Daily fucking mail

As we are all anonymous on here, even if stories/threads are quoted in the media the press won't know the identities of the posters.

People also need to stop putting stupid DM comments in their posts. It is meaningless and just highlights their lack of understanding.

If they actually use "Daily Mail", then enough of them will start to screw the Google-fu, and MN could appear above "The Daily Mail" in searches. Including all the thread titles suggesting the Daily Mail is just another shite rag. At the very least they will cost the Daily Mail a bit extra in Search Engine Optimisation spending. It also definitely skews Google results outside the UK. I can put up with small annoyances if it pisses The Daily Mail off enough.

Did I mention the Daily Mail was the only newspaper that supported Hitler in the 1930s ? They had a headline "Hurrah for the blackshirts". Probably the last time anything black had a good press in The Daily Mail.

What makes me laugh is that poeple post stuff that can be sensitive, change sme details to make less recognisable or refuse to make xx explicit and THEN they get slaughetered because clearly how dare they not putting their whole life on MN

@SerendipityJane I don't think it can be much more than that.

Imagine going to uni to study to become a journalist

Given the pisspoor state of what passes for "journalism" these days, I'd be curious to know what you thought you'd be doing ? Presumably 3 years on font choice, Betteridges Law and synonyms for "black", and an afternoon on "checking your sources" ?

I don't think there's much that can be done about it, it's annoying but it's out there on a public forum.

The worst thing is it's just lazy journalism. Imagine going to uni to study to become a journalist and then you just copy things from the internet.

They're ALWAYS discussing MN threads on Loose Women and yet I've never seen one poster mention it, thousands slagging off the DM though. What's the difference?

Another approach would be to subtly snare the DM into publishing a total load of bollocks (I know, who'd notice ?). If a few MNetters decided to pool their creativity, and develop a fictional cast of characters with a soap-worthy litany of problems that they post on MN, you could tie them up for quite a while. And like scumbag scammers, while they are wasting their time on the nonsense, they aren't lifting real stories from real people.

(It's why I try to waste scammers time when I get phishing emails or calls ....)

If you could invent a retired schoolteacher (white, naturally) who was being terrorised by gangs of black Polish-Romanian benefit claimants who smoke "skank" all day whilst chanting "Cor-byn, Cor-byn" to the tune of "Ode to Joy" then you could probably create a long running exposé of broken Britain today. Obviously they'd have to be Muslamic too.

Maybe "Gladys" or "Ethel" ? Since she doesn't exist, she's hardly likely to give a toss either way. But in Daily Mail Land, it would be critical.

If you don't want it shared in the press or on the TV don't post. It's really that simple.

People post about very personal issues on here because they feel safe to do so

People need to understand that posting here is placing their post in the public domain. They have been told often enough.

People also need to stop putting stupid DM comments in their posts. It is meaningless and just highlights their lack of understanding.

Agree with @bruffin - the virtue signalling about the DM does make posters look a bit stupid.

Also I'm amazed how people can get cross about a public forum. It's public! Talk to your friends or a doctor if you want to keep it private.

But that's the thing, people aren't posting. Some people are scared off by it now

and? its not exactly slowing down - and this thread comes up again and again and again

anyone who thinks that posting anything on the internet is private, especially on a public forum will stay private needs their bumps reading

TBH, much as I love MN, I’m amazed at some of the things people post on a public forum - if they are supposedly so precious about protecting their privacy. Even before the days of newspapers nicking threads, I used to wonder wtf people were thinking.

Pretty easy to avoid the DM dragnet, as long as you make sure your post is saying something nice and positive about immigrants, benefits recipients, single mothers, the EU, cannabis, the LibDems or Jeremy Corbyn.

And (as all Daily Mail "journalists" learn on day one) - never ever mention the Daily Mails open support for Hitler in the 1930s. (In 30 years time, it will probably be Farage).

In fact, here's a picture of the owner of the Daily Mail meeting Germanys late Chancellor ....

Oh dear

Does that help ?

For me the really sick-making bit of the Mail Online is the sidebar of shame with it's questionable balance of chosen pictures. You really do find yourself asking *what sort of person would keep returning to those sorts of pictures". And if your answer (like mine) begins with "P" then I would be amazed if it's "postcard collector".

There is a hidden section for people to post safely away from newspapers
It's not safe at all, same rules apply.

There’s one taken from a thread about ‘ghosting’ on the Independent online at the moment. It’s not even particularly well written.

Have I missed the news about subscription fee?

It's a bit shit journos lift stuff from here, it's not like there isn't enough real news going on. But that's the nature of the internt, it's always on. Got to feed the beast.

There is a hidden section for people to post safely away from newspapers

I think you’re wrong to call it safe, it’s freely available to read r be copied by anyone. Posts just shouldn’t be searachable and have a limited lifespan on the board.

I wish people would stop referring to ‘stealing’ posts. It’s no more stealing than if I reproduce here something from a newspaper or other news site. Want something kept private then don’t post it on line, even in a closed group.

Tabloids and others ‘lifting’ stories is lazy and galling for people who’d really rather not be referred to on other sides with far wider audiences, but those sites even do it to each other. Articles on the Fail’s site will say e.g. ‘The Mirror reports...’ The Mirror will reproduce stories from The Sun. The Huffington Post, papers in Australia etc etc they’re all looking for free content with minimum effort.

There is a hidden section for people to post safely away from newspapers

I think a lot of posters are very naive about MN and all other communities.

Yes, YABU. It's a public forum OP. What exactly do you want MNHQ to do about it, in detail?

I'm sure that posters are aware that if you post something online, it can be searched, copied, amended, published etc etc. You can't demand privacy when you post on a public forum.

I'm always seeing posts on the sun that's actually how I came across mumsnet it's literally daily I see something stolen off mn on there only today I seen one about a grave in someone's garden that was off here yesterday as I read in on here