To wonder why people insist on posting about 'MN Royalty'?

[BIWI]

Because it's always an insult.

But no-one is ever named.

If you do it, what do you mean? Why do you do it?

Does it ever cross your mind that long-standing, non-name-changing posters might be very hurt by your accusations?

If you're going to do it, have the courage of your convictions and name names.

.Oh, I thought Pag hadn't been able to change back from Capprinnnnnnhhhaaaaaaa, I've seen her around (I think)

It might have started of with the intention of asking posters not to be unpleasant but very shortly turns into who is everyone's favourite poster.

And ftr have been accused of being Royality under my previous name.

Sounds a bit like DS2's school Maryz they have positive and negative 'Sims' and a total average at the end.

I like mumsnet but having read this thread (and not understanding most of it) I think some folk are too over-invested in this site in a pretty worrying way.

I've always said that when calculating deletions/bans/misbehaviour, mnhq should take a poster's total posts, add up the helpful, supportive, funny ones and subtract the ones they don't like, thus leaving a positive or negative number. Someone like AF would come out in the thousands of positives.

Yeah but 'helpful, supportive, funny, positive' are all quite subjective measures aren't they?

BIWI

The only real Royal member of MN is/was Scottishmummy. Her legacy will live on. 👑

I clicked post message before I could say trust nae fucker in creepy wee brackets!

Pag is still stuck in Cap-land though she had asked MNHQ to re-instate her, so to say. There is a v similar name but 'tis not her.

Like Maryz's counter idea. And miss Talc. Though lord knows what she'd make of the new-fangled emoticons.

Sometimes when you AS a 'snippy' they have never ventured out of AIBU but have gone from thread to thread in it posting one snippy line and never returning. What's the point of that?

My AS is aibu all the way because I don't browse topics I dip into active conversations..I don't engage on mumsnet.
I stopped giving advice when I stopped breastfeeding, my life's too messy to imagine I have all the answers. But I learn a lot and laugh a lot, that suits me.

I miss len (and all her various permutations). She is one of the nicest, most considered posters I've ever come across. That's not bum-licking, it's fact

Fortunately she's on Twitter

I never browse by topic. I have ten topics not hidden but Chat is probably the best one to look at. AIBU can be a bit

I really hate the term MN Royalty.

To me it either implies an insult to a well known poster or is placing that poster on a pedestal as someone who always speaks sense and anyone who disagrees with them is a fool.

I like Aibu and to read a direct question and then post a one post answer and not post again. Sometimes I just don't have time for a chat and want that kind of mning. I like seeing all the different opinions too and I often post asking a question I just want a broad variety of answers to. I don't think I'm snippy tho. I try not to be anyway.

I do like chatting if I have the time - so evenings and weekends will see me rambling on about nonsense. But weekdays day time, when I just want a quick break and to think about something else for a few minutes will see a few quick posts in aibu.

I found mumsnet in 2005 in the throes of bereavement,peri-natal depression and insomnia,in the early hours there were a bunch of funny,clever people who distracted me.
In my over emotional state I made the mistake of engaging (madeleine mccann topics anyone?) and got flamed. Now I just dip in every now and again and try not to take stuff too personally.
Sometimes I think we are so conditioned by tv drama we think we are one persuasive phrase away from changing the world. The rest of the time I just need those funny,clever people to distract me again. (Seems to work with my dc too)

I don't think the favourite Mnet posts are the end of the world, or worth all the fuss people make of them, I think because of the usernames and the lighter side of the site people tend to see posters as characters, rather than persons.

Then again I don't think most of the things people moan about the site ate really that bad, snidey folk are snidey folk wherever they are and unlike RL at least on here you have the option to merrily ignore them.

Agree, HoneyDragon, snidey folk can be ignored on MN unlike in RL. They are less inhibited than they are in RL though. Wonder how many brave "mn royalty" attackers would talk like this to the most popular/ longstanding/ active people among their friends, colleagues or at the schoolgate.

Anybody who thinks prolific or longstanding posters have priviledges you'd like: join them! Easily done, just give a lot of measured advice, take the time to read and respond to people's problems, engage in some banter and don't change name.