how unpopular have you made yourself on a thread?

[pollypeachum]

well i've managed to offend at least two people and am now being ridiculed on a thread! i've only been doing this for a few days. is this a record?

Have I really batters or is that a cheeky ! ?

Got very scared earlier at mention of CAM afficionados, thnk goodness nothing to do with me

hah, what an interesting thread, polly,
I pissed people off on my thread about parent&child spaces...I only started the damn thing because I feel passionate about it, then these hijackers came and said 'we dont care about this we have far more important things to worry about' so why do they bother posting? I dont geddit.
Generally I try and not be offensive, but sometimes the way you think something and the way it types out sound rather different.......

Oh, VERY unpopular today.....

Lots and lots I should imagine.

Sometimes if I see a load of people agreeing with each other and slapping each other on the back, I like to go in and ruffle a few feathers!

I also stick up for someone I think is being 'got at' by the Mumsnet hordes, regardless of whether I agree with them or not.

I don't agree with people just for the sake of it, for instance my best mate is on Mumsnet and I've disagree with her loads of times! If I don't agree with you, I don't care who you are, I'll tell you that I disagree with you!

I was once called a homophobe and a bitch on a certain Narnia thread because I dared to ask someone to refrain from giving explicit details about her lesbian fantasies on Mumsnet!

I find I often argue in real life, by arguing the side I dont really believe in, just to kind of exercise my mind/argument powers, I believe this is called playing Devils Advocate?
anyone else do this?

Yes! But only, as you say, to exercise my mental powers!

I very rarely get offended by anything on here but one or two things in the past have got my goat, usually when someone makes a presumption about my private life.

Oh dear God I will argue black is white sometimes and I don't know why. Its a compulsion. I am argumentative, irrational, opinionated and yet I want everyone to like me.
Its not happy mental mix.

I'm feeling very excluded now - I don't think I've ever offended anyone...

I bet nobody can beat me in the unpopularity stakes.

I started one when the airport security was high about how I was upset at the thought of having to taste formula milk and got accused variously of being unpatriotic, of being a bad mum for feeding my baby formula not breast then the wrong type of formula and for being a drama queen for using the word stressed.

The formula type got me as I naively thought like honour amongst thieves there might be some code of conduct for formula feeders but no apparently even there you can be accused of doing the wrong thing.

I thought that my thread would have been a light hearted one about the relative disgustingness of different milks and tbh I got a bit upset about some of the posts and tried feebly to say again what i actually meant.

However I got over myself in a few days time, now though I do try to stay away from anything too contentious because I don't really like aggro.

I got my knickers in a right knot on a thread a while ago, had a massive rant that kicked off the whole thread into a 'them and us' situation and ended up with a couple of other mnetters getting a lot of very nasty abuse from a particular poster. I still feel guilty about it, if only I'd kept my big mouth shut then none of it would have happened.

It is a horrible feeling, knowing you've upset someone whether they are real or 'cyber' and I really don't like upsetting people. I've been so careful about what I say since then so as not to offend anyone else. Maybe that makes me a wimp but I don't like to feel that other people don't 'like' me.

ImaVeryMerryChristmasFairy how dare you say that now you have really offended me

ImaVeryMerryChristmasFairy
is that better now

i did have a thread that went so wrong it gave me nightmares(and I am not joking)

That's nothing, I have made everyone hate me on four threads at the same time.

Luckily I couldn't give a leper's handshake what people on here think of me.

I've had whole threads of people against me too. it's a rite of passage.

it's when other pòsters make you throw your keyboard at the screen that you have to worry.

Gosh Greeny - you always have to "win" everything, dont you?

Those 4 threads should only count as one they're all the same.

Greensleeves is just working up maximum notoriety so that she's most-wanted-to-meet on Saturday

oh batters I had just managed to convince my self it was all a bad dream

no I was sad about it not being a dream
as dh says "shit happens"