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claireloSC · July 2015

I know she had gotten some warnings from some crazies, so if that nutter from last night reported her she could have gotten her third strike.

I hope not! Maybe she will come back with a new username. It's annoying that a rando who just joined can get someone banned who has been posting here for 3 years...

apinkpelican · July 2015

indibidule said:
I wonder if she'll be back in a few days with a different name?

I think they ban the IP address so she won't be able to sign on with a different name I don't think

sck601 · July 2015

apinkpelican said:
This was part of the reason for the great exitus (sp?) by all the old groups. TB just started laying the ban hammer down on everyone, including Mods.

Yeah, back in January. I had just started posting on TTGP, because DH and I were going to start trying in April. Then a week after my intro, the ban hammer came down

indibidule · July 2015

@kemerson531 it's possible that she's already created a new one. She would just have to lurk for 72 hours before posting. So she'd be able to see that we know she's gone and want her back.

Snoopylovesbelle · July 2015

There was a mass exodus when I was on the bump for DD it was after she was born like April/may 2014

indibidule · July 2015

@Pinkpelican I thought it was the usernane/email. So you just have to get a new email.

Snoopylovesbelle · July 2015

I'm sure stephpegasus will be back in some form!

kemerson531 · July 2015

I guess we'll see in 3 or 4 days. It's a sad day for Jan BMB

sck601 · July 2015

It said she was last active 5 minutes ago, so it has to be very recent. Hopefully she has a new name up and running and be back in a few days

apinkpelican · July 2015

sck601 said:

apinkpelican said:
This was part of the reason for the great exitus (sp?) by all the old groups. TB just started laying the ban hammer down on everyone, including Mods.
Yeah, back in January. I had just started posting on TTGP, because DH and I were going to start trying in April. Then a week after my intro, the ban hammer came down

My whole group left and I never made it over to the new website. Fortunately I still see the few I'm connected with on Insta but I really miss all of the support and advice from those ladies. To me the group was even more helpful once the babies were here. So many more real questions and less talk about cup cakes and such.
8-}

sck601 · July 2015

apinkpelican said:

sck601 said:

apinkpelican said:
This was part of the reason for the great exitus (sp?) by all the old groups. TB just started laying the ban hammer down on everyone, including Mods.
Yeah, back in January. I had just started posting on TTGP, because DH and I were going to start trying in April. Then a week after my intro, the ban hammer came down

My whole group left and I never made it over to the new website. Fortunately I still see the few I'm connected with on Insta but I really miss all of the support and advice from those ladies. To me the group was even more helpful once the babies were here. So many more real questions and less talk about cup cakes and such.
8-}

My May 13 group split off into a FB, but I never joined the place that shall not be named

sherks11 · July 2015

I hope she's back soon, she gave great advice!!!

apinkpelican · July 2015

sck601 said:

apinkpelican said:

sck601 said:

apinkpelican said:
This was part of the reason for the great exitus (sp?) by all the old groups. TB just started laying the ban hammer down on everyone, including Mods.
Yeah, back in January. I had just started posting on TTGP, because DH and I were going to start trying in April. Then a week after my intro, the ban hammer came down

My whole group left and I never made it over to the new website. Fortunately I still see the few I'm connected with on Insta but I really miss all of the support and advice from those ladies. To me the group was even more helpful once the babies were here. So many more real questions and less talk about cup cakes and such.
8-}
My May 13 group split off into a FB, but I never joined the place that shall not be named

Yes my group was split up mid pregnancy. Many went to FB and claimed it didn't exist. I wasn't active enough at that time and didn't make the cut. Then GliderGate happened which I'm sure the whole bump community knew about. Then some came back and the ones that stayed got closer. Then one day the bat signal was out and everyone jumped ship. Sad but I understand why they all left after our Mod was banned.

essentialpeace · July 2015

GliderGate?

kemerson531 · July 2015

Oh man I feel like I need a "The History of the Bump" lesson. I've only been on here a few months, but I'm so curious what happened before. So many people reference the "old bump" and "mass exodus" and such. What exactly happened that turned so many people off?

claireloSC · July 2015

@kemerson531 I haven't been on here that long but it was something like they decided TB was too mean cause too many people complained it wasn't welcoming. Look at the reviews for the TB app. So, with all this negative feedback they decided they would rather have more users than a smaller community of super active ones. Business wise this makes sense since they make their money by marketing stuff to moms. So, they changed the TOS and started banning people or removing comments. You get two warnings for violation of TOS comments and then they ban you on the third. I don't know more than that. Someone who's not a newb tell us about GliderGate?

