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

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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.

I have a soft spot for LaQ. She was on a thread, the TV "The White Queen" about which I knew nothing but got hooked, from Edward IV to Richard III.

Tosh the series may have been but I enjoyed it & she & others recommended books & I got interested & then there was Wolf Hall & BOF's podcast recommendations.

When I very first registered I posted on a thread about food and I said how much more than me dp ate, being a guy that he was bigger

A poster who has been mentioned on here as being "royalty" / truly fabulous or whatever took me to task and said that I was sexist in my view. I have always thought she was an utter dick since.

Goodness Queenbean you sound as if you don't cope with people disagreeing with you very well . No wonder people name change.

Surely the benefit of any thread is hearing different viewpoints. IME there is often sexism in people's attitudes to what is acceptable for men or women to eat.

My favourite posters are the ones who plod patiently on threads for years, helping people, giving advice and not being nasty, sarcastic or demanding attention. There are lots like this on some of the niche threads.

Jeremys I totally agree. There are a lot of unsung heros on MN. Adoption, teenagers, the SN boards etc. Abusive relationships. Bereavement. Many of the health/medical threads. It's very humbling to see how much some posters give.

Yy. A poster on SN helped me more than she will ever know one night. Very, very grateful.

I'm very late to the party but I used it very recently and I promise I meant well known, prolific posters, nothing snidey or pa at all. I'm now very that it may have been interpreted that way.
I'll try not to use it again.

I'm always flattered when people refer to 'mumsnet royalty'... It's touching when others recognise ones tireless contributions and ever wise counsel on here. It's so very humbling. Sometimes the 'little people' seem to use the phrase without enough deference though, but I think as the 'voices of reason', the royal ones amongst us need to show them a little pity rather than expressing annoyance... Many have had such awful lives - some of them are even from the working classes, who don't know their au pair from their aubergine!

Being a republican I can't get on board with this royalty nonsense, they should be labelled A-listers, B-listers & Z-listers.

SilverBirch ha ha ha. No, truly that isn't the case. I think it was a thread about recipes or healthy eating or something - not one that is particularly confrontational. She came back time after time to pick up on this tiny thing, derailed the thread and eventually I left the thread. I'm not bitter - have just inwardly have blacklisted her name!

thread. When I finally got it together and posted something, I got a PM asking whether I had name-changed and was I really xxxx.*

Something similar happened to me when I went under a different username. I had stopped posting for a few months (for reasons too tedious to explain here) but was still lurking, when one of those whatever happened to posters from the days yore threads popped up.

My fragile ego was boosted when I discovered someone asking what had happened to me and whether I was still posting. Another poster stated with great certainty that I was still here under a variety of new names because my posing style was so distinctive.

• I'd posted nothing for months.