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Seems like thread deletion is becoming much more common on mumsnet and i find it annoying that threads i have taken time to post on disappear as if they had never existed. Can we not just delete inappropriate posts?
Why does the whole thread need to go?

It depends. There was a thread this week which would have made no sense at all if it were left, because several prayers asked for all their threads on it to be deleted, for good reason IMHO.

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I've seen posters continually post personal attacks if they disagree with the content of the op. These attacks tend to be responded to and so HQ deletes whole thread.

A cunning plan if you like.

Moving threads I actually find more annoying as they cease to be purple in Active Convos.

The whole thread needs to go sometimes because a thread can be taken over by a small number of posters having a go and each other. It takes over the thread and can get out of hand, sometimes getting personal. I agree with deletions in this instance tbh.

But it feels like the work of the secret police when a whole thread is deleted without trace.
Could there not be notification of why threads have been deleted at least to those who posted eg this thread has been deleted because 90% of postings were personal attacks / thread likely to result in legal case for defamation etc etc
Transparency and accountability of censorship just aren't there and it feels Gestapo-esque to me
Mumsnet what say ye?

Gestapo-esque? I'm not sure MNHQ are rounding posters up in the middle of the night and making them disappear!

Hmm. But if you're on a thread for most of the duration where it's deleted because of posters arguing surely this is transparent?

If it seems there's a hairy handed one on there too that is usually obvious.

I'm confused to what sort of deletions you mean. Sorry.

Maybe there should be a little board where MN HQ can list deleted threads and give a reason why.

A few of the threads that have been deleted this week have been because the op came on to talk about an rl issue, then the other person involved 'found' the thread and all out war started, specifically wedding dresses and birthday parties.

I think mnhq just want them gone. If deleted threads were listed people would keep referring to them. Sometimes, most times they need kabooming.

There are often threads about threads asking why they are gone

Seriously, please don't compare MN to Nazi Germany, please, that is HORRIBLE, no matter how upset one is that pearls of wisdom scattered by you are lost forever

TIA

HQ always, so far as I know, post a message saying the thread is going to go. Sometimes they even say why.

If you miss that, of course, you're out of luck.

And I am wondering if mentioning the Gestapo is a corollary to Godwin's Law.

Stupid to say the mnhq are acting like the gestapo.

And transparency? They are a private company, not subject to the freedom of information act. They can do what they like and are accountable to nobody.

If they want to delete threads which are made up by attention seeking twats then I am glad.

oh Olivia .. I am disappointed in you... you missed the chance to drop tssdncop into the discussion

Morning Olivia.

I shall peruse your link later on, thank you

Oh did cheeky wedding-dress-borrower thread kick off? Damn, I missed it

But the message is only up until the thread disappears and if you dont catch in that window you never know.

'If they want to delete threads which are made up by attention seeking twats then I am glad'

This.

I just want to know what threads were deleted and why, that is all

The thread title and a generic reason for deletion would be sufficient for me.
I am not objecting to thread deletion but to the process of thread deletion.

There is lack of transparency here and the current situation is too Big Brother in style for my liking. Appreciate that this may be for technical rather than ideological reasons. Mumsnet used imo to be far more liberal on the subject of censorship and things seem to have shifted.

id say if this is REALLY annoying you that you need time out from Mumsnet in which to discover Real LIfe

I don't understand the gestapo thing.

As a forum I think we get can pretty much say and do what we like. Well that's how I feel.

I don't agree with everything that mnhq do like banning tsc but most things I'm cool with.

Tbf I think they are a pretty lovely lot.