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Why have you deleted a thread?

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tldr · 14/12/2016 18:43

AIBU thread got full, you deleted the follow up as a TAAT. Why?

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Pestilence13610 · 14/12/2016 19:32

This was thread one I am now quite keen to find out why the continuation thread was deleted.

BoreOfWhabylon · 14/12/2016 19:31

Oh, MNHQ, I do think this was a mistake. Please consider reinstating the thread (with an amended title, if you must).

Have you read the first thread? It's worth doing so, imo, not least to read how Spero has been threatened for challenging those banging the forced-adoption drum.

Not for the first time, either. An MP (who was subsequently banned by MNHQ), outed her in the national press a couple of years ago, because she challenged the bilge he was spouting on here and elsewhere.

StealthPolarBear · 14/12/2016 19:30

I recently started a thread saying "where is x thread"? As I wanted to post on it and ouldnt find it. Iirc someone kindly pointed me to it. Then it was deleted as a taat!

Somerville · 14/12/2016 19:27

I do think the context is necessary here, and that deletion was so fast that I wonder whether HQ could have had time to gather the context by reading the latter half of the first thread? I'm sure that sometimes there are so many reports coming in that a quick desicion has to be made as there is no time for anything else, but this is a very valuable discussion and it would be good to be able to continue it. Or read along as others with more knowledge continue it, for lurkers on it like me!

Pestilence13610 · 14/12/2016 19:27

Evidently the conspiracy goes very deep and MNHQ are involved Hmm

meercat23 · 14/12/2016 19:21

So why was the continuation thread deleted. The deletion message doesn't make sense. Firstly it said that it was a TAAT. Well other posters seem quite clear it wasn't, it was a continuation of a previously full thread.
Secondly you say it was goady, but the people on the thread saw it as heated debate.

There are plenty of nasty and clearly goady threads on MN that seem to be allowed to stay.

Shame if the only treads that get to stay are the quirky and banal. MN needs to also be a place for serious, yes and sometimes heated discussion or why bother.

Spero · 14/12/2016 19:04

You are of course entitled to run your site any way you wish.

But it is a shame that I am simply deleted as 'goady' in all the circumstances of the discussion that preceded this.

Your site will be all the poorer if you will not permit genuine, albeit heated debate.

But so long as you can get clicks for your penis beakers, I don't suppose you care that much.

O and btw - you want to delete me? Please just do it without the patronising message. Thanks.

tldr · 14/12/2016 18:57

It wasn't at all goady. Read the last twenty posts of the previous thread. It was a continuation of an interesting and useful discussion.

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KatherineMumsnet · 14/12/2016 18:56

Hi there,

We removed this as we felt it was quite goady. It was directed towards a particular poster (which we don't really feel is in the spirit) in a way that we felt was inflammatory and not really conducive to discussion.

tldr · 14/12/2016 18:50

And by 'bit' I mean a complete overreaction, obviously.

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tldr · 14/12/2016 18:49

Deletion is a bit harsh given op was mid convo with someone.

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Somerville · 14/12/2016 18:46

I suspected HQ might alter the title to make it clear it was part 2 rather than TAAT. I was surprised it was deleted instead.

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