Can you tell me what the score is with posting a thread and saying you're only wanting it up for a while then you're going to get it deleted?

I don't see the problem with the OP either.

It needed clarification if posters were under the impression deletions would be made without question.

Bet Olivia is so glad she's back and having to bang her head on her desk already.

It was a legitimate question, which the OP has had a roasting for. Well done for standing your ground OP despite many posters trying to twist your words.

Olivia (welcome back!) has basically said TSSDNCOP and Read The TGs. Which is fair enough.

This is a very rare, perhaps unprecedented, phenomenon that highlights an inconsistency between published guidelines and actual practice.

On the other hand, there is a TIW thati s so "outy" it could prejudice legal proceedings, yet it stands and MNHQ say it doesn't need deleting.

It's none of my business but it is baffling.

I have indeed started a welcome back thread.

Mumsnet is not a place for guaranteed support.
Support I'd not a condition of use.

It was started by two people at the kitchen table to swap advice on family life with younger children.

So if there IS a point to this thread, it's that Mintyy made a really good casserole and then fucked off.

Mumsnet like all other forums is what you make it for yourself.

Bloody hell I mean could you imagine an op where you asked users what the point of mumsnet was? Agreements would not be frequent.

The exact same thing occurred to me on reading that OP.

WB Olivia

maths - no, I think the policy is fine as it is :)

I hope your other thread helps you work out whatever it was you were working out

You seem to be taking this OPs perfectly reasonable query a bit to heart Latte.

Any reason?

Most of the posters on this thread seem to get what she means.

Anyway I will leave you to your snarling.

I'm more interested in Mintyys Chicken casserole.

The main purpose of Mumsnet to me is most definitely entertainment.

I used to feel entertained by the threads and thoughts of Mumsnetters in bucketloads, now I find it to be home to a whole host of of humourless nitwits who would argue black is white (and then someone else would stomp up and tell them they were racist for doing so).

It's not so difficult to understand why the OP started this thread, either.

You seem to have managed that though.

walkonthewildside

You must be incredibly naive if you think that for every supportive post there are not loads of lurkers rubbernecking for the next installment

You really are missing the point. Yes there are people rubbernecking, yes things on MN are entertaining - the point is that the main purpose of MN isn't entertainment, it's support and therefore THAT takes priority. It's not that difficult a concept to understand.

Amazing you say?

Do elaborate further...

A number of people on this thread, me included, thought it was a legitimate question Latte. For me I thought "well, afaik Mumsnet doesn't work like that but now we'll be inundated with similar threads" because that's what happens isn't it?

I might well have started a thread like this one in Site Stuff had I not been busy cooking an amazing chicken casserole.

Anyones thread on here about anything will be used as entertainment by some people.

You can read this site without being a member.

"It's what we have been saying since the start of this thread"

That a royal we, is it?

Oh for heavens sake!

Will you too stop picking at each other's posts before I bash your heads together.

The talk guidelines are guidelines. Not definitive set in stone autocratic oaths of bastardem.

That's why sometimes we query them or misinterpret them.

And we are lucky that this isn't like netmums some other similar forums in that we can ask for clarification.

NOW CAN EVERYONE STOP RUINING MY HAPPY BUZZ.

You must be incredibly naive if you think that for every supportive post there are not loads of lurkers rubbernecking for the next installment.

That's the reality when you use a public forum.

I felt that there was a misunderstanding that threads could be automatically deleted and I wanted to find out what the rules were, because it is annoying to post and have someone be supremely confident that a thread will be deleted as soon as they ask

One person math, ONE person thought it was OK. Just the one.

And I thought Olivia had just said that deletion was a rare thing, not allowed just because I or any other OP want to do it?

She did, it's what we have been saying since the start of this thread.

walkonthewildside

Of course it's for the 'entertainment of others' It's the internet. Not a private space

What an odd response.

I didn't say it was private did I?

MN's prime objective is 'support' not entertainment. There are lots of things on the internet that are not 'entertainment'.