Clarification please

HQ want reports. It prevents threads having to be deleted, often, if a few posts are deleted, an HQer comes on and says oi watch it. Not in this case but often. Many more threads would go poof and the 'tone' of the site would be shite.

Exit, yes, why?

What I don't understand is why people report at all. If people say foul things surely it's best if they are left for all to see. And if a thread turns into a bun fight, then there's only so many buns you can throw in 1000 posts. I suppose the out and out libellous has to be removed. But I have been annoyed in the past when some kind person has reported a personal attack on me and it's been deleted, only to leave my witty rejoinder looking incomprehensible and sad. People can hide behind the fact that deletions happen- and say something vile secure in the knowledge that it's going to be reported and deleted.

Hello catfromjapan! Big snogs. How are you, precious?

Can you get cream for that?

I agree with you Artex. Nonetheless it is what it is and I wouldn't post there as a seasoned MNer without knowing what to expect. No point having a go at HQ over it, or not like this.

Are you typing on a keyboard Mildred?

But exit, irl you are not allowed to have a philosophical debate because a minority of people like them and the facts of physics are that only one person can talk at any one time in a group and groups are stastistically only big enough to contain one or two people who want a philosophical debate and the others who feel threatened by it close it down by a variety of means. On the internet there are many more people, so statistically a greater number will be up for it; and those who hate it and feel threatened by it can't actually physically talk over you or turn their backs on you or make twirly finger gestures by their temples at you. So you can physically do it and find people who want to do it with you; it is just annoying that the others find other ways of making sure that we are only allowed to talk SCHTEWPID (said in voice of Trisha Yates in first series of Grange Hill saying "you firstcheers are all SCHTEWPID")

Well I'm not saying it should necessarily turn into a bunfight if it's in AIBU, but it's a distinct possibility. Not your fault - as you say, there were PAs aimed at you, which is crap. But then the thread was deleted. So really, all is well. No? Next time post somewhere more conducive to a philosophical debate?

I suppose that's why it's so frustrating Sinterklass. I genuinely do believe that MNHQ try to listen to us.

But on certain issues, like this one, it's like they dig in their heels and continue to support a initial, unwise decision with a series of unconvincing posts.

Oh, and I'm definitely Team Hully.

Can i commend youretoastmildred on her rigorous pursuit of the metaphor/idea that ideas reproduce and may be considered semi-autonomous non-carbon, non-bodily organisms? And her application of this idea to the context of splinter/bounded-membership fora forums?

I like that! Thank you for sharing it.

I think the Eliot estate is under pressure to share Mr Eliot's heritage a little more.

But I don;t think I care enough to rummage around and find any that I can post.

i find these "Whither mumsnet" discussions fascinating because of the light they shed on internet behaviour (as it evolves). Do people really rustle up a Facebook gang to come over and report threads?

Actually, we need a icon. is no way strong enough.

Sadly Mildred, my own head. Or failing that my best friend.

My mistake usual, sorry, didn't see it.

No way Hully!

Didn't you post in AIBU Hully? Did you not think it might end up bunfighty? If you wanted a debate why not in Chat, Christmas or in the apparently available Philosophy section?