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Daily fucking mail

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Pinkyyy · 12/07/2019 08:11

Hi MNHQ,

Since you're so interested in improving the site lately, like for instance; asking people to pay for something that's free. Perhaps you'd be interested to know that there's something that's ruining the site for many users.

The daily mail are taking more and more threads and publishing them. You must be aware of how posters feel about this, you're constantly having to delete people's comments etc after the thread is stolen. So why aren't you doing anything about it?

Yes you've probably covered it in your small print, but you know fully well that it's now stopping people posting for advice. Perhaps people might pay your silly subscription fee if you solved the real problems, instead of giving out stupid emojis.

Perhaps a topic that's not allowed to be stolen from?

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bruffin · 12/07/2019 09:34

Dont you understand that Mumsnet is not a private site, anyone ,whether a member or not, can read it.

MashedSpud · 12/07/2019 09:31

It’s a public forum. Even if Mumsnet had a private section that people pay for, journalists would join and still report the story but change it ever so slightly.

There are things I’d love to post about but the fear of it appearing on a news website makes me think twice.

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Pinkyyy · 12/07/2019 09:27

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

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DonPablo · 12/07/2019 09:26

If people were that bothered they wouldn't post, would they?

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Pinkyyy · 12/07/2019 09:26

Ah I see, perhaps DM are just getting all the blame for it then. I do think it's a problem though. People post about very personal issues on here because they feel safe to do so, and it seems wrong for those problems to be published, without even asking their permission. Surely they could send a PM.

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gamerchick · 12/07/2019 09:25

Personally I think most of the threads lifted are planted there for that purpose, by those journos.

bruffin · 12/07/2019 09:23

They are not, all newspapers have done it for a longtime. The name keeps popping up because there are a lot of posters that virtue signal about the DM. They think it makes them look intelligent but those stupid caveats about DM just make them look not that bright. As if that will stop a news paper from lifting the story.

TheSpottedZebra · 12/07/2019 09:22

But other people are allowed to see what's written on the internet!
It's like me posting about a shit blouse on the M&S site - they've put it out there, and I'm allowed to view it and comment on it somewhere else.

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 12/07/2019 09:21

They can’t do anything about it, can they?

There’s nothing legally stopping the papers from taking stuff that’s published online and writing a story about it.

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Pinkyyy · 12/07/2019 09:18

I think the DM seem to be the worst culprit, although I could be wrong. But they're the name that keeps popping up all over MN.

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bruffin · 12/07/2019 09:16

Its all newspapers not just,the DM, you are showing your ignorance by getting on the DM bandwagon.

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