Moofyisms

Hang on Moofy, Moofy hang on.
Hang on Moofy, Moofy hang on.

Moofy lives in her little internet world
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
And everybody, yeah, tries to put my Moofy down
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
Moofy I don't care what your threads say
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
'Cause you know Moofy, it's just the net anyway
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)

Can you go back on the thread where they were dissing her and report them for harassment?

I miss Moofey too. She had a great sense of humor. Some people, when they don't like someone, just seem to go after that person like a pack of wolves.

I hope she does come back. Here's a Moofey song. :bigsmile:

I know a song that gets on everyone's nerves,
everyone's nerves, everyone's nerves.
I know a song that gets on everyone's nerves,
and this is how it goes.

I know a song that gets on your nerves, gets on your nerves, gets on your nerves. I know a song that gets on your nerves and this is how it goes.

I know a song that will get on your nerves,
get on your nerves, get on your nerves.
I know a song that will get on your nerves,
and this is how it goes.

I know a song that's very annoying,
very annoying, very annoying.
I know a song that's very annoying,
and this is how it goes.

Awww...

I'm very sorry to hear that your friend left. People sometimes don't realize how painful their words really are or unfortunately they don't care.

:flowerforyou:

bullying makes me sad, it happens so often on MFP anymore... I wish it was the site it used to be. :brokenheart:

bullying makes me sad, it happens so often on MFP anymore... I wish it was the site it used to be. :brokenheart:

Well, some people's definition of 'adult' behavior is sadly distant from mature and kind. Some people appear to believe that it's okay to bully and attack and say raunchy things to each other because 'we're all grownups, right?' These people need to get a clue - many of the people who have turned to MFP are dealing with serious self-esteem issues, loneliness and depression. We should, as a community of adults with a shared goal of trying to improve ourselves, be building each other up, not calling names, calling each other out, or belittling someone to the point where they are forced to retreat or be emotionally scarred. I joined this site because I want to get healthy. I honestly wonder about other people's motivations when I read some of these threads.

The environment in these MFP forums has seriously degraded in just the four months that I've been here. There seem to be a handful of participants who find it amusing to gang up and provoke, insult and taunt the target(s) of the day. For what? Entertainment? Power trip? What? I haven't seen behavior this bad since Jr. High! The mods are doing a good job of putting out the fires, but seriously, I really do wish that the behaviors matched the age on the profiles. Bullying is not cool when you're a kid, but it happens because kids are immature and stupid. Bullying here is really inexcusable. "Do unto others..." you know the rest.

Rant over.

I agree. It didn't used to be like this. Now it's like there's a pack mentality among a lot of the posters. I was explaining it to my son the other night and I used the phrase "pack of wolves" and he said it sounded like sharks going after blood. That's a very good description too. I made the comment once that I felt like I was back in high school but junior high school is more like it. My daughter came to this site because of me but she no longer goes to any of the threads anymore because of how they've become.

You act like a child, and you are probably going to be treated as such.

Sorry she felt the need to deactivate.

but I have been on more than a few websites with forums. Everyone does the "I AM DELETING" thing only to come back under a different name later on. I think the term attention *kitten* comes to mind.

bullying makes me sad, it happens so often on MFP anymore... I wish it was the site it used to be. :brokenheart:

Well, some people's definition of 'adult' behavior is sadly distant from mature and kind. Some people appear to believe that it's okay to bully and attack and say raunchy things to each other because 'we're all grownups, right?' These people need to get a clue - many of the people who have turned to MFP are dealing with serious self-esteem issues, loneliness and depression. We should, as a community of adults with a shared goal of trying to improve ourselves, be building each other up, not calling names, calling each other out, or belittling someone to the point where they are forced to retreat or be emotionally scarred. I joined this site because I want to get healthy. I honestly wonder about other people's motivations when I read some of these threads.

The environment in these MFP forums has seriously degraded in just the four months that I've been here. There seem to be a handful of participants who find it amusing to gang up and provoke, insult and taunt the target(s) of the day. For what? Entertainment? Power trip? What? I haven't seen behavior this bad since Jr. High! The mods are doing a good job of putting out the fires, but seriously, I really do wish that the behaviors matched the age on the profiles. Bullying is not cool when you're a kid, but it happens because kids are immature and stupid. Bullying here is really inexcusable. "Do unto others..." you know the rest.

Rant over.

I commented on the "Moofey thread" she addressed to her mom. I've received a PM telling me that I joined the group that bullied her. It was not my intent to bully her at all. I was hoping she would see my reply from the perspective of her mother (since I'm old enough to be her mother). I replied in the same snarky way she did in hers, so I was hoping she'd get it and take pause to think about what she was complaining about. I guess it didn't come across that way. For that, I apologize.

