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Clarification please

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Hullygully · 05/12/2013 16:25

So I come back to find that you have deleted my thread asking why my Santa thread was deleted.

Of course it was a thread about a thread, it was asking a question about the thread.

Wtf else is one supposed to do?

I put it in site stuff.

It was also a really nice friendly thread full of poetry and laughs. Why why why why was it deleted? What the hell is going on there?

Secondly, if one wants to talk about something, and that something has been deleted purely owing to others mischief, does that mean that one is never to talk about that subject again??

How mad is that?

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reelingaroundthechristmastree · 05/12/2013 23:07

I think there may be a few knives out for MNHQers that people met at the Meet Up, usual.

Absolutely no way, what a nasty thing to say.

SconeForAStroll · 05/12/2013 23:06

I would have thought a stern ahem would have bought enough time for the more urgent items to have been dealt with.

In no way individually criticising a member if hq, but threads do meander given time.

p.s. Tech needs a new hammer for Christmas I think. It possibly a sonic screwdriver.

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Hullygully · 05/12/2013 23:06

Agreed Rowan, what do you think about the idea for a debate topic?

Because everytime I start a debate, people start with the attacks and it all gets deleted.

I'd love to be able to debate robustly in a section where it wasn't threatened with pas and deletion. See above, some while ago.

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BriarcliffBelle · 05/12/2013 23:04

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Hullygully · 05/12/2013 23:04

yy mary

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usualsuspect · 05/12/2013 23:04

That seems to be the standard deletion message these days.

I've seen that message when the thread has been deleted for trolling.

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RowanMumsnet · 05/12/2013 23:04

@curlew

What's so wrong with a bunfight? 1000 posts and it's over.

Because the aim of MN is for people to share advice, support, debate and laughs. We think bunfights are a bit unedifying. It's part of our general philosophy - always has been. Robust debate - brilliant. Posters repeatedly attacking other posters - not so great.

Mintyy · 05/12/2013 23:04

Succinctly put Faire dear.

Maryz · 05/12/2013 23:03

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Hullygully · 05/12/2013 23:03

exactement fairenuff

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IamtheZombie · 05/12/2013 23:02

Zombie was at the meet up. She met all of the MNHQ staff who came along. They were lovely and certainly gave no impression of being there under duress (or because they drew the short straw). A good time was had by all.

She suspects that because Rown is quite rightly upset by the frankly nasty comments by a few posters about her colleagues that "gave up their Friday (sic) night" was simply a poor choice of words in the heat of the moment.

Having said that, she doesn't agree with the deletion of Hully's second thread.

curlew · 05/12/2013 23:01

What's so wrong with a bunfight? 1000 posts and it's over.

youretoastmildred · 05/12/2013 23:01

cut that last comma

youretoastmildred · 05/12/2013 23:01

Got it, thecat. A genetically sound, wriggling, idea delivered by a mutant stork / carrier pigeon

My battery is on the nasty red bit and I have to go to bed. Lovely to chat to you all. Peace and love to everyone

Fairenuff · 05/12/2013 23:00

If a thread gets deleted because of a bun fight that is not the OP's fault. It would be perfectly reasonable for them to start the discussion again in the hope that, this time, it does not get derailed.

sunbathe · 05/12/2013 22:59

I can't read bunfight without imagining a load of elephants waving their trunks at each other and flinging buns about.

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Hullygully · 05/12/2013 22:59

gos I hope you're not dp in disguise

she got her legs round pag's neck once

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RowanMumsnet · 05/12/2013 22:58

@SconeForAStroll

How bad could it possibly have got?

Was there Aheming and Peace and Love bombing tried or was it straight to the bug red button?

It just seems another situation where locking the thread would have prevented all this angst.

Yes, it may well be that locking it would have been better and we will try to do that more often.

As RebeccaMN said earlier, we had a software failure yesterday that meant that we couldn't deal with incoming reports in our normal way for about 10 working hours.

When our system recovered at around 5pm, we had an enormous backlog to deal with.

In this context, the MNHQer dealing with this one - who had a mountain of possibly more urgent and/or sensitive stuff to deal with - decided that deleting was the better part of valour. As it had, in our opinion, become a bunfight.

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Hullygully · 05/12/2013 22:57

Ah, now if you feel angry about that, Rowan, because you feel it unfair and out of order, can you understand about how I feel about the aspersions cast on my intentions on the threads under discussion?

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usualsuspect · 05/12/2013 22:57

I was on the end of that thread, it was much like a lot of threads it got a bit arsey at one point but was fine at the time it was deleted.

It was like mnhq cba with it.

ExitPursuedByAChristmasGrinch · 05/12/2013 22:57

Shouldn't it be mince pies now? If I can mention Christmas?

Blistory · 05/12/2013 22:56

So the first thread was deleted for turning into a bunfight - got that.

The second thread was deleted because Hully asked in the title why her first thread was deleted - and MNHQ think that was inflammatory because you already explained the reason in the deletion message - got that

So if the second thread was simply Hully starting a continued thread , it would have be fine ?

So it wasn't because it was a thread about a thread specifically ? So it was more the title than the content that got it deleted ?

Because this is getting difficult to follow.

thecatfromjapan · 05/12/2013 22:56

Yes. Exactly.

Infuriating because I read that at a point when I was scrabbling around for time-to-think, and I had to fight so many different institutions, deep-rooted ideas and prejudices, people, and stuff to get that time. And even then, it wasn't the absolutely free time that Eliot (or rather, the author he was discussing) was talking about. It was still time that had been stamped and authorised (as it were), legitimised for thinking about one specific thing. So still this "utilitarian" time, in a way.

And, of course, that experience of time is (I would say) gendered, and the experience of those who work hard, and (I would say) the experience particularly of mothers ... so I was furious with him.

And then my second thought was that that was exactly where a really radical possibility in the idea lay ...

(... = Thought I Process/Not Finished)

You see, all that

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Hullygully · 05/12/2013 22:56

I really don't think there were briar, people were pleased to meet them

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Hullygully · 05/12/2013 22:55

hoot, it wasn't a bunfight when I left, just lots of people calling me silly names

that's why it's annoying, I can't stop them doing that, but then the thread is deleted for being a "bunfight"

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