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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.

OP posts:
longwayoff · 03/10/2019 07:25

Referred to Priti Patel as a grasping hag yesterday. Seemed fair enough to me but deleted. So I expect this will follow. 👋 irritating.

HarissaPaste · 03/10/2019 07:43

At least one of the posters fondly remembered on this thread was a huge bully on here. Mean girls had nothing on her and her retinue.

Still holding court on another social media site, she hasn’t changed much, just deletes her poisonous posts when they don’t go down too well. Still ultra vain, full of her own marvellousness and still looking down on everyone.

An out-and-out arsehole.

scaryteacher · 03/10/2019 07:46

Cod made me laugh, and I miss Riven and Little Lapin. There was also a poster who wrote fan fic iirc about the Doctor and Rose.

singswithitsfingers · 03/10/2019 07:53

What was the Mouldies/Moldies thing? (I have only been on here about a year). Sorry - just curious

Cocolapew · 03/10/2019 07:56

It's just got so much bigger I think, more chance to miss any funny threads, and not getting to 'know' posters.
I've been here way before mouldies and imo old MN could be very cliquey and bitchy. Some posters were outright horrible. The majority were lovely though.

ChickenyChick · 03/10/2019 07:57

HarrissaPasts, i remember certain very prolific posters who really held court and boasted non stop about their fabulousness

Names with Q and X

Found it very entertaining Grin

BrokenWing · 03/10/2019 07:59

We should also remember that those of us here since whenever (2004 in my case) are a whole generation older than many youngish posters finding themselves here pregnant for the first time.

This is so true. I also joined in 2004 when I had ds in my mid 30s.

Huns, babe, hubbie, kiddes, Xx etc are the language of a fake twee generation raised on social media and smart phones. I wince every time I see it, and regularly scroll past without reading if my eye catches an Xx at the end of a post. I accept this is my issue and they probably don't want to hear a straight forward, xx lacking, response from me either!

My pet hate in MN at the moment is when posters do give straight forward robust responses to an OP there are two many posters who using phrases such as "only on MN", "you are getting a hard time", ignore the advice of ALL the other posters on the thread, with hard to hear but genuine advice, and listen to me as I care xx (

LisaSimpsonsbff · 03/10/2019 08:02

There have been a few incidents over the years that have compromised user’s privacy. I think it wasn’t necessarily a bad thing to reign in some posters who totally lived their lives on here, Pagwatch, GetOrf, NatashaBee, Vicarinatutut (how old do I look in this photo?) Etc. Yes there were fewer users, but who puts details of their whole lives all over the Internet? Even back in those days?

People still put too much on, probably me included. I'm reasonably certain someone who knew me could identify me, and I probably should be more mindful of that. The other day I was idly looking at the Freshers thread in Higher Education because I work for a university and found it interesting to see a parents' perspective, but then realised from just a few details that one poster's DS was going to study in the department I worked at until last year. If I still worked there then I'm certain she'd said enough that I'd have known who he was, which is quite scary because it's not even him doing the sharing...

NoSauce · 03/10/2019 08:04

There is no doubt that some posters were mean but it’s not really about that, it was interesting, fun and entertaining.

Now every other thread is

My MIL is evil
My DH is lazy
Is this a line?
MN is SO nasty

Along with the hubby, hun and xxxxx of course.

BertrandRussell · 03/10/2019 08:04

If I thought about it for a bit I could still be vaguely upset about being blackballed by the Moldies. Which is extraordinarily tragic.....

dirtyrottenscoundrel · 03/10/2019 08:06

blackballed by the Moldies

Sounds painful.

Is moldies still going?

BertrandRussell · 03/10/2019 08:08

No idea- I was blackballedGrinI presume so because some always reappear for threads like this.

dirtyrottenscoundrel · 03/10/2019 08:08
Grin
BertrandRussell · 03/10/2019 08:11

Rich Woman Wears Expensive Frock.
Hold the front page!

And I do hope all the posters saying M and H should have been more understanding and accommodating to her family apply the same tolerance whenever they post on the Mumsnet relationship board!

