Times article about Mumsnet's evil streak

[NorkyButNice]

I wonder which former devotee wrote this?

No such thing as bad publicity? Or does it make us look like a bunch of beeeatches?

Nah, bonsoir, the only reason you're not invited is they're worried you'll turn up with a tin foil hat

Helen, can I put in a request for pickled onion flavour?

In the middle of the Indian Ocean. It's very warm here [evil grin]

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lol frakkin

I cannot tell you how long this winter has been

she probably had a bad run-in with AIBU.....and got told she was, after drip-feeding (ie, AIBU by stealth).

I don't expect to win. And I'm not sure I could even come to a party even if I won, as I'd have to fork out hundreds in train fare and hotel BUT if the poet laureate liked any of my haiku, i'd love to know about it That'd make my year!

Hmm. Have figured out who she is, on here I mean, but she isn't someone I have really noticed much so that doesn't really affect me...

I think it was an awful thing to do, to name names in the article. And she didn't mention the fact microbe was a troll.

Just sad all round. Though I'm not sure the rocket kit was in great taste.

Oh dear.

She's obviously had a roasting or two.

I am one of the biggest softies in the world and I can weather MN no problem. If you don't want a fight, you can easily avoid one.

Ime, MN is only bitchy if you are.

Reading the comments most people seem to think all MN is about is advice/boasting/scoring points of each other . The image it has of being middle class 'yummy mummys' gets on my nerves.

There is never any mention of the amount of general shite chit-chat that goes on.

I have to say I do agree with the general theme of the article. I now change my nickname every few days/when I feel like it - I used to have just one name and I used it for years. I made it my policy not to argue with people online as I really think it is silly. On one particular thread (where opinions were divided, but mine was in the majority), a poster attacked me really savagely and it was so nasty that I never posted anything under that name ever again so that this person could never "meet" me again.

Later, I searched through this person's past messages and found that she was nasty to plenty of other posters, not just me and she had also said such nasty things that MN had to delete some of her posts. Having said that, she is a regular, I see her posts all the time so I know that there are bitches lurking here as well as the supportive majority.

I find it better to namechange all the time and perhaps the journalist would benefit from this strategy. Her criticism of the website is justified.

Yes Coco, it v much gets on my tits that all the articles in the press about Mumsnet are snide, or downright critical. I don't think I have seen a positive one yet - perhaps they never get linked to on here! I suppose its all publicity but is all publicity really good publicity? I genuinely don't think so. As discussed on KerryMums's "packaging of Mumsnet" thread the other day.

This is the only site where I can say what I want to. iykwim

obviously with self moderation as per RL but seriously it has value for me just in that sense.

I don't feel like a freak on here. And I usually do, so that's saying something.about you lot

Didn't all the really bitchy ones go off and set up their own site though?

It is typical though that there will always be comments that can be taken as bitchy or bullying in their tone - such is life. The thing to remember is that if someone attacks you for your opinion without offering a proper response then that says more about them and what they lack rather than you. I'm more concerned that by being on here marks me out as a Labourite, the article hinted at it - and that simply wouldn't do (nor do I bat for the other side) ;)

LOLOL

Cackle, cackle!

Get it? Get it? It's an 'evil streak'

When I get my invite I shall RSVP the traditional way. Not in The Times.

I shall send a handwritten notelet.

scented and sealed with wax

oh very good, Orm!

Another article of nothing-new-to-say and a bit sad really. Waste of publishing space, if you ask me.

I just got an email

No posh origami for ME

I am not actually worth a stamp

Morninpaper - I think you are doing Reading aloud from your book in a Pam Ayres voice. At least that's what I infer from my parchment, origami invitation, written in Haiku. You aren't on the guests list, you are part of the SW England entertainment.

Btw MP sorry to hear about your DD. The WRVS ladies will help sort your DH out with a pushchair. Or get him to ask the porters office if they have a spare.

MP, you'll get a parcel with a little black dress soon.

And a white apron

And a tray.

oh I don't mean JUST I mean just as in 'only'