To be getting a bit fed-up with the Mumsnet Gestapo popping up everywhere?

[BupcakesandCunting]

"Oooh that's not FUNNY"

"Oooh your username is RUBBISH"

"Oooh you SWORE"

"Oooooh you used capitals"

"Ooooh you used ... in a thread title"

"Oooh you have not posted in a way that I have deemed acceptable."

Who died and made you owner of the board? AIBU if from now on every time I see a self-appointed board police on patrol to link to and tell them to wind their necks in?

Oh, the Topic Police really piss me off.

yes

no

banana

Yup the troll hunts are vair tiresome. That's banned but still happens. Maybe hitting REPORT POST is just too complicated?

Maybe we could do troll drag hunting? No trolls would be hurt.

I prefer to call troll, that's just me. I don't like seeing well meaning people get the piss taken out of them.

I could argue that if you don't like my troll hunting you should just hide the thread, ignore me or report it.

" 'you sound deranged' and 'i feel sorry for your dc' are often just a few posts in."

Yep, I've had this more than once. I had a few posters wade in on me on a thread because I disagreed with the consensus. I was bated and bated, they then twisted something I said about my relationship with my SO and bated and bated me some more. He'd been away for 6 weeks at that point and I ended up in tears. I felt so bloody stupid allowing myself to be wound up on an internet forum but I felt strongly about the point I was trying to make so kept at it far too long.

Eventually some others came along and told them they were being OTT, they got it too. This place can be fun but it can be shit too and some real bitching goes on.

I will admit to being a bit of a grammar nazi though, it drives me nuts when someone does the old 'fick speak' in the middle of an otherwise intelligent debate. I'm not talking about typos or typing too fast. Don't expect me to take your post seriously when you can't write above early primary school level.

Agree with bupcakes but if we banned every one who annoyed every one of us, there'd be few left.

I tend to roll my eyes and go make another coffee.

Or, if I'm feeling fiesty and irritable, I'll say something... but then that makes me the same as every one who irritates someone in some way.

So basically, what HullyGully says... yes, no, banana. Seems to fit.

Those who search archives to quip,not many posts op
As if this is a significant ta-dah moment
It's the whole pitch fork mentality of trying to prove something

And spelling and composition pedants,who ignore a long heartfelt post, to interject can't possibly read that too long no paragraphs.

Heartless

wahwahwah I just read that as "Maybe we could do troll hunting in drag" and I think it's time for me to put the laptop down.

I think I prefer your version...

actually i really can't read huge long chunks of text, but i wouldn't bother telling the OP about it. i just click off it and move along, or sometimes if i think it's urgent repost with paras to make it more accessible. is that cunty or helpful?

Wouldnt calling for posts no likey to be banned,be a bit arrogant and misguided. If you only wants plaudits and affirmation don't traipse your business across mn for strangers to opine upon

I never recall who said what,so it's no odds,and frankly the thing about mn is you can be having a ding-dong on one thread and then agree wholeheartedly

People do need to learn some Internet composure and savvy,if you get really irked or carry a wee grudge then it's time to step away from keyboard.it is online blah and words on a screen,because most of us encounter each other transiently,have no corroboration of events, and dip in and out of mn. Aye some do meet TL,but that's the vast minority. You have responsibility to be able to regulate self,have safe use and acknowledge it's largely recreational banter and chewin the fat

I sure don't sob when a precious moments mama tells me I'm an unfit mother for abandoning the children to nursery as babies. There is a aspect of being able to dust self down and live to post another day.

No mn grudges or gripes

cunty I would think it was a bit bossy but probably accept it as helpful at a push in a school teachery way.

That was for aitch

I've never seen anybody say they 'can't possibly' read without paragraphs.

But loads like me will skip posts that look too dense, and will say so.

It happens zapp.

And why say so, why not just skip?

well, because the person presumably wants their post answered? if it's just boring shite i won't mention, but if someone's in trouble and you know that people will ignore without paras (most do) then what to do?

Yup. Irrelevant if they're posting some guff but if they are looking for genuine input then they'll get a lot more with paras.

Just reading this off the back of a Corrie important documentary thread. Someone was whinging about a spoiler that had been mentioned and even went as far as reporting the thread to MNHQ for them to put "spoiler alert" on the thread title. I mean, really? It's a soap TV programme, not Shakespeare. Hardly going to make a difference knowing one tiny possible bit of a future episode.

And RE "link doesn't work", this annoys me when the Op has given the web page address. Whats so hard with C&Ping the link? T'is not rocket science.

"Can't possibly read that without paragraphs" usually gets said when someone uses text speak.

I agree with you Aitch, it would be helpful if it meant a poorly written post would get much needed helpful answers.

My why not just skip was to zapp pointing out a post was dense

I love these threads. They always get a bit "there's no reality, only perception" when posters with vastly different posting styles seem to agree with each other whilst actually berating the posting style of the other, except no-one recognises that it's them being slated somewhere along the line.

Forum dynamics are brilliant.

I wonder if the forum will suddenly appear to be an awful lot tidier after this thread? lol

Today I posted something along the lines of 'oh shut up bickering with each other over something so trivial' on a thread and then five minutes later I went back and posted 'ignore me, in a bad mood today' and tbh I wasn't in a bad mood at all, I just felt stupid for posting something like that when I could have just clicked off the thread and read something else.

I might start an AIBU about whether I should have stuck by my post or not... :D

well you shouldn't have wimped out, obv. but actually i am always super-impressed when people come back and say 'ignore me, i was being a shit'. takes balls, imo.