what's this PO stuff all about? I have just read some really vile stuff on here....

[Portofino]

Women presumably who don't have a certain sense of humour, or don't agree with certain (long standing) posters being described as beige admin workers who nag their ugly husbands, who were friendless at school, wear cheap clothes, have no fun in their sad little joyless lives etc etc Literally paragraphs and paragraphs of nastiness.

This is some of the most vile and misogynistic stuff I have ever read on MN from other women. These kind of comments normally come from trolls and MRA invasions. Is this really what MN has become? Does everyone think that this sort of shit should stand? What happened to the fucking sisterhood?

I am astounded to be quite honest.

I was called a PO once on a thread which contained some pretty horrible sentiments. Pissed me off hugely until I regained some perspective.

And it did seem to be a small group of posters who knew each other well congratulating themselves on how amusing they were. Same posters who start threads bemoaning the lack of funny, interesting people on MN and asking where all the good posters have gone.

They have started their own FB groups and haven't asked you. Obvious innit? :)

They did, QuickLookBusy - but why the need to send them in the first place?

And why people would be reporting them I simply cannot fathom. And on what grounds?

"Stop, there are people being funny on the internet", perhaps?

Nothing has been deleted.

Here's Hully's spoof spoon thread

Here's the thread she started asking about such threads being reported as trolling.

And here's the second thread.

surely it would be 'stop. there are people who think they are being funny on the internet'? - started a thread about access to benefits which was pretty soon attracting the most vicious views about people presumably including women. no thread was started saying how disgusting those posters were. and woulndt have expected it. I also spun a bit of a po narrative. and stand by it. heaven knows i could get very po myself about the many posters who consider me a benefit scrounger amongst other sins against the heteradoxy of the feckless poor that takes root in all societies when in straightened times. bullying. either overt or passive aggressive does offend me. and then po is my friend too.

but i reserve po for things that truly offend my morals/ethics/ and sense of justice. not whether a bride is being a bridezilla to have flowers on tables at her wedding when she must know some of her guests get hayfever. or somesuch.

Wow, nasty posts on that PO thread. I'm surprised at some of the Mners who have written that stuff - some of them prolific (and I thought reasonable) mners. It says far more about them imo...

MD - I regularly get frustrated on the benefit bashings threads. But I've never seen anything approaching the nastiness on the spoofs, jokes etc threads from even the most right wing posters.

I think we will have to disagree on that.

its one thing to have a mn spat about who thinks who is funny or pissing on someones chips. it is quite another to see a culture of blamestorming and dehumanising of probably a large section of mnetters gain such ground that it is acceptable to the majority. we all know what happens when sections of society become the scapegoat in a struggling society. to see it flourishing unchecked on mn - now THAT is scary. really really scary. not someone being abit of a snob (or not, according to your perspective and or the context).

Camilla, you really think the jokey, spoof threads are worse then the Benefit bashing ones [buconfused]?

Yep,MNHQ needs to seriously consider a hide poster option.

No Lady, not a spoof thread itself of course not. I'm talking about some of the comments made about people living in a house smaller than they'd like etc - someone above has summarised the comments and I think they're vile.

A hide poster option? How would that work? Threads wouldn't make sense.

I'm pleased to say I don't tsc, I must have wiped it from my mind, or it fell out or such.

I only know you don't and have never liked me, but can never remember why.

Oh well, you can't please all the people etc etc

there is no need to tell me, btw, I can manage without knowing.

Oh you think I'm a bully.

Oh well, not much I can do about that.

People think what they think and as my dd's friends say on fb: Haterz Gonna Hate

I love:

"Say to her, 'My name is HullyGully, you robbed my spoon, prepare to die'."

Hide poster is discussed here (and elswhere):

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/1601125-Sock-puppeting

Quoted from HighBrows, btw.

anyone?