to love the fights on mn?

[LadyThingFishAlot]

god, i have to say i think they are so funny. there are some very clever people on here who are very quick minded.

the question i put to you is...

if everyone on mn had a fight, who would win and why?

TBH I find them a bit ridiculous. It seems like a lot of posters are quite savage, and getting that angry on this kind of forum comes across as a bit sad.
I understand people are passionate about things but it goes beyond that

lol, did anyone see my beetroot thread, i got savvvvvvvvaged

Paul Allen once said that Lily Savage arose in part from the pleasure of watching working class women in Liverpool having slanging matches ... the combination of venom, energy and wit.

nope loopy. link it...i need entertaining this morning. am having a well deserved lazy morning.....

lapin isn't a rabbit, she's a viscious wee beastie!

There are quite a few keyboard warriors about.

They interest me.. and I read them.. but wouldn't say I love them exactly. There is somwtimes someone who ends up quite upset and being as I have been on the receiving end of some facist wanky opinions on MN then I know how it feels! (Having said that, there are those who ACT upset, so that other Mners feel they must defend them!)

Having said that I know I've pissed people off in the past. Like to think I haven't actually upset them though.

What annoys me a bit about "MN rows" though, is when someone gets accused of "bullying" just because they have an opposing view to someone who was firstly, giving as good as they got (and opinions ARE allowed to differ I believe!) but then backs down by saying something long suffering. INNNNNNNN swoop several people to accuse the other person of "bullying"! It is SO NOT BULLYING! The is a COMPUTER! It can be switched off at any time! And chances are, when the "alleged bullied person" comes back, the person they were arguing with is hardly like to carry... it's all moved on!

"Bullying" my fat white behind!

People fight on MN where???

I tend to agree with Mrsruffalo TBH. What is the point of cyber spats? If I want a row I have a DH.

I?ve occasionally irritated people, usually unwittingly (there was food thread once ) and occassionally felt ever so slightly ruffled myself, but generally I prefer to see the funny side or withdraw to lick wounds in private. When it's witty and not too cruel it's fine but I hate it when it turns really nasty and someone gets a vitual drubbing.

Shiny - do you really think that you cannot bully someone on a computer? Because there have recently been quite a few reports of cases of teenage suicide due to internet bullying...

Maybe with children Anna, though that is normally a form of extended external bullying, that continues on the pc, it's sad, but I don't really think MN has many 'bullies', yes peopel do gang up sometimes, but IMO if thats just to agree with an opinion it's not bullying, when it goes beyond that it's just fucked up, look at the way Aitch was jumped on the other day, not because everyone on there agreed with each other but because they all had to get involved.

Of course you can Anna.. that's not what I was saying! I am saying that disagreeing on Mumsnet is not (that I have ever seen) something that would come under the description of bullying.. even when heated!

VS - there have been cases of bullying on here. I don't think they are very frequent, personally - I agree that it is mostly a case of (profound) disagreement. But not always

Iv'e not seen bullying as such on MN, some of the debates/fights are funny sometimes, but other times they do get out of hand and people get hurt/upset. Does anyone feel like they have been bullied on MN? i would be interested to know.

Anna, it's a matter of perspective. If you look up the true definition of bullying, that's really NOT what goes on, on Mumsnet!

Are you of those who shrieks.. "STOP BULLYING ESMERELDASMUMMY.. I AM REPORTING YOU TO MNHQ.. I WILL HAVE THIS THREAD DELETED!!"

Well, fortunately I've never seen any, I have seen arguments deteriorate to picking on grammar and spelling which is pretty low sometimes and a point I won't make if I have any other valid opinions, but I still wouldn't say it was 'bullying' per se.

I was accused of bullying last week

I was just disagreeing with someone.

I think that any time a thread is started specifically to pick apart a particular poster, that is bullying.

YANBU, I enjoy reading those threads too.
Sometimes it gets too much. IMO more often than not it's people talking out of their a* rather than bullying. That's when the backlash is really entertaining.

Me neither VS. And I've been here, wasting my life, for yonks. I've just seen a lot of hyserical bashees trying to CALL it bullying when it isn't..

With MN I have always thought, if you can't stand the heat, you really do need to get out of the kitchen for your own self preservation. Go to Babyworld, or Bounty or somwhere.. [shudder]

No Anna.. that isn't bullying. It may not be very nice but it isn't bullying.

You must see a lot of "bullying" in the course of your day to day life, as people make derogatory remarks to and about each other!

Eeeek.. am I bullying YOU?

Shiny - I disagree profoundly. Starting a thread specifically to pick apart an individual poster is bullying.

How do you define "pick apart" though??

is this turning into a fight?

Am I turning into a bully?

Perhaps I am already one!