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

Did you not think, "Oh, so and so would like it here" and inquire as to how you could invite them lockets? for the membership to be closed, there must surely have been some sort of announcememt from the organisers? some "rules of our club" type statements?

I, like a lot of people, are finding it difficult to grasp the concept of being part of this forum but not being aware of how it actually works. Although from the limited info imparted by members of it, it appears to me that it must be pretty much like being in a vacuum.

Did you not think, "Oh, so and so would like it here" and inquire as to how you could invite them lockets? for the membership to be closed, there must surely have been some sort of announcememt from the organisers? some "rules of our club" type statements?

I, like a lot of people, are finding it difficult to grasp the concept of being part of this forum but not being aware of how it actually works. Although from the limited info imparted by members of it, it appears to me that it must be pretty much like being in a vacuum.

Accepted as an anti mouldie! Huzzah - thankyou whoever you are. And now I must go before I fall asleep on my laptop.........

I never got my acceptance from the DofM actually. Did I bugger up my application?

If I had been invited to a new forum with lots of old MN mates, I would be wanting to extend that invite to other MN mates. It just seems like all the moldies who have posted here have happily started posting and not questioned where this alternative reality appeared from or it's workings. surely there is an explanation in the "about us" bit of the site? Seems a bit to me! but I am an old cynic.

I'm not sure if this was all covered on the original, deleted threads, but it comes across, to me personally, rightly or wrongly as though the moldies who are posting on here about the site are spouting the party politic, with a bit of individual spin thrown in for good measure.

It's a shame it has caused this ruck really as MN is a fantastic place and is so much more than the sum of its parts.

daisy, it's all been covered tbh. there was a lot of discussion as to everyone inviting their mates (in fact that's how members came in the first place, then it was decided to close things down a bit) but the majority wanted a limited number.

don't think for one second that there weren't voices challenging the decisions, because there were... there are still the same people after all.

ooooooo, I notice the Torygraph includes me in the title....
'Mumsnet website riven by rows between new and older mothers'

thats me, that is

afaik

it started off as facebook friends but facebook was annoying so as an alternative the freebie forum set up was used and the people who had been communicating on the facebook moved on to that

and then some more people were asked

the fact that it is a forum is more to do with mechanics than anything, that is a user friendly format which bridges msn and facebook if you want to be able to have several conversations with different people happening at once, but as it is free it is rather clunky

are you riven, nmc? i wondered where you'd got to.

Flight, you must bave Bggr*d up the FB application ( or i did), no one had been refused yet.

thanks aitch, I thought it had, but have nocturnal baby induced, sleep deprived brain.

I'll shuffle off back down the garden to my big fat juicy and wee skinny skooshy worms

how is your DD doing now? is the breastfeeding better?

I had to go incognito after that insurance company and the bouncing boobs thing. In case the creepy manager stalked me.
Will be changing back for the new year though.

A biiiiit, thanks. every time i think it's gettgin better, it seems to get worse...

this daughters of mediocrity wouldn't be a private facebook group would it? they're really annoying after a while, you'll find. you want to get a forum.

good to see you, riv. you and your bouncing boobs.

unfortunately Aitch, my boobs don't bounce. being small nubbins of their former glory as it were

Oh were there apologies

please dont do apologies; those of us ignored twice feel twice as bad (old name on profile)

But come on this is getting a bit silly now. I've readjusted my vision, renamed myself and off to make newbie friends

Did that insurance guy stalk you, nmc? He sent me a fairly reasonable email but never got in contact again. I ended up feeling mild empathy for him (which is not my usual response to soft-porn pedlars).

oh THAT guy. he sounded so nice.

Is DofM a secret group as I can't find it on fb? oh, the irony if it is

am I mediocre enough to join?

its there if you search I think

I applied, trealised at 3am that it was another permission group so withdrew >

aithc, I have that with the sleeping. we seem to go one step forward and then three steps back!

Whatever. I just hope that the moldies/mnetters and bitextuals can all go to meet ups together.

We can have a roped of area, if necessary -where only those orange or oldie enough have access to.

lol clarissimo (nice new name). Maybe I should take your shining lead and shun anything that smacks of exclusivity