'We don't normally delete whole threads but we will do so when it is to protect a poster's privacy.'

Ophelia - yes it was. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2538340-Stupid-question-can-you-un-engrave-a-ring-How-to-avoid-offending-in-laws

I didn't notice the heirloom thread going! Was that deleted for "privacy"?

Its all very strange
There was no way the ops privacy was compromised

Did she? How odd! Since she started the thread asking exactly whether or not it was possible to erase an engraving, or failing that, should she melt the ring down...
Odd indeed! Or probably just embarrassed that she was such a heathen

Thumb she came back and said that she had no intention of doing that.

I bet that OP name changes now anyway.

I don't see that there was anything remotely identifiable on that thread.

That is a good deletion message, Pipbin!

I thought this (OP's point) about another thread that was deleted recently as well, although it's possible that someone on it did know the OP, it was deleted while I slept so I don't know how much happened after I'd gone - this was the thread about the woman who wanted to desecrate change a 200yo heirloom ring that her stbMIL had handed on to her - she got told in no uncertain terms that she shouldn't mess with it, but hadn't returned to the thread by the time I went to bed. People weren't even that rude - just 99% in agreement that you just don't DO that to a family heirloom! but I guess the OP got the arse that people thought she was such a soulless desecrator...

It's the standard HQ response when they CBA to argue with a whiny OP who can't take being told they're being an arse generally...

Locking threads is a wonderful idea. It occasionally happens now but would be a highly useful tool IMO if it got rolled out a bit wider.

The privacy thing is bollocks. But is useful for adding OPs to the Do You Really Think You Are That Important spreadshit.

I did like the deletion message my thread got though.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2538402-to-think-that-just-because-a-thread-doesnt-go-your-way-you-shouldnt-be-able-to-get-it-deleted

Well I hope MN will be a bit more grown-up about responding to this one then! I don't think anyone cares about a bit of gauze blowing around particularly, I certainly don't, but I do want to know if there is some kind of policy change about deleting threads just because the OP requests it.

And when threads get deleted and I haven't had a chance to read them. just like this ambulance one you are talking about, can someone PM me the details?
If the op is pissed off that a thread isn't going their way maybe they could request it is locked?

I started a thread about this after another thread went pop.

My thread was deleted for being a TAAT.

As I said at the time it's not the deletion that annoys me but the thin excuse of it being privacy.

It's baffling as to why they deleted, to me anyway, there was nothing obviously identifying.

OP probably realised she'd been a pillock posting such a daft thread,cringed at her pillockness and the pasteing she was getting then rather than hide the thread begged HQ to press the shiny red button and they obliged..

Odd.

I posted a thread that was outable before. So i asked mn to change my name on all of my posts on that thread. I wasnt a twat though, i guess that makes a big difference...

See I actually would prefer to have all my posts deletable at my behest, with a click of the mouse. But what would make a mockery of the whole Talk forum. There would be deletions all over the place because people regretted what they had said or realised it was silly/goady/racist/identifying/whatever. Loads of threads would make no sense whatsoever with deletions all over the place. Plus, if someone cut n pasted a bit of your post you couldn't delete that anyway.

I posted on that thread and think it is ridiculous that MN deleted it. There was absolutely nothing which could have identified the poster (who, btw, didn't bother returning after their original post). The deletion message obviously doesn't fit that thread so I don't know why MNHQ deleted it. Of course, it's their site and they can do whatever they want but if this is some kind of New Year policy I think it would be fair to warn posters. And if people can have threads deleted just because they don't like the answers or post when drunk and then sober up, watch out for threads being deleted all over the place from now on.

How does having a bit of blood stained gauze on your drive identify you? And if it does maybe don't post about it in the first place?

It mkaes the whole (relatively new, after all) "having deletion messages so people know why it was deleted" idea pretty pointless, when they just use one stock message. It seemed for a while that the "it all turned into a bir of a bunfight" message was their go-to, now its "privacy".

each thread deletion request to be considered on its merits

That's fair enough, but the deletion message should be edited. Because "we don't normally delete whole threads" is now a bit of a lie.

I did think that thread was odd but I thought it would more likely to be deleted for being goady rather than anything else.

Last time I checked it the OP hadn't returned since the op, did they come back? What else did they have to say?