Well done Justine and Becky. We told you it would happen again.

[NoCommentingFromNowOn]

Just sort it out please.

I don’t know any website as badly run as this one.

You deserve to lose all your advertisers and lose the website.

Personally I don’t even see why gifs have to be allowed in the first place. It’s not Buzzfeed. I find use of gifs annoying and childish most of the time, I’m sure I can’t be the only one.

At this fucking point I’m on your side.

im starting to like this/these people

very vulgar stuff unfortunately but strangely likeable dont know why

maybe its because of our common ground on resenting the mumsnet greed

@BusyJoker maybe its because of our common ground on resenting the mumsnet greed

Bloody hell yes!

And I feel there are solutions but MNHQ simply aren’t interested. I’m seeing them as the ‘ethical hackers’ who try to hack into banks etc.

To the Hacker Teenagers - fewer manky gifs but more comments please.

I read their last post here and it made sense actually, saying how vulnerable our data is, mums come here saying they’re tired and with a new baby and they’re depressed etc and all that information is sold on, I know it happens everywhere but I’d never really thought about it.

It doesn't address the bigger issue but I really don't see why we have GIFs anyway, they don't add any value to a discussion.

Gosh that's fascinating. I'm a cynic about the gap between MN's commercial reality and the touching faith some posters have in thinking the people who run it are all characters from Motherland. All forums are subject to intrusions, they just have more robust defences, all of which you've pointed out @NoCommentingFromNowOn . I think the trolls are interesting but that's a niche viewpoint. MN deserve to lose engagement. I wonder where the talks to sell a stake in MN to private equity have got to.

They don't annoy me, but if banning them made the site safer then I would be in favour.

@OneAmethystTit the touching faith some posters have in thinking the people who run it are all characters from Motherland

They’re probably a cross between business women out for money and people who don’t give a shit - it’s probably work from home and pays the bills and suits them for now. Or maybe men. Who knows, and who cares?

I read a comment somewhere today where someone was saying she’s had rude contact from mods and it’s basically whatever mood they happen to be in at the time. They all seem to hide under the ‘robustly challenging’ argument which is really easy to hide behind because it’s bloody massive. When something really tiny is done by the mods and someone says ‘oh well done, you really look after this site well (or similar) it fucking enrages me as I can point to dozens and dozens of threads where distressed women have come here for help and been hounded off by people picking their stories to pieces or because they said ‘of’ instead of ‘have’ or something. And I report those posts and it’s all ‘robust challenges’ blah blah.

MN deserve to lose engagement ✅

But the most important thing is that you can't copy text from a post, but you have to quote the whole thing??

The only reaction is 'thanks', which basically now means 'like'.

Focus on the important stuff eh.

It's no longer meeting the needs of the audience. MN has evolved, but management of the site hasn't.

I am very disappointed because shift workers have to see and report this stuff. Invest some money back in?! I didn't see it tonights nonsense but yesterday was vile!

Oh I blocked Mumsnet emails ages ago. I don’t understand the point of sending a response to anyone’s forum report, I’ve never seen that before. Usually moderators just take action. Interesting that they’re sometimes nasty to the people helping them out though, especially since they always tell people to report.

Years ago when I joined the forum was being absolutely brigaded by MRA/incel types making the most ridiculously misogynistic fake threads. I think I got two wet lettuce “well, I’m just really not sure…” emails from Mumsnet before I blocked the address from sending me further emails. 😆

I quite like the janky, vintage message board vibe on MN but it’s not really fit for purpose in 2026. They probably did need to invest more.