Regarding the Elvi

Since this has been such a hot topic in the comments and in our inbox, let’s talk about the Elvi a little.

Okay.  The Elvi got their name because a bunch of them had pictures of Elvis in their signatures for awhile.  Absolutely harmless.  Except that they were doing it to make fun of the Hoffies.  For those of you not in the know on that one, the Hoffies had pictures of David Hasselhoff in their signatures for awhile and had a big board war with the Ranters.  So when you put something so memorable in your signatures to make fun of another group, well, you are entering into the drama.  Welcome to the blog!

The Elvi are really just a few members of a spinoff board called More Than Mommy Talk.  No biggie.  We think everyone needs a spin off group to really belong. FeatherButt is an Elvi, she’s been pretty open about that.  She also claims that they do not and have never had any part in board drama.  Which is completely untrue.  FeatherButt make have kept her nose clean.   But not every Elvi was so careful.

See, Anna is an Elvi.  A long long time ago Anna got into a big fight with the ubiquitous Zen (where to even start with Zen?) and made a fake myspace page with photoshopped images that she stole from Zen’s myspace page.  The whole thing got nasty, was all over BabyCenter, and Anna got banned. Since then, Anna has been back under various other screen names.  GilGrissom’sLoveSlave is the most well known, but there have been rumored to be others (I’m The Map, Sir Lance s Boil, but we question that one!).   She attracted a lot of negative attention because of her dry sense of humor and the fact that she’s done things people thing are strange.  Like dive in dumpsters or lance her own boils.  A different time, a different poster, and we don’t think anything would have been said.  Heck, at least half of the new coupon thread is diving in dumpsters for coupons every week, and who hasn’t practiced some minor DIY medicine?  But is was Anna, and it got attention.

 But really, Anna has been quiet lately.  We’re pretty sure that she and Zen have even forgiven each other. Since she’s banned though, her new names get deleted pretty fast when they are discovered.  

Come on BabyCenter, let Anna come back!  Then she can take up for her own self and FeatherButt won’t have to do it for her!   

Who Loves the Drama?

We do!  We do!

Looks like lots of other mamas do too!

Thanks to BookEnds to explaining Ramon to the newbies.  We somehow missed the Ramon drama, but that’s how it was summed up for us too:

“Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but here’s what I remember about Ramon.  Someone posted that they ran into an old flame (Ramon) and still had feelings for him.  Ramon’s wife (or current girlfriend, I forget which), figured out it was “her Ramon”, and an all out cat fight started on the board.”

On another note, ToFurkey, you’re a funny bird, aren’t you?  Surely you must know that most nasty drama start by one mama telling another that she’s better.  Because she breastfeeds, or doesn’t co sleep, or has her kid rear facing, or stays at home, or even because she feeds vegetarian foods and moniters her kids 24/7 .  Actually, maybe you do know that.  Looks like you’ve been bored since Green Beans Go ran off (anyone know where she is, or if she’s come back under a new name?) and need a new sparring partner.  Watch out Ashley, looks like you my have another heckler running to your blog!

Sharin’ the Love.

We just want to give a shout out to everyone who has linked us!And a very special thank you to everyone who has posted about us!  So thank you Sasha, and Ranters.Oh, and Ashley.  Ashley has given us much love, and much love we give in return.Vote for her please, will you? 

The Thread We Must Address

*EDIT*   7:42  Locked Pending Review.  Come on BabyCenter, you’re killing us! 

Have you ever gone to a restaurant and just sat there, watching people interact?  Trying to watch their faces and hands and read between the words they are saying?

That’s what this thread is like. 

Yes, yes, we’ve already linked it.  We’re shocked that it’s still on the board though.  Usually, BabyCenter would zap something promoting another blog in no time!

  Miraculously, the thread is still alive.  And it has morphed.  Now it’s not about The Drama Mama blog at all.  It’s about the drama!

So you read it on your own.  We put it in The Copy Shop (Parts 1, 2, and 3, and 4) because it’s days must be numbered, and there is some stuff worth reading there.

Okay, first, you have a few pages of speculation on The Drama Mama.  Who she is, etc.  Since it pops up how ‘creepy’ it is to have someone reading, but not posting, let us clear this up right now.  The Drama Mama is a fiction character.  She is a conglomeration of authors.  Therefor, she can not (and does not) post on BabyCenter or any other board.  Our authors do post.  You know them.  We really aren’t creepy, we really aren’t stalking you.  We like you and want to keep you in the know!

Alright.  Now that the air is clear about that, let’s talk about the Elvi.  Who the heck are the Elvi?  WoodnitBNice pops in to bring them up.  Then she insults Rebecca.  That came out of the blue.  Interesting.

Then we’ve got some shameless blog promotion.

Then WoodnitBNice brings up those Elvi again.  Rebecca says she knows, but is keeping her mouth shut after her last run in with the Ranters (off the subject, whoa Ranters!  You’ve got some Rebecca anger!  Fill us in!  What’s going on there?)

Now FeatherButt jumps in on the Rebecca hate train.  Looks like name dropping DOES get you in trouble on BabyCenter!

  FeatherButt is an Elvi.  So fill us in FeathButt!  What (or who) is an Elvi?Some pretty funny sparring between FeatherButt and Rebecca ensues, then FeatherButt leaves for the movies.

Ashley comes back and the shameless self promotion continues.  Then we talk anti-depressants.  Looks like everyone is on them.

Now Host Angela pops in!!  We love it when hosts join in the fun.  Sam doesn’t though, and poor Angela takes a beating for coming out to play with the girls

.  Then Host Kim comes to play too!!  Looks like Kim is allowed to play though, no bullets are slung her way.

