Has mumsnet become too much of a battle to make the funniest/ most cutting remark at the cost of normal interaction?

[TheDevilWearsPrimark]

I have found that these days, even serious threads are full of irrelevant 'funny' comments and it never used to be like this.
I am not bitching here, as I am sometimes just as guilty.

Is this the competition for quote of the week or something?

(Or people wanting to become the 'new' cod?)

oh vacs darling - you held your own. please don't worry, MN is your oyster. Don't you remember me cutting and pasting your teen advice?

oh yes!

brightens considerably and also does small dance of happiness before sashaying out of thread