#AD

[MintyT]

I don't know about you, but since the instamums posts I have really noticed the #AD on posts, and to be honest I had no idea I was so gullible. I loved the threads regards instamums and really think MN made a small change, well done us

@SurfingUSA

Surely the reason many posters use Mumsnet is because they don't want to discuss a particular problem with anyone they know?

At that time I wanted impartial advice, I had never used Mumsnet. Now I know what it can be like there is no way I would ask for advice on anything serious on here.

Gazelle am I being slow. You think Fence is MOD?

That's not being bullied sophia. That is discussing a person who has chosen a public persona not just for themselves but for their children and to commoditise them. I would discuss MOD with my children when they are older. As a cautionary tale of what happens when you chose to put large chunks of your life on the internet with little or no thought as to the possible outcomes. Particularly unwise when you are not resilient enough to rationalise and manage any type of adverse comment or critique of your product - your children

Lesson learned Sofia 👍🏻

I can only hope in 50 years time the twins get revenge by posting online photos of him shitting himself in an old people’s home

Not enough in the world for this @SchrodingersCaterpillar

No, fence isn't MOD!

There were 10,000 complaints to the ASA last year about online ads. Absolute nonsense to say Mumsnet users are bullying IGers they believe to be non compliant by reporting them.

www.asa.org.uk/news/online-ads-overtake-tv-ads-for-complaints-with-double-the-cases.html

@MarvelleGazelle

There definitely was very nasty comments made about the twins. I remember being appalled that anyone would sink so low as to make that kind of comment.

I also remember an interiors instagrammer's looks being discussed on here very disparagingly, a fashion blogger being bitched about re how she speaks, another instamum being accused of drink driving and posters saying they think she has a drink problem. There is just no need. None of those kind of comments have any relevance to anything. It's just hateful.

Totally agree Gobbolino. Although I think they are all pretty resilient. They strike me as annoyed to be questioned, not sad. MP is just better at PR.

Sofia please specify where MoFod have been bullied on here within the threads based on IG accounts.

It’s a serious accusation so you should offer examples.

Catepillar 🤣🤣🤣. I wish I'd be around to see that.

sofia you forgot the report to social services one too. For what? How is that constructive? I must be missing something if people think it is

@SurfingUSA

I certainly learned my lesson, however I can totally see what the insta campaign is getting at re Mumsnet not necessarily being a supportive place.

If you were a new mum with PND or just generally feeling emotional, tired etc as new mums often do and looking for a supportive place for advice coming on here could very well make you feel a million times worse. A parenting forum aimed at Mums should not be like that.

I don't recall any nasty comments about the twins at all. Only FOD's behaviour showing them crying, shivering etc.

I remember the comment about the interiors instagrammer. Someone said she looked very different in her stories than she did on her profile pic.

The Instamum accusation of drink driving was called out and retracted after other posters said that it wasn't the case. The Instamum in question had herself posted a blog about the enormous quantities of alcohol she had consumed.

I've never seen any mean comments about the twins. Only concern for them being featured so heavily.

sofia

Still waiting for those examples of bullying ...........

I don't remember any nasty comments about the twins at all sophia. That is total bullshit and you know it. In fact, quite the opposite. There was sincere concern that thay gurning eejit (AKA FOD) was putting them in harms way by prioritising setting up stupid photo ops where they were nearly tripping down stairs or balancing on work tops or running down the road

If people don't like Mumsnet then there is always Netmums or other similar places. I thought that most people who use MN like the fact that you won't get 'your baby your choice hun'ned here.

People have to ask themselves why, out of all the parenting forums past and present, Mumsnet is by far the most successful?

@HolyMountain

I disagree and feel MOD in particular was bullied. She was continuously slagged off for various things (she seemingly can do nothing right) over a period of time over a number of threads.

She herself has said she felt upset by the "slanderous" comments made about herself and her family. If a group of kids in school targeted one child like this, or a group of women in a workplace did this to a colleague it would most certainly be classed as bullying.

In fact, Sofia, you made the whole Instamum drink driving thing into a huge thing because you went on and on and on about the same instamum, rehashing the same comments over and over trying to prove your point. If I see a personal comment that oversteps the TGs I ignore it. If it was really that vile I would report it myself but I probably wouldn't even mention I had done it. You and other posters have amplified and given oxygen to comments that would have just disappeared into the background otherwise. In some ways you have created this "bullying issue" you now have a problem with.

MoFod have not been bullied on this forum and you have used that word lightly with little regard to those who have been treated abhorrently through bullying.

Some people have died by suicide because of bullying.

Sofialemon I'm sorry you and anyone else has had that experience. I've only dipped into threads, found some funny and some a bit OTT. I think the kindest advice anyone could give on here is to support people to find someone IRL to talk to. I just don't understand why anyone would seek advice from someone they may have nothing to say to in person. I have no idea who any of you are. Happy to chat about insta, but not a personal problem.