To wonder if MNers average IQ has dropped by at least 10 (if not 20) points since Penis Beaker, Jeffrey etc.

[AVirtuousLife]

It used to be a good place.

Now it's full of posters with long drawn out, multiple threads about boring banal shit.

Cheeky Neighbour thread Number 20.

My Boring Life Thread Number 100.

My Blossoming Heart Throb (who happens to be a gardener) Thread Number 90.

My Awful Life In General Thread Number 200.

And if anyone dares to challenge the OP of a multiple thread they must be a harpy or troll.

The fact that the multiple-thread-starters might be trolls themselves seems to escape the attention of the fans.

My personal opinion Madam is:-
that there is a lot more threads that are designed to hook people in and have them gasping for endless updates. These threads aren't long-running funny ones; just threads that tell ongoing stories with lots of cheerleaders and fans jumping on the bandwagon.
A lot more trolling
A lot of very annoying text speak and kisses (trivial yes but annoying nonetheless)
A larger number of bitchy posters who just drop in with nasty posts.
And I'm sure a lot more instances of people not reading the thread before they jump in with their pearls of wisdom.
That's my perception anyway.

The fact that the multiple-thread-starters might be trolls themselves seems to escape the attention of the fans.

No, it often doesn't escape out attention when new(ish) pps start silly threads, like complaining about MN users.

And wot Maryz said

It absolutely wasn't about agreeing with everyone quite the opposite actually. That's what winds me up now, if anyone dare disagree with the majority they're highlighted as being a trouble cause or even a troll.

Hmm I've just been looking at Classics and remembering the playmobile people threads- they were funny.

I do think threads can be quite nasty and judgemental on here at times.

Before I came to MN I was part of a much smaller forum which was genuinely like a community - in fact many of us are still in touch through another medium. We did have fights though! They are remembered mostly with amusement. Places do change and evolve though, if you don't have new influxes of people eventually a forum will just die with a whimper.

Well - I was on here a lot from the early days probably mid 2000's when it was all breastfeeding bunfights and sleep advice. Dipped in and out over the years, had a phase of posting a fair bit wasting far too much time on here then felt exactly the same as you OP a couple of years ago (boring, repetitive shit, trolls, pervy trolls and my personal favourite, as Maryz and others have said - people who don't RTFT and wade in with their golden nugget of advice several pages in when the tone and content has moved on way beyond the OP/the OP has admitted a reverse/the OP has agreed they were BU and taken advice etc.- it was a conversation).

As IRL there is a tendency to glorify the past, there have always been arseholes and goady fuckers and a sprinkling of self obsessed delusional stupid and of course a few bitchploppers (more prevalent now though it seems, I think that ties in with the whole don't RTFT thing though). IMO if you are on here enough you see the same old shit go on and the frustration builds - then it is time to go (a clean break advised, did me the world of good, must take my own advice!!).

However there are some lovely, supportive and interesting people if you can bear the rest and it is still a good place to come for opinion and the occasional laugh, or a reminder that things aren't so bad really. That has always been the same too. I came back recently after 18 months without even a wander about & have been way too sucked in again so another self imposed ban coming up.

Flouncers corner a good place to announce it (if you feel the need, and if it is still there!?).

Yes! Imagine putting together the perfect flounce, flouncing and then....tumbleweed (actually just went and looked at my flounce - still there, thankfully there were a few replies at the time, could easily not have been!).

I think this time (soon) I'll do a quiet shuffle off, just need to not allow my natural tendency to procrastinate take over again & the mumsnet habit creep in, arrgggghh

I periodically go cold turkey - eg when on holiday its somehow easier to quit the iPad habit and actually read a book. But then at some point come back for a specific reason, then notice an interesting title in active convos ....and the addiction sets in again.

I first came across the site maybe eight years ago when I randomly typed in a question about my son's condition. Thought it was a gold mine and was so relieved to read helpful posts, learn from people who had had similar experiences and basically learn from others. Also then found some very funny, very cleaver, very witty threads and was hooked!!

I joined and then posted a couple of times on an AIBU thread and immediately got jumped on. I tried to explain what I had meant. No good, Got attacked for being racist and sexist. Whatever I said was sneered at, deliberately misunderstood. Left the thread and the site for a while.

Came back as was really struggling with my son and there was so much useful to stuff to read, especially on the SN boards. (Didn't even know the term SN at that stage). A lot of threads were full of silly chat which unless you are part of is impossible to follow or enjoy. (Of the sort:
"You get the biscuits XX and I'll do the gin"

• "Nom Nom"

"Is YYYYY here?" "Don't know XX - probably feeding her goats - snort" " And other hairy creatures - (but not in the attic - wink)" "How was miniYYs interview by the way?"

I gave up - I stayed away. Joined again - have name changed a re-registered several times - loved the Scottish Indyref threads and some of the Brexit threads and still learn so very much here but agree that the general "piling in" is tedious.