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

No NMC, I am not. I know this must come as a shock

Do you think the Sport or the Star will pick it up and make their copy sound like we are all indulging in some gratuitous girl-on-girl wet T-shirt mud wrestling? Will their readers send in Txt Msgs like "I'd like 2 c all dem mums fytin in da flesh, coz I'm a snivvlin prik wotz nevva had a gurlfrend. Wayne, Markit Harburra"

No NMC, I am not. I know this must come as a shock

Do you think the Sport or the Star will pick it up and make their copy sound like we are all indulging in some gratuitous girl-on-girl wet T-shirt mud wrestling? Will their readers send in Txt Msgs like "I'd like 2 c all dem mums fytin in da flesh, coz I'm a snivvlin prik wotz nevva had a gurlfrend. Wayne, Markit Harburra"

sheik - I have just snorted tea out my nose!

which, of course, you all wanted to know

National newspapers, well I never. Mumsnet's PR team must be working over time. Bet they're loving this.

I'm bored with this. If you want I cna tpye leki thsi so you don't all miss Cod so much

I have never seen the word "disingenuous" used so often on a forum. I really must nominate it as word of the week. Or get out more.

An alternative forum the existence of which was, if I recall correctly, repeatedly denied.

to me moldies is more like a cross between email and msn and facebook woithout the annoying applications

so a bit like the facebook wall

except you dont feel a personal obligation to answer anybody

and you can look at it once or twice a day and catch up in ten minutes

seeing it in national papers is a farce it is like someone writing a piece on your address book or facebook friends

i am this is still rumbling on

and i am not terribly at the appalling journalism in these national papers....it does show if they make such a total balls up reporting from stuff written in front of them on a computer screen what kind of tosspot piffle they must be writing about important stuff..it beggars belief

i think they must be filing stories on their mobile fones on the tube or something

hmm...after joining this thread so ignorantly, I felt the need to see what it was all about, and read those articles and a blog and stuff...

I can actually understand why there are so many people hurt, now, and tbh, anyone who thought it wouldn't hurt a lot of people must have been ratehr shortsighted....! How could it not have hurt people who feel they would have the right to be part of the club.

I find it quite ironic, as in the past , if newer members mentioned cliquieness (sp?) it always tended to be denied by longer standing members....members who may well possibly now are members f this all so "exclusive" little club.

Personally I truely don't care. Tbh, I think it's a bit pathetic...surely if you are such good friends you just msn eachother or stuff like that...you wouldn't need an exclusive little club....! Having an exclsuive club is all about show, really...even though it is meant to be secret of course....honest...it seems all like a terrible idiotic joke.
And, only proffs all those members right that always said, that some mn'ers simply seem to believe they are better than the rest!

And pssst....but I also came across something that said, that mumsnet was set up for middle class mums....OMG....I don't think I am allowed on here, really....lol...

ho de hum
"Invites only" has always caused problems when people in the know have been left out. Petty and pointless.
I'm just so puzzled by it all.
It is a secret club if you are rejected because someone doesn't want you to join. Everyone knows about the Masons, but they are still a secret club. Ok, how about we call it a PRIVATE club? Would that make Mouldies happier? Sounds a bit sleazy if you ask me...

lockets, as has been said millions countless numbers of times; the upset that has been caused is that certain MNers, of long standing and who felt they had a shared history with several moldies, have been deliberately excluded and have been discussed and, in custy's words, "found wanting". That's what sparked the original debate, although that is now sadly lost in a spate of accusations and counter accusations and name calling.

There are real people involved here, people who have idly wondered where their friends have gone, friends who although still in possession email, msn and facebook details, have neglected to mention that they have a new forum to post on, because they have been told not to talk about it or invite anyone else.

This isn't just about anonymous posters posting elsewhere; it's about what is being perceived as a betrayal of friendships.

Maybe it takes being a bit distanced from it all to see that?

One point for Hunker, and Jools too, you are both very keen on wanting to say "Hang on a mo, that's not right/not how it happened".

But actually, how it happened is entirely and completely irrelevant. The fact is that it did happen. Going to great lengths showing people how it happened really cannot do anything other than aggravate.

I understand why you would feel the need to do that but it honestly won't do anything other than make matters worse.

For me, I've decided to follow some of my own advice and shut up on this topic. As an 18 mth old poster, it really is none of my business.

Quattro - you're only 18months old?

quattro, I'm also that you are only 18mo old, and with children and everything

I would say that you have every right to comment as most posters here are aware that it's got nothing to do with the length of time you have posted (some moldies are relative newcomers), very little to do with the fact that "our children are older so we have no need to discuss babies and weaning" (some moldies have very new babies), and everything to do with whether your face, or wit, fits.

I appreciate that it may not have started off like that, but that's what it appears to have become and that will always cause resentment from those not included.

Are you walking yet? The writing style is vv good for a littley.

the no mentioning of it was confirmed by either a moldie or ex-moldie on the original thread.

walking now, yes. Typing as well.

She's very gifted and talented thats for sure..

your language is very good you know.....have you seen the gifted and talented boards?