Rampant ageism.

[SpongeBobJudgeyPants]

There's just so much of it. If you want to keep the over 60's over here, could we address these hateful posts in a timely manner. One in particular has been reported a while ago. Still there.

Think some of you have mistaken "site stuff" for flouncer's corner.

I think everyone should now have a pm. Not sure about Squirrel.

@BiscuitsandPuffin and that's all you have to contribute? Okaaayyy....

@SpongeBobJudgeyPants - have also reported that post. So bloody ignorant.

Can I have a pm please?

The ageism on here is absolutely shocking. Here’s the reply I got when I reported one such ageist comment.

Hi, and thanks for your report.

The post you’ve reported doesn’t break our Talk Guidelines so we wouldn’t remove it on that basis. (It DID break talk guidelines imo).

From our perspective, there’s always room for nuance but we cannot delete posts just because they mention someone’s age. In addition, with these posts in particular, the poster has pointed out that she isn’t referring to age.

If you think a post is unfair you can always explain your position directly on the boards - as mentioned in our guidelines, our policy is to keep intervention to a minimum and let the conversation flow.

We hope this explains our position but let us know of anything is unclear.

It’s especially bad when you report something at night, they go off to look and never come back with an answer.

to be fair Op, going by your posting history you are not averse to posting rather ageist comments about the younger generation and how it’s a “generation” thing (your holiday with your DSD for example?)

You can't beat an advanced search can you! Not debating that here. If that's all you have to contribute? That must have taken you a while?

and all the hideous “snowflake weddings” you’ve been to? (your words)

And it's considered bad form, but I'm sure you know that...

well you can see the time you started the thread…. few minutes at most.

Your name
Key word: snowflake

Is it getting a bit bitchy now?

i do indeed

but bad form means bugger all rarely of mumsnet provides the facility freely

If you specifically advance searched the word 'snowflake' then you have an agenda of your own apparently.

so that is your response when i simply point out that you have been patently ageist in other threads

Are you a bit bored? You seem a bit angry.

indeed

someone start a thread about something that they are indignant about, it is interesting to see how their posting history goes

and yours was… interesting

yes, waiting to collect DD from football

and also a little ironic 😂

I'm not going to engage with you anymore, but I wonder who hurt you today? Who pissed on your chips?

Sorry, on a thread about ageism, is this comment not well, ageist?

I find it odd that ageism isn’t age specific but weirdly some think ageism is a thing that only happens to older generations. I’ve seen lots of generalisations about younger generations. Also sometimes there seems to be a disconnect between what’s actually said. eg saying certain generations had better house price vs salaries is interpreted as that is was easy. Or some seem to struggle with statistical evidence because it’s not reflective of them.

i’m not surprised you are not going engage with someone who has merely pointed some examples of you posting in a derogatory manner about the “snowflake” generation and how younger generation (your DSD) doesn’t have the respect for older people that your generation did

but i will leave you be now. Just rather interesting and made me chuckle

There's a lot of ageism on an active thread at the moment that I replied first on.
I'm early twenties and it absolutely boggles my mind that others my age and a bit older would have such weird views on people over a certain age 😵‍💫

@thisfilmisboring it is & proves my point! 😁