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Hypothetically...if you sockpuppet...

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PantsOnFiore · 30/07/2012 21:40

...get caught and admit it on a separate thread, will you get banned? And if not, why not?

Could MNHQ talk a little about their warning/banning procedure, without giving too much away obviously, so posters can understand?

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MrsWembley · 30/07/2012 22:52

Fuck it!

It's waaaaaaay past my bed time and I'm getting fed up. If DS wakes me in the night (ha, if?!) then I'll catch up with whatever excuse MNHQ comes up with.

Please, MNHQ, make it a good one, a right one, a proper one, then I'll feel all safe and secure and at home again, because right now, I don't feel any of those things.Sad

LeB0F · 30/07/2012 22:50

Mintyy, I think you are supposed to get a warning, surely? I remember spats with another poster, now that you mention it, but it looked like six and two threes to me, and I don't think either were spoken to about it. To my knowledge.

MarygoeZforgold · 30/07/2012 22:46

And although I have no fucking idea what is going on atm, if you are talking about TSC didn't see say recently that she had been banned but allowed back for apologising or something?

MarygoeZforgold · 30/07/2012 22:45

Ok, I've been occupied with the olympics work, and seem to have missed something spectacularly interesting.

So if anyone feels nice and generous and would like to pm me, I would be eternally grateful (and send them a copy of my updated non-existent spreadsheet).

Ta every so Smile

MrsWembley · 30/07/2012 22:44

Oh bloody hell, you're all over here now, and I was just about to go to bed.

MNHQ, can I just say Hmm and Angry. Just answer this; did you warn TSC more than once before banning her?

Mintyy · 30/07/2012 22:44

Without wishing to muddy the waters boffy, wasn't your mate quite naughty with a lot of personal attacks on one particular poster at about the time of the banning? So she may not have made more than one attack on the particular thread in question but they were taking previous very recent behaviour into account?

Just my recollection and I could be talking utter bollox (as per).

Sportofino · 30/07/2012 22:43

Tis pointed out often enough on here. Maybe some posters are just stupid? I see threads full of family details that make them highly identifiable.

Valpollicella · 30/07/2012 22:42

Fanjo all I can guess is that maybe she has a defunct/lost password etc email acc attachwd to her mn name for the enail she registeted with in that case?

MyDogShitsMoney · 30/07/2012 22:37

I genuinely don't get it.

Surely everyone knows that once you've written something on t'internet it's there forever.

I over-share like a mother fucker, hence my keeping RL and MN very very separate, but surely it's not rocket science to know that every post you ever make is searchable at any time.

Yes, we all have the potential to look a twat, and yes it can sometimes feel like the AS function is like the elephant-memory of the sober friend who remembers every bloody second of every messy night out ever.

But it's not a secret, we all know it's there for crying out loud.

Why on God's green earth do grown women make shit up Confused

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 30/07/2012 22:36

*the thread

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 30/07/2012 22:36

I do not know the poster in question and bear her no ill will.

But aren't MNhQ saying that she may claim not to have had any emails warning her but in fact she did?

Apologies if you all know and trust her, which is fair enough, I don't know be thread in question.

Valpollicella · 30/07/2012 22:30

But Whyyyyyyyyyy?

I really do.not.get.it?

TSC banned for mentioning things on other threds?

You might as well have a 24 hour linit on threads tgen.

I remember all kinds of batshit crazy stuff about posters.

If GOML started a fred in S&B about being 5' and brtunette i'd pull her up on it.

Would I get banishedfrom MNShire??

mumnosbest · 30/07/2012 22:20

thanks ferret i'll stop being nosey now and go wait outside :)

AmazingBouncingFerret · 30/07/2012 22:17

I remember it bof, she was and still is really confused and upset and ever so slightly pisse doff as to why HQ wont admit their mistake and reinstate her.

LeB0F · 30/07/2012 22:13

At the time.

Olivia, can you please check and look into it again? I think you are mistaken.

mumnosbest · 30/07/2012 22:13

I no I no, used to be cool to spell things wrong: toysrus, 2moro, luv

Sportofino · 30/07/2012 22:13

I am not going to win the Olympic name change comp now am I?

Olympia2012 · 30/07/2012 22:13

And which thread was it?

Olympia2012 · 30/07/2012 22:12

BOF.... Did you get an email at the time, or more recently?

Sportofino · 30/07/2012 22:12

But there was no evidence of that MNHQ, whilst others who flout the guidelines are enabled by MN to continue taking the piss. It upsets many people to see this. You are losing your oldest, wisest posters in favour of a load of cliquey bolleaux.

LeB0F · 30/07/2012 22:12

Olivia, I have seen the thread. I was on it. ArtexMonkey had never had a scolding email off HQ before about personal attacks. And she posted ONCE on that thread. ONCE. With respect, your procedures are sometimes wrong.

FrankWippery · 30/07/2012 22:11

I think the phrase you're after is Fucking boils my piss with my eyeballs dangling it does.

OlympiaMumsnet · 30/07/2012 22:11

@AmazingBouncingFerret

mumnosbest, if I were to namechange to ABoringFart and then go on a thread and rattle on about how fucking wonderful AmazingBouncingFerret is and that she is very gorgeous and incredibly generous I would be a sockpuppet.

Albeit quite an obvious one Wink

ElephantsCanRemember · 30/07/2012 22:10

Can you tell us what guidelines were flouted?

AmazingBouncingFerret · 30/07/2012 22:09

mumnosbest, if I were to namechange to ABoringFart and then go on a thread and rattle on about how fucking wonderful AmazingBouncingFerret is and that she is very gorgeous and incredibly generous I would be a sockpuppet.