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MN is a load of shit and all the posters are full of it

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ConnieDescending · 30/04/2007 17:07

I came here as was fed up of the fluffiness on other parenting websites, the tickers, the over moderation of swear words and forceful opinions, the constant calling for hugs, the 'huns' etc

But you know what after spending 6 months here I'm heading back to those parenting websites where normal people frequent and will put up with the overt 'nicey nicey ness.'

Whats so great about MN? You all go on about it all the time, its freedom of speech, its being able to get seriously involved in debates, etc........well yes there is that but pretty soon the 'parping' becomes duller than the 'big (((((hun)))))'. And what the lack of moderation means we can write 'fuck off'...???

I would love to read a thread without cod being mentioned - fgs, you're like a load of playground kids desperate for attention from queen bee by mentioning her name!

Then there's the food threads where a normal conversation never occurs without 'fruitshoots are crap' or 'lentil weavers' thrown in...........so boring now as is the debate on what is crap and what is not, who gives crap and who does not and usually ends in people saying parp and fuck off. FGS, how anyone can read these threads again and again is beyond me.

MN is a place where you can't say you actually think the SMA emblem looks like a mother cuddling her child without attacks, you can't ever be on the middle ground of something.

On MN the newbies, a term I hate are generally are viewed as a lower species and treated with disdain, people whos opinions are less important or valid.

On MN those who shout loudest, post longest and are the rudest are the most regarded.

On MN, there are a group of mother judging all the other mothers as inferior to them and setting ridiculous standards.

On MN a topic such as weaning invokes 500 posts of pure drivel and arguments

Then there's the new AIBU threads which are just so fucking annoying and pointless.

So I will go back to my fluffy parenting forums where people are pleasant, normal and all are there for genuine reasons.

I will give up my freedom of saying fuck off.

MN is shit

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MrsBadger · 30/04/2007 17:08

super to hear it

seeya

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nogoes · 30/04/2007 17:08

I quite like it how it is.

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SmileysPeoples · 30/04/2007 17:09

I love your name ConnieDescending.

If you really are going can I have it??

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Cappuccino · 30/04/2007 17:09

it will be nice on your other forums

I hear you can decorate your signatures with pink stuff and flowers

go wild

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Tutter · 30/04/2007 17:10

lol

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FioFio · 30/04/2007 17:10

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SmileysPeoples · 30/04/2007 17:10

What in particular has provoked this though CD?

Some of what you say has some truth, but surely it hasn't taken you 6months to realise this?

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themildmanneredjanitor · 30/04/2007 17:10

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YeahBut · 30/04/2007 17:11

Have a vodka and valium, hun. You'll feel much better...

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Tutter · 30/04/2007 17:11

blimey

she must be right and we're all wrong

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PeachyChocolateEClair · 30/04/2007 17:11

I'm often ont he middle ground and never had a problem with it. But as I haven't seen your posts what can I say? Goodbye though, and be happy.

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thedogsbollox · 30/04/2007 17:12

God I agree with you - a lot of it is shit - but it is highly addictive shit so I'll be staying around a bit longer yet

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nailpolish · 30/04/2007 17:13

ohh connie ar you having a bad day/

((((((((hugs)))))))))))

nailpolish
2 dds
1 dh
and a fluffy kitten with sugar sprinkles

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joash · 30/04/2007 17:13

what other forums - can we all go and 'spoil' them with our common, unladylike bahaviour then?

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OrmIrian · 30/04/2007 17:13

I've never come across a parenting site where there wasn't judging of others parenting styles, circular arguments, periodic flouncing, certain posters with axes to grind. And cliques who ignored you if they didn't know you and sucked up to the important ones. And the term 'newbies' (which I also abominate) is not exclusive to MN.

The vocabulary is better on MN though.

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joash · 30/04/2007 17:13

behaviour

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nailpolish · 30/04/2007 17:14

ohyes lets, joash

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pesme · 30/04/2007 17:14

we were due one of these.

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fannyannie · 30/04/2007 17:14

"On MN those who shout loudest, post longest and are the rudest are the most regarded. "

B*gger so why I am still so lowly regarded??? I shout very loud, am very controversial (sometimes) have been posting for 2 1/2yrs and still get ignored frequently

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MrsBadger · 30/04/2007 17:14

now come on, if you're leaving you have nothing to lose:
who were you before you bravely namechanged?

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Tutter · 30/04/2007 17:14
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Hillls · 30/04/2007 17:14

Oh her life must be so exciting

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joash · 30/04/2007 17:14

d'ya wanna be in my gang????

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ConnieDescending · 30/04/2007 17:15

Typical responses- all trying to outdo each other with your wit. Its this kind of thing that gets tiring.

Ignoring the OP and trying to score points with the MN royalty.

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Blandmum · 30/04/2007 17:15

We, I dare say that you are fully entitled to your opinion.

I simply don't know how I would have coped over the last six months without the kindness and support from so many wonderful, helpful, kind, exceptional woman.

What is so great about it? people sending me gifts of frozen food when Dh was in hospital, so that I didn't have to ciik when I got home wrung out and exhausted.

People knitting me a blanket to show me that they were thinking about me, and that I wasn't going through the horrors of Dhs diagnosis on my own.

Total strangers sending gifts to a dying man to cheer him up, sending money to Macmillan Nurses so that they can keep on helping people.

Connie, I hope that you never get into the situation that I am in: that you never need to know just how amazing this place can be. I wouldn't wish my situation onto anyone. But I can tell you that this place, and the people who post here have seem me through so very dark times.

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