Much as we are loathe to add grist to the mill... we thought it might be sensible to clarify a few misconceptions about mumsnet's postion re MO. First there is, and never has been a feud as far as we know - and we're sure we would have noticed had there been one .
Secondly Pie is not nor ever was banned from mumsnet - she was a much valued member who often ran the swaps here, just as Champs does now. When we realised she'd started her own website for mums we wrote to her wondering if it would be sensible if she stopped administering the swaps on mumsnet. And that was it really. She decided to leave, there was a day or two of gossip and intrigue and not much else really until a few weeks ago when Cod wondered something aloud.
We at mumsnet hq harbour no ill-will, as we made clear to Pie at the time. As many have said there are loads of good parenting resources out there and if we spent our time worrying about all of them we'd be even greyer and sadder than we already are (speaking more for myself here than my more youthful-looking, glamorous colleagues).
Fairly uniquely we do allow mentions and links to the competition here on mumsnet (and to MO more than most as it turns out ). Possibly, if we thought we could keep all other parenting sites a secret we'd be tempted to try but we suspect you're all way too google-savvy to swallow that; and on a slightly more serious note then if we really are to stick by our philosophy of being here to help parents then we have to be big enough to admit that in some cases other genres of parenting site might be more helpful. It's horses for courses after all, which happily is a top cliche to round up on. So peace and love to all.
Mumsnet hq xxxx