Why does Mumsnet now have a Scotsnet section?

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I've just noticed that Scotnset now has it's very own section (came up in Active) this was news to me! Is it recent?
Isn't it encouraging segregation?
How about we also have these sections:

Irishnet, Welshnet, Englishnet, and so on?

I am also 25 and a size 8.

Another staunch No Thanks voter who believes there was a massive need for Scotsnet.

Why so many find it threatening baffles me.

And a lot of pervs lurking and turning MNers problems into wank fodder.

Well, maybe if it wasn't called SEXnet.....
something a bit more toned down (still to do with sex but a name that would deter the pervs)

lika wouldn't there have to be NorthernIrishnet and SouthernIrishnet???

runs away

no need to run

Not from you, just from the thread in general once you mention Northern and Southern Ireland!

You could call it EireNet!

Oh God Rose runs faster

Maybe I should start PunsNet.

Why does scotsnet exist? Becauseof questions like these:

DS1 is now on study leave and has his first two N5's this week - Graph Comm on Thursday and History on Friday. He's finally settled down to some study although he got A's for both those prelims so the stress hasn't started in earnest yet. Anyone else?

Or

As above, DS1 starts S4 and 7 national 5s in a couple of weeks. Hasn't had much homework up til now.. we need to manage his expectations of how much he will be able to sit gaming compared to now

Which most of you would have scrolled right past at best, or at most anwered with a WTH are you on about type response. Unless a Scot with the answer happened to see either post at the right moment, they would soon slide off the first page of unanwered, or the first page of the education forums,

other questions on Scotsnet, so far, seem to relate to maternity hospitals, whose cachements certainly reach well past the cities they are 'local' in, so asking the same question in a local forum might not get a response until the OP has long since given birth.

There is a 'hidden Scotland' thread which is much like the 'hidden London' thread re: things to go and do which might not be obvious. Similiarly, there was a thread on Easter holiday activities, because again, a local forum is a small pool to seek information, especially about activities worth getting into Glasgow or Edinburgh for.

There are a couple of threads about the weather. Both essentially saying 'it's cold'.

Because lots of people asked for one.

Can we have South-East-Net then? On account of so much is different here, and it gets boring having to explain all the time that £50k a year is a low salary.

Thought not

ScotsNet sounds like a good idea. Believe it or not, outside England, rules, regulations, common practices are different - not just in Scotland but in the rest of the world. However, an awful, awful lot of Mumsnet contributors assume they are the same.

I wouldn't mind a KiwiNet, but probably no one would post on it.

(speaking of forums no one posts on, I really must pop over to DadsNet. Haven't been there for ages).

I think it's a shame. Part of what I like about reading on mumsnet is hearing about how things work in different parts of the world and different perspectives. I don't see why scotsnet is needed. If we are one United Kingdom there should be one mumsnet. If in the future we are not one United Kingdom thats a other thing. . . But the scots didn't choose that path did they?

I hardly think having a small section on an internet site compares to splitting the union

There was a thread asking why 'North of the border was so under represented on MN'

As has been explained frequently on this thread, it's like a local board. To answer questions without having to explain the differences over and over again.

Btw... I love Scotland!

For example I know where setphasers user name comes from and if I say to her " you've cack aw knob" she gets it....see , very highbrow cultural differences

It's to give us somewhere to talk about things that are specific to Scotland - education, law, health and so on without having to caveat our posts with "we're in Scotland". For example, I was once assured that my DC couldn't be on study leave because that didn't exist .

However, just to pin my colours to the mast - I am an ardent No supporter, hate the SNP with a vengeance and the moment Scotsnet becomes a narrow minded, parochial place like the SNP HQ I'll be out of there. I'm sure it won't though.

Where's Cymrunet then? (For us Welshies!)

Babymamamama...

I have a DS with AS, so I sometimes hang about on the SN boards...which are great, parenting is parenting and the general support is amazing.

But if I have a problem concerning provision in school basically I need someone who is clued up on the Scottish system who is online at the same time as me...because while some of the English posters are amazingly knowledgable and know that there is no statementing and no SENCO in a Scottish school, they don't know the ins and outs of what replaces it. So it slowly drifts down the board unanswered.

I'd quite happily join in a chatty thread - but when someone actually needs some help, that's not really the time to be asking them about differences.