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I'd like to chat about the convenience of your deletion policy to rewrite history MNHQ

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HoneyDragon · 07/08/2017 15:02

Convenient deletions so that your own posts go too that's becoming common practise too. After NYE you probably mised not to do that or edit retrospectively as you agreed it was unprofessional.

Yet again we are seeing cases where one member of HQ states something then another comes and contradicts it. Are you not a little embarrassed about how incompetent you look of late?

Hopefully your advertisers aren't looking to hard at the site at present? Or is that why you don't want them to see you struggling?

Even your deletion messages have no resemblance to the context of the thread? I think the majority of incorrect speculation falls at HQs feet on the whole. Rather than site users.

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YesEinsteinsMumDid · 08/08/2017 15:09

HoneyDragon you only have the crown because you actually broke MN and scared people. I mean what could you really do with the site if you put your mind to it and actually TRIED to break it rather than just accidentally breaking it

Otoh is it you we have to thank for the colour coded posts or was that Trills I can never remember anymore.

WatcherOfTheNight · 08/08/2017 15:02

No name changing either - if your a twat,you need to own it.

WatcherOfTheNight · 08/08/2017 15:00

Perfect Grin

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HoneyDragon · 08/08/2017 14:59

Call it We Are Being Unreasonable.

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WatcherOfTheNight · 08/08/2017 14:58

I wouldn't mind a Subsection that we mod ourselves ,could pin "enter at own risk" at the top & be done with it Gin

Christinayangstwistedsista · 08/08/2017 14:53

Shall we start a Just giving page for weasel socks?

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HoneyDragon · 08/08/2017 14:48

See my moderating my threads work. Perhaps Mnet need weasel socks?

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Lynnm63 · 08/08/2017 14:46

⬆️ This, exactly

Christinayangstwistedsista · 08/08/2017 14:42

Not going to say anything about " the thread that cannot be name" except to say that I spent some time, after MNHQ validated it, berating myself for being a cynical arsehole. Pleased to know that I am just an arsehole and not cynical

CaptainKirkssparetupee · 08/08/2017 14:40

The point is it is not currently running, it is current somewhat arse about tit. And people are noticing.

Yes and them ignoring and deny it isn't going to fix anything.

WatcherOfTheNight · 08/08/2017 14:36

⬆️Grin

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HoneyDragon · 08/08/2017 14:20

Oh and technically this is my website. My hard won crown remains uncontested since 2011. And as I had to BBQ a dog to get it I'm not giving it up easily so ya boo sucks.

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HoneyDragon · 08/08/2017 14:18

It's a free website. If you don't like the way it's run then don't use it? Or start your own?

Well if I could have a quid for every time someone trots that line out without RTFT or even the actual op I could buy Facebook Grin

The point is it is not currently running, it is current somewhat arse about tit. And people are noticing.

As a long term advocate of SUPPORTING MNHQ and making that abundantly clear in posts as have others I feel it's ok to try and get them to address the current FURBAR that is apparently in place.

But your contribution has been duly noted. Thank you.

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CaptainKirkssparetupee · 08/08/2017 14:00

But we like paying for the site by watching advertisments.

CaptainKirkssparetupee · 08/08/2017 14:00

No we don't we can chose to install an ad blocker.

WetsTheFinger · 08/08/2017 13:59

You don't have to...

CaptainKirkssparetupee · 08/08/2017 13:58

It's not really free is it... We have to sit through a bombardment of advertising and autoplaying videos.

WetsTheFinger · 08/08/2017 13:42

It's a free website. If you don't like the way it's run then don't use it? Or start your own?

Lynnm63 · 08/08/2017 13:33

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

GreengageJam · 08/08/2017 13:25

I've been on mn for years (regular namechanger) and it has been feeling like less and less of a community.

In part I think that's an inevitable consequence of the site becoming so much better known and larger. But mnhq have a significant responsibility here too I think - they seem unable or unwilling to engage with posters any more. I think that one of the starkest examples of this is that they now don't respond to a report.

So I guess it doesn't feel like so much of a shock that they have failed to constructively respond to mnetters concerns lately, and that their attitude is more and more one of censorship and damage control. Why not have a live chat with Justine? Let mnetters ask you questions live and uncensored, and let people raise the concerns that they have without fear of being banned.

CoolCarrie · 08/08/2017 12:37

Roomba 👍

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HoneyDragon · 08/08/2017 11:24

Roomba.... that's certainly one of many threads that have highlighted some major failings of late in MnHQs deletion policies and subsequent communications this year. But if folk discuss it in depth on this thread I'm afraid I will have to lightly concuss you into submission by clunking you on the head with sock full angry weasels.

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SerfTerf · 08/08/2017 11:14

We're not allowed to say Roomba

Roomba · 08/08/2017 11:13

I've been on holiday for a week - is this all related to the guy whose wife was dying? If so, I honestly thought Hmm when I read the very first post about this, which isn't like me - I always get taken in! Then when it continued and MN posted too, everything seemed to be above board and people seemed to know the person in question so I assumed it was all true.

If it isn't about that particular thread, apologies!

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HoneyDragon · 08/08/2017 08:53

I rather hope not actually. Enough posters have commented that they've noticed the change across threads and boards that shows it's not the users it's the admin.

Not even posters that like to play devils adovocate to be goady have bothered to post ( which is fine if that floats their boat) so that indicates to me that MNHQ are floundering. Hopefully they'll get round to reading this and see that at present users are capable of having a much much more measured conversation than they are, and quietly take that on board.

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