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mauricetinkler · 03/07/2011 23:13

great name btp

Magna · 03/07/2011 23:14

ooooo 'Party Line' do we get to conga Wink

Anniegetyourgun · 03/07/2011 23:14

They wouldn't let me join

hmc · 03/07/2011 23:14

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

KurriKurri · 03/07/2011 23:15

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.

RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles · 03/07/2011 23:16
Grin
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BimboNo5 · 03/07/2011 23:16

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.

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K999 · 03/07/2011 23:19

Hey RockStock! Grin

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

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

mauricetinkler · 03/07/2011 23:20

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

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Magna · 03/07/2011 23:23

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 ?

mauricetinkler · 03/07/2011 23:23

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

HowlingBitch · 03/07/2011 23:24

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 :).

RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles · 03/07/2011 23:24

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

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.

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