Clarification please

I think it started when hq said they love reports. I think some people abuse use it to the full and forget that as a general rule sorting stuff out on thread should be the default.

Are we self modding at all anymore? It seems that the parts of the site that need careful management are pretty much left to get on with it (SN, fwr) and the larkishness is gradually being strangled.

But actually one of the most fantastic things about Mumsnet is that they listen to us and take our views very seriously, even if they don't like what we are saying.

And you only have to read some of the more recent posts on this thread to see that there are some people here who definitely have an anti-Hully agenda. It wouldn't surprise me at all to find that she gets more reported than other posters.

But thats not really the point, is it?

Sorry. I like derailment. Unless it is a train when it is officially A Very bad Thing obv.

Not saying you have.

I was going to post that Scone but didn't want to derail the thread.

They have 21 year olds?!?

Amillionyears is that you?

Anyway, Nelson Mandela has died. :( RIP

Shredded I actual agree with you.
I also think that should the posters on here flame you for having this opinion then it will reaffirm comments made by some posters yesterday. It is ok for those who fall in to the "we've been here ages and are mates" group to disagree with other members but how dare anyone else have an opinion against them.
I think Hully has been argumentative and spoilt in her quest for an answer. She was given more than one by Rebecca but because it didn't suit she refused to accept it.

The mods are doing their job. I wouldn't walk in to a shop and tell the assistant she is pathetic or constantly have a go at her just because I did not agree with the shop owners policies. Pretty much how Hully and clan have conducted themselves here.
You are members of this site you do not own or run it. You don't like their rules or reasoning's then leave. Simple answer.

i am a bit concerned after meeting several members of MNHQ on Saturday - I think you were there Rebecca ;-) Whilst for most websites it might be fine to have 21 yo graduates doing the moderation, I am not sure it is the best idea on MN. How can they possibly have the life experience to know what is a joke/what is bullying/what is acceptable/what is not?

Because a couple of years ago bunfighty threads were generally given the opportunity to be derailed and brought to often hilarious conclusions.

I can't remember that happening in recent times.

Briar - on the HQ web chat they admitted that different mods may treat threads slightly differently and there's not much to solve that. But they do have a set of guidelines and dunno, I thought the webchat was clear and simple.

interesting, greenhill - probably is about the Eliot.
(dying to know who your FIL is)

BTW my DH's DF has written the definitive book on T S Eliot. The quotations were very expensive and the family were v unhelpful.

Scone - do you think HQ want to change the ethos of the site? In what way? I don't feel like it's changed.

Reeling - I enjoyed the Santa thread - would you say it was posted in seriousness? Cos I wouldn't have thought it was. Anyway it was a bunfight by the end, ergo deleted. Then a taat, also deleted. Several posters enjoy banter on threads like that and some get very irate when they're deleted. Dunno - these threads are a bit car-crash though, I can't seem to tear myself away, imagining HQ going and at them!

I do understand of MNHQ want to change the site and its ethos. It is their right of course, but following on from Justine's impassioned defence a couple of weeks ago it appeared that it wasn't the case.

This implies something quite different.

Apologies, have only read the op.

You can't even post a thread to discuss social injustice in the UK without it being pulled.

MNHQ have their own agenda IMO

See Shredded, why did you have to add that bit about not really believing that Hully wanted to be serious?

Not necessary.

That is just stirring an already boiling pot.

exitpursued :)