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.

What year was it they shut MN down on New Year's Eve due to only 1 poor Admin working and apparently some joke getting out of control (I was oblivious until the next day and a right hiatus was going on - always late to the party)

Karwomannghia, I announced my Flounce when several posters made very rude comments about my (then) username having the initials BJ. I was advised to shut the door on my way out.

I don't think I was missed.

I skulked back under another name a while later. 😂

You can have my small kids if you like, @GregoriaTheGreat?

It used to be properly funny. Funny threads (which have to be signalled lighthearted) are few and far between.

I regularly name change as Mumsnet doesn’t seem to take cyber security at all seriously.

I've been around since 2001. I used to use a different name.
It was much more fun in the old days. Lots of really really silly, funny posts that would make you laugh and laugh.
Now, everyone seems to be spoiling for a fight over the slightest thing.
Because it was a lot smaller, there was more of a community feel. Posters felt like friends and there was a lot of support for others.

Morningpaper did the original round ups.

I've been here since 2005 (name changed a few times) and although I was never in one of the cliques and my posts very rarely got acknowledged, it did used to be different here. There was a lot more variety in the types of threads and people were definitely more supportive and less likely to pile in on another poster. There was less troll hunting - but I suppose that may have been because there were fewer trolls. But I think people are voting with their feet anyway. Active Convos moves really slowly now.

Pag was lovely. GetOrf was probably my most favourite person to 'talk' with. So gentle and funny and down to earth.

True as pp said - when I joined (08 or 09?) there were complaints of an influx of newbs who were lowering the tone. But, I do honestly think that stuff like SPAG and weird attitudes towards victim blaming and appeasing men is definitely a new direction for this site and one that is, for the very first time for me, making me question why I bother with it. I get that the past can look lovelier than it felt but it really really wasn't like that here, which is why it became the only forum I really bothered with.

I often wonder if Hecate is still around?

People are voting with their feet, but where are they going to? I want to go there too!

Dittany is the one I really miss.
She opened my eyes to so much.
I am with Shirley though. One of the posters mentioned on this thread was pretty awful to me when I joined 10 years ago.

I hope Hecate is ok. Such a lovely woman.

GetOrf was properly funny.

I bet they've fucke off to Reddit. I often think trolling mumsnet would actually be quite enjoyable what with the influx of eejits.

I used to love mumsnet back when it had a personality

I was Tiffany back in the day

I miss FAQ and Junglist

I did enjoy some of those threads back then, they were witty and sharp. I've been here since 2006 and the moldies part was awful. The site hasn't been the same but it's evolved into something different, definitely more bs threads and ridiculous gripes but it does seem a little less viper ish and clique like. I don't really notice posters names much anymore.

Glad others are putting their heads above the parapets about the hun stuff and the more dreadful SPAG. I know it's not a formal site yadda yadda, but it's really pretty bad manners not to make at least some effort to be comprehensible.

Also agree about spoiling for a fight, particularly at night times when some of the responses are ludicrously aggressive.

I’ve lurked for a long time. Can’t remember when I joined but DD is now in double figures so it must be a while.

I miss Cognito; she taught me loads about relationships.

I also remember the thread which supported a young army wife getting away from a DV situation overseas. It was heartbreaking. MN did a collective sigh of relief when she got back. Can’t remember her name... had a horse in it (not very helpful).

But, no I don’t like the huns, xxx or whining that is everywhere now.

Xenia seems to pop up still. Think she sold the island

Stratters is another one who I liked and maryz. Think people nc more often now.

I wasn't here back when MN began, I was at school. Go on throw things at me. However it sounds like a wonderful place and I'm disappointed I missed it. I've been here a few years, but have to name change frequently, my employer has a very very strict social media policy and I just can't risk being identified.

I've just been on another thread where the OP refers to; mummy stresses, man jobs, kiddies and spells bloody with @ instead of O. I've only been a short while, but things have changed recently. I got told off a few weeks ago under a different name, for saying the OP's husband was a cunt (he was).

Hecate was witty and very kind.

Suepurblybilt was super funny, and shirleyknot.

Such a lot of humour. I think now if someone were to joke about like that they’d be accused of trying too hard or having followers. Actually they were just bloody funny and pleasant to be around on the boards.

Their our other's, two.

Reading this sentence set my teeth on edge.

I miss it!

And I've only posted since the spring!

I'm trying to settle in though.

I soak my toilet brush in my penis beaker, my Pom Bears feed six of us for two weeks (if I batch cook), I would never snap and fart (though I am one of those poor suckers that went "Hah!" when reading that; real longterm MNetters either: didn't find that funny or snorted half of Brazil's finest coffee exports nasally over their keyboards)...

I used to post on another message board.

When I started, all I read was "It was all green fields round here...".

When it finished (not my my fault!), I felt quite at home.

In five years time the Huns might be moaning about "Remember when you just had to post '❤❤xxxx' and nobody asked you to donate your kidney to them to show you cared?".

Anyone remember fabbychick?
She used to pop up at night with a completely different (bonkers) take on everything.

I wonder if it's because there's different ways to 'chat' with others now - like WhatsApp.

Back in the day I used an Irish parenting site and MN occasionally to just to have a laugh and a joke (replacement to going out and doing same before babies).

Now people can do that privately so there's fewer if posts like that her. But people are posting about problems they don't want people they know to know about.

The need to have to write "lighthearted' on a post is mental though.

Fabbychick was very unusual.

I don’t think I ever ever agreed with a single thing she said, but she was quite harmless I think.

GabbyLoggon. What was he all about???