to think Mumset is a whole lot better post-Mouldiegate?

[Picante]

Genuine observation here, not trying to stir anything. It just seems a lot less cliquey and bum-licky. My replies are recognised and appreciated. I hope newbies feel welcomed and that there isn't some barrier that you have to cross in order to become 'popular'.

Well?

Oh, come on, veneer! There was plenty of that from the mn 'royalty' before they left.

Not to mention the whole 'Why are we not being sufficiently mourned?' thread,() expressing irritation that MN had dared to speak lightly of certain posters leaving - which was what alerted me to the fact that they hadn't just been joking all along when they adopted the air of First Rank Posters.

Prepare for a Moldie raid, Clapham

You are making perfect sense to me

I liked it before, much more quirky and more fun, it does seem a bit bland now and I do feel the hole left by missing posters, most of which had nothing at all to do with moldiegate.

It is a dynamic site, it changes, sometimes the changes are good, some not so and even that is a matter of personal taste in any case. I miss the days when it was much smaller and you "knew" almost everyone but then that was a few years ago and I am still here so it can't be all that bad!

BTW, I don't think I am better because I have been here a long time, I do think I remember things that some other posters don't, simply because I was there ate the time. THings like the bat for instance, I hate it when people get all "oh look at the clique" about it, the fact that some of remember that far back does not make us a clique that others cannot enter, it just means we remember it and thought it was funny at the time. I mean, no-one would accuse you of being a clique if you and a work mate recalled the days when your company first opened but others didnt would they? We are allowed memories

Blimey I think that's the most people ever that have agreed with me!

Lots of people announced themselves as superior, AFAIK it was all very tounge in cheek and those people took the slap round the chops with a wet fish fairly on the chin.

Part of the problem IMO was the inability of people to take a joke and stand up for themselves.

Well all I am saying is I never saw any of that.

But there is nothing at all wrong with cliques. There are loads on mn. The only problem is with a clique that thinks it somehow defines the essential, authentic MN, and fails to notice that different bits of MN are essential to different people.

The anti-clique crowd were just as bad. Moaning about a particular in-crowd just inflated that crowd's sense of it's significance. There are lots of Mumsnets, lots of centres, lots of authentic hearts.

I am on 5 discussions in my 'threads i'm on' I used to be on at least 40 I think that speaks for itself. I liked it better before.

Shiney - You wanna be in my gang?

Yeah you can be my beeeaach

King, it did all seem utterly tongue in cheek and I never had a problem with any of the 'royalty' stuff whatsoever -- until they got all huffy and self-righteous in the course of their departure.

Ditto ledology. I find that it is just too big and too fast nowadays. I see a thread which may interest me but it already has a couple of hundred posts so I can't be bothered to read the whole thing, so don't post on it. I also often abandon threads I post on because I go off into RL for a few hours and when I get back there are 500 posts after mine!

Me too lockets. We had one early in the year and it really cheered me up and felt more like the old days.

I think I have a very heightened sense of when to completly ignore what is going on - I didn't see any real huffiness and any I did see I dismissed as being PMT anyway [patronising]

Please Don't Feed the Moldies!

But shiney, I was just about to say how your penguin thread was one of the funniest things I'd read on here! DH and I (well mostly me) were glued to the sofa waiting for developments....

is that too arse-licky?

Who cares about any of this?

If you like Mumsnet, then stay here and post when you feel like it and don't when you don't. If you don't like it and prefer MN Oldies, that is fine too. If you like both, great, good for you.

Surely I am not the only person who finds all this better/worse/rubbish/good bollocks tiresome?