To ask is there an alternative to mumsnet out there for people who...

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Do not think smearing a soiled nappy on a car is a good idea, or mixing cat poo with milk and pouring it into airvents to get rid of problem parkers, etc etc. It's all gone a bit bizarre round here, and I used to read mn for sane, diverse, funny, wise intelligent opinion. Now my eyes bulge at the majority of posts / advice - people are aggressive and humourless far more often than wise, funny or kind. I'm hoping responses to this thread won't attract too many of those...

Has penis beaker ruined it for us long term posters?

If anyone can direct me to where all the old posters have gone I'd love to know

Aww, Pag I am so glad you are still here.

What about if MNHQ did this....

Start a new 'General Chat' topic, where name changing is not allowed? So to post in that section, you choose a different name (much like in Mumsnet local). But you have to stick to that name only.

That way, in that section at least, there would be less arses/goady fuckers/Billy bullshitters and drama llamas, hiding behind name changes.

People will become 'regulars' again (in that section at least) and when you go there to chat, you'll at least 'recognise' other people.

OK I'm sure there are 1 million reasons why this is a stupid idea/impossible to set up, but can anyone think of them?

Brilliant worra

Worra that's a great idea. Can we also make it so that people have to be registered for 3/6 months first before they have access to that board?

Yup Maryz - it's unusual to see an apology.

Equally, I apologised when I hadn't understood the ops rather confusing thread but she just ignored that and did a load of 'I feel sorry for your children' retorts.
Arsehole.

I'm not witty or intelligent, & I don't really like to think very hard, so the new mumsnet is great for me.
But MN is still very twee compared to most of the Internet.

Nah but def exotic Hully. Obvs.

I like that idea Worra.

Yeah that might be a good idea Queenbean, to stop PBPs turning up with pitch forks

Love that Worra.

Name changing is obviously popular for good reasons but it is a licence to twattery.

Worra Could work.
While I know a lot of NC is for nefarious purposes, for me it's because I worry about google.
I would feel very much happier if pretty much everything on here was deleted after a reasonable time.

It's neither a pub or Starbucks, it's a masked ball.

The emojis have mucked up any semblance of 'clean' on MN. Brought in by stealth, we were asked what we thought. Most said no. They are thinking about it over Christmas apparently. They will stay obviously.

then they could go back on to the general boards mary, like anyone that doesn't like any topic...

Feck em' Maryz someone will always moan about something

I'm in on worra's idea - would make a massive difference

Also, if anyone posts there with the sole intention of having a pop at the regs, HQ can just ban them from that topic.