To think ODFOD used to be allowed?

[DirtyKit]

It did right?

but now it isn’t?
what happened?

IABU - it was never allowed
IANBU - it was allowed

We have always talked about saying it to others but not actually saying it to other mumsnetters on a thread.

I remember someone taking great exception to being deleted because she'd typed fuck off

Apparently it shouldn't have counted if it was crossed out 🤣

I was going to say I remember seeing it fairly often and not getting deleted. But that makes sense if it was only deleted once reported.

I think there is definitely more moderating happening more promptly on MN than there used to be.

Also used to third parties- well tell him he can FOTTFSOF!

It was definitely aloud yes - pretty sure it was on the list of acronyms. Didn't realise it wasn't any more .

Definitely used to be ok. At least, it was used frequently without deletion.

As to sanctimonious PPs: are you new?? Robust language, directed at dickishness, has always been part of what makes MN good.

I've been here for eons and we seem recently to have stumbled into a new world where it's fine for an entire thread of posters to passive aggressively lay into a poster for some minor parenting crime (or, worse, a typo), but, somehow, not to tell a bully to fuck off. Fuck that.

A quick advanced search and you can find plenty of past threads where Odfod has been used as a reply to an OP. Whether it was allowed or whether the post simply went unreported and so didn’t get removed is is suppose less clear.

When they're being a cunt?

Yes it’s there - and in the quick advanced search I did was a justifiable quick response to unreasonable posters
Maybe there’s more reporting now? Are we becoming a den of snowflakes?

Actually wasn't it in the list of acronyms published on the site back in the day?

It was allowed and it was on the list of acronyms.

Are we becoming a den of snowflakes?
Will we be able to use ODMOD?

Oh do melt off dear.

@Justlovedogs thanks! I never knew this! Kinda love it now I know what it stands for 😄

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/site_stuff/1934956-The-Official-Mumsnet-Merchandise-oooh?reply=43556762

They made merch with it on...

This.

You realise you are basically saying “oh do fuck off dear” here, just a bit more obliquely?

Thanks for the replies.

Maybe the difference I’ve missed is we can say it about other people who are not on the thread (OP’s boss / DH / MIL etc) but not to the OP? Would that be it?

it’s either that or MN is becoming a bit more snowflakey I think.

I love that upthread we have @Nanny0gg saying she's used it, and then an advanced search proving it 🤣

looks like even ten years ago it was frowned upon though....

Same

MNHQ deleted my post. Seemed a bit mean to me tbh

But what if my opinion is simply that they should fuck off?

It definitely used to be allowed. Its deletion is evidence of the sad decline of mumsnet.

Yep same here 😂😂

It was definitely allowed and widely used.
Wasn’t it started by a MNer and loads of posters (and MNHQ) didn’t know what it meant?

I am sure I used to see it a lot - along with to the far side of fuck and when you get there fuck off some more.