Then the love fest ensues.  The Hoffies, ex-Hoffies, and people who don’t even know who the Hoffies are all make friends and share the love around.

  You would think the thread ends there. But then FeatherButt comes back from the movies and brings the sparring back.  Is she way off mark, or is Rebecca really crazy?

Then someone gives us a kitten.  Thanks!  We love kittens!

Morning rolls around, the thread is still alive, and so is Host Angela.  Pretty please Angela, can you tell us with you got a slap on the hand for your deleted thread?  We don’t want you to go, but it’s killing us to know if the BabyCenter mods told their own host to toe the line!

THEN, again when you think it’s over, mom2gage shows up.  Who is she?  No idea.  Can you find out for us and fill us in?

She says she’s NOT a Hoffie and NOT a Ranter.  She doesn’t deny being part of any other group.  Is she a mysterious Elvi?  In any case, her super duper secret board DOES create trolls and drama!  And they blame it on the Ranters!  mom2gage!  Don’t tease us!  Let us in on the info!

Then the love fest resumes.  Please don’t let this thread die.  Because while Ashley might think it’s really all about her, you know that deep down, this thread is all about THE DRAMA MAMA!

Updating the Blogroll!

You all know we’re new.  We’re just getting started.  And we’ve tried to link as many of you who are bucking the BabyCenter Terms of Service and shamelessly promoting your blogs (and ours, thanks Ashley!!!!  What’s wrong with the rest of you!!!  Link us up!  Post us on the board!) as possible.

If you don’t have the cajones of Ashley, but you’d still like to be on our blogroll, leave a comment and let us know!

If you’re a blogger, but you’ve never been to BabyCenter, tell us that too.  We’ll still link you.  We’ll just need to make you your very own category!

Thank You!

To use an overused BabyCenter term: wow. just wow.

Mama Drama is the #1 Fastest Growing Blog on WordPress!

We’re the #17th Most Popular WordPress Blog! 

And the Big Hummer Blow Up is the 12th Most Popular Post!

And going up!!  There are over 2 MILLION WordPress blogs.  That’s really something!

So THANK YOU!  All 5000 of you!  Come back again, and bring your friends, because the party is just getting started!

The End of the World

It’s like Christmas in January! We open up the old inbox and it’s filled with little gems of drama that have escaped us in the recent past!

The first little beauty we have to share with you is this teeny tiny one concerning the end of the world. We’re not sure what the poster who started the thread was going for, but some how it turned into a JamesGoesBuzzBuzz (a ranter? a friend of the ranters? this is a new troll for us!) vs Powered By Starbucks (Charlie).

The allegations are flying that Charlie had a troll name and was posting during her recent hiatus from the board. Is it true Charlie? Or is the new troll way off base?

We are just going to have to agree with TS Elliot (and Cindy)

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Read the thread in The Copy Shop

Nancy Drew, to the rescue!

Not really, just Host Angela!

But we are so loving that even the hosts are having fun outing trolls!  Or are they trying to out this blogger?  No matter, it’s all in good fun in any case.  Come on BabyCenter, don’t shut down our fun!

Help her out folks!  Who is in the picture?  Please tell us, we’d love to know!

Someone needs an anger intervention.

Let’s step away from BabyCenter for just a minute to talk about some hilarious mama drama elsewhere!

Kids, don’t call your school administraters at home.  Even if the number is listed.  Because who knows when you’ll get an angry wife to call you back!

Just in case you want to hear the entire call (complete with some pretty funny animation to go with it)

We now rejoin your previously schedule BabyCenter drama, still going strong.

Dear Ashley

So glad you like the blog! 

Unfortunately, The Drama Mama can’t answer your thread on BabyCenter.  The Drama Mama doesn’t have a BabyCenter account.  Aren’t you glad you don’t need one of those to read?  Or to copy and paste?

So I’ll be happy to answer any and all questions here.

First:  How do we think we’re going to be able to keep up with such a huge job?  Well, in case you’ve missed the plurals, let me just point out that The Drama Mama is actually a whole team of specialists devoting their lives to archiving and preserving drama from BabyCenter.  Okay, not really.  We’re not that dedicated.  But there are more than one of us.

Plus, any and all BabyCenter users can copy drama and paste it into an email to bbcmamadrama@yahoo.com.  Then one of our authors will scurry back here and share it with the world.  Sure, they could all start their own blogs and post whatever meager amount of drama they happen to catch, but who wants that work?  Besides, if we team together, we’ll be able to read so much MORE drama.  Everyone wins.

To address several other comments from both BabyCenter and here on the blog:

We’ve been around for awhile.  Long enough to know all about the good drama.  But the idea of this blog just came to us following the Stir Crazy Mom drama and the mass of women who want to know.  Now why BabyCenter even deleted that is beyond us, it was some good reading!  But they did, and people want to know, so here we are.  If anyone has some of the infamous threads from BabyCenter history, send them along and we’ll share them!

As far as deleting the signatures from the posters.  No, we can’t do that.  Really, we could, but it takes too much time.  If you don’t want your signature there, delete it from BabyCenter.  You know that BabyCenter is a public site and anyone can read it anyway, so it should make no difference that it is here.  And any Junior Nancy Drew knows that being able to see past signatures can out a troll in a hurry.  We look at it as a resource!  Not all of the copy and paste will have the signatures.  But some will.  It just depends who the source is.

Oh, and YES, you can link us!  We’ve linked you!  Link us, talk about us, put us on the board.  In case you haven’t noticed, you aren’t the only attention loving wiener gobbler around (though we’ll let you keep the trademark)!