I don’t think cliqueyness is anywhere near as bad as it used to be though. I know when I first joined MN, there were some very well known members on there who’d been there since it’s inception. Someone would start a thread, get a few answers then one of the MN royalty would rock up and disagree and so everyone would start agreeing with them. And then it would pages of *waves to ‘MN Royalty Poster’* *waves to so and so* *sits on bench next to MN Royalty*. It was bleeping tedious in the extreme.Some of the posters are treated like royalty despite being really nasty pieces of work. All posters are equal but some are more equal than others.
Another thing that pissed me off is some threads/forums are completely closed to new posters. They treat it like a private member's club and either ignore you or bully you until you go away. It's horrible and allowed to happen by the so-called mods.
Whereas whenever a new poster joins a thread here I've only seen lovely, welcoming messages, apart from when the new poster is obviously only joining to troll us.
I used to be a regular contributor to MN and gave a lot of my specialist knowledge gratis. No longer after Justine's begging email, though. Not paying when I provided your content, you numpty.
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Tbh, it’s getting a bit like that on here on some threads. There’s some cracking derailing going on one particular thread, but it seems a bit mean to report it. I know you get to know certain posters, but stick to the topic in hand, for gawds sake.