Secret Location on Mumsnet

[GeppaGip]

Does Mumsnet really have a secret area where only those who have happened to be in the right place at the right time know about? I have just seen a load of allusions to a new thread in a secret place and it is the first I have heard about it!

[Tee2072]

It's not secret, it's not indexed on Google, but it's actually no more private than the rest of MN.

[DameDeepRedBetty]

Is this an Off The Beaten Track thread?

[AnyFucker]

It isn't a private place. All posts can still be seen and anyone can join in if they are a member of MN, they just don't come up on Google searches.

[usualsuspect]

Do they nean off the beaten track?

If you a member of MN you can read it

[usualsuspect]

Or is there another secret place,no one told me about? [Paranoid]

[AnyFucker]

You don't need to be a member of MN to read posts in OTBT, but you have to be to post (like all the topics)

[usualsuspect]

Which I don't blame you really, my typing is shocking

[usualsuspect]

I thought you had to be a member to read it?

[Tee2072]

I don't think so Usual. I could be wrong, though!

[AnyFucker]

I thought so too so I just checked. I logged out and could still read it. the checked the bumpf at the top of the OTBT threads. Go have a look.

[usualsuspect]

I've just checked too, I was wrong non members can read it.

[AnyFucker]

Nothing is "private" on MN.

[Pancakeflipper]

So the secret 'site' is OTBT ?

Sorry, confused....

[AnyFucker]

There is a topic called "OTBT" which I think OP is referring to.But it isn't secret, not really. It's listed with all the other topics, and you don't have to be a member of MN to read it.

[usualsuspect]

It doesn't come up in active convos.

But its not very secret really.

[Pancakeflipper]

Oh I heard of it, thats ok, not missing an entire secret place where you have to be asked to join cos that would never happen....

[GeppaGip]

No no secret place. Thank you all, I now 'get it' haha. I had misunderstood the context of another thread!

Glad OTBT exists. I didn't know about it before but it is fab to know there is somewhere you can post freely without Google bringing your personal life to the number one spot.

[Tee2072]

The only thing different about OTBT is it doesn't get Google indexed.

[FruOla]

"The only thing different about OTBT is it doesn't get Google indexed."

What Tee said - and the threads only last 30 days.

[Sparklingbrook]

I always thought OTBT was a section about about hiking til someone mentioned what it really was.

[GeppaGip]

Me too, Sparkling

[Tee2072]

Yes, that also Fru. And, actually, it doesn't show up in Active.

So...the only thing different about OTBT is:

Not on Google.
30 day deletion.
Not in Active.

Other than that, it's not private.

[Sparklingbrook]

Somewhere that the thread doesn't come up on Google or Active conversations and disappears very quickly everlong I think. But how do you ever get to know about it except for threads like this?

I wouldn't know what to post on it TBH.

[Mintyy]

You can post about whatever you like in otbt. Its quite easy to find via the usual list of Topics.