AIBU to ask when the hell this happened?

[LilQueenie]

copied and pasted from another site.:

I have very much distanced myself from Mumsnet recently, following a warning I received from HQ. Whilst I accepted that I wrote one very out of order comment in a moment of extreme stress and apologised for that, the main gist of it was they didn't like my 'tone' - ie me fighting my end when right wing zealots decided to call me a benefit scrounging scumbag and make suggestions like my disabled children should be euthanised. Unfortunately I am unable to quietly ignore such vitriol against my family, but never resorted to personal attacks. But no, because I wasn't behaving 'naicely' I got a warning.

Which site? I miss everything

www.iamtypecast.com/2011/07/mumsnet-initiation-process.html

Um, not sure that's a great thing to be posting tbh. Has her name and everything.

Can't get the link to work on my phone, but is this the blogger who introduced themselves with a "Here I am at last, the wait is over!" type thread?

I didnt post any names but tbh if someone can be traced so easily.....

Yes it is that blogger, 3b1g

Yup 3b1g, I'm just reading the thread as she links to it in the blog. It's waaaay before my time and it certainly makes some interesting reading.

The link won't work for me

Some threads get nasty, and there are some real plonkers on here that say outrageous things, but on the whole Mumsnet is a really good site. I would rather be here, where people can write whatever they want, than a site like netmums which is moderated so heavily you can't even swear on there.

I will say however, I avoid many of the threads that I know will get very nasty. Especially the benefit bashing ones. Your experience is horrible, I am sorry that was written to you... make sure you report these people and don't rise to their pathetic posts.

Someone was called a benefit scrounger and told that her disabled children should be euthanised?

That is unforgivable.

I don't remember that but whatever she said in response to it and without even knowing what it was! I'd say the person deserved it!

what a foul thing to say to someone.

foolish woman.

Have looked at her blog and the original thread. She got people's backs up by making a big entrance as if she was a star or something and telling MNers she was here to teach us. And then she was all surprised that people weren't impressed. Ho hum.

see this is the thing. I cant actually believe that anyone on here would wish a child dead and wondered if this actually happened or was just 'hate posts' about mumsnet. Im not always on here but I dont recall this one.

but i can't see anything about benefits and disabled bashing

(Doesn't justify any comments about benefit scrounging, though, that's rude and stupid.)

Although I can't see any posts about benefits scrounging - maybe she's exaggerating, maybe they were removed. But her posts are very full of herself, 'I thought MN could be of benefit to me', her own blog says she thought she'd join MN bloggers to get a bigger audience. Not surprised people were irritated.

www.iamtypecast.com/2011/07/mumsnet-initiation-process.html

I can't remember anything about that thread. Imagine my surprise then when I scrolled down and found I'd posted on it. I wonder what I said?

Although it's a safe bet I called someone a cunt. Probably Paul Robinson. the cunt.

its is almost 18 months old, and to be honest, she sounds like an utter attention seeker.. as most self proclaimed "prolific bloggers" are...

You do realise that the article you are referring to was posted in JULY 2011, so what can possibly be achieved by highlighting it now?

Not being bitchy, but what good can come of dredging up past history?

I posted it as it was not something I found here but on google when I typed mumsnet. I had a hard time believing a lot of that to be true and wondered when this had taken place or indeed if it had at all.

I have been around mostly lurking for quite a while. Mumsnet is like every other part of society there are times when certain sections go a little crazy.
Mostly I just walk away when this happens as it is often 6 of one and half a dozen of another. When it seems unjust in someway I report it to HQ.

I do remember that about 18 months ago it did all get a little crazy and I didn't look at MN that often for a while. I can remember being snarled at on one occasion and crawling back beneath my stone for a while.

I remember the 'Ta-daaa, here I am! 'thread, but certainly not anyone being told their child should be euthanised. As far as I recall, any time that odious types like the infamous BNP supporter who got banned dared venture such an opinion, they were quite rightly silenced by howls of outrage. If you stop to think about it for more than a second, many posters find mumsnet by looking for support for their children with special needs, so it wouldn't last very long if it was actively hostile like that.