unable to post from laptop

Julie if you close the site people will go elsewhere which will have a direct effect on the advertising income that pays your wages. Not smart...

Yet again though we're all still posting from diff mobile devives so not quote sure how this helps?

I could start a thread in aibu now about how my goat cost less than my neighbours and how the fuck does she afford hers when she get less benefits. ..

I can't believe Justine has sanctioned this. Honestly this is getting ridiculous. Since when has the feelings of MNHQ staffers taken precedence over the whole point of the site? It always used to be the case that we were all the site and in it together. That's what made MN such a great place and someone where you could be treated as an adult.

In the last month I've seen MNHQ employees (ie paid people, paid to do a job) bleat on about hurt feelings in a way that just isn't professional or even in line with the historical approach to the "them and us" of posters and HQers, refusal to back down from some pretty iffy decisions and now today some rewriting of equality legislation to suit ignorance and lack of understanding (which is just so not what MN is about) and a lock down??! Watf?

If I didn't know better I'd think there was a saboteur at work. THIS IS MADNESS, STOP IT.

And what about the people who may come here looking for help in a desperate situation, they can't get help just because of a few jokey threads. Surely it dosent take all night to delete a few threads

I feel a bit bad for Julie. She probably had a load of complaints and didn't know how to cope with so many and made a panicked decision she probably now regrets. We've all done it, just our mad decisions don't normally affect thousands of people who then angrily complain.

I think what they have done is unfair & dishonest; they could have at least announced it or put a sticky or sent an email

Thousands of people think that mumsnet or their computer is broken or they have a virus or they have been banned/suspended

This is NOT a good night for insecure people to think they have been banned/suspended

I've just got home and tuned in. AIBU has had me in hysterics. WTF would anyone be offended? It's just daft stuff!
Has HQ gone mad?

Why didnt you just lock down the AIBU section?

Does anyone know how many jokey threads there were?

I meant only affects the desktop site, of course..

Why have a lockdown that only affects the mobile site? It makes NO SENSE AT ALL!

Night all. Happy New Year

Most of the jokey threads were funny, imo.

We've certainly seen worse over the years.

I don't have a MIL usual

What can I post about?

(Aside from that, wtf is going on? A lock down on having fun? Okay, I didn't find the threads particularly hilarious, but that is by the by).

I don't blame anyone for posting daft threads
I don't blame anyone for reporting any of the daft threads ( didn't read any so don't know how far people went.)
I don't blame HQ for posting to warn everyone to calm the hell down or deletion/suspensions would be coming

BUT blocking EVERYONE is insane. A really really bad decision.

Whoever said change to the mobile site - it works :) thanks x

Testing

Oh yeah blame people that dont go around with sour faces 24/7

Lets all just post about our MILs.

How many 'jokey' threads are there? I only saw about 4.

Well that would be all the other "everybodies" not us special everybodies

SM - Julie has said she's suspended everybody's ability to post. It's not a glitch.

I won't do it, but I feel like going down all the threads in active conversations& posting

"If you can't post, please go to the bottom of the page & click on the mobile site and then you will be able to"

It feels very discriminatory that some people (by luck, knowledge or gossip) can post and some people can't

Blame the idiots that cluttered up the site with twattish "joke" threads, not MNHQ