Abbreviations and gender focus

[clutha]

My fiance and i joined mumsnet seperately but dont post very often, as we both have difficulty comprehending posts, due to the abbreviations.

We are both seasoned forum users, and are well versed in acronymns common to fora.
However, those on mumsnet seem unique to mumsnet.

Is their a guide for these?

Also as the propsective father, I am interested to know if mumsnet is so called as it is a forum geared up specifically for mothers, as opposed to parents?
Hence why their is a section for women's rights, but not men's rights, as one example.

Does this mean that mumsnet isnt set up for myself, but i should be frequenting a 'parentsnet'?
And if so, can you reccommend a forum for this?

again, LBDG, you are overlooking the REAL words i print.

i had already pointed out and corrected my own mistake, a whole 11 mins before your post for you to notice.

your other points are just more of the expected avoidance.

besides, i thought you said you were bored

WhereAmIWhereAreYou

Clutha, when your baby arrives you will find you have a lot less time on your hands. This may not be an altogether bad thing.

i think you are right, in the grand scheme of things, forums are pretty are pretty low down on the totem pole.
slightly above facebook.

its comes from time wasting on new years day, just like most of the nation, i suspect.
if its not the net, it will be the telly

mind you, would you just let reams of rafts of posts initiated by others first, full of stuff and nonsense that's attributed to you, but that you never said, go unchallenged?

tough one that

if banging means REPLYING to other post made AGAINST you by repeatedly misrepresenting what you write, then, yes, i do

what of it?

you saying you wouldnt do the same?

will stop bangin' on when certain people stop posting nonsense in my name

a whole 11 mins before your post for you to notice.

It is only a whole 11 minutes before the other person hit the 'Post Message' button.

Some other software tells you "There have been new messages posted, do you want to see them first" (or similar) but MN doesn't do that, so the fact your post was made 11 minutes earlier is no guarantee it was visible to the other poster.

I often view topics I think may be of interest, go off to a few web sites (eg if someone asks a geeky question) and come back later to a thread I had open, and post my comment, only to find a dozen extra posts have appeared before mine, so I have not seen that the point I made has already been made by someone else.

All too difficult to be confused about who said what at this rate. If you feel there are reams of things not said by you, just hit the 'Hide' button and forget this thread. I know I will be doing that... Good luck on MN, oh but before I disappear, perhaps ideal for you and your partner to have different posting names. It is all too difficult to know which gender a poster is (and appreciate it from their viewpoint) if it can change from post to post.

I had assumed you had been the male half of the couple all the way through, until I hit a post about you "expecting a baby"... (post at 14:43)... very, very, confusing. If that had read 'when we are expecting a baby' then it would have made sense from a male perspective, but when I read "I'm expecting a baby" it (understandably) left me assuming written by a female...

Thanks for that network

I apologise if i was unduly unfair on the other chap for something i figured i had already dealt with.

Other reasons for his mistake hadnt occured to me.

Guess im getting a tad annoyed by now of the constant misrepresentations, assumptions, and accusations.

I know you are right about using the hide button, but if i had done that, i would be pegged as all sorts by now.

Just as one example, on the early pages, someone said i had complained about man bashing, when i hadnt.
Even thought they kindly made up for that error, it has been accepted as fact now and people are still repeating it pages later!

The point of my thread was clearly stated from the off as the recording of a newbies observations, giving feedback, and seeking suggestions and recommendations.
Some folk decided to go off all hot and personal at me over it.
Thats fine, just dont put words in my mouth in your zeal to be so.

My fiance and I are separate members.
She quit posting a few weeks back, as the heavy acronym use put her off.
Has only been me....I am expecting a baby.

JuJusDad in "I Agree With Cat" shocker.

135 posts! Lots of us are clearly very bored today.

well i'm bored, os for the first time in the five or so years I've been here, I had a look at the acronym list, and other than the specific MN ones (AIBU, YABU and so on) there are only two which don't appear on another forum I'm involved with (a health issue one) which are SWI and the BF at keyboard one. Everything else is used all over the internet (and in RL - that's real life for more specific ones like SENCO and NT (which I was using liberally over lunch with my SIL who is a SENCO).

Hello Pixie

i dont see why a new member cant point out what they noticed straight away.

the point about the acronyms isnt a new one, it seems to engage others as well.

so that one, at least, wasnt that particualarly controversial.

there is nought wrong with criticism, as long as it is constructive.

which my initial posts were, some people chose to take it all way too personally.
i cant do anything about folk being over sensitive (i keep getting told you dont get far on MN if you have a thin skin), but i can do something about people putting words in my mouth

Pmsl @ being called a chap

Pmsl @ being called a chap

ladeeeeez can be chaps as well, donchaknow

Everyone eventually agrees with me.

It just takes some of you longer than others.

i certainly have come round your thinking anyway cat.....all these thin skinned people on here.....

Also, why is everyone goign along with this "It's Christmas & I'm new to Mumsnet " schtick?

Fair enough, I know that Clutha's posts are pretty much unreadable apart from the odd word, but why is he trying to give this impression?

There really is evidence to the contrary you know.

eh?

and whats xmas got to do with anything

I respect your view, but wont be taking it up

As i am complaining about people distorting what i had said and accusing me of things i havent done, naturally, it is important i address myself to the right person.

I would not wish to confuse other folk whom are kind, and only reply to what i have really said, into wondering if my last post refers to them.

I have had plenty of conversations on MN now.
Your point is just another version of what has been said several times already....and i give the same reply....i will stop REPLYING and CORRECTIBNG those posts when people stop making them.

I dont need to be concerned about doing what is accepted practice forums worldwide, incl quoting and replying.

Im sorry it makes you uncomfortable, but with all due respect, thats nothing to do with me, you can always chose not to read it.

yes

posted briefly, then forgot about it.

i take that's what cat's post above is about then?

well, i mentioned on another thread i had posted briefly, so wasnt pretending anything.

i only posted in the pets section couple times, so it has no bearing on this thread, if that's the premise?

still have no idea what xmas was to do with anything, mind