Monilee1017 · July 2015

I know I was on when I was pregnant with my boys then I come back when TTC and everyone was talking about mass exodus and the bat signal. What the hell happened when I was gone? I don't remember all these rules when I was here before and I don't remember people really being banned before either.

apinkpelican · July 2015

kemerson531 said:
Oh man I feel like I need a "The History of the Bump" lesson. I've only been on here a few months, but I'm so curious what happened before. So many people reference the "old bump" and "mass exodus" and such. What exactly happened that turned so many people off?

Aw man I'll have to see if I can find a link to when it went down. I'm probably not qualified to give the down and dirty by myself.

claireloSC · July 2015

Ok the GliderGate thing happened on the May14 board and is also referred to Voldemod. I think the mass exodus was Dec/Jan of this year?

claireloSC · July 2015

Edited for fear of the hammer

claireloSC · July 2015

Ok, more info on GliderGate: https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12524141/why-the-board-suicide-on-m14

sck601 · July 2015

apinkpelican said:

sck601 said:

apinkpelican said:

sck601 said:

apinkpelican said:
This was part of the reason for the great exitus (sp?) by all the old groups. TB just started laying the ban hammer down on everyone, including Mods.
Yeah, back in January. I had just started posting on TTGP, because DH and I were going to start trying in April. Then a week after my intro, the ban hammer came down

My whole group left and I never made it over to the new website. Fortunately I still see the few I'm connected with on Insta but I really miss all of the support and advice from those ladies. To me the group was even more helpful once the babies were here. So many more real questions and less talk about cup cakes and such.
8-}
My May 13 group split off into a FB, but I never joined the place that shall not be named
Yes my group was split up mid pregnancy. Many went to FB and claimed it didn't exist. I wasn't active enough at that time and didn't make the cut. Then GliderGate happened which I'm sure the whole bump community knew about. Then some came back and the ones that stayed got closer. Then one day the bat signal was out and everyone jumped ship. Sad but I understand why they all left after our Mod was banned.

Errbear? Or something like that?

LauraFi · July 2015

I also am in need of a lesson on The History of The Bump. On a side note the weather here has been really crappy this weekend (cold, windy, and pouring rain) so we watched all three Hobbit movies (again) and have now moved on to re watching Harry Potter. Netflix movie marathon.

apinkpelican · July 2015

essentialpeace said:
GliderGate?

Short version from someone who was not involved:
an active member lost her baby later into the pregnancy. The group all pulled together money to buy her a keepsake in honor of her angel baby. One of the Mods collected the money and then disappeared. Stole the money. They called it GliderGate bc earlier on in the board the Mod was complaining about how bad she wanted this Pottery Barn Glider and about how someone wouldn't buy it for her or something. Please note this could be off a little since I didn't give money and wasn't on the FB group. Bottom line- don't trust anyone on the Internet. The lossmom eventually got a keepsake from the group but it was a sad situation.

sck601 · July 2015

@apinkpelican my moms group on FB (a different spin off than the mass exodus FB) joke about that all the time. When we collect money for a member for any reason, we call it the "glider fund."

sck601 · July 2015

And from what I remember about glider gate, the Mod complained about her ILs not buying her that matching $1000 glider that went with the rest of her nursery set (that they were buying for her already). When she got called out on it, she made a $25 donation to the charity and skipped town

LauraFi · July 2015

@Pinkpelican That's awful, I can't believe anybody could do that. I mean, I do because stupid shit like that happens, and it really makes you wonder what else that type of person does. And if they are actually having children what type of values they are instilling. Sad and despicable.

sck601 · July 2015

LauraFi said:
@Pinkpelican That's awful, I can't believe anybody could do that. I mean, I do because stupid shit like that happens, and it really makes you wonder what else that type of person does. And if they are actually having children what type of values they are instilling. Sad and despicable.

