AIBU to like MSE's message?

[Mitmoo]

Found on MSE Forums

"Newbie Alert

MSE requests you give newbies a chance - please be especially nice."

Should we adopt that here? Some seem to get their sick kicks in scaring newbies off by being particularly nasty, shouldn't posters be nice to newbies?

I am a responsible adult. Help at all?

Why the big pointy stick, Beer?

I'm new, can someone please bully me?

not in manner of new blood, it's just a bloody nice thought

mmmmmmm, marshmallows.

For how long does one remain a newbie? I've been here about 10 months and everyone's been very nice.

Should I be worried?

HopeEternal I've been here 4 years, I just figured I must be new because I've never been bullied and apparently that happens to all new members. They'll get around to bullying you at some point and then you'll cease to be a newbie.

I'm not a newbie anymore now as filibear called me a cow and AM drooled at me.

Well Hope, if no one is showing any inclination to be mean, and you are afraid that you might have been overlooked, you should start a number of antagonistic, navel-gazing threads.

If anyone should have the temerity to poke fun at you, however gently, you must throw all of your toys out of the pram and shout wild accusations left, right and centre.

Then start seeing imaginary sock-puppets and cliques on all of your threads.

Once this has been acomplished, start a few threads about how much nicer you imagine people to be on other sites.

People will now be laughing themselves silly, but you must interpret this as bullying (because generally people are quite nice on here, so you must use your imagination) and strop accordingly.

If after a while you are accused of being a Moldie, you have a whole new problem

Got to say that as a relative newbie on Mumsnet I've had nothing but lovely conversations. There certainly seems to be a 'we're all in this together' attitude here and people genuinely wanting to help if you have a problem.
MSE however....I posted on there once. My landlord at the time had lied to us about putting the house we were renting up for sale and we found out when the estate agent came to value the house. He lied again & again to our faces and only confessed when we came home to find the sign outside the house! He told us he wanted a quick sale and had a month to move out. I went on MSE to ask for some legal advice as we didn't even have the money for a deposit and got completely flamed. People were telling me to 'shut up' and 'grow up' and 'it's just a house, find somewhere else to live and get over it'. Only one person stuck up for me in 3 pages of insults that to this day I can't understand. Never been back since.
So thank you for being nice to me mumsnet! :)

ObiWan

You're right BeerTricks.

I shall await a jolly good spanking from whoever is currently wielding that long pointy stick.

That'll learn me

POTW for Obiwan

[gives all the newbies a wedgie and runs away]

I have been here about 4/5 months, and no one's been mean to me either. Am I still a newbie though *scratches chin"?

ObiWan :o