Oh come on MNHQ!

Of course you would know with pizza
Sausages - boy
Vongole - girl

Soubriquet - I've had the same experience with a thread (about a friend's threatened suicide). After a few useful suggestions, it turned into a bunfight of "this guy (the friend) is a con-artist, he's not really going to do it, he's just going to ask you for money once he's got your sympathy". MNHQ didn't delete it ("we don't delete threads at poster's request").

(Happy ending though, fwiw - I managed to get hold of his dad, dad intervened in time to stop event, several years later, no booze, mentally a lot more stable, he now jokes that his family still light candles for me!)

The deletions that really piss me off are the ones where some sexist journo in media requests gets their arse handed to them on a plate, then goes all special-snowflakey. C'mon, you're a journo on a tabloid substitute for toilet paper - you should be tougher than that! And the threads are usually pretty witty and deserving of keeping.

I liked the idea of pies.

Thinking about pizza though, would you know when you opened the box and saw the toppings? Or how?

I thought my suggestion of gender reveal pizza was worth further consideration.

My first thread was in AIBU. About my coming into care three years ago. 20% Supportive posters and the rest called me a troll, a liar and MUCH worse. Didn't name change though

I think HQ should run a competition for one MNer to be a HQer for the day and have the job of deciding whether threads go or not. I'd love that job. I'd delete all the ones that even had a whiff of the hairy hand even if no-one reported them (I'd go looking for them) and I'd leave all the stroppy "I got a roasting so delete this" ones to stand. The HQ posts would be so funny they'd make a thread in classics full of just my posts

OP: AIBU
MN: yes you fecking are
OP: no I'm not
MN: yes dear
OP:
MN: fucksake.
OP: Delete my thread, I can't believe people disagreed with me.

...I agree this place is turning into nethuns with millions of snowflakes and HOW MANY PEOPLE CALLED
USER

Wedding cake reveal thread? Oh my days

I've learnt so much this evening

The wedding cake reveal person is on Facebook though. Seems she was upduffed at her wedding and revealed the baby's sex via her wedding cake.

Whoever is running social media at MNHQ is having a bad month. They've shared the cake thread, the dining table zombie thread from 2011 and the 'establish a routine or you'll never sleep again' bunfight wasn't long ago.

It's wonderful that the threads gone but MNHQ have shared it even more widely across the Internet. D'oh.

Oh... I guess it was one of those had to be there threads.

Or their staff don't talk to each other at all, which I've been suspecting for some time...

I missed that thread but the deletion message that they "rarely delete threads on the poster's request" needs changing to "the poster is unhappy that they got flamed and whinged about it".

Why else would MMHQ delete it so readily to "protect the posters privacy" and then plaster it all over Facebook, Bertie? Embarrassingly transparent...

There was also something about the fact it may or may not have been in pink inside, it could have been multicoloured or something like that (not much of a reveal if it was purple IMO)

So someone asked if she was having a my little pony...

It was all done in the usual witty MN style.

I did enjoy the vag cakes.

No. A woman had a gender reveal cake, took a picture and put it on FB and her MIL went mad.

But the thread was just 20 pages of people saying OP was U for having a gender reveal cake. Either for reasons of tackiness, "wasting NHS time" (even though the scan was private) or the word gender. To which OP complained that she never asked for opinions on the cake. And then flounced.

She had a gender reveal cake...
MIL got the hump as she hadn't been told prior to the big reveal, which by all accounts was a picture of a cake with a slice missing and a pink middle on FB not a party...

I was disappointed it wasnt a boy and that it wasn't a cock cake.

Lots of gender/sex debate mixed in with some great photos of terrible cakes in the shape of vaginas with babies coming out of them...

Deleted by the time I got to page six which was utterly disappointing as some of the comments about possible types of cakes and the photos had me in stitches

It was MN gold

I missed this thread. I'm a bit gutted as I love a good bun fight.

I'm consoling myself by watching girl cat 2 pounce on girl cat 1 who isn't interested in playing and is consequently getting pissed off and bopping her over the head.

So basically a woman had a gender reveal cake and her mother in law went mad? (I'm trying to work it out through the fb comments)

What?! MNHQ put it on FB?? WTAF?

I don't get this taking stuff from MN on to FB

But then again I don't get FB fullstop.

Wait - someone at MNHQ actually reposted that thread on FB with the subtitle "Maybe your MIL was just devastated to realise that her grandchild is being born into a family with such bad taste."

No, no, HQ would never sockpuppet and troll to draw strong opinions. Would they?!