This is the scary thing about the Internet. You never know who is on the other side of the screen. I don't know if anyone remembers the May 13 Erica situation, but we had a girl fake a high risk twin pregnancy and death of a baby. She was an active member of our board from 8/12 (our BFPs) all the way to 3/13 when she was finally called out.

apinkpelican · July 2015

@sck601 that makes me sick. We had a momma lose her baby the week she was due and I think all of our hearts were broken. I still think about her.l How awful that someone would play around so carelessly with such a precious thing.

claireloSC · July 2015

Eventually the money did go to the March of Dimes like it was supposed to. (Yes I just spent 45 minutes looking at old threads to figure out what happened. lol)

LauraFi · July 2015

@sck601 there is borderline crazy and then there is institutional crazy. Hopefully the woman in your BMB was just faking it online and not to her family and friends. Last year a woman faked a pregnancy with quintuplets in real life, her boyfriend finally found out at the hospital after he drove her there because she was in "labour"... That is mental institution level crazy. Link to a news article if anybody is interested: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/boyfriend-devastated-by-phantom-quintuplet-pregnancy-1.1739466

apinkpelican · July 2015

claireloSC said:
Eventually the money did go to the March of Dimes like it was supposed to. (Yes I just spent 45 minutes looking at old threads to figure out what happened. lol)

I felt so guilty too the whole time that I was not donating but I'm too skeptical of Internet scams. I actually made a direct donation to the March of Dimes instead.

sck601 · July 2015

LauraFi said:
@sck601 there is borderline crazy and then there is institutional crazy. Hopefully the woman in your BMB was just faking it online and not to her family and friends. Last year a woman faked a pregnancy with quintuplets in real life, her boyfriend finally found out at the hospital after he drove her there because she was in "labour"... That is mental institution level crazy. Link to a news article if anybody is interested: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/boyfriend-devastated-by-phantom-quintuplet-pregnancy-1.1739466

I don't think her family and friends were in on it. We had a couple of people doing a lot of investigating and we believe she was just doing the fake pregnancy on the Internet. It's sick. I still remember what I was doing when I read her post about her baby dying. Her sn was ericaandjoeyplus3 if she still has posts up, you might be able to read through some of the crazy.

kemerson531 · July 2015

That is so twisted. I'm always skeptical of people raising money for self causes (ie not through a reputable non-profit or other organized fundraisers). I purposefully never donate to anyone's gofundme campaigns, even close personal friends, for that very reason. I might like you, but how would I ever know if you're going to take my money to support XYZ cause like you said, or go buy yourself a new coat. Maybe I'm a jerk for being so skeptical, I've just heard too many stories and been directly involved in a scam, so I have my guard up forever now.

vvitchhazel · July 2015

I nap for a couple hours and come back to 44 plurals after a dead board all day. Jeeeez!

nanamp · July 2015

Nowadays, most people do the gofundme stuff through legitimate organizations. Solves the sketchy problem.

nickicb7 · July 2015

Wow, first off, I'm so sad she got banned today, but hopeful that she will return.

Secondly, I cannot believe this Glider Gate BS.

cjd&k · July 2015

I'm bummed @StephPegasus is gone, but hope she'll be back soon!!

Also, can't believe something like that had happened. That's terrible. So sad for the mama who lost her baby so far along. I couldn't imagine.
I was on a few other groups before this (not as active or there that long). April 2014, July 2015, and TTGP and I'm not sure which group (I think it was April) but almost all of the regular users got banned and everything it seemed like was deleted. They started a new site and all moved over, if I remember correctly.

ETA it was April 2015 not 14 wow

Lljbean · July 2015

I just came back to a warning also. Cool.

babybluu · July 2015

Lljbean said:
I just came back to a warning also. Cool.

What?? Did they say why?

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