to be sick to the fekking back teeth of newbies complaining about Mumsnet?

[bibbitybobbityyhat]

I'm not, am I?

If you don't know what dh/ds/dd means, browse a bit and read a bit until you do.

If you don't know how to add smileys or links, explore a bit further on the site, until you do.

If you think everyone is horrible - go back to wherever you bloody came from!

I'm getting a bit fed up of complainers about complainers. Oh those good old days when everyone was nice and agreed about everything and all the folk that disagreed went somewhere else. Not that I remember that but still. I don't mind people asking for explanations. Makes me feel clever if I know. Which isn't often.

Well Bibbity, you wouldn't be saying that if they were tap tap tapping at your window.

Newbs are great. People who come on and tell the mummies off for not being cupcake munching huns fucks me off.

There's a deluge of them Vivienne! I'm barely on Mumsnet these days, but every single time I log on there's another "Ooooooh why is everyone so mean and nasty?" thread in active convos.

I like new people, new opinions and new discussions. I think we've had an influx from the glittery place. I'm sure there are plenty of lovely people on the glittery place but we seem to have gathered the annoying pearl clutchy "don't swear, you rude mummies!" variety.

People who come on and tell the mummies off for not being cupcake munching huns fucks me off

It's insightful gems like this that makes mn oh so worthwhile though.

DS was born on MN (never occurred to me to look at site until I was up al night with a hungrey baby & needed sanity & a good cackle) my chin hit the floor few times with the posts/swearing err and wise words but makes me laugh sooo much
(just to add if don't like don't post & expect roses in response)

I dislike reasonable people who after being told yabu accept it. I secretly like reading other people's answers

I had a work colleague like that once. Arrived bright eyed and bushy tailed, announced what we are doing wrong. Kept quibbling about everything we did and always told us how much better we'd do if only... Never got much work done in her haste to improve us. She didn't last long .

Been here for years but have to NC all the time because I keep outing myself, I think this is a bit ironic really. A thread whinging about people who make whingey threads?

YANBU with the acronyms and smileys as there's decided sections for it but YABU to assume people should leave if they don't like the nastiness, surely this should be a place where people don't treat each other like shit However not all MN users should be tarred with the same brush by newbies, many here are fantastically supportive just some people don't like to be told they ABU I suppose.

I'm top whinge though Many people come here to vent when they can't in real life or FB

Oh and YANBU swearing is fantastic the Internet is a sweary place I'm afraid lol

I've been here 11 years. 11 years!!!!

I remember in about 2007 when there was an influx of newbies, and all the oldies complained and complained. It was hard to find people whose names you recognised and no one knew anyone. And some of the newbies complained about swearing, and wanted tickers like Netmums had, and more colours to make the site pretty, and.......

Anyway, what I'm saying is that there's always a bit of a bump when a load of newbies start jumping up and down, and then eventually MNHQ change something a little bit, and everyone complains and then a bit later we all get used to it and the newbies either stay and are assimilated or they go elsewhere.

And we keep fucking swearing through it all.

And so shall it be.

(It does get a bit tedious reading the same complaints time after time after time.)

YANBU - however after 7 years I only recently learned that STBXH didnt stand for
stupid twat bastard ex husband
Bowled over I was. Bowled over

Your version might just catch on, FeralBeryl.

Bibbers, do you need Zombie to carry out an intervention?

I am not sure what is more tiresome prudish and bossy newbies or the old farts who seem to regard Mumsnet as as their own gentlewoman's club crossed with the fourth emergency service.

Their bleats of how it was so much better when they first started posting on here, complaining that 'x or y is a reminder of why I don't post here much anymore' or something moderately amusing 'reminds me of what Mumsnet used to be like'. If you don't like it anymore, bore off somewhere else. It isn't mandatory to read or post on here.

In fact, it is only those of us who have been here an intermediate amount of time that should be allowed to post.

Proud to be an intermediate poster!

The wit and humour and intelligent madness is harder to find nowadays though. Probably because it's much much bigger.

Also I used to win competitions occasionally (nothing major but still nice) and review books etc - never happens now. Guess the odds decreased dramatically as mn grew.

Intermediate here too.

I've been on a couple of years it it was only six months ago that I found out you could highlight the OPs posts in one colour and yours another and I still don't know how to link. I did learn most of the abbreviations though.
I'm going to hide behind the sofa in case you all shout at me.

you can just copy and paste links now.

I'm new but have been an MN fan for a few years. Surely newbies like me have an idea what this place is like before they joined? I fucking love it here

YABU. Joining a site then starting threads complaining about it is a bit .

I have been here 5 years nearly so I think I have earned my moaning rights by now.

Sorry YANBU. Autocorrect is arguing with me!

I lurked on MN for close to a year before I first posted. AIBU scared the shit out of me. I've lurked on many forums over the years, posted on a few. MN is the only one I've stuck around on. Because although there are some posts (and posters) that make me want to throw my keyboard, in general I love the place.

I don't understand one tiny bit why someone would sign up to a forum purely to complain about said forum and it's users. What's the actual point? There are hundreds and hundreds of forums out there. If you don't like one, move along.

I do get confused with the acronyms sometimes though. Some of them I'm sure posters just make up as they go along. Purely to confuse me, obvs.

It's not only God that doesn't like all the swearing. I don't either. It makes the poster sound rough and illiterate.