...to think it's not something to be particularly proud of?

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Does anybody else think that some posters seem to feel that it is a particular personal achievement to be a longstanding MN member?

There are so many threads at the moment about how shit it is now with all these thick newbies posting, and how much better it was years ago. I see post after post from OPs saying they wouldn't have got this reaction back in the good ole' days.

I've been here for a good few years (though not as long as the people making these posts, I presume), but I don't feel my opinion is worth more than somebody that signed up yesterday.

Who cares how long you've been posting on this forum, honestly? It's not that deep.

But I see posters who I usually admire for their intelligence and clarity of thought post shit like this. And I think, maybe it's gone over my head and I'm missing something?

Some people would give their right arse to have boots!

Indeed, Christina

I’m on a thread at the moment where a long-term poster has suggested a response to an email. It’s a perfectly reasonable response , but from some of the arse-licking going on you’d think she’d written Hamlet. I, meanwhile, made a tongue-in-cheek response and she bit my head off.

No idea why my post was deleted. Out of the millions of MN users I doubt very much my description of "one poster" could be used to finger-point or specifically target anybody. I didn't allude to anybody specific at all.

I think the usual suspect has shown their face anyway, to take a little bow!
The problem with MN is, and always has been, that there is an overwhelmingly "brand" response to most of the issues people post about. If you couldn't breastfeed, see no harm in taking young children out of school for holidays, don't like grey hair or want anyone to understand how hard it is to leave an unsatisfactory spouse you will just get slated. At least we no longer have to kow tow to the wisdom of Shirley Glass ( religious writer who died years ago and had some strange views on infidelity) which was constantly rammed down everyone's throats in "relationships".

There we go again. Sly little goady dig.

KeepYourCup - neither did I.

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" I also think there's an element too of the old guard of mumsnet just being allowed to spew whatever hateful shite they wanted but a lot of them are starting to get called out on it and they don't like it."

There's more hateful shite now than there used to be and it's that, that is being objected to.