If you (still) feel the need to discuss Moldies [part 2]

[YetMoreTech]

This thread is a continuation of this one. That one had become too big for its own boots the system to handle.

Oh yes, that was horrible...Boco's Birthday table experience....shuddering at the thought

i really hope so, ruty.

i bet that MNHQ are pedalling hard to get something going that would allow sections to be un-googleable, though. ime they're pretty responsive to what MNers want. that may solve all of our problems.

Don't normally do this but a there's mumsnetter asking for our thoughts at this late hour - I presume lots of people watching this thread.
here

TBH I think the majority of MNetters have no opinions either way.

Thousands of posts but by a really small proportion of MNetters.

fairlady, are you 3andnomore? why did you change your name... [shadenfreude]

Just wanted to interject to acknowledge considered posts by Custardo and Rhubarb and accept apologies in the manner in which they were proffered.

i'd be thrilled if MNHQ made some of it register only Aitch. it would mean something good came out of Moldgate after all.

BIWI - it wasn't aimed at you although in fairness your post triggered off a memory of the literally hundreds of posts I must've read about missing people - most of whom are still here.

I'm really glad this is petering out. Wasn't the press coverage just totally farcical?

hm....you know the whole namechanging thing httat one can do....if that was not possible, it might cut out at least those pretend troll posts....which there are many....

think i missed a c off there somewhere.

Hurrah - peace and love breaks out

Just did a search on birthday table - must have missed it at the time. Now that really is a horrible idea.

night night.

You're right, Quattro - but there are also some who have definitely disappeared, presumably now posting only on Moldies, and those are the posters to whom I was referring.

Anyhoo, it's late and I'm tired and I'm off to bed.

Are we in agreement that this is going to end when we reach the 1000th post?

We just need to play the song and roll the end credits to this saga

i must go and struggle to feed my easily-distracted little baby... adieu.

Blimey,I've just woken up after falling asleep on laptop and it's gone all damn civil like!

Not sure why I actually posted on here tonight, on this topic for the first time when I had bugger all to say except this is tish &pish! Oh well that's a bottle of Chablis for you!

Goodnight ladies, gents, moldies,oldies, newbies and loonies!

at being snogged by an interweb entity....

Oh, I'm with you there on the stopping it all now

Nice though, isn't it?

Au revoir, Aitch.
Merci beaucoup

[psssst...tis a secret....]

Polls and lists and discussion of Mumsnetters which can be looked at then deleted.

Then love and peace.

that's nice for you

thanks vvq, i acknowledge you aknowledgement of the apology and accept that acknoledgement in the manner in which it was proffered.

(thats what i was talking about Aitch)

Onebat, about your point that the only ethical position is not to have started Moldies at all:

I see what you're saying - if there'd been no Moldies, there'd be no hurt feelings - but it's not that simple.

If you (I don't mean you personally by the way, I mean one generally) say that the Moldies webboard shouldn't exist, you're in effect telling people how they can communicate with other people away from Mumsnet.

That has its own ethical implications, about freedom of speech and association. Nobody has the right to control how other people communicate off board.

There would be uproar, for example, if anyone tried to suggest that MN-ers weren't allowed to email, MSN or meet other MN-ers. Yet all of those methods of communication will exclude the majority of MN-ers.

In fact, the exclusion aspect is often the point: people want to talk about things they wouldn't disclose to the whole world, which is what the www effectively is.

It's a difficult problem with no perfect solution, but seeking to control MN-ers individual friendships isn't a viable option either.