in thinking that just because you have been on mn for ever

[Samcro]

that doesn't make you a bad person.
MN for as long as I have been on here has had a oldie v newbie thing going
who really cares. some people post a lot, some don't.
but if you do post a lot (cos like me you might be stuck in a shite carer role) and you make "friends" with people on mn....you get slated.
all this royalty/oldie stuff is a yawn feast.... but in the 10 years I have been one here.....it still goes on.
isn't it time we all moved on?

HoneyDragon, I know what you mean about people's attitudes being different depending on your name. Certain posters don't like me under this name and will NEVER agree with me on a thread even if we have the same opinion on something. If I post under a different name they will happily agree with me - even though my opinions are the same. I think people can pre-judge your post and read it in a certain 'tone' if they've decided they don't like you on another thread. I guess that's one thing that frequent name changers can avoid.

Been here for 7 years under various names. I enjoy the freedom MN provides. This is the Internet not your workplace or babygroup. Trust nae fucker as SM would say.

Why do you return to the name that certain people argue with bumbley. If people treat you better with other names you use?

Nobody ever agrees with me.

Can't say I've noticed anything like that tbh.
There are posters who are on here an awful lot & seem to post on almost every thread in chat/Aibu - nothing wrong with that, I just assume they're seriously bored/lonely/isolated maybe?
I don't think it's a length of time thing, more a volume of posts that separate people.
What I'm saying is, there could be an 'oldie' who only posts twice a week & no one really remembers, or you can have a 'newbie' who posts 100 times a week so is much more 'known'

I don't know why people say posters must be bored or lonely/isolated to post on MN a lot.
Presumably they just enjoy posting on MN?

That's true, exit

Posting on MN might be their main hobby. Depends how much time a person has to spend on it I suppose

I post a lot to avoid doing any work.

True fact

I do work for myself though so I am not cheating anyone

I am neither bored nor lonely.

You can post from pretty much anywhere throughout the day. Doesn't mean you are all lonely and sad sat in your house crying into your cuppa.

I don't agree that no one agrees with you, Exit. And I'll argue it until my dying breath.

Or until I get distracted by something shiny.

Right you lot can sod off. I'm off out to walk bastardspaniel and muck out the self-harming horse.

See - I do have a life................

I don't namechange, well, I suppose I do, but always something EveDallas related. I do have one other name that I use very rarely if I want completely anonymous and impartial advice/views as I have a few MNers on my FB (who I luffs to bits) and I don't want them to realise what a loon I really am .

I like knowing people, I like the warm feeling I get when I know I am talking to a friend. I like knowing who I can take the piss out of, who might be struggling and need a little tlc, who I can ask for specific advice, who always makes me smile, and sometimes even who I need to avoid .

There is nothing wrong with being 'known', being a 'regular' or being prolific. MN has enough room for everyone. I agree with Samcro, it really is time we moved on from this.

I find it odd that on a regular basis someone will start thread along the lines of Mumsnet isn't like it was in the good old days.... Makes everyone who joined in last 5y or so feel that they are sub level members!

Bumbley. I wasn't picked on because of anything I had posted. I was solely and only because I was a "regular" that I was singled out and "discussed" .... I found it pathetic to be honest and it cost that poster more than it cost me.

(I did do the shortest flounce ever in history though. I flounced, it did not consider how many people knew me in RL on other places though. I was told not to be a sulky dickface and come back .... That was at the start of all the goady fuckery and regular bashing though. Now it's so common place I don't give a toss. I will leave when I want to and name change when I want to and post whatever I fucking want to; I'm not going to be got rid of via the power of snark.)

Akire nostalgia isn't intended to ostracise .... One of my biggest moans is that it is tough joining here now, it didn't used to be, people arrived and just piled in. Threads ran longer as well which meant you got a tone for certain posters who you'd gravitate to.

Now, because the no facility on here makes it party palace central for trolls and stirry pbps, our new members can be treated like crap. Because people can get away with it. It's not the new posters that are making Mnet "worse" it's the people who sign up purely to pick on members of a site they perceive as something very different to what it is in reality.

Speak for yourself sparkling.

Apologies to anyone genuinely crying into their cuppas. Maybe it is time for a new hobby.

Sparkling, because I don't really care if people agree with me or not. I think it says more about them than me if they pre-judge a post by my username rather than what I've written. There are some people who drive me bonkers on certain threads but if I come across them on a different thread and agree with something they've said then I'll say so. I don't understand why people bear grudges against randomers on the internet. Life is too short for that sort of nonsense.

That was a bit silly HoneyDragon. Her loss though!

Oh ok bumbley. It's just that if I had a few names to choose from and one of them meant people agreed with me I would stick with it TBH.

Are you sure you don't care if people agree with you or not though?

oh don't change sparkling....your name is so cheerful

I don't understand cross board grudges either I have seen a posters past posts been brought up its daft

If I did Samcro I would have to hide all the TIO and start again. I did do it for a month or so post Jeff reasonably successfully and do think about it. Like last week when I got the weird PM etc.