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 i think this is aimed at me as i dared post that i didn't find a thread funny

thanks

I thought it was Newcassle lasses that wore nowt. And as a honourory Geordie I can say that!

What about the ones that say "I'm sorry I can't possibly read your OP because you haven't put any paragraph breaks in" to some distraught newbie who has posted because she has discovered her H is a member of 47 different sex sites, and who thus has inexcusably let her page layout skills slip half a notch.

i was going to apologise as i was a bit narky but ahhh fuck it

Either way, I'm about to take a medicinal homemade red pepper and tomato soup round to my elderly neighbour.

If I turn up as a bare-breasted Brunhilda or a PVC clad, sad-faced Pony Lady I am likely to do him in through shock rather than food poisoning

So raptors and khaki it is.

there are threads i have come across, either as a lurker or a participant, where there are people who seem to think they hold more sway than others and have a right to call troll, or nazi, or racist or just generally tell someone to fuck off

That's absolutely spot on.

There are a very tiny minority of posters who are well known for giving good advice but I think sometimes it goes to their heads...to the point where they get quite aggressive and dripping in sarcasm towards others who don't share their POV/opinion.

They seem to think their opinion is the only opinion and I think some posters feel too intimidated by them to argue back.

Well that's the impression I get anyway.

how horrible Maryz. I got slaughtered on a thread for misreading something. I went back and corrected it. I still got slaughtered. It was nasty. I nearly de-regged for the first time ever.

Yanbu Buppy - I think it's very easy on an internet forum to forget that posters are real people with real feelings. I was on the receiving end of a particularly narky poster who decided to kick off on a craft thread no less!

Obviously everyone is entitled to an opinion and it's this variation that makes mn what it is, but ffs there are ways of expressing things unless responding to truly cunty posters

I can have a mutter to myself about spelling, if someone is trying to profess their superiority to someone else while being semi literate in their expression ;but I really hate it when someone has poured out her heart and soul on the forum and the first response is either,"Can't read this without paragraphs." Or,"Please repost using paragraphs OP".
NB I am really really scared of bupcakes [hides behind cat].

"but it's only because you don't like it that you characterise them as whiners. some stuff isn't funny, some usernames are rubbish, some swearing is attacking, some capitalisation is... no, you've got me, no idea what the problem is there, some language is insensitive in a thread title and very often people post in ways that others find unnacceptable. in fact, without that level of tension there is no debate or discussion to be had."

I disagree. (Obviously!)

I think that shouting people down because you don't like their writing style/grammar/username is a bit, well, bullyish. Fair enough, in a debating situation it is fine to say "I don't agree with what you just said because of XYZ..." I don't think it's fine to pick someone apart just because tehy've unwittingly posted in the wrong place/"dripfed" (I loathe the accusations of dripfeeding. To anyone else, it's just remembering stuff along the way)/you personally don't like their username.

I also think it's fair enough to call twat if someone is being out-and-out racist/sexist/disablist. I just don't see what gives some posters authority to decide what is and isn't acceptable, otherwise.

Woah. Mrstiredandconfused, a craft thread kicked off?

I only just saw MissTired's post. Am aghast at the kickery-offery going on on a craft thread.

What was it about? Was someone arguing about the quality of yarn or summat?

I agree. There are a few MNers who, when I see they're on a thread, I don't bother posting as I know in advance I will be wrong. If I disagree with their POV that is .

I think its a good idea to just swerve the few mumsnetters who somehow consistently get your back up. Makes for a more peaceful posting life imho.

I do try and avoid but there are some that love me so much that they hunt me down to tell me I'm a cunt. Which I am and I do need telling tbf.

Apparently some of us were trying to be cheap instead of thoughtful when making Xmas gifts - it was "lemonhandscrubgate" I tells you!

Bit of pot calling kettle here bupcakes.

you deemed it acceptable to < drag me by my ear off to netmums > just yesterday coz I said something you obviously didn't approve of.

I must admit, I was a bit coz I didn't have you down as the 'arsey' type.

That sounds like an interesting thread.

Were you using less lemons than someone else? Or just cheaper ones?

i don't see much of this shouting down because people don't like other people's usernames. where might i see more of that?

i DO see shouting down if people don't get with the particular in-crowd of particular threads, but 'twas ever thus.

Loopy! I was joking!

Really?

Aitch, there was an entire thread on it in Chat, last week I think. About how usernames are shit nowadays. There is a thread on there right now about how there is too much swearing nowadays.

So, you see, SEA, it ain't all about you, pet. :)