If you (still) feel the need to discuss Moldies, please do it here so folks can hide this if they want to.

[LittleDonkeyCarrieMaryMumsnet]

Well hopefully the title says it all. There's been a suggestion, and we agree, that as we did with Baby P and the Mc Canns we just have one thread where anyone who feels they still have anything to add on this subject can post and those who'd rather move on can hide it away.

It feels strange to put this thread in site stuff as we are definitely not wanting to encourage further discussion of Moldies (we have presents to wrap too you know ) but we weren't sure where else to put it.

We will delete any new Moldies threads that are started, so please feel free to report them in case we miss any (what with wrapping the presents and all...)

And if you do want to carry on the discussion please remember that Mumsnet's here to make everyone's lives easier and not the reverse, and that Christmas is a time of goodwill to all mumsnetters past, present and future

Thanks,
MNHQ

Well as they all post with anonymous psuedonyms, that matters how exactly?? Are you seriously suggesting that people can get upset that their anonymous alter ego is being misrepresented? And that affects them in RL how?

Am sorry Bumper
I think the whole archive thing is total rubbish though. It's because MNHQ owns the copyright to your posts and therefore can reuse those posts in any which way they want, and profit from them at a future date.

Because freckle it is no good being careful about what you post if someone elses post is then attributed to you in the press.

I don't think it's true that it's difficult to offer good advice on here. I've had loads (professional stuff as well as personal). An intelligent or empathetic poster will often offer good advice even if they don't know all the details - and someone with a lower EQ would probably offer bad advice even if they did know all the details.

Of course it's quite true that all of this is completely public, and it's no bad thing to be reminded of that once in a while.

all this moldie, noldie, medoldie, where do i fit in , is there a place for those who have been here almost since mn time began?

It would be a lot easier if we just stayed where we were i think, it gets too much for me to keep up with

and to show i am growing old i am drinking a cup of tea ffs

pass me my knitting please, someone?

You are a reject Lou we established that ages ago

Yes, and if someone is serious about identifying you in real life and trawls through the gazillion posts on MN to do so, they will realise that you were misquoted.

I'm not excusing lazy and poor journalism, but I do think some reactions on here are bordering on the paranoid android.

Freckle may I point you to this part of my previous post:

"it's all very well saying "oh well you should have thought about what you posted before you posted it". WELL THAT WAS FINE UNTIL SOMEONE FUCKING MADE UP SOME SHIT ABOUT WHAT I POSTED.

Now unless you are any of the other people misquoted in this article I beg you not to speculate as to how it feels to see your MN name, which is as familiar to me as my christian name, in print."

Thank you very much.

And I am very angry because I am never like this to other people.

Lou I like it that you never change your name, it certainly helps with all this shite

Onebat

Big shout back from the southern hemisphere

Yes freckle I suppose so.

TBH though when I was getting divorced I could imagine my ex or his family trawling on here to get info about my supposed failings, ( they had me followed so this would be the logical next step) so for some people maybe it is justified paranoia.

Bumper, I understand that you are upset. How do you think that approximately 5 people that you don't know reading that you said something unpleasant (that you didn't actually say) is going to affect you? All I'm suggesting is a bit of perspective.

Quattro - perhaps namechange from time to time from QuattroC to Quattrocent to Quatt etc. It is then quite difficult for anyone to build up a proper jigsaw as they only ever have scant information and not possible for them to get your whole mumsnet life history in one search. Please don't stop posting I would miss you.

Freckle - unless you were on of the ones that was mis-quoted.

Or unless you've had direct experience of a "stalker" via MN

can I suggest (politely) that you don't quite know what it's like and that infact some of the paranoia can be quite real.

Twinset, in those circumstances, you wouldn't disclose anything on here that you didn't want them to know, though, would you?

Bumper, I've had incorrect stuff attributed to me in print as Hunker before. I wasn't quite as incandescent as you are though - I was a bit "oh, ffs" - especially as I can be relatively easily linked to my RL self through my blog

Why are you quite so angry?

a reject out and proud

as for changing my name, i'm too lazy

quad, is it red or white wine?

Freckle's post is a party political broadcast by the Moldy Party.

I'm not sure people should go into their houses if there are other people in the street. As those people will then know where they live.

freckle people are upset about being misquoted, not about being quoted.

well said bumper
I was a bit facetious to KM about my post being attributed to her, but I absolutely do understand that it's really horrible, all this misattribution.

There have been a few posts along the lines of 'don't be silly, didn't you know everyone could see'. Well, yeah. But having said that, I felt fucking weird seeing my words int eh Sindie - even though they were attributed to KM.

But in general, that's not what people have been upset about.

white but if I shuffle around enough i might be able to finmd some red that was once used for a stew

wonk do you really think about people in terms of eq?

and i can see either side. here on mn we do put ourselves in public just by posting. some with a persona and some quite openly, pics and all. i wouldn't like to be half outed but i don't think anyone gives a shit who i am anyway (i mean in rl, they are relieved not to see my witterings)

Well someone might think "Oh she sounds interesting/stupid/whatever, lets search and see what else she has to say" then looks at the big picture of my mumsnet life. Something someone could do anyway but only if they happened to be on MN and happened to see my name and decide they might want to see what else I've been saying.

Perspective is fine, but this shit has gone on for too long, all of it, and this is the crux of it and I am angry. And here is the only place I can vent as I can't tell my friends and family as I don't want them knowing my user name and telling DH just vindicates his scathing view of mumsnet and I get that "I told you so" look.