"We've agreed, as a complete one-off, to take this down for her."

[AugustaFinkNottle]

Quote from a thread deletion message.

Come off it, MN, it's not a "complete one-off", is it? You do it regularly when thread-starters claim to have breached their own privacy.

[MrsHathaway]

Agreed.

Unlike some people I don't mind that you do this, but don't pretend it isn't a regular occurrence!

[LassWiTheDelicateAir]

There was a recent FWR one which involved a school and the poster would have been instantly identifiable if a parent of the children involved had seen it. Might have been a very small chance of that happening but if it had the circumstances were clearly unique to this particular school. It was rightly taken down.

[AugustaFinkNottle]

Likewise, I don't mind the fact that it's been done; but to suggest that it's something MN would never normally do is blatantly incorrect.

[DawnMumsnet]

Hi Augusta,

Not sure exactly which thread you're referring to, but it could be that we meant as a complete one-off for that particular poster.

Seriously, though, we really try not to delete whole threads as we think it's a shame when people have taken the time and effort to post their thoughts. But on occasion we will do this if a thread is causing the OP distress - and if they haven't ever asked us to zap something before, we're more likely to say 'yes, we'll do this for you as a one-off'.

[downright]

It's important to be able to cover your tracks if you have made yourself identifiable to someone though, or if you have been outed.

I don't think deleting threads should be difficult.