I agree with everything you've stated above. I'm usually one of the people the "herd" comes after. There is definitely a herd mentaltiy on here. I'm older than Moofey and probably have thicker skin, so I just stay on and debate instead of deactivating and going away (they win when you do that). I can't stand bullying. I think Moofey is young, naive, and immature~ which is obvious in many of her posts, but it was never my intent to make her feel bad about herself.

It's actually refreshing to see people in this thread speaking up about things I'm usually being attacked for saying. There is a lot of bullying here, as well as vile topics/discussions. One poster yesterday created a thread on voting to ban people here. In my opinion, banning should be done by the mods and Mike for breaking site rules, not voted on by a pack of people who target anyone who sees things differently than they do. That's just being a coward.

bullying makes me sad, it happens so often on MFP anymore... I wish it was the site it used to be. :brokenheart:

Well, some people's definition of 'adult' behavior is sadly distant from mature and kind. Some people appear to believe that it's okay to bully and attack and say raunchy things to each other because 'we're all grownups, right?' These people need to get a clue - many of the people who have turned to MFP are dealing with serious self-esteem issues, loneliness and depression. We should, as a community of adults with a shared goal of trying to improve ourselves, be building each other up, not calling names, calling each other out, or belittling someone to the point where they are forced to retreat or be emotionally scarred. I joined this site because I want to get healthy. I honestly wonder about other people's motivations when I read some of these threads.

The environment in these MFP forums has seriously degraded in just the four months that I've been here. There seem to be a handful of participants who find it amusing to gang up and provoke, insult and taunt the target(s) of the day. For what? Entertainment? Power trip? What? I haven't seen behavior this bad since Jr. High! The mods are doing a good job of putting out the fires, but seriously, I really do wish that the behaviors matched the age on the profiles. Bullying is not cool when you're a kid, but it happens because kids are immature and stupid. Bullying here is really inexcusable. "Do unto others..." you know the rest.

Rant over.

I agree. It didn't used to be like this. Now it's like there's a pack mentality among a lot of the posters. I was explaining it to my son the other night and I used the phrase "pack of wolves" and he said it sounded like sharks going after blood. That's a very good description too. I made the comment once that I felt like I was back in high school but junior high school is more like it. My daughter came to this site because of me but she no longer goes to any of the threads anymore because of how they've become.

I so agree with both of you, such ugly changes the boards have taken. It's lost so much and makes so many leave and choose to no longer use the boards. The boards are such a valuable part of MFP but if they remain this way so many will either leave completely or simple no longer visit the boards. At that point I can only imagine how ugly the boards would become.

At this point I no longer feel comfortable recommending MFP to others for the very reason your daughter no longer comes to the boards because of the ugliness and it's way too unpredictable what will be said.

Thank you both for sharing.:flowerforyou: & Mommared I'm so sorry your daughter no longer feels comfortable on here, but I do understand her feelings. :brokenheart:

I'm not knocking MFP, I love this site and there are a not of good people on here and that's why I stay but I don't feel comfortable recommending MFP to family and friends either, especially Christian friends. That's sad.

You act like a child, and you are probably going to be treated as such.

Not trying to attack, or defend, or offend, but wouldn't those same rules apply to the posters that incessantly turn threads in to 7th grade level conversations? I really would rather not read about how bad 30 something married lady wants to see 30 something married man's junk. I've never seen you stoop to that level, but it seems that this "mob" tends to favor these tactics. It's kind of sad actually.

ok
and this is being honest. A lot of different people we're upset and had similar comments about her mom thread.
Myself I said something. But I later emailed her and told her to relax.. blah blah.

I think it was her AW behavior(and very immature quite often) after that which prompted the further dogpile(and I'm not saying I agreed with it). This board, as many others can have a pack mentality.
Sometimes it's awesome to see what a group like this can create if they want as far as good, but theres also the other side of the coin.
I honestly do think had she just let it be...it would have been fine.

Sometimes it's awesome to see what a group like this can create if they want as far as good, but theres also the other side of the coin.
I honestly do think had she just let it be...it would have been fine.

I agree with you. Sometimes these interwebs make it hard to keep a level head. When people become anonymous their true selves aren't often revealed....or maybe sometimes they are.

I am locking this thread because the conversation is getting a little out of hand.
Keep in mind that even if the member is no longer active on the site, it is still against MFP forum guidelines to post comments such as many that have been made in this thread.

(From the guidelines)

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