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

513 replies

BupcakesandCunting · 24/01/2012 13:01

"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?

OP posts:
MorrisZapp · 24/01/2012 18:36

I meant dense as in without breaks. Not dense as in stupid.

PeanutButterCupCake · 24/01/2012 18:42

YASoooooNBU bupcakes
The whole this topics been done before...don't read the freaking thread then! is my pet hate.

Am in awe of you're " chuck a benny" comment Grin
Took me back 20 years.

W0rmy · 24/01/2012 18:43

Ha ha Grin. Sorry Zapp! I thought that was rather rude of you.

I'm giving up tonight, I'm either too slow or I'm misunderstanding , I shall go and lie down for a bit.

ViviPru · 24/01/2012 18:46

I'm with LeQ on the benefit of posts being as readable as possible.

While I don't think there's any point in being nasty about someone's delivery, this is after all a written medium and as such the clearer someone's post is, the easier it is to comprehend and reply appropriately.

Sometimes OPs are incomprehensible, and it becomes evident as they continue to post that they simply aren't even trying to express themselves in a way that is conducive to debate/gaining advice/sharing an experience and I sometimes find this frustrating. Especially when other posters are urging to OP to clarify on certain points and they just ignore.

scottishmummy · 24/01/2012 19:02

If you dont like the posting style,composition.ok
But rocking up 1st post to say cant read that no paragraphs is passive aggressive and bit wanky

There isn't an inhouse style or should do. So silly sniggering at ooh she said hun or is called icklebabysamuelmummie is a bit lame

And frankly some one else will plough through and read

RebeccaMumsnet · 24/01/2012 19:29

@MorrisZapp

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.

Morris, we would, very politely, ask you not to call troll on the thread but to report it to MNHQ via the Report button because if you're wrong, you could cause untold hurt; if you're right, you'll merely be giving the troll just the kind of attention they're after. You can find out more about this here

QuintessentiallyShallow · 24/01/2012 19:33

That was you told Morris. Wink

Threads referring to Nazis or Gestapos, or the SS, or KGB, and what not, never go down well.

BupcakesandCunting · 24/01/2012 19:50

Yeah man.

If I see a blocky paragraph with no hope of punctuation etc and it really IS an effort to read, I usually just move on tbh. I remember the first thread I read on here, the OP was erm, challenging in terms of prose/paragraphing/punctuation fair enough. But then some snarker motherflipper came on and went something like "I don't know if your are being unreasonable or not, but for christmas I am going to give you a nice big box of full stops, commas, line breaks and grammar." It was VILE and I shit myself and ran off and didnt post for another 3 months.

Also, Paggy is right as fucking usual Wink The bullying thing. I got accused of it on one now notorious thread what can't be mentioned. A few of us disagreed with the OP and got branded bullies who hunt in packs like wolves, despite none of us having ever met on MN before. I laughed it off and treated it like a bit of a joke tbh, but inside I was angry. Angry like a bull.

OP posts:
scottishmummy · 24/01/2012 19:54

Bully is sometimesl putdown for didn't agree with op
Some folk just want mn crawlybumlick posts,and if anyone has temerity to disagree they wail mean girl/bully.

TheParanoidAndroid · 24/01/2012 19:55

See now I might think somehting like that, Bup, I wouldn't actually say it. And has been established, I'm a right cowbag.
I literally can't read those big long stream of conciousness ones with no breaks or punctuation, they make my eyes hurt and my attention wanders. But I just click the back button and all is well in my little bubble.....

Maryz · 24/01/2012 20:01

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scottishmummy · 24/01/2012 20:04

Here's the rub some are quick to shout bully on mn,when disagreed with or thread gone awry. But when it suits, it's all wahey, whats up?can't take mn joke

BupcakesandCunting · 24/01/2012 20:05

You are a right cowbag, Android. Yes you are.

Wink

But yes. No like, move on and find something else. Would you barge up to a group of people in a pub and start berating the way they're all talking? No. Unless you are an unspectacular cunt.

OP posts:
TheParanoidAndroid · 24/01/2012 20:05

I'd like to, on occasion. But I'm too scared nice.

GreenEyesAndHam · 24/01/2012 20:09

No no, I sometimes hit the back button hard if I see a giant block of text in an OP, course I do.

(and sometimes I do try and wade through it, with the aid of notepad and ruler Grin)

But you will never convince me that anyone who types "too long cba to read" has done so for any other reason than to be a snidey smartarse Grin

scottishmummy · 24/01/2012 20:09

Well given mn,isn't no one likely to bop you.most folk just pile in,mn is most unlike rl pub analogy

Given in pub you know,are with familiar folk,and chose your company
Not necessarily so on mn
hence need to tolerate a different online mileu

BupcakesandCunting · 24/01/2012 20:10

Well, we'd all like to. Or most of us would, I'm sure. But not being an insensitive/dull fuckwit tells us otherwise.

One day I might lose my shit though and stand there naked in the pub, smearing my own excrement all over my tits and shouting "NO. NO FOOTBALL TALK. SHIT FUCKING SHIT RYAN GIGGS SATANS BUMBOY. ROONEY. FAT LUMPEN HEADED PROZZIE SHAGGER. JUST SHUTHEFUCKUPCUNTS"

OP posts:
BupcakesandCunting · 24/01/2012 20:11

I'd beg to differ Scottishmummy. I have special internet tubes which mean that I can punch people through the internet. Hasn't anyone else got them?

OP posts:
scottishmummy · 24/01/2012 20:11

That's utter gibberish
Was it meant to be?

LeBOF · 24/01/2012 20:12

Grammar Nazis are anti-semantic. Or something.

BupcakesandCunting · 24/01/2012 20:12

Wind your neck in, SM.

OP posts:
bibbitybobbityhat · 24/01/2012 20:13

Heh heh Boffy.

scottishmummy · 24/01/2012 20:14

Was the shouty gibberish meant to be ironic,post modern perhaps?

mumblecrumble · 24/01/2012 20:14

er....bupcakes.... is your ...er.... vagine any better?

Agree whole heartedly with thread.

scottishmummy · 24/01/2012 20:16

Given your pains to explain you like intelligible posts, the shouty swear rant was somewhat unexpected