To suggest banning those cliquey type threads which don't belong in AIBU?

[Simontowers1]

The ones where anybody new to MN doesn't have a clue what anybody is on about and which aren't really an AIBU but rather a pointless attempt to attract attention/be funny/demonstrate their matey-ness with the rest of the MN clique?
Not saying their isn't a place for such threads just saying shift them off AIBU to stop other users wasting precious seconds of their life clicking. N them.

Is this a thread about a thread about a thread

I'm getting a little lost and

Other thread now gone, three cheers for katiemumsnet.
MN IS one giant voyeur fest pag - the equivalent of a never-ending agony aunt column.

Cliqueyfuckers, all of you.

How about 'VoyeurTowers'?

You get from any forum, what you put in.

I put in endless rubbish.

Sure except that we get to offer support or advice or have a few laughs too.

Perhaps we ought to leave it as it is then?

If you come on as a new poster Op, and suddenly want to change it to your way it's clearly not the forum for you.
I always liked it as it was, but jeez there's some moany fuckers out there at the moment.

OP, start your own anti- clique thread or group.

You could call yourselfs the nobdies ;) and start lots of clique-y threads on how sad it is to be an outsider and a nobdie on MN

Or has that been done already ( innocent face)

How about a " Not even a Nobdie! internet losers over here!" thread?

Aaah

In that case Simon

Your welcome

I had my very own topic once. But HQ sank it.

But karma got them and Mnet broke.

Yy LaQueen.
That was me too when I first came here.

Ah but you aren't a mansplainer, LaQueen

Can we have a thread for posters who change names to complain about people who change names?
Like the other one?

I think many newcomers expect something a bit different when they first join.

What happens op, in the threads you are talking about, is typical here.

Its quite different to many other parenting sites in that respect.

laQueen explained it very well.

Lol at mansplainer

That's what you do on mumsnet. Join in conversations and are ignored for 6 months.

then we can all give Eunicedumbsdown the welcome to mumsnet she needs.

So kind of her to pop in.

Good post LaQueen.
My first ever post was about child modelling you can imagine how that went!
Then I blundered around hijacking threads before someone suggested I start my own
I was often lost and confused by the many acronyms and in jokes, but
it didn't put me off, and I didn't whine about it.
That was 7 years ago and I've never looked back.

What's up Babyjaguar - is there another sidestory going on there?

and howsabout keeping it on the thread in question - if there is one?

OH I've just twigged which thread that was about..

What pray tell is a mansplainer??
Was I being unreasonable to laugh my head off at the man on the radio today who kept saying wanks instead of ranks Jonathan Ross style??

I have a SiL like that too LaQueen.

Mansplaining:

"February 4, 2011 Urban Word of the Day
delighting in condescending, inaccurate explanations delivered with rock solid confidence of rightness and that slimy certainty that of course he is right, because he is the man in this conversation

Definition courtesy of the urban dictionary

Cheryl it is usually a bloke-type who very.carefully.and.simply explains 'how it is' and how everyone (women) is doing it all wrong, - with added patting of head and there, there love for good measure.