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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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DarrellMakepeace · 02/10/2019 23:42

Stratters was great. So funny and wise. We chatted a bit in RL (by email) as she was thinking of grounding and I didn't want to lose touch.

In those days there were so many fewer posters that it was easy to bump into people you knew and have a bit of bantz.

MovinOnUp · 02/10/2019 23:43

I do miss the old MN.

AnyFucker and RealityBites were two names I remember from my Mumsnet youth.
Who was the poster who took her bikini bottoms off in the public pool? (Your Minge) That was a bloody good thread.

There seems to be a lot of nasty/aggressive bastards on here now. Back in the day you knew you ran the risk of having your arse handed to you on AIBU, But it seems to be happening on all types of threads/topics now.

BertieBotts · 02/10/2019 23:45
WannabeGilmoreGirl · 02/10/2019 23:45

I joined in 2003 and have name changed since. I loved the assertive slightly bitchy nature of the olden days.

Was once verbally barated and told to fuck off back to Netmums when I disagreed with one of the "queen bees" can't remember who... Probably Icod.

PinkGinny · 02/10/2019 23:45

Totally unreasonable. And I've been here for a long time - my eldest is 19. But never cool, enough, funny enough, nor with enough spare time to commit to constant posting or investment in the folk I don't know or possibly care enough about. I've attended meet-ups, took part in Christmas lists, Blankets for Maude, fundraising for Misdee and lots of other shit. I enjoy MN as much today as I did in 2000 - as an online forum that makes me laugh, swear and shake my head in a 'wtf' way as much as it ever did.

LimitIsUp · 02/10/2019 23:45

I've been here 17 years. I think I marginally prefer it now. The gazillions of posters and regular name changes confers relative anonymity, and you don't get that cliquey in or out crowd vibe. I remember disagreeing with a 'popular' poster and all her mates came on the thread to rip me another

Katisha · 02/10/2019 23:46

I made it into the round up once. Something to do with wrongful use of a butter dish...

Thehagonthehill · 02/10/2019 23:48

There is less fun now aibu is used for everything swamping the real aibus.

Coconutty · 02/10/2019 23:52

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Sparklingbrook · 02/10/2019 23:54
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DoingWhatWorks · 02/10/2019 23:55

Tbh it's been vicious on here for a long time. There is a lot of rose tinted glasses about old mumsnet.

AnOojamaflip · 02/10/2019 23:56

Me too *@Katisha - the very first thread I started too, I was dead pleased. It was about that serious debate of which way the toilet roll should hang. Didn't need to label the thread lighthearted posters seemed able to grasp that I wasn't really going to cast those who got it wrong into the bowels of hell.

Sparklingbrook · 02/10/2019 23:57

At least in the olden days you would know who was being horrible to you and you could avoid them.

AnOojamaflip · 03/10/2019 00:00

No doubting that @DoingWhatWorks - just seems a lot feel there's fewer funny threads about pointless things that meandered off onto other pointless like if you were a sandwich what filling would you have becoming a thread about lucky pants that become traitors.

LaMarschallin · 03/10/2019 00:01

Sorry.

Probably shouldn't still be posting on this thread. I'm not an old, well-respected poster.

Any road up. I've lurked before posting and tried to get a sense of the mores (was always a rubbish party crasher. More a party sidler).

My impression is that there's just as much wit but there is an increasing numbers of posters.

So the wit is diluted.

It's up to you lot, complaining about the lack of wit, to post more and increase the concentration.

ginrummy1 · 03/10/2019 00:10

I was just thinking this recently. My eldest is 15 and although I didn't always agree with what she said I miss Cod, probably my most memorable poster.
Also Dittany, Lulumama & SolidGoldBrass.

I actually learned a lot when I joined, now because my DC's are older I tend to stick to AIBU and chat so maybe it's me that's changed not Mumsnet

Tortoiser · 03/10/2019 00:17

I do always wonder what happened to Cogito. Always offered such sage advice and then pfft no more. Maybe namechanged. Liked many of us.

gnushoes · 03/10/2019 00:24

Zombie was lovely... to the end. Liked Bupcakes and the mad cake story. More recently, Tiny Dancer and the cheeky bride. There was a poster called Riven who had a daughter with profound and multiple needs who cracked when she was only allowed a certain number of nappies for her each day and was outed in real life. I wonder how that went? Posters seem a lot angrier now and the spag drives me nuts.

pollywobble · 03/10/2019 00:45

MN'ing was more restricted in the olden days because:
You had to Dial up to connect broadband-that noise!
Broadband was bloody slow
If anyone used the phone, the broadband went off
MN used to close down for part of the night, was it from 3?

I thought whatever I got from MN was hard won 😁, now it's almost too easy

It was also the only social media site I was a member of (apart from Friends Reunited but they had a 24hr+ response time to posts ) so it was quite exciting-unlike today when we are awash with chat sites with instant responses.

BertrandRussell · 03/10/2019 00:54

The poster I miss is OneBatMother. I keep on hoping she’ll pop up one day. And Rindercella, whose husband died. I hope she’s OK.

managedmis · 03/10/2019 01:41

I've been here since 2013 (when pregnant with DS, a pp mentioned it coincides with their having little uns too) and there's definitely been a decline in wit and wisdom.

What drives me potty is people using commas instead of spades, so all the text is super close together.
Wtaf

managedmis · 03/10/2019 01:45

MN used to close down for part of the night, was it from 3?

^^

What?! When was this?

100PercentThatBitch · 03/10/2019 02:04

I'm a frequent NCer and was a lurker a good six years before I joined.

I've just come back from a hiatus of only about 4 months but it feels like SO many threads

I read the OP and think "Bollocks this happened, no one that really happened to would phrase it like a creative writing project and yet so many fall for it"

There's also a poster who posts quite a lot who though she is at least consistent with her story I genuinely think is full of shit/fantasist/attention seeking

There was another tonight that stank of journo baiting for article rather than a genuine woman posting - again turns of phrase

I think I might be the curse, as I mark the downturn as beginning when I joined Blush I was among the early crop of folks who had random threads lifted by the DM, as it became a regular thing mine was trivial thankfully

GrumpiestCat · 03/10/2019 02:08

Who was the posh but nice one beginning with X? Xenia? Had millions, lived an amazing affluent life but would pile in on a post about dog poo or receipts or whatever.

GrumpiestCat · 03/10/2019 02:12

I think Xenia and LeQueen are melding in my memory. I've been around since 2010 or earlier. A looot of name changes but I'm inconsequential so no one's missed owt Grin