To think MN is going to the dogs?

[puds11isNAUGHTYnotNAICE]

There is so much trolling, bitching and nastiness on here at the moment!

Am I wearing rose tinted glasses, because I don't remember MN being this bad, ever.

AIBU to think things seem to have gone downhill?

We will all have to wear the scarf so that the coach driver recognizes us and then he can pull over into a P&C space to pick us up. :)

Basically people are censoring themselves all the time to avoid offending anyone and it stifles the really rapid fire spontaneous replies that used to make threads so fast moving and funny.

PMed you Juggling

Yes Pro, there is definitely more censorship and nit picking going on.

And the bloody grammar police.

There was a particularly vile one yesterday & as for those who pick up on the should of v should have - I'd have a special section of hell reserved for them.

The threads about Mumsnet being better in the old days were much better in the old days.

Is it political correctness gone mad ProcastinetsNoMore?

Tiggy

Yes mag I was on a thread tother day where the question asked was ignored and the grammar destroyed instead

juggling and puds, so glad you mentioned this.

I read pineapples post and thread with increasing distress and horror. I got to the end and refreshed the display before (well, was going to) composing a reply to try and help her get out of a situation that I could strongly identify with (hence the distress and horror). I could not believe what I read at the bottom, that there were doubts about the genuineness of the OP. Felt so shocked, stupid and confused.

I guess this is exactly what MNHQ mean when they advise us not to get over invested/ involved in what people post. I've not used Mnet very much, but think this is the first time I really understood what that warning meant. Still feel rather shaken by it...

Thanks for mentioning it anyway, I was really wanting to 'debrief'! Hope that makes sense.

HaHa Tiggy and thanks puds (I like a nice PM will look forward to that - have the smelling salts ready in case of an attack of the vapours) And no not being sarcastic last night WineCowboys just nice and appreciative - a bit like a slightly over friendly bouncy dog (to keep up the dog track theme)

ilove sorry it has upset you so much It is hard not to become invested in a thread that you can identify with.

Sorry that thread affected you badly MargaretAtwood - I know what you mean about wanting to de-brief, which can be tricky when a thread is no longer accepting posts or has actually gone fut. I felt I wanted to mention it somewhere, hence my post on this thread. Sorry to hear of your experiences too x

Thank you puds

Thank you juggling

Sincere good wishes to you!

I think the threads about the quality of posting on MN isn't what it used to be.

It is a bit shit. A high percentage of threads I get involved in turn out to be trolls or get deleted for some reason or other.
A thread I was on recently had a poster banging on about looking out for posters who had disagreed with her on future threads, another said she was going to e an arsehole about spelling because posters had annoyed her -grudge holding is so stupid. On another thread a poster trawled through everything I had ever posted to try and point score.

It's just a bit grim and awash with dumbfuckery [sigh]

It's political correctness gorn mad Tiggy, along with all the discusting 'elf and safety types haunting the threads :o

I think Pro is right. I know if I start a thread I read my post upside down and inside out to try and second guess where some nit picking poster will come leaping in and kill the discussion before it even gets going.

And I think posters used to be better at responding in kind to tongue in cheek OPs. Now they get all offended and start huffing and puffing about trolls, and 'what a strange post' etc and a lot of the fun has gone out of things.

The 9th Commandment of Forums.

At any given moment at least one poster feels the tipping point has been reached in terms of "still pretty good" and "gone to the dogs".

Thus Spaketh the Mighty Megabyte. And so it was and shall always be.

Everything Pro said.
It's not the trolling that's killing MN, it's the professionally offended.
You literally can't say anything anymore.

And as regards trolls, I think it's bloody reprehensible to start a made up thread about a very emotive subject and fool posters in replying, recounting their own personal experiences etc. and such posters should be reported and banned.

But someone starting a makey up thread about weddings, P&C spaces, or annoying colleagues? meh! Either join in and enjoy or just click off, would be my view.

ProcrastinateNoMore @ 10.06 sums it up for me. I rarely post these days as I do actually get a bit upset when someone rips me a new one just because I accidentally use one (wrong to them) word or misinterprets my humour.

I stick with lurking these days mostly.

I'm one of these people who can be an arse for incorrect usage of words of even for the dreaded LOL.
Some days I can happily ignore it, other days it makes my head hurt and I start being arsey about it.

It's how I post and I have my opinions and I stick to them.

What I think has changed is that MN is more bandwagon-y.
It rolls and rolls and steamrolls everything in its way.

The professionally offended are what we would call 'dry shites' in Ireland, and MN seems to have more than its fair share these days.

MN is not being killed.

On established forums there is pretty much always a cycle of older posters leaving becuase newer posters have influenced the general tone/unspoken rules. Where that doesn't happen the forum tends to have a short "hey day" shelf life becuase it stagnates and doesn't attract enough new blood to compensate for natural wastage.

As long as MN retains their highly unusual first person, chatty relationship with posters and their equally unusual don't force change for changes sake in terms of format and style, the chances are the site will go from strength to strength.

Their one serious threat is the forum version of a "killer app" that impacts forums in the way that the creation of tablets impacted laptops.

But without a crystal ball it can be very hard to know what that threat might be and how to future proof against it.

So why time is the bus?

(The PO can PO frankly)(on a different bus)

oh so THAT'S what PO stands for

I had been wondering

I've been round here for tiiime, but I quite like the site atm

yes, you have to look hard for giggles, but because it's bigger/more anonymous, it doesn't seem quite as quichey as it's been in the past- and no posters seem to dominate

not that that's better- it's just...different

The PO bus is usually found in the disabled space