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?

I haven't, no. I thought the boards were lightly moderated.

This is hardly a bonhomie thread is it
Turned into she said this, trolls say that,mnhq interventions to put folk straight,bit of not like ole days

I'd say it's gone tits up.completely

Yes. I might report this thread for being... uh... I'll go and think about it first.

Just reporting something doesn't do anything. If there is no problem MNHQ will leave it well alone. If something is not right they'll do something.

I never get why people are reluctant to report?

1. Nobody knows unless you tell them
2. It's much nicer to bring something iffy to the attention of MNHQ than persecuting someone on the boards

Am I missing something?

Yes you're missing some people like to troll hunt,
and some like to keep gripes going,rehashing aggro of yore

Mumsnet is lightly moderated FromTheFarSide but we cannot pull folks up on posts that we don't know are there.

We can't possibly look at every single post, so we ask that if you see something that breaks our guidelines you report it to us.

Well if you report that's not troll hunting is it? It's the opposite of doing it on the boards??

What is it with these feminists sticking up for women, eh? They make me sick.

Ok, understood, I will from now on, thanks.

Their views can be extreme (at times), and unfair. It's not just about sticking up for women.

Custy - really sorry to hear that . I hope you can bring yourself not to care what the ignorant poster said.

Troll hunting is independent of mnhq,that's the point.individuals discuss and speculate on posts and posters without recurse to mnhq. And trot off to search posting history,make spurious links,for the ta dah moment

i have six year old. don't take her to the supermarket though...
sad to hear that, C, hope things are easier now.

That does not constitute a personal attack though: it is one person's opinion. I don't like a lot of things that right-wingers post, but I don't assume that if one writes something I dislike that it needs deleting or even that other right-wingers agree with them.

Yes. That is rather my point. Why not report suspicions and save the upset?

It seems rather attention seeking to have to do it publicly. Why not do it quietly without the spectacle? Unless it is the drama and spectacle that is the appeal. Which I suspect it is.

some people love to search the archives,ask if new, and generally hold dem glistening torches high

A discreet report to mnhq,well that wouldn't draw a crowd in same way

I think it's perfectly reasonable to be sceptical of people's motives on a thread though, which is possible to do without calling troll. It doesn't have to be attention-seeking either.

It was the feminists that got to me, they systematically tore everything I said to shreds then bated me to tears. All because I disagreed that the woman OP was wrong and their advice was wrong.

i think it's a function of the place becoming so much bigger as well, people court notoriety and a quick way of achieving that is a triumphant troll unveiling. 'i called it first' etc etc

YADNBUST

Custy!

When that shit happens, you summon yer mates, innit?

Are you all right now?

xx

Laughed v much at "angry like a bull"

Bad post, I meant I said the op was wrong and their advice was wrong. Bleuh, I'm tired.

I don't give a shit about any of it

If I think someone is an arse, I'll say so then and there.

I don't care what people say to me/about me.

What does the st stand for in yadnbust?

SuperTits?