To mourn MN as it was in the Moulden Days

[GregoriaTheGreat]

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.

Oh lord I gave a high chair to nicolamumof3, I hope she is around still.

Habs! Yours was one of the names I was trying to remember !

This is like a particularly shit episode of loose women.

Hahahah.

Hey, onebat! So nice to talk to you again.

It’s was great it was like being Mumsnet bilingual as you flitted betwixt the two

Betwixt, like whilst, are words that make me shudder Honeydragon. I'd use 'swanky', but only in an ironic way like 'frock' or 'slacks'.

@BIWI I've read the thread up until you said to just RTFT, but the Moldies thing is only vaguely alluded too.

What actually did they do?

RightYesButNo Fri 04-Oct-19 08:28:37

YY to your post. I was on that thread. Gobsmacked isn't the word.

Moldies - a few long time posters decided that MN had become too different (oh the irony!) and created a breakaway group. They only invited people they liked and wanted in the group, and they blackballed others.

One poster whose name consistently eludes me brought this up on MN and all hell broke loose, especially when it became apparent that some people had been blackballed. Particularly hurtful was the situation between 2 posters, Rhubarb and Custard, one of whom was invited in and the other of whom was blackballed - they were good friends so this was very poor show.

Threads ran and ran - in fact, MNHQ allowed them to go beyond 1000 posts so that people could air their grievances about it in one place and not create 100s of threads instead.

It was all very divisive and created lots of hurt.

ReadyPayerTwo - I explained Moldies up the thread - Thursday at 12ish. Someone else did too later.

There were threads and threads and threads about it. As Thumb says it was v poor show. Custy was blackballed by people she had had stay at her house. Lots of people were very hurt. Lots were annoyed. Lots said it’s all silly and just words on a screen. It happened over Christmas. It was huge at the time.

I think it was Justine who let the cat out of the bag. They asked her to join. Which was nice of them. Basically we think your forum has gone a bit shit so we’ve set up our own group and would you like to join?

I’ve only been on for 7 years or so and agree it is a lot more aggressive - thread last night about eavesdropping on a conversation on a train, about six posts in the OP was insulted for doing this.
Incidentally, I rarely post but love threads like this, I too miss posters who I used to read. I’m relatively new still but I love the sense of friendship I get from these threads, I can’t understand why people read them if they don’t like them, I often get a few posts in on threads and think CBA and move on. Maybe in the past it wasn’t a fluffy inclusive place for everyone, but that doesn’t mean that people who were in the in crowd shouldn’t catch up with their friends now (hands round tea, coffee and biscuits and awaits arse on a plate for daring to speak )

I don’t think I’ve ever seen loads of huns etc where are they? A friend started texting me hun and xxx as punctuation and I felt so mean And unreasonable cringing until I saw it articulated on here. But I always thought it was just nethuns not in here too because you’d get shouted at. Is it just in pushchairs?

The massive bust-up on the pram thread one night was fucking comedy gold - all these pram enthusiasts ripping into each other and STILL ending every post with "hun", "babes", "xxxxxx"

Actual PRAMHUNS ❤️

Posters are a lot more aggressive. They are also a lot more whiney and take offence to everything. Take it down a notch love.

That's an Internet phenomenon, not just MN.

How long did moldies last?
I’d be shocked if it’s still going - although if it is, I imagine it to be like a posh version of Reddit with everyone just talking about the posters on mumsnet.

i wonder if it is still going. I remember a local meet up, a mouldie came and for some reason she and another person had a row at the bus stop!
next day we all got nasty posts on fb from mouldies. was all very odd.

Which posters were the mouldies? Is it something never to be mentioned?

I have a lovely, close friend who is freakishly intelligent yet she often calls me Hun and finishes her messages with "Xx".

I Hun her right back.

It's weird seeing it on MN, though.

Oof, I think any mention of their names is a quick way to lose a thread, Sauce.

How are the lederhosen?

Ah ok Glenda. I just thought after all this time and the fact that it might have died a death it would be ok.

It was Twiglett who was the primary mover, along with LittleLapin who did their tech.

Who was the poster who had threads on eating 10 a day and as I recall could be slightly evangelical about it?
Then there was one poster who very kindly made it her mission to bump messages that had not been replied too. Is that even a highlighted thing anymore?

Thanks Biwi. That doesn’t actually surprise me.

Slightly I can't remember what I did five minutes ago but I remember that, albeit vaguely I think was Franny and Zooy(?) And puzzlerocks?

I do find it a bit odd that people are interested about it after all this time. If you were there you know about it and who the posters were, if you weren't there then the names will be meaningless as they left.