deleting a thread - why the lapse?

[PervCat]

betweeen " we are going to delete this" and deleting it?

do oyu have to get the loft ladder down and go up there with a torch?

[PervCat]

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[TallulahBetty]

Marking place. This makes me curious too

[HotCrossPun]

I've also always wondered this. I like to think it's to give us time to mark our place before the deletion message

[InTheRedCorner]

I like the lapse in time, it gives me time to catch up before it goes poof!

[DSJamesHathaway]

I've always wondered this too.

[sapfu]

It's a carefully laid trap for trolls. They sneak back in to take a look, walk through a trip wire over a net that hoiks them up high in the air and they're left there swinging, till all their hairy toes fall off.

I imagine life in MNHQ to be quite medieval.

[TEErickOrTEEreat]

I think it's to give people a chance to read HQ's message.

[PervCat]

why let them read it] JUFT FUCKING delete !

come on mnhq man up

[BoreOfWhabylon]

[TheOnlyOliviaMumsnet]

@sapfu

I imagine life in MNHQ to be quite medieval.

Yes. It's Hampton Court Palace with Laptops

Perv - Tee is right - it is to give folk a chance to read that we gonna nix

[InkleWinkle]

If there isn't a lapse to let people read the message then invariably some I e starts a thread asking where the thread has gone.

[TEErickOrTEEreat]

As I've pointed out before, if everyone would just accept 'Tee is right' as gospel, we'd all save time.