Isn't it time MN Towers was staffed through the night?

Welcome to MN Stuart and congratulations on the birth of your daughter.

Thank you stuart.

I think i was conversing with Glen/garlik last night and this morning about this.

I am very pleased that you have dealt so robustly with this matter.

Congratulations on the birth of your daughter.
You will be made most welcome here.

Welcome, Stuart, and many congratulations!

Hello,

I'm one of the people that runs PistonHeads for Haymarket and thought it was worth expressing publicly here just how disgusted the vast majority of our members are by the actions of a few.

We've taken against all of those involved that we're able to identify, and the right thinking members (the vast majority of our members) are as aghast as all of you. We might be motoring enthusiasts, but many of us are family men (and women) too.

Incidentally I'm typing this one handed because in my other arm is my four week old daughter. She was born 5 weeks early and has decided to turn into a "proper" newborn in the past 24 hours. She was 4lb 14oz at birth, but is doing really well and just under 6lb now. First child for us, and a long time coming. I'm a very, very proud new dad.

I think I might be back here for a few tips...

Best,

Stuart

I caught up with all of this earlier. I hope the OP isnt put off to much by all the crap on her thread.

I saw the thread on the PH forum. Some real twats there but also some who were genuinely concerned by what had happened, eg ThatBloke it seems. Welcome

This kind of inter-forum bashing happens frequently and it can be funny but I think they guys that came over were just juvenile and have a disregard most people by the looks of it.

I agree that we should have a mechanism whereby if a truly distressing issue is happening on the forums OOH we should be able to do something.

Perhaps if a thread is reported by 10 people it automatically gets locked until the content can be reviewed? Or something like that to save 24 hour manning of decks for eg.

Gig I was reading last night, the post I was referring to might have been on the thread then (I can't remember). So whether it has been deleted or not I don't know.

Hello ThatBloke, welcome to MN.

And thanks too, to you, Gigantaur.

you are of course more than welcome.

AS i stated last night, had they came and trolled on a more lighthearted thread then they would have beeneither welcomed or given a bit of a bashing. both in the spirit the trollery was intended.

what they did last night was utterly deplorable and i am very pleased to see that many members are as disgusted as i at their behaviour.

It is a shame that they feel the pedantry over whether they are representatives of PH seem to overshadow the right of a woman to seek advice and support on a deeply traumatic event though.

Welcome.

And MmeLindt - great post on PH.

I was to read what went on last night.

welcome

Hi, I came to your site via that PH thread.

Please don't ban me. I (and lots of others there) agree that the whole thing was completely inappropriate.

I apologise unreservedly on their behalf (if such a thing can be done).

There are a lot of topics here to stimulate the tight-pants wearing kleenex-warriors so perhaps it was only a matter of time.

However I have joined as I hope to be able to share in the obvious good that goes on here, in both directions.

Er, that is all really

seems they have decided to lock the thread though.

there's anew thread Gigantaur. here

seems a fair few of them think what was done was a disgrace but there are a few, ie those who were actually involved, who think they did nothing wrong as it's a public forum.

Some of them seem rather worried that their owners/publishers, Haymarket, might kick up a fuss but they seem to be arguing a lot about the rights and wrongs of that rather than discussing the fact that the trolling was a very disgusting and deliberate attempt to cause upset.

there seem to be some decent people on there and looks like one member has been banned now.

is it still up? thought it had all been deleted?

Yes I agree Gigantaur - trolling can be a laugh, when it's in the appropriate section. I think what you and MmeLindt wrote on the PH forum ws very good.

stressed - pistonheads (in their forum bit called 'lounge'

excellent work gigi and tech

What site did these people come from?

many of them clearly don't give a shit. Acting as if the lack of moderators makes their shitty opinions valid, like they are somehow doing us a favour by highlighting our 'flaws'! FFS.

They are expecting us/MumsnetHQ to 'control the place and yet fail to grasp that it was their behaviour which was wrong. I have known brighter 4 year olds.

The members who can't see that a traumatic thread from a woman in a dangerous situation is not the place to piss about are truly arrogant pricks. Enjoy your virginity, lads.

I am very glad that the moderators have taken it so seriously.

I think it is important that they know we are not "miserable fat bingo winged slags" but in fact are more than capable of enjoying some laughs with them.

I am sure if they had been inventive with their trollery they would have had a bit of fun and so would we.

But they chose a thread that was so far beyond jokeworthy and they pissed on it. It was a disgusting piece of work and i am very glad that at least some of the sites members can appreciate that.

They clearly don't give a shit do they?

Well done Rambleon, Gigantaur and Tech for your swift removal of the posts.

I have used PH a bit in the past few months, mainly lurked, occasionally posted, for car advice.

they obviously