Mamie
I try to be measured and polite, but I do sometimes remember the classic Mumsnet reply to outrageous posts.
"Are you on glue?"
That’s actually hilarious! 
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I don't think it's anything to do with sufficient gravity and level of intellectual debate.
Many posters have commented on how it is annoying when threads are disrupted because a group of people have decided that they need to be 'lightened', regardless of whether others have had a chance to say their piece. A thread about politics or a serious news event suddenly has people talking amongst themselves about kittens, and those coming late to the topic are unable to get a word in edgeways. It is particularly galling when the chat pushes the thread to 1000 posts, at which point it closes, and posters are often open about the fact that this is their aim. It just rides roughshod over everyone else, as we all have a right to express our opinion (including about filibustering and private chats on public threads).
I appreciate that you disagree, escaped, and that you have a right to bring this up over and over again. But diverting threads into further discussions about what you see as the injustice of being called to account will not alter the fact that many do find it annoying, and nor will it stop me from responding, as it feels like a personal dig, based on the infamous 'green trouser suit' thread on which I did speak up about that sort of thing, although I did not report you.
There are often complaints about cliques, and how people can feel intimidated on threads as they know that if they offer their opinion it will be upcast forever. I now have a certain amount of sympathy with that POV . The trouser suit thread was 18 months ago!
escaped
Moi?
Well that's me told! Especially after several posters last week commented on the welcome injections of humour brought into threads to stop them getting too nasty.
FWIW I know nothing about kittens? Maybe someone will enlighten us! 🐈 😻 🐈⬛️ 😺 🐱
The green trouser suit goes way beyond being an excuse for personal digs.
I agree. It was simply expressing an opinion, but you keep playing the martyr.
I hadn't even remembered that you were involved until you brought it up specifically on another thread. It's tedious.
The thing is, whilst you might see threads as 'getting nasty' you don't have the right to decide to change them like an unelected Head Girl. Other posters have a right to an opinion too, which is all I am saying.
Of course threads meander - it's inevitable, and there is nothing wrong with that if it's organic. It is different when a small group decides that they will impose 'lightening up', though.
Anyway, I am in danger of dragging this out too, so will leave it there - or at least until the next time it is mentioned
GrannyGravy13
Oh dear, sometimes a jovial(ish) post on a serious thread can diffuse a brewing pile on or another difficult situation.
I am guilty of the above, I am not in a clique 😼
Me too! 
Doodledog I think your post to escaped is totally uncalled for. However, I hope it doesn't get reported, it should stay.
It's unlike you to make such nasty personal remarks. Nor does it become acceptable by adding a .
And as for escaped, she is always reasonable and I have never known her be unkind to others.
I'll await the accusations of clique but it is not. It's asking why?
Allira
Doodledog I think your post to escaped is totally uncalled for. However, I hope it doesn't get reported, it should stay.
It's unlike you to make such nasty personal remarks. Nor does it become acceptable by adding a
And as for escaped, she is always reasonable and I have never known her be unkind to others.
I'll await the accusations of clique but it is not. It's asking why?
Why is because I am sick of hearing about how hard done by escaped feels over that thread. It is not usually mentioned specifically, but the digs and comments about how she was 'told off' and get a yellow card for simply not being intellectually appropriate or whatever are passive aggressive and tiresome. Ion my opinion, to which I am as entitled as she is to make her point, and you are to call me out about expressing it.
Seriously, it comes up time and time again. I fully understand that escaped feels aggrieved about being suspended, and maybe she has a point (I don't know who reported her or over which post), but the constant rehashing of it under the radar is (again IMO) as uncalled for as (in your opinion) was my post.
Doodledog
Allira
Doodledog I think your post to escaped is totally uncalled for. However, I hope it doesn't get reported, it should stay.
It's unlike you to make such nasty personal remarks. Nor does it become acceptable by adding a
And as for escaped, she is always reasonable and I have never known her be unkind to others.
I'll await the accusations of clique but it is not. It's asking why?Why is because I am sick of hearing about how hard done by escaped feels over that thread. It is not usually mentioned specifically, but the digs and comments about how she was 'told off' and get a yellow card for simply not being intellectually appropriate or whatever are passive aggressive and tiresome. Ion my opinion, to which I am as entitled as she is to make her point, and you are to call me out about expressing it.
Seriously, it comes up time and time again. I fully understand that escaped feels aggrieved about being suspended, and maybe she has a point (I don't know who reported her or over which post), but the constant rehashing of it under the radar is (again IMO) as uncalled for as (in your opinion) was my post.
Can you not just skip past posts or threads which annoy you?
I do see that advice quite often on GN.
|I could say the same to you . We all pick and choose what annoys us enough to reply to and what to skip past. You chose to reply to my post, just as I chose to reply to escaped's. What's the difference?
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