Do you think some of you are addicted to hating Harry and Meghan?

[wowwhataday]

More and more these manic threads are popping up on mumsnet, wild posts and theories and then hundreds of posts brimming with excitement about catching them out or exposing them. It’s like a game or a hunt. Have many of you crossed the line from interested to addicted?

Yes seems a tad …🤔 obsessive , doesn’t it! 🤣

Our taxes are paying for his security, so it's having an impact.

Exactly. There's no "hate". It's against Talk Guidelines.

But why on earth would you do that? It’s bizarre

Addictive and obsessed surely? 🤣

If I ever feel bad about my life, I visit any of the Harry & Meghan threads on here and thank my lucky stars my life is not as sad and empty as the people falling over each other to say the edgiest, snarkiest, "funniest" thing about them.

I've never discussed H&M in real life. My family have zero interest and friends and colleagues find them an irritant, but don't really discuss.

Genuinely, @IDipYouDipWeDip , does it matter? Just step back. If people want to post a lot, they're free to. As long as they're not breaking Talk Guidelines, then what's the problem?

I did it because the OP accused posters here of being addicted. Advanced search can prove whether they are or aren’t, so why wouldn’t I check. You only don’t want people checking because it proves that OP has a point about some posters.

😂😂

To look up someone posting history in an attempt to use against them (which is what you have done despite what you trying to dress it up as otherwise) says more about you than it does them. I also thought this was against mumsnet rules?

The point of the thread was to ask if posters were addicted. Using advanced search is an easy way to see. No problem, I was just answering a thread.

Yes. I really hope that Mumsnet will let this thread stand as I believe it redresses the balance a little.

And if the posters who have commented negatively about H&M stand by their posts and believe they are reasonable, then I don’t see why it should be deleted tbh.

It is. It's worth noting that you can get banned for using someone's posting history against them. It's not really in the spirit, is it?

Ok. Be careful though, accusing people of addiction is a bit strong

Have a guess then, how many threads with the word Meghan in the title then, since she came on the scene?

It's not obsession to click in four boxes to find that out by the way. And bear in mind, there will be threads about her without the word Meghan in.

Only it wasn’t an attempt to ‘use it against them’. It was an attempt to see if there was any truth in what the OP was saying. I expected that they were exaggerating and if advanced search had shown posters were not posting that much, I’d have said so, and said the OP was talking shite. It seems that the OP has a point though which is what the thread is about.

There were posters who said it was simply a parody of a scene in Game of Thrones….

I don’t think so. I have another username where I post about my dogs and cats a lot, some days maybe 50 posts a day. If someone said I was addicted, I’d say that was fair. 😂

Out of interest I searched my own posting history!
and it was less interesting than I’d been informed, also my posts in chat , and other areas are predominantly there!
very misleading.

Then mumsnet shouldn’t allow posts like this because the only way to probe it one way or the other is to look at posting history. Maybe they shouldn’t provide an AS function either.

It seems to me that posters are annoyed because it’s proved that the OP has a point and certain posters are indeed addicted.

No, my point is that you can use AS, just not to get personal and have a go at other posters. You're not getting personal or attacking people based on posting history, so it's ok.

Well technically it was! , but it still was grossly inappropriate and sexist.

Wasn't it? Just absolutely vile. He just seemed to get away with it, hiding under the GoT trope.