to ask what's soooo wrong with netmums?

[sassy34264]

noticed a lot of derogatory remarks about them.
what have they done?

but C&G aren't allowed to advertise formula to below 6months and baby food to below 4 months, so it would make no sense for NM to remove those on those grounds - C&G could get prosecuted for that.

@scottishmummy

no.cherie daily mail is linked on mn daily.mnetters love dm mnhq had a collaboration with dm to share posts,generate a column

To coin a phrase SM, that's Tosh ! There was no collaboration with the Daily Mail - they just stole a chunk of MN content and turned it into a This Week on Mumsnet column, completely unbeknownst to us until it appeared. We asked them to stop, which they did, eventually.

Re Netmums, well it's horses for courses imho - live and let live and all that?

I remember the stream of anti DM usernames.

Mn baby name threads are my favourite thing - Aurora or Delilah?
St John or Troilus? Oh, the dilemma.

I'm a regular poster on there, and have been for years. I'm also a serial name changer on here and post a fair few times on here as well.
I'm going off Netmums now, though as even though the spelling and grammar has always been bad on there, lately it has been absolutely atrocious and half of the posts are barely even legible, it's really starting to get on my very pedantic wick! [grin}

Reading the Daily Mail doesn't make you evil.

It just means you already are evil.

hang on wasnt the mnhq suggestion that a (then) prominent poster collaborate with dm? a bit suck it and see

My eldest son is grown up he has adhd and autism. He frequently lies to me gets into trouble ,wont pay board and lodging refuses to move out.
My ex his dad gloats over what he does and phones me to tell me and make out its all my fault ,but he wouldn't have him,too much alike.Both my ex and his brother when younger were continual in trouble.
My son cant keep a job for more than five minutes or stay on target with college courses usually gets thrown off. I have no proof but suspect that his latest course has gone this way being an adult Im not party to what's going on because his course seemed to finish well before others once he thinks he knows it all which he frequently does- but he doesnt really all in his head,he stops putting effort in. He also had a job trial yesterday that went pair shaped too after 10 days,always makes out its someone elses fault never what he has done when is he going to wise up the answer never. I cant get help with him and he wouldnt accept it any way . But when I say leave he says you cant make me Im going no where. My life is a bloody nightmare.
I wish he had never being born.Thank goodness my youngest takes after me.

This is a genuine post on NM. I responded saying that wishing your son was never born is a dreadful thing to say-only to have the mods delete my post for being unsupportive.
Why should I send (((((hugs)))) hun to some cow who wishes her SN son was never born?

There was a poster on there saying that her four year old dd with severe asd was terrified of the hoover.
She said when she was naughty she used to turn it on and make her stand net to it to punish her lol.

This thread prompted me to ask nms about their policies on child protection.
I got an email saying 'I am shocked ht you say you are aprofessionsl bu you are being so unsupportive' despite repeated attempts to get them to tell me their policy they refused to answer. I got the distinct impression that the md was totally unaware of any laws or guidence.

Much as that post is horrible turbo I can at least see it being written in desperation (I would hope) .
This moher was admitting torturing her little girl and laughing about it. If ever I could ave stuck my hand through a pc careen and punched someone it would have been then.

That's fucking horrendous ds2 is HFA and noises scare him (4 yr) and to punish him with exposure is fucking abuse r

Thanks everlong I'm enlightened now.

To not go on netmums

"Those of you who are so wound up by nethuns, why not just stay off it?"

there's nowhere else where most of the local childminders/community events/nearly news/playgroups/kids activites are posted or advertised round here so do keep an eye on the notice board but MY GOD you have to be careful so not throw your lap top out of the window at some of the biggoted "chat" that goes on there in between the family fun day ads!

also my local gumtree is full of scamming wierdos and its very hard to get a genuine sale on there so NM is a necessary evil for selling stuff that you can't be arsed to bootsale

I don't go on it now everlong and the above post is one of the main reasons why.
I was trying o have a serious conversation with a company with a responsibilty for child protection and I was getting back passive agressive emails with fucking emoticons in them.

I don't want to be a member of a club with such a sloppy approach to chid welfare.
It's not a little private forum it is a large profit making company that advertises itself as a support agency.
That comes with responsibilities.
Based on my experience I feel netmums is failing to meet those responsibilities. I can only hope they have changed I theast year or so but I am not that hopeful.

Agh argghh!

Just joined NM to see for myself. Baby names thread. Tallulah Belle or Lulabelle (but I don't think Lulabelle Belle TG).

Lots of support. Can only imagine the MN response to these potential names!!

Think I might stick with MN (sweary chunter)

And sorry to anyone who has Tallulah as a DD name - I do think it's pretty, but it's not one for me.

yeah I try not to post on NM but sometimes you read really horrendous things particularly about SN people "roaming free" in the community that I just can't help it

when you report you get told that NM doesn't see the problem

and if you do challenge it on the thread you get lynched "the OP was just tryin to look out for the kiddies, its better safe then sorry" blah blah blah then they REMEMBER you forever as someone who doesn't follow the crowd and god forbit you try to buy or sell anything on there or advertise a service etc. And all you'll have done is maybe link a police statement that they did NOT issue this warning despite it going round facebook/NM)

forbiD

I got threatened with a ban for daring to discuss disabilist attitudes and the lack of moderation.
They have a mega filter but words like r*and s* are allowed to stay.

Apparently someone might want to write Volterol r***
That was the best the mod could one up with. They were utterly resistant to filtering out offensive words even though you can't say bitch or crap.

There was one Mother whom called her DD Glitter.

I'm not the typical stereotype of a MNetter (Boden, worries whether I've commited child abuse by shopping at Tesco instead of Waitrose). I'm kinda inbetween.

MN is the place to be, for me!