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BetchySprout
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I met an MDC moderator today
BetchySprout
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She is the Spirituality among other things, moderator for Mothering.com
Believe it or not, she seemed fairly normal. I guess I assumed all people that involved with MDC would be extremely odd folks. I live in a very hippie/progressive part of NY (lots of babywearing, cloth diapering, waaay extended breastfeeding, co-sleeping doesn't make anyone bat an eyelash) so I guess "normal" is also very subjective in this case.
(In case you are wondering, I found this out because I went to an ICAN meeting today, we all got into a discussion about the Duggars, to quiverfull, etc then she mentioned that she was that communitys mod).
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Re: I met an MDC moderator today
Mothering.com
(Mothering Dot Com or Commune)
A place where the REALLY crunchy mamas go. Huge, huge community over there.
A lot of issues with mods overstepping bounds/abusing power so that was where my surprise was.
"Normal" is always subjective IMO.
I was a member of the July 2008 DDC and after all our LOs were born we created our own site to keep up with each other. I am also "friends" with many of them on FB and if anyone lived close to me, we would surely be meeting up.
They are all lovely open minded women ::shrugs:: They don't even care that I use sposies or that I vaccinate- even if it is not the path that they chose.
Oh I agree there are a lot of great women (and a discussion group for everything under the sun! Homebirth pagan leaning bible-study midwife candidates? I have a group for you!). The UC forum is the sticky one for me though. She and I have a friend in common who is planning her second soon, and the UC forum/mods often take off the ones that are unsuccessful.
The Mods are only following the MCD rules- which are much stricter than the nest. Although I find it annoying at times (I have even had a couple of what I thought were benign, posts removed), I think it is necessary- I mean, how many times has someone from the nest stumbled upon MDC and recruited a bunch of folks to go over there and attack and make fun of various posts? All the people on that site want is somewhere where they can discuss their issues with like minded people. It's not like they are claiming to be one thing and then acting another.
You have a point with some of that, but aside from that, if a UC is unsuccessful and that birth story is not kept there (aside from being attacked from outsiders, I mean), isn't that keeping information away from people who might be considering it? Like, hey here are 10 people who had planned UC's and look, nothing bad happened to anyone here. Maybe I am just a "give me all the information" person. I know some bad ones stay up, but I know a lot don't.
I agree with you, but we have to remember that it is just a discussion board like the nest and not really responsible for being fair or telling it all. No one should ever get all their information from a discussion board.
It was great! It is a small group but I enjoy it every time. Tons of information, such as the fact that homebirth midwives are getting a defacto ban in NY state as of July. That is homebirth midwives, PERIOD, not just homebirth VBAC midwives. They have to have an OB sign off on them at all times to be "legal" but insurance companies are taking away the right of an OB to make that decision, so therefore, defacto ban.