Sympathiser of MN hacking runs blog on childcare provider site

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Troll or not - he has decided that this company site is the right forum for his musings.

On a site which claims "A large part of the My Family Care Group is Tinies Childcare, a well-known name in childcare and parenting circles since 1975"
www.myfamilycare.co.uk

there is blog:
www.myfamilycare.co.uk/news/blog/hacktivism-or-poetic-justice.html

"Ben's no hacktivist but he knows when poetic justice has been done. With some recent reveals from website hacking, he wonders if these people are doing the right thing.

Marriage is tough, but
There have been two big website hacks that made plenty of headlines in the last few weeks. Top of the pile was obviously the Ashley Madison comeuppance. "Life is short - have an affair". I mean I'm all for living life, and marriage can be complicated, but it was pretty depressing stuff. 1.2 million email addresses in the UK! It's just an extraordinary number.
And whilst a few of us sniggered gleefully at the deserving member of the SNP caught up in the mix, overall it's a damning indictment of this wonderful modern world we've created for ourselves.

A real hacking win
And as for the other big hack it involved those holier than thou folk at Mumsnet. Some militant dads took exception to the sexist, opinionated vitriol that often passes for normal Mumsnet comment and decided to take the law into their own hands... Probably not the most sensible approach but I have some sympathy. Just ask Gina Ford or Amanda Holden. Being on the receiving end of a Mumsnet invective isn't much fun.

Positivity doesn't make news
I don't like Mumsnet - all those opinionated know-it-all mothers dominating the bulletin boards simply aren't my cup of tea. Its defenders say that it's nothing if not democratic. For every foul-mouthed tirade there's a positive comment in return, claim the founders. And for some lonely, depressed and grief stricken mothers it's an absolute lifeline. My issue with the site and everything it stands for runs a bit deeper.

And the loser is...
I dream of a world where there is equality between the sexes. I want my daughters to have exactly the same career and life opportunities as their brother, whether or not they decide to start a family along the way. We're getting closer but we'll only truly smash the remaining glass ceilings if men learn to be less macho and mothers stop being aggressively feminist. And some of the most aggressive feminists out there seem to live on Mumsnet. There I said it.
I expect my abuse to start. Let's hope I'm strong enough!
Ben Black

Make sure you feed the tinies first AF

Of course

Hello AnyFucker, haven't seen you in a while!

And some of the most aggressive feminists out there seem to live on Mumsnet. There I said it.

Yeah we're so violent, hacking sites and such...wait....

Well OP, I suppose you think Anita Roddick was pretty unprofessional too, as she not only had loud opinions not everyone agreed with but used her business to financially and publicly contribute to those causes.

Lots of people don't like mumsnet. He's written it to get some traffic and you naively bit and gave it to him.

Pretty sure people who send armed police to innocent's people's homes are the aggressive ones.

Traffic isn't a goal in itself for a business like that. I suspect OP will reach quite a few women in a position to influence their company's choice of provider.

it does seem a very odd thing to say when running a business like that one...

I think all ball-breaking bitches, ah sorry I mean MNers, who use this business (or whose employers do) should start asking some questions.

It does seem a very odd business decision to openly criticise so vehemently a group that will, by its very nature, contain a massive part of your business's target demographic

"Lots of people don't like mumsnet. He's written it to get some traffic and you naively bit and gave it to him."

Erm except the OP didn't. She did screen grabs and C&Ped the text so that none of us have to click onto his site to read it, hence no extra traffic

Yep, here I am aggressively and feministily pressing buttons on my iPad whilst the hubster is forced to care briefly for his tinies. My bad.

Women. Know your place

Bit out of Practice, she used his name and quoted him and her thread appeared in active list. If you now Google his name and mumsnet, OPs thread is the first hit. So yeah, she did.

all those opinionated know-it-all mothers dominating the bulletin boards

Doing what when?

there's lots of 'bulletin boards' (how very 80s/90s) - I don't think that opinionated mothers have any appreciable impact on any bulletin boards other than those directly related to parenting, which doesn't seem entirely unreasonable to me personally....

Perhaps I should mount some kind of tirade about all those male car enthusiasts dominating the piston heads boards, or gamers on the WoW boards.. how dare they be a majority on a website dedicated to their interests! It's not like anyone can set up a bulletin board relevant to their interests and just talk you know.. oh.. wait..

someone who would go to google to search his name and mumsnet would have known about him writing it - how else

besides - if he gets traffic in his line of business it means very little IMHO, he isn't providing forum or online community which aids his business, he isn't advertising other businesses via his site

his business model ought to be build on good reputation/goodwill which again IMHO writing like he does is not aiding it

unless like others sated companies and parents are trusting people like him who support unlawful activities and are negative towards women/mothers

However if there's PR specialist who can prove me wrong I am all ears.

heyDugee that's the whole point isn't it? "If you now Google his name and mumsnet, OPs thread is the first hit" - ergo they will come here instead of his site...so erm...no she didn't!

Am I missing something?

OP I work in social media / PR and, to avoid hits going to his site, you did it perfectly. Anyone wanting to read his bollocks pearls of wisdom can get them here, without sending any more traffic to his bollocks blog

^ unless you are reading on a phone. You can click on the screen prints and you can expand them to make the text larger but on my phone (Samsung Galaxy 6 and about as good as it gets) it's still easier to read by clicking through on the links to his site.

She C&Ped it all there. There's no need to click!!

He wrote (and tweeted it) but it's only the 4th hit. This discussion is now the first hit if you simply Google his name and "mumsnet". It's not about redirecting more clicks via this site. It's about Google search hits using this (more powerful) site to get noticed and picked up.

'Just ask Amanda Holden'

And some of the most aggressive feminists out there seem to live on Mumsnet.

Yes. That well known planet just a little outside our galaxy.

I posted in Feminism Chat.