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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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OlympiaMumsnet · 30/07/2012 22:09

Yes yes yes yes yes We are always prepared to fess up and say we have made a mistake when we have when i'm wrong I say I'm wrong

With regards to banning people, I am not going to bring out my lovely West Wing line as I know that it irks some of you and that is not what we're about.
However pervs and truckers aside, it is almost inconceivable that we would ban someone permanently from Mumsnet without prior warning by email that they were consistently flouting the guidelines.

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LeB0F · 30/07/2012 22:07

ArtexMonkey was banned by mistake. She was told she was suspended for making repeated personal attacks on a thread. She had posted ONCE on the thread, and far less rudely than many other posters who were similarly in for the scolding email (including me).

Because she emailed then back and said that, actually, no, she wouldn't be apologising for something she hadn't done, they never lifted the ERRONEOUS suspension. No apology for he misunderstanding, nada.

And now everybody she was ever friendly with on MN assumes she has merely namechanged, or that she has done something heinous apart from tell HQ to swivel on it when she really didn't.

Hope that makes it clearer.

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PantsOnFiore · 30/07/2012 22:06

Outside NOW Mummnosbest.

And doubly OUTSIDE NOW for that 'nos' rather than 'knows'

Grin
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KeemaNaanAndCurryOn · 30/07/2012 22:06

I just think the whole thing sucks hairy truckers arse.

That's about all I have left to say on this.

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Sportofino · 30/07/2012 22:06

Agree with Getorf. I am immediately identifiable to anyone who knows me in RL - in fact I know LOTS of MNetters in RL - our Benelux FB group has 50 odd members - all of whom know my email address and phone no. That does not bother me, because I do not going round posting bollocks on the internet.

mumnosbest · 30/07/2012 22:05

whats a sock puppet? Blush

RunYouBastardRun · 30/07/2012 22:03

GetOrf, you're going to force my hand in starting another 'like' button campaign soon.

GetOrfMoiIand · 30/07/2012 22:02

I have been on here years, and have been getorf for about 4.5 years, and have posted all about my life. I have never been 'bullied' or have people call out inconsistencies in my posts, because (frankly) I am not a bullshit merchant. It's not hard.

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PantsOnFiore · 30/07/2012 22:02

Its like it in real life too really, if you slag your dp off for being a cheating bastard to your family/friends then the week after talk about how wonderful he is, there are bound to be some Hmm Hmm faces

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Alibabaandthe40nappies · 30/07/2012 22:00

Completely agree with Sporto and Elephants.

ElephantsCanRemember · 30/07/2012 21:59

I agree Sporto.
If you want to build up a rapport with other posters, share personal details with them and become "known" then be prepared to take the rough with the smooth. Otherwise nc regularly, as many, many posters do. I don't see how it is possible to have it both ways.

RaisinDEritrea · 30/07/2012 21:58

I think we should leave in MNHQ's hands tbh, they are obv aware that feelings are running high

Plus it's 10 pm

Sportofino · 30/07/2012 21:56

Anyone can post what they like on here. I do not agree that if anyone questions something that you posted previously and asks for clarification on an "inconsistency" that that is troll-hunting or bullying. If you don't want people to know about stuff, then don't type it up on t'interweb, or namechange, or make it clear that you have changed details to avoid recognition.

DON'T post lots of me threads with all the details of your life and then complain and get your threads hidden because someone actually read and remembered them.

Olympia2012 · 30/07/2012 21:56

Some eople seem to lead a charmed life!

Olympia2012 · 30/07/2012 21:54

But the thread in question was ages ago, think I was on it

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PantsOnFiore · 30/07/2012 21:53

MndandMist - And the sockpuppet definitely sockpuppeted because I saw that too.

I feel gaslighted Sad half Grin

Seriously MN you're good peeps normally. Has something gone wrong?

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PantsOnFiore · 30/07/2012 21:50

TLP - It was, I was asking two (or even three possibly!) separate questions, and I was trying to name no names you slagbag Grin

  1. if sockpuppet and admit on other thread did it on purpose - are you banned? If not, why not?
  2. Tell us a little bit about the warning/banning procedure if they can
  3. Boffy seemed sure a mistake had been made (not connected to points above) she's not often wrong Grin so if a mistake was made would MNHQ fess up and apologise?
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MyndAndMist · 30/07/2012 21:50

Pants - ArtexMonkey DEFINITELY only had one post deleted on the thread which led to her being banned for 'repeated personal attacks'. I've seen it.

NagooingForGold · 30/07/2012 21:49

I think it's down to the willingness to grovel.

Sportofino · 30/07/2012 21:49

I can think of one other MNetter who was banned for "accidentally" sockpuppeting - and fwiw, I think she had more of a case.

Sportofino · 30/07/2012 21:47

Yes - why should certain posters get away with claiming to be "innocent" and doing it by accident, when it very clear from the context that it is not the case.

BonkeySaysTeamGBAreTheMollocks · 30/07/2012 21:47

Boiled piss eyeballs Wink

TheLightPassenger · 30/07/2012 21:47

I thought the mistake stuff was in relation to Artex's ban?

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 30/07/2012 21:46

Olympia that appears to be the case.

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PantsOnFiore · 30/07/2012 21:46

And bof (sorry for the namecheck) seemed awfully sure that one poster had been banned in error, its not like boffy to piss on her own eyeballs (or whatever the phrase was) so is there something in it and if so would MNHQ apologise and reinstate?

I even worry now that I'll get banned for starting this thread Sad It's all gone a bit 1984.

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