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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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curlew · 05/12/2013 16:44

I've never understood what's so wrong about threads about threads anyway. Unless they are specifically started to "get" at someone. And surely those can be obliterated for other reasons? Such as "This thread was started for the sole purpose of getting at someone"

K8Middleton · 05/12/2013 16:43

It is so tiresome. It's like the whole bloody site has been reduced to the lowest common denominator and no debate is possible. Worst of all is that I keep challenging my inner Outraged of Tunbridge Wells all over the shop because of it.

Something is amiss when more threads are hidden then posted on and twattish things are being left to stand and perfectly inoffensive, cordial threads are deleted.

Fwiw you were quite right to post publicly in Site Stuff Hully. There was more than one person who was baffled by the decision.

ButThereAgain · 05/12/2013 16:40

Starting to doubt all the stalwart defence of MN deletions policy that I engaged in during the recent banning controversy.

YoureBeingASillyBilly · 05/12/2013 16:37

Or rather

Email them. Wink

magimedi · 05/12/2013 16:37

PS - Have just spotted what blog of the day is & am sniggering to myself quietly.

YoureBeingASillyBilly · 05/12/2013 16:36

Email them?

magimedi · 05/12/2013 16:36

I can not understand why it was deleted. I'd read most of it & had it on my watch list to come & make a contribution on when I got back in again (just now).

It was fun & I loved the poetry as am another TSE fan.

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Hullygully · 05/12/2013 16:35

I'm starting to get paranoid.

I start a thread in all good faith

Some twits complain

It's deleted.

It's happening just a little too often

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DeepThought · 05/12/2013 16:34

Whoa it's all too heavy, man

Why not hash out yer differences in private, like

You're going to get one o' them appleplexies

Original poster
Hullygully · 05/12/2013 16:32

itsallgoingtobefine

Don't look then, easy peasy

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ButThereAgain · 05/12/2013 16:32

I never usually have a problem with deletions at all, but that deletion was totally odd and unnecessary! It was a friendly thread, lots of fun.

I always thought that the "thread about a thread" formula was just a shorthand for saying "this thread re-initiates problematic against-guidelines stuff from a previous thread and therefore needs deleting."

I always thought that people who thought the very idea of a "thread about a thread" was against the rules were misunderstanding things in a fairly stupid way. Was I wrong? If so, isn't that the silliest prohibition in the world? What about threads that say "Following on from the thread about baking powder, this is a thread to further examine the recipes suggested there." Is that forbidden?

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 05/12/2013 16:31

Maybe we don't all want to see the reasons. Surely it would be better to contact MN direct and communicate directly with them, rather than starting threads about threads about threads...

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Hullygully · 05/12/2013 16:30

If, as mildred said, we would still like to debate the topic of the supernatural, including Santa, where might we do it without this thread about a thread nonsense?

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Hullygully · 05/12/2013 16:27

No, I put it in sitre stuff so we could all see the reasons. That was the point.

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GodRestTEEMerryGenTEEmen · 05/12/2013 16:26

Did you try emailing them Hully? I'm sure you did, but I'm in a point out the obvious mood.

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Hullygully · 05/12/2013 16:26

And calling it a "fred" adds insult to injury.

I am so boiling mad with it all.

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