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Original poster

What exactly IS the rule on profanities in thread titles?

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GunpowderTreasonAndSNOTSleeves · 03/11/2010 14:26

Because I note a signifant inconsistency of approach in deployment of the Trigger Finger

is "cunt" only to be tolerated when it is used as an insult rather than as a reference to female genitalia?

or is it only when posted by me that it warrants immediate deletion?

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DanceInTheDark · 03/11/2010 14:39

CUnting MOthercare only got changed when Mothercare moaned asked to change it.

GetOrfMoiLand · 03/11/2010 14:38

I doubt it is personal Greeny.

Reckon lots of cat bums mouth types reported it at the same time.

GetOrfMoiLand · 03/11/2010 14:38

How can anyone delete a thread for cunt when cunting sainsburys stood for weeks.

I don't like deletion for profanity reasons. One of the best things about MN is the lack of over zealous monitoring.

I don't give a monkeys about over the shoulder boulder holders readers. If your kids are looking over your shoulder tell the mto buzz off, it is rude.

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GunpowderTreasonAndSNOTSleeves · 03/11/2010 14:34

I dunno BOF it feels a tad personal to me

HQ have gone into overdrive with the deletions lately and it's pissing me off tbh

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BitOfFawkes · 03/11/2010 14:33

I think they don't like you to swear in thread titles because of over-the-shoulder readers IYSWIM, but unless people complain, I don't think they automatically delete.

So it has probably got a lot to do with things like the time of day you post, and whether you have managed to get up anybody's nose so they want to grass you up!

NotShortImFunSized · 03/11/2010 14:31

pah that's just favouritism, I want a thread deleted

Envy
DanceInTheDark · 03/11/2010 14:30

lets see.

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GunpowderTreasonAndSNOTSleeves · 03/11/2010 14:28

Quite

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RealityBomb · 03/11/2010 14:28

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GunpowderTreasonAndSNOTSleeves · 03/11/2010 14:28

perhaps not

but what I am asking is whether MNHQ are going to delete ALL threads with obscenities in the title, or just ones started by me

because at the moment this is unclear

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DanceInTheDark · 03/11/2010 14:27

cunt should not be in thread titles imo.