Mumsnet can be really quite an unpleasant place these days it used to be so supportive and fun.

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I don't really go on Twitter but I gather it can be vicious.

Mumsnet was so helpful and also used to have me rolling on the floor laughing at times. I guess I am just being nostalgic. I still like a little wanter around the active threads near to knocking off work time but it usually just makes me feel a little bit sad about the world now.

I know we don't tend to like it when people have a different opinion from us but I don't think we need to be nasty. I have some unusual opinions at times but try to put them across politely but there is no tolerance for differing opinions at all.

Feeling a bit blue. Might need a session on Netmums to even it out.

This might be my last post if I come back and have been fully roasted for saying this but hey, life moves on I guess.

Agreed OP. I've just come away from yet another thread where people are piling on to the OP and before that I was on one where people seem to have forgotten the original post and were just slagging each other off.

I also get a bit sick of "well there's Flouncer's corner" comments when someone says they're not finding the place as nice as it once was. Comes across as a bit flippin smug and condescending.

Yes, it was truly awful. I prefer it now despite some of the rowdiness if I'm honest!

It's different now. It's less cliquey, which is good, but I don't think it's as funny as it used to be.

Nice try!
I saw it mentioned the other day.
Didn't give it much thought but it does seem there's a bit of a campaign going. 🙂

Tbh no.

I think this site has always been a bit ascerbic, sure funny and supportive of you within certain parameters. But it’s not fluffy , etc it’s full of reality, sarcasm and forthrightness. I think it’s an amazing insight into a certain facet of womanhood.

Always interesting even if i dont always agree

😂

These threads appear every couple of days.

MN has never been ‘nice’.

Discussion forums aren’t compulsory. AIBU definitely isn’t compulsory.

If you don’t like it, take a break or look for a discussion forum more in line with your needs.

I don’t mean that in a ‘fuck off’ way. Just in a 🤷🏻‍♀️ ‘what do people think will come of these endless, whinging threads?’ kind of way.

There must be!

Mn is exactly the same as twitter in that if you land on the wrong part of it it’s mean and horrible, but the lighter parts can totally brighten up your day, be informative, make you laugh etc. I never agree to stay away from aibu as there’s some interesting posts in there but I’ll admit I stay away from the feminism section. Skincare, the dog, cat and book sections and chat sections on cleaning and childcare are generally spot on!

The problem with MN is that it has been infiltrated by a few of the woke brigade Their numbers may be small but they shouter louder than anyone else.

My advice is just don't engage, because if you don't swallow their agenda whole you get insulted.

Deja vu, anyone? https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4755992-aibu-to-ask-for-alternatives-to-toxic-old-mn

I'd put £5 on that femvox place not lasting a month

🤣

YANBU.

I’ve been here since the BMC days, and it’s gone from mostly witty and interesting and a bit shit and depressing, to mostly shit and depressing.
It started with Brexit most noticeably, then went totally off the wall during Covid.

Every thread you click on, you will find sneering, language police, thought police, and just downright unpleasantness. Every thread on active, pretty much.

I sometimes pop in for a look, but always leave in a worse mood than when I started so I have to say the visits are becoming less frequent.

I haven't been around that long, maybe 6 years or so, but it was the same then - you can't take some posters seriously, I find the vipers funny! The lengths they take in assuming things, projecting, leaps in thinking - quite creative!

I feel like we need a Mumsnet is Shit forum added at this point, there have been so many of these threads recently.

I think you have to let the negative roll off you. People are getting one tiny aspect of you with zero real life context. I’ve been called both a cruel horrible bitch (asking a legal question which a posted took one aspect of and projected onto) and the kindest person on the planet. I’m neither, so I don’t take any of it literally

So many of these posts in the past week, just ignore the idiots, it’s easy

It’s because it’s changed so much, that’s why there are so many threads.

The reviews on TrustPilot don't seem that edifying, so people are not only noticing but commenting on external sites.

Can someone please PM me the link to this "other" site that's being alluded to?

Nevermind. Lol helps when I read the thread properly.

Ok, now I think these are being orchestrated from somewhere.

You could be right especially as we have had, apparently, 17 new threads from someone(s) who is/are "too scared to post".🤔

I’ve been here yonks and it doesn’t feel that different to me. I agree with those who say the don’t miss the cliqueiness. In the old days one of the Mumsnet royalty would be an arsehole, someone would call them out on it and a load of the clique would descend to defend them.

Now I think arseholery is called out much more consistently. It’s too big a site to be cliquey now.