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To mourn MN as it was in the Moulden Days

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GregoriaTheGreat · 02/10/2019 21:59

Admittedly, it was not perfect (full of quiches and Queen Bees). So much so that I gave it a rest for a considerable while. I may even have Flounced at some point (though was not a Mouldie. I would never have been cool enough).

But I now mourn the Olden Days when nobody had to bother with "lighthearted" when a thread was evidently lighthearted. Nobody took everything quite so seriously, even when they would have good reason to.

Posters generally had a decent command of spelling and grammar, too.

Maybe I'm just old and need to take up knitting or something.

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Fiderer · 04/10/2019 13:19

I miss the IPOAT threads as well. They really were great fun. Remember wondering if I could join in and being told by Hully, in so many words and a bit bemused in tone, don't be daft, course you can.

Have also always waved to anyone I haven't seen in ages.

Hullygully · 04/10/2019 13:22

FID!!!!!

How the very damned devil are you?

Hullygully · 04/10/2019 13:23

Remember wondering if I could join in and being told by Hully, in so many words and a bit bemused in tone, don't be daft, course you can.

That can't have been me. I leave everyone out hahahahahaha

FlamingNeedle · 04/10/2019 13:24

I was an early MNer under a different name. Anyone who says it wasn’t cliquey or horrendously bitchy at times must be mad. But it was also funny and sharp and invaluable to me as a new mum.

I left because one particular poster seemed to take a dislike to me and showed it. She was popular on here and revelled in it, saying what she liked with little thought for the actual human being she was directing the nasty comments to. High and mighty, snobbish, dismissive and just a general nasty sort for no good reason I could see other than to show off. Still like that, from what I have heard

Bedsidedrawer · 04/10/2019 13:27

Some said posters got banned! Shows they weren't exactly behaving like angels!

MargoLovebutter · 04/10/2019 13:29

I think it depends how you use it though @FlamingNeedle. I'm still not really sure what the IPOAT threads were about and I don't get the thigh ones either. I tend to use it as an exchange of information / help etc, so I think a lot of the cliquey / bitchy stuff has always passed me by.

Bedsidedrawer · 04/10/2019 13:29

It's human nature. You get bullying, nastiness, arrogance everywhere. Why would it be different here?

Bedsidedrawer · 04/10/2019 13:31

Yes I think if you're using it in a more detached way, this stuff can pass you by.
I was a bit vulnerable back then and got sucked in.
Now I couldn't give a shit, I'm a completely different person. My kids have grown a bit, I'm over 40 etc

Fiderer · 04/10/2019 13:35

Hully, very well thanks!

The IPOAT threads were a lot of fun daft nonsense. Great to be involved in and nothing more, certainly nothing cliquey. If you liked fun daft nonsense you could join in.

Hullygully · 04/10/2019 13:41

Yes, there was a lot of dancing on the ipoat threads. Dancing when the regiment was in town. Mme Defarge and Umami. What fun we had.

Bedsidedrawer · 04/10/2019 13:42

Getting ignored wasn't the issue (so many posters, you would have to be a very regular poster to know folk I get that). It was starting an innocent thread and certain posters piling in to take the piss or turn it nasty. No need.
I haven't thought about it for years, I name change regularly now and use the site differently. But when I saw this thread couldn't resist putting my opinion in!

Hullygully · 04/10/2019 13:44

bedside, you should have come to us in your crinoline. Many did, but they couldn't stay the course. It was all go.

PablosHoney · 04/10/2019 13:44

I don't have a clue what IPOAT stands for either. What happened to the poster who used SP in her user name, I remember that someone she knew pretended to be her and posted that her toddler had died Shock I always liked her too.

Waspnest · 04/10/2019 13:47

Yes I think if you're using it in a more detached way, this stuff can pass you by.

This

In the early days I was in a breastfeeding/blw bubble and the people on those boards were generally lovely. I know Tiktok appears sometimes but is Aitch still around?

Hullygully · 04/10/2019 13:47

IPOAT was insane people on a thread, as named by (then Serenity)

nibdedibble · 04/10/2019 13:48

Aw, wnaky baskets! And Soupy the bat! Does anyone remember two posters who had an affair and it all went tits up and there was a thread that ran into the small hours, castigating them in haiku? On reflection it shouldn't have been funny but they were such arseholes and it really was.

It's not nastier now by any means, but really in 2004/5/6 it was pretty funny most of the time, and I guess the huge number of posters and the totally changed internet etiquette has had an effect. Whatever.

It was an important part of my life back then (now I just pop in occasionally) and some of the posters became firm friends who I still see and I think I've even forgotten they were internet friends first.

BertrandRussell · 04/10/2019 13:56

I still make wnacky baskets! I made one last week for a god child.

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 04/10/2019 13:56

Ooo.
I was a wolef.
The embarrassment is that I can't remember why it started, or why the extra e was included.
Bloody old age! Blush

I was also a Twilight Zoner, well before that stupid Twilight vampire series started - but that dwindled away. Am still FB friends with some of the Zoners, and also Wolefs.

nibdedibble · 04/10/2019 14:01

The wolef fleeces....I wasn't around much then but it stuck in my mind. Saw one in the street the other day and chuckled inwardly. :D

BIWI · 04/10/2019 14:09

Ah yes, the haikus! There was a fantastic series of threads about Gerry - someone from an ad agency whose campaign we managed to get taken down because it was so sexist. Morningpaper was brilliant on that thread I seem to remember. And it was funny, witty and clever too.

iBiscuit · 04/10/2019 14:09

Just did a little search on my old usernames and uncovered a bunch of child related worries and troubles that I'd completely forgotten I'd ever had.

There's a lesson in there somewhere for those still going through the childrearing thing .

Hullygully · 04/10/2019 14:12

yy the haikus

And the poems on another thread with some arse called Gary(?)

FizzyGreenWater · 04/10/2019 14:12

Tony's dolls Shock

Was it Tony? Maybe I've got the name wrong.

Why did that just pop into my head!

gingersausage · 04/10/2019 14:12

@Hullygully there seems to be a conflation developing between what some people are saying happened (off board brigading and troop gathering) and what you are talking about (long running daft threads, fun stuff, friendship groups). The clique threads with the funny names were never an issue (in my opinion anyway) because I didn’t use MN in that way. I came here for advice and interesting things to read.

Obviously if you haven’t got a clue about the former then that’s great, but denying it happened because you haven’t got a clue it did is a bit weird.

Like a PP (I’ve forgotten who it was now 🤦‍♀️) I used to have an encyclopaedic memory, but serious illness and other issues have buggered that up and names are my nemesis now. I just remember the sheer aggravation of trying to speak only to be spoken over. Not just me (I didn’t post often enough to care) but countless clever, caring, compassionate people whose “face” just didn’t fit for some reason. It was bullying, plain and simple and for some reason, there seemed to be no incentive to put a stop to it.

Hullygully · 04/10/2019 14:14

ginger you are clearly hurting

I really seriously suggest letting it all go and embracing peace

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