AIBU to want to know (MN clique)

[joric]

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

...and some people just spout bollocks on an individual basis

yes we all speak to each other and leave you out

Nobody loves me
Everybody hates me
I'm on me own here,
With you
And you and you.
Nobody loves me
Everybody hates me
The only comfort is
Everybody hates you too.

It's all quiches here, OP, you may as well de-register now.
Or bake your own.

I agree with you Beer - there are continuing threads all over MN, one within each are the same core bunch of posters so, yes, should we see one another on a random thread in the middle of the night we will say hello.

As is usual over a weekend, the does seem to be the same general lot who tend to pop up on drunk threads, not me obvs...

And, as you say, those who have been around for a hundred years on here will inevitably see each other from time to time.

I certainly don't feel that it's cliquey per se, but I understand why people suggest that it is.

More singing yippee and baking

Fuck me, I haven't had so much as a drop of alcohol and my typing and reading skills are shocking tonight.

:o custardo!
It's obvious that some have been on here for ages, know each other on MN, like/ dislike each other - but I wondered if people actually see the people they talk to on here. The clique bit came about because someone mentioned it on another thread and I wanted to know what the general feeling was. Not worked it out either way myself!

I live in London but I'm not part of an amorphous mass.

there are mumsnet meets - theres a big xmas one where those who can be arse dto get drunk with strangers who have weird names travel to london to do so

there are local meets - i for instance frequent the brighton meets we meet every 2 months or so

and then i might slag around to other meets, have gone to a manchester one a long time ago, and i am organising a bath one with rhubarb0 - if you want to come?

im in a click, i'll be seeing them next tuesday

Cliques? Mn has cliques? i thought it only had quiches.

Vinny

You get, what people perceive as, cliques (can someone PLEASE correct my grammar there, before it drives me mad?) everywhere. It's just a case of people form opinions of each other. It's exactly the same as what happens in RL.

Inclined to agree with mauricetinker as there are some posters who seem to get away with some quite offensive posts whereas other people get 'banned' for a lot less. Happened to a friend of mine who said that certain posters called for her to be banned and she just cake back under another name!
I don't really notice cliques myself - I just browse and post and don't really care for the cliquey people.

Why would you even want to come back where you weren't welcome?

It's stupid to believe that influential or shadowy cliques get people banned. People can complain, of course, if they feel somebody is sailing close to the wind with how they post, but it is actually quite hard to get banned, and you actually have to be doing something against the posting rules, usually more than once. It doesn't go on volume of complaints- it it depends on whether you have actually contravened the guidelines you signed up for. Put bluntly, if you get banned, it's your own stupid fault- there's no point whinging about it and blaming somebody else, just because you've behaved like a bell-end.

Actually. I actually said that a bit too much, sorry.

To get people to talk to you, use posters names. Be funny and /or clever. Don't name change too often. Reply directly to posts. This means reading the thread, not just the OP.

I can't see how you can possibly get banned without being a dick.

I think that there seems to be a lot of 'being a dick' so that people notice that poster. This seems to be in absence of being funny and/ or clever.