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Original poster

I am boycotting threads about the plight of the McCann family - anyone else?

579 replies

Blu · 21/05/2007 12:56

I have the utmost sympathy for the Mccann family, and hope for a happy ending to thier trouble. Meanwhile I am not happy about many aspects of teh many threads, and hearby resolve to completely boycott them. By not clicking, not reading, nor responding (however horrible the views), and thus not adding to the circular and predicatable route they take, no matter what quality of ontervention is made.

Clasp your right hand over your left Nork and repeat the boycott pledge after me!

OP posts:
morningpaper · 22/05/2007 20:01

for me this is not so much about stifling discussions, but rather tempering them by providing a constant reminder of the level of discomfort felt by a large number of people about the nature of some of the posts and what many perceive as the obsessive need to pour over every detail.

Yes yes YES Spidermama

southeastastra · 22/05/2007 20:00

agree with op. and would appreciate my boss not spamming me as if i don't watch the news.

SaintGeorge · 22/05/2007 19:52

BIG BUMP

because I have an overwhelming desire to smack someone, or at the very least say something I might regret.

tissy · 22/05/2007 19:52

bump

LongDistanceClara · 22/05/2007 18:49

Not if you "shout them down" with something utterly trivial

Original poster
Blu · 22/05/2007 18:49

LDC - yes, but that does have the effect of 'shouting people down' rather than just staying away and not feeding it. That is why my personal choice is to boycott.

OP posts:
FrayedKnot · 22/05/2007 18:40

I had been boycotting so much I hadn;t even dared look at this thread

I have to say it is slightly difficult to type with one's right hand clasped to one's left nork.

I didn;t realise I could type so well with my elbow

LongDistanceClara · 22/05/2007 18:36

Or add to the threads until they get too big to post on any more, which kills them.

Original poster
Blu · 22/05/2007 18:35

Buda - this is absolutely not about censorship. If you want to post, then post.

This is for people who have stayed away since the beginning, and those who have tried entering into discussion perhaps to counter attitudes they do not agree with, and have found that the challenge has simply caused a reaction in which even more vitriolic assertions and exactly the same circular arguments and points are made. So people who would like to come together to agree that they will make a personal choice not to add to the threads, not to cause a response and proliferation are agreeing to be part of that shared tactic here.

People who want to be part of what goes on on those threads - well - who is stopping you?

There is some suggestion that a lot of people are joining MN simply to post on those threads, having googled the family's name.

OP posts:
tissy · 22/05/2007 18:32

BUMP!

Wotzsaname · 22/05/2007 18:18

opps mean BUMPING

[missed a 'p' BOB]

Wotzsaname · 22/05/2007 18:18

still buming

Spidermama · 22/05/2007 18:17

What a beautiful day. It was so good to see the sun again.

Wotzsaname · 22/05/2007 18:17

Mumsnet Mentors thread...I think I am still a newbie, so I have been allocated MallowMa as a mentor,,,,,

[2shoes is she OK?...whispers...she appears OK]

2shoesisanoldlady · 22/05/2007 18:01

what is all this fag stuff?

WotzanameOoohhhjarmaflip · 22/05/2007 17:40

{wags fag finger] in a nice way

MellowMa · 22/05/2007 17:36

Message withdrawn

MellowMa · 22/05/2007 17:35

Message withdrawn

2shoesisanoldlady · 22/05/2007 17:35

oh thank goodness was worried there

WotzanameOoohhhjarmaflip · 22/05/2007 17:34

Hi MellowMa, my guru....

WotzanameOoohhhjarmaflip · 22/05/2007 17:34

I don't know who THEY are, I know who you are

[opps what a bump}

MellowMa · 22/05/2007 17:34

Message withdrawn

2shoesisanoldlady · 22/05/2007 17:32

you don't know me

WotzanameOoohhhjarmaflip · 22/05/2007 17:30

I don't know 2shoes

2shoesisanoldlady · 22/05/2007 17:22

they are breeding as well...one ends and another is born. and who are all these people?

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