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no i'm not. What happened to the moldies thread?

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HullyEastergully · 11/11/2012 20:48

eh?

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gordyslovesheep · 11/11/2012 20:49

the seagulls stole it

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Kethryveris · 11/11/2012 20:50

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Softlysoftly · 11/11/2012 20:51

Yep evil them seagulls.

It started to get names flung about and linked to the farcical attack on Worra and her minion army so the axe fell.

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HullyEastergully · 11/11/2012 20:51

don't make me hurt you

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ginhag · 11/11/2012 20:52

I am finding MN utterly confusing at the moment. Stuff goes 'bang', things go 'pouf' and I NEVER ACTUALLY CATCH UP WITH WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON.

need to put more hours in

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ginhag · 11/11/2012 20:52

Worra has an army??

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HullyEastergully · 11/11/2012 20:53

i have my hurty thing handy

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MissAnnersley · 11/11/2012 20:55

It was amazing. I got nothing done this morning.

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MissAnnersley · 11/11/2012 20:55

I kept thinking it would be deleted but it was there for ages.

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TaggieCampbellBlack · 11/11/2012 20:56

It was so unutterably deathly dull it wasn't allowed to stay.

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Softlysoftly · 11/11/2012 20:56

Not joking akshewal foot soldiers with Laura Ashley uniforms.

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PseudoBadger · 11/11/2012 20:58

I heard that Laurence Fishburne may have been involved?

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YouSeveredHead · 11/11/2012 20:59

I got bored waiting for it to be deleted

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AnyFucker · 11/11/2012 21:00

Mitmoo. Watch it gooooooooooooooooooooooo

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oldbootface · 11/11/2012 21:07

Cod reported it and MNHQ did her bidding.

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HullyEastergully · 11/11/2012 21:10

Ok. So none of you know.

Why not just say so?

There's no shame in ignorance, you know.

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Softlysoftly · 11/11/2012 21:11

Mine was true!

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HanSolo · 11/11/2012 21:12

yeah- it had a lot to do with worra.

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SpringHeeledJack · 11/11/2012 21:12

what, there was REALLY something sinister going on?

and there was me thinking it was Brian and Boffy on a wind-up

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BIWI · 11/11/2012 21:18

What do you want to know, Hully?

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ginhag · 11/11/2012 21:53

I believe I stated my ignorance quite clearly.

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MrsWembley · 11/11/2012 21:56

The Mouldies kept getting mentioned this morning and I had no idea then what it was about, let alone why it went pouf...

Hully, please tell?

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CrunchyCowPat · 11/11/2012 22:02

No idea, but I am gutted. Have been looking forward to discovering the truth about moldies all day only to log in and see that the thread has disappeared.

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BIWI · 11/11/2012 22:27

OK.
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I will begin:

A group of long-time MNetters decided that Things Had Changed on Mumsnet, and that the calibre of posts/posters wasn't as good as it had been, and that more recent posters were insufficiently clever/intellectual. So they started their own, breakaway forum.

It was to be kept secret.

Once they had set it up, they decided that they needed to invite other MNetters to join them. So they all volunteered names of their MN friends who might join.

But then, the decision was made that not everyone should be allowed to join. And so they started to 'vote' as to who was or wasn't allowed to join.

When those who were in charge decided that they didn't like the cut of the jib of someone who had been nominated, their 'application' was rejected. The criteria for rejection were many and varied - but also fairly subjective, i.e. whether or not those in charge 'knew' said applicant.

All this was happening at the time of the Christmas MN meet up. Lots of people went along, not knowing that Moldies already existed. Or that they had been turned down. People who thought that other MNetters they were drinking with were their friends, suddenly discovered that they had been rejected. Without ever knowing why.

Justine inadvertently gave the game away, by blogging about the existence of Moldies on a MNHQ blog. She also detailed just how affected she had been by the whole thing. The Moldies, in their complete and total certainty that they were doing something right, actually invited Justine to join them. They also couldn't see that there was anything wrong in them trying to recruit other MNetters to join their breakaway group.



It's very easy for the likes of scottishmummy to dismiss the whole thing as 'words on a screen', but it was hugely upsetting for lots of people. To know that you had been judged and rejected by your 'friends' is not a nice thing to happen.

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HanSolo · 11/11/2012 22:29

"inadvertently"?

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