WeBuiltCisCityOnSexistRoles · 03/10/2019 08:13

All this can be summed up by the fact CAT ME YOU CUNT is now have PMed you hun (usually by some extraordinarily gullible fucker who shouldn't be allowed on the internet, let alone reading a thread reminiscent of a Channel 5 daytime film called "But Who Will Feed My Sixteen Children?")

icelollycraving · 03/10/2019 08:14

I do miss the old mn. I could lose myself for hours, people would argue but with a bit of humour and wit. Ops wouldn’t get deleted because they didn’t hear what they wanted. The site has evolved into a bigger machine.
I used to recognise a lot of people’s usernames, I did used to hate the who is your favourite mner threads because some people would get a bit upset.
Ah Scottish mummy and her creepy wee brackets, Chaos’ shit phone, and Fabbychic’s brutal replies Grin

BertrandRussell · 03/10/2019 08:14

Oops- wrong thread!

TheCanterburyWhales · 03/10/2019 08:18

At least the dreadful Christmas present thing has stopped. Mates all nominating each other, people complaining about the size of their gift, people complaining about not being nominated, people asking (and getting) info from HQ about their recipient's situation, people going from private school educated kids and a company director husband to scraping mould off the marge and moving the cushion covers to see if there are enough pennies down the back for a cheap loaf...it sure all happened in winter...

Samcro · 03/10/2019 08:20

I joined mn in I think 2006. it was fun then, BUT there were some nasty people back then, there was a big oldies v newbie thing that doesn't seem to happen now(which is good)
its odd reading this thread and seeing certain poster being mentioned as being nice, I remember them so differently.
some things are better. there used to be a poster who used mn as her bank. every week a story of woe and she would get money sent to her. you were not allowed to say anything about her and the fact that there were more holes in her story than in a sieve. now days she would be called a troll.
i do miss the local meet ups. getting drunk with custy was fun.

TheCanterburyWhales · 03/10/2019 08:21

WeBuilt- but there were grabby scammers back in the day as well. They were undoubtedly cleverer though, as more people seemed to fall for them Mind you, they tended to also be the "has been around for ages and is a well-loved MNer who goes to meet-ups" rather than chancers after a cheap Christmas.

RingtheBells · 03/10/2019 08:22

I’m sure there is loads more name changing, I recycle half a dozen names but I’m sure some change all the while, there are few posters I recognise over the years and many have disappeared or have they....

spoonyJoe · 03/10/2019 08:26

The reason I started using MN all those years ago is because I felt as if it was inhabited by 'People Like Me' who didn't give wotsits to their babies but nowadays if you dared to suggest a baby should be wotsit free you get told 'only on MN would you not give you baby wotsits.'

HumphreyCobblers · 03/10/2019 08:27

Oh God yes, the Christmas Present! I never joined in with that.

I joined in 2007. I was SO funny, but that wasn't me, I just laughed at everyone else being incredibly witty.

I did make the talk round up once, on the day I had a c section for my dd. I was more excited about the talk round up Grin

There are so many posters I miss, Aitch, HunkerMunker, LaQueen (she changed her name) WhoMovedMyChocolate, HonoriaGlossop, MaryZ. I didn't know any of them but I do remember them very fondly.

Mouldies was Shock but it didn't affect me personally.

notso · 03/10/2019 08:28

Yes it was funny but god it was so cliquey back then. So much back slapping and sucking up.
The day following a meet up was pretty unbearable for anyone who hadn't attended.

The preggers and peng threads referred to up thread were cringeworthy. All the naice middle class posters guffawing at the 'chav'. Jolly good fun Hmm

WeBuiltCisCityOnSexistRoles · 03/10/2019 08:30

Yes this is true whales I guess it's just representative of the internet users as a whole.

Plus perhaps those of us old enough to have been here for 15 years + are just naturally more grumpy as fuck cynical. Plus if we joined when our DC were babies and now we have teenagers, we have enough fucking drama in our lives without reading trolly bollocks on MN.

Having said that, I'm in a long running quiche thread with a group of lovely MNers who meet up and send each other stuff and it's lovely.

I think the fact we are all still here on this thread posting (and moaning Wink) proves MN brings more good than bad to our lives.

Unless you read Reastie's threads and spend far too much money! On that note, who will feed my sixteen children? Wink