To think that the bullying culture on MN can be a bit much....

[tjah04]

Having been a member of MN since 2003 I have seen and read some disgusting comments from other members particuarly on this board.

I am starting to think that some of these people must be very sad and insecure.

Some of the names that are called are disgusting and I am sure that these people would never go up to someone in RL and call them that.

And do not get me started on the "I am better than you because I can spell" attitude which seems to be the final insult if all else fails.

Other comments include

"troll" "Oh not another thread" etc.

It is cyber bullying at the end of the day and as mothers shouldn't we all just grow up a bit? The MN team do a great job of deleting such posts but often the OP has seen it and the damage is already done.

yep, "clunch"

It's actually so like Magnolia BS08B15 it's not true.

And how dead is the salmon?

Is it decaying and rotten?

@ wiseden

Now that would be something.

So why not just call it magnolia FFS?

Is clunch meant to make it sound more appealing? Because it doesn't. At all.

Clunch would go nicely with DownPipe.

I don't believe that happened to the OP, and I don't believe the OP has been here since 2003.

I don't believe there is a 'culture of bullying' and even if the aformentioned 'dyslexic cunt' was said, I don't believe that MNers would not have 1) pulled up the unnamed poster 2) reported the unnamed poster.

I can quite believe that another MNer may have called the OP a cunt, but hey, maybe the OP was acting like a cunt. Someone calling someone else a cunt is not bullying, pretty horrible yes, but not bullying.

Posters derailing a thread started and designed to be goading - not bullying either.

If the OP is unhappy on MN, why stay? I was unhappy on another forum, so I stopped using it and came here instead. It was really, really easy. I din't have to give a notice period, or write a letter of resignation. I just stopped using it.

They have churlish green, and arsenic as well

x-posted with LtEve, who is trying to give a sensible answer. So, yes, what she said

I'm in a virtual paint shop. Elephant's Breath may not be grey enough. Would Charleston Grey be too dark? What finish.

Try off-black, Tufty. That looks dark enough to be the inside of a coffin

I have just got NolaFfing's nickname.

I've been saying it 'Nola Fuffing' in my head all this time.

I am a twat.

But that's not grey Mary! I guess I could add a bit of White?

Why can they just have normal names, like green?
Why is it churlish?

Anyway I missed the whole bullying thing as usual, but I agree that it seems unlikely that the op was called a dyslexic cunt and everyone posted smiley faces and agreed.

I also wonder why, if you hate a site you would be a member of it for 9 years.

Oh, ive just Realised what I've done. I have agreed with the opinion of a poster who's name I have seen before. That's wrong isn't it?

Pack mentality and all that.

Ok so from now on I will only agree with people who I have never "seen" on mumsnet bit tricky as I spend my whole working day on here

Right, I'll agree with no one. Everyone is and wrong. I am right. Always. But don't agree with that FFS

I have been here under different guises since 2002 and I agree that the AIBU section has spawned a monster BUT even on some of the threads there are really great discussions. i started one about cafes yesterday but we have a had a nice discussion and it's not at all ranty and shouting, and the one about mom is great as well.

I think it's just the ones where you get the die hard aibu ers and I am pretty sure a lot of them are blokes wearing thos giant smock things and they have no kids but they like to tell the rest of how to behave in a morally repungent manner

Nola fluffing?
You reached, in your head, for Nola Fluffing?

fenton I'm saying Nola's nn the same as you.

I don't get it.

Oh fuck off Tantrums. You think it's all about you, don't you.

You lot can't all be right, because I'm the rightest of the right people in rightland, right [gavel]

I know!

I'm bonkers, me.

It's "No Laffing"

I think...

or we coldu just start posts with 'my name's xxxx and I'm a cunt' and then save everyone else the bother. We could add anything in about benefits/formula/weight/paint that might be helpful.

Went away to doss about on the internet work and come back to find this thread still rumbling on.

I mean this next sentence in the nicest possible way but some of you act like this is the first time you've ever seen the internet. Forums have their own social and conversational rules and mores. On any one forum their could be hundreds or even thousands of members. Life is fast paced on high traffic forums. Friendships are created and evolve. Opinions will differ - sometimes wildly and divisively. It's the way it is.

Good forums have ways of policing content, whether that's rules, guidelines, moderators, self-policing by members, whichever method works for them. And if something goes against those rules (calling someone a dyslexic cunt for eg) then there will be a consequence (comment deletion). And if you really, really don't like the 'culture' or 'mentality' on a forum there are literally thousands of others to choose from which could better match your communication style.

The internet is Srs Bsns

we coldu?

we could

I would like to point out that I'm not dyslexic but I may be a cunt