|ndependent on Sunday. Anyone feel a bit embarrassed?

[OrmIrian]

MN and Moldie spat apparently merits billing between Gazan civilians being killed by the hundred by Israeli missiles, and world hunger

Another disproportionate response?

I didn't know LL had left either - why?

Sorry Perhaps LL hasnt left I just havent seen her around for ages. Maybe by mistake. I miss her anyway

LL left !!!!

I'm soooooooo glad I didnt even read the thread.

No, that article could have been interesting. It was so boring. SHe must have worked quite hard to make it that boring.

I agree that there's potentially an interesting story - a well researched feature on the sociological/social aspects of forums like this, when people come to blows, issues of anonymity, when virtual friends become rl friends, the ethics of chatting on line etc. but it would need examples from several websites, quotes from serious sources who've studied/researched this stuff etc etc ie it would need to be a (proper) feature. mners having a row is so not news.

agree with hatwoman. someone can do a phd thesis in urban anthropology on the dynamics of this forum and aspects of the moldie bunfight episode would feature in it.

t'is partly why i read. to ogle analyse humanity.

It might just have been newsworthy. Newsworthy enough for the quirky little bits towards the back. Not front of the paper between serious bits about death and hatred.

awww LL left

Ahhh.... see it's been done already. Still, no harm in flogging a dead horse is there?

I love the idea that the feature made it look petty and childish . Face it, it was petty and childish in the extreme, and the feature is funny and noteworthy because of that.

I am also laughing a lot at the outrage at the misattribution of quotes - given that all the names are made up and utterly ludicrous!

how very dare you! my name was fantastic!

Orm, don't mention missiles or rockets, that's when more crap went off before

No, not in the least embarrassed. I didn't write the article. So why would I feel embarrassed by it?

I am only one of 160,000 posters on Mumsnet, nothing the article says about me can be representative of me. As to the spat itself, I have been entertained and amused by it, but remain emotionally detatched.

I think the story is just a consequence of a slow news day at Christmas. It's an easy story for a student intern or a casual to write and it balances out the heavier stuff.

Really nothing happens at Christmas and filling those pages is a nightmare.

Oh heavens, the preciousness! You were talking online - in the public domain. Online stuff spills into the frivolous bits of the papers regularly. The work email about a dodgy date that went round the world, the bloke who emailed his secretary to pick up his dry cleaning, rumours on Popbitch, Giles Coren's furious emails to the Times sub-editors. This is just the same. If newspapers only featured hard news, they'd sell about five copies, and none of them to mumsnet addicts, I'd be bound.

I would love someone to link to the article.

I have no idea what happened on the moldies thread...

didn't read the moldies thread, but FGS women there's more going on in the world than if you're in the 'in crowd' of MN! i'm an oldie over 4 years infact now 5 years. but FGS girls get a bloody grip.

re the article - how it's viewed as important news god only knows! lol.

(oh n I didn't realise MN was for middle class folks - if that be the case then i'll get me coat now n pop off to netmums )

oh i actually thought it was kind of funny. because moldies was a silly spat.anything written here is wholly reproducible,and as demonstrated journo's can and do grub about for tittle tattle - by christ they got it in spade loads with Moldies

I never thought I would have been so glad that due to a very bad cold that hit both dts and myself I completely missed the whole Moldie-gate thing.

i caught it retrospectively

At the start of the article it says this is a site for middle-class mums. I'll get my coat then shall I?

I've never been invited and nor do I care as to paraphrase, I would never be part of a club that would have me as a member.

I thank you.