does anyone else go on other "inferior" sites to post about things they know would be frowned upon on here?

[nappyaddict]

i introduced a friend to MN - i don't know who she is because we agreed to keep our nickames secret - but she admitted to me the other day that if she wants to ask something that might be frowned upon on MN she reverts to bounty. i felt a bit bad about this and that people should be able to ask things openly and not fear being attacked by the "MN police" so to speak.

I don't but can understand why someone one. MN can be very "holier than thou" and judgemental.

i tend to just take the judgemental stuff with a pinch of salt. most of the things i agree about anyway. i suppose if i didn't agree it might make me a bit weary of posting otherwise.

No but that have been certain things that I have wanted to ask and haven't because I know it will go pear shaped, which I think is a shame.

In my opinion MN is just a little enterteinment for me...

If i have a serious issue i will talk to doctors or friends... I almost never ask any questions here but looooove reading other people's stories... PURE VOYERISM!

I would never take anything personally!

Isn't there somebody to frown on anything that is posted here?!

Is your friend going to guess who you are now?!?

There are other sites????

no but if in doubt I ask my mum or jarm on MNS!

I got kicked off iVillage for making a comment about fanjos.... so no...there is nowhere else for me to go.

God no, I can't be doing with inferior sites.

I'm a one site woman.

If I know that I will get scolded on MN I ask my mum or my SIL instead and try to pretend that whatever they say on MN doesn't matter because they are not real people, just pixels.

So going to another site wouldn't really help because they're not real people either.

nope, I talk to my RL friends about things I don;t want to get jumped on here...

when you take the MN police on though they crumble .. they're a bit pansy-ish really

and also loads of people come out of the woodwork saying 'oh yes me too'

tell your friend not to worry so much ..they're self-appointed

I did get suspended from the BBC talkboards last year for telling a filthy joke that had gone down particularly well on MN only that very week.

No. If I had something to discuss that I feel could be potentially frowned on on here I would discuss it with my RL friends who I know would do their best to NOT pass judgement!

No offence to anyone on here though - I think most of you are lovely .

No, I don't go on any other sites. If I wanted to post about something that mn dont usually approve of then I still would.
And If someone was being judgemental then I'd just think 'oh its one of those Mnetters who always thinks they're right again' And ignore them and listen to the advice.

No - see my dirty food thread

oh dear i hadn't thought about her now working out who i am!! oh well i'm not partciularly bothered. i think any personal stuff i've posted about she probably already knows.

I do go on a few sweet-and-fluffy US sites that MN would disapprove of on account of their sweetness and fluffiness. But other than that, no. If I want real opinions I'll post on Mumsnet -- I'd rather have openly judgemental here than another board with people not saying anything up front but going "tsk!" to themselves.

i-village, how do you get them to stop sending emails?

fanjo, ffs, it isn't a swear word, not that I think swear words are offensive

moon can you re-tell the joke? I missed it the first time.

I am on another board, but it is small, very small, not like mn or any of those fluffy baby talkboards... so I come to mn when things are quiet on there.

Other way round for me.

only read the OP (so far) but i quite often don't post or omit things from posts.

i don't go anywhere else, just don't post.

So what kind of things do people "not" post about on MN for fear of being judged? I'm new around here...

Suppose you were going to wean your baby before 6 months, or you didn't want to breastfeed, there is a good chance you would get a lot of extremely helpful and informative posts giving you all the reasons why you ought to change your mind.
Which might or might not be helpful....

lol i got kicked off i-village too! they are a bunch of wusses.

i don't really understand why someone looking for advice wouldn't want the truth, so i'd post on MN and hang the consequences. and if it's support you're after then there are probably huggier places but isn't that what your actual friends are for rather than a bunch of peopel you don't know?

and tbh, the idea that there are 'Police', self-appointed or otherwise, is pretty spurious. if you've got better research or experience that runs deeper than 'well my aunties all did it and my cousins are fine' then you'll win any argument going.