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takealettermsjones · 2022-12-16T12:01:08+00:00

{mention:MNHQ} please could you move these into the Royal Family board? They're all over AIBU.

Rinatinabina · 17/12/2022 18:26

I don’t care whether the threads support harry or william. Theres too many of the bastard things clogging up the place.

AuntieEntity · 17/12/2022 18:25

BeggyMitchell · 17/12/2022 17:36

get spammed by the nutters who think Harry should have married them

Oh I know, never fear! It was an excellent sentence.

BeggyMitchell · 17/12/2022 18:18

AuntieEntity · 17/12/2022 17:56

@Pieministers Exactly this. Some of the vitriol directed at Meghan is transparently racist, sexist, and plain jealous.

In case it wasn't clear, I do agree with you!

OtterInABox · 17/12/2022 18:06

*loons not looks

OtterInABox · 17/12/2022 18:06

It puts me in mind a bit about the One Direction threads. My memory is hazy but maybe Harry Styles in the main? Some absolute weirdos who thought they were actually married to him in a parallel life and something about a pregnancy

Anyway, they were so bad and so stalkerish that MN banned them. Also the same for threads about Benedict Cumberbatch - total looks obsessing in minute detail about his private life too

The H & M threads remind me of them. Weirdos heavily invested in two strangers lives whilst the rest of us just don't care that she calls him H or that he maybe once fell out with his brother and so on and so forth until we all scream into the void

Glassofwhatever · 17/12/2022 18:00

YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet · 17/12/2022 10:05

Hi everyone. We'll move any threads we think are better suited to the RF topic but please also remember you can hide individual threads.

We do expect, as with any big news story, that there will be lots of threads about H&M across the boards. In our experience this usually dies down alongside media coverage. Though to be honest we are bracing ourselves for the book release in January!

Exactly what I said on page one, it will die down, until the book....then it'll die down until the Coronation.. we can cope with that I'm sure

AuntieEntity · 17/12/2022 17:56

@Pieministers Exactly this. Some of the vitriol directed at Meghan is transparently racist, sexist, and plain jealous.

BeggyMitchell · 17/12/2022 17:36

get spammed by the nutters who think Harry should have married them

GeneratedRandomly · 17/12/2022 17:14

Thank you for moving them, it is much easier to find interesting threads without all the dross cluttering up the place.

Please keep it this way so we don't have to go through it all again with the damn book. Maybe shift them to the Books board as well as the RF one?

Is there a limit to how many threads I can hide?

Pieministers · 17/12/2022 12:03

YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet · 17/12/2022 10:05

Hi everyone. We'll move any threads we think are better suited to the RF topic but please also remember you can hide individual threads.

We do expect, as with any big news story, that there will be lots of threads about H&M across the boards. In our experience this usually dies down alongside media coverage. Though to be honest we are bracing ourselves for the book release in January!

There are more at the moment, but there are pretty much always threads about H&M everywhere MN and a lot of us are sick of seeing the topics not being used while Chat and AIBU get spammed by the nutters who think Harry should have married them.

NutellaEllaElla · 17/12/2022 11:24

I'm also sick of the proliferation of them. They were 3/5 of the trending topics as well. FGS just keep them to the one board please.

MNHQ

YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet · 17/12/2022 10:45

Thanks @ProtectorExtraordinaryOfTheCantonsOfNim in general we try not to be overly prescriptive about what goes where but we acknowledgde that some people are sick of seeing so many threads about this.

ProtectorExtraordinaryOfTheCantonsOfNim · 17/12/2022 10:19

YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet · 17/12/2022 10:05

Hi everyone. We'll move any threads we think are better suited to the RF topic but please also remember you can hide individual threads.

We do expect, as with any big news story, that there will be lots of threads about H&M across the boards. In our experience this usually dies down alongside media coverage. Though to be honest we are bracing ourselves for the book release in January!

But they are all better suited to the RF topic, because they are all about the RF. That's what the RF topic is for.

We know that there will be lots of threads started across the boards, but there's no need for them to stay there.

butterfliedtwo · 17/12/2022 10:09

Except these never die down, do they?

MNHQ

YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet · 17/12/2022 10:05

Hi everyone. We'll move any threads we think are better suited to the RF topic but please also remember you can hide individual threads.

We do expect, as with any big news story, that there will be lots of threads about H&M across the boards. In our experience this usually dies down alongside media coverage. Though to be honest we are bracing ourselves for the book release in January!

LadyHarmby · 17/12/2022 07:12

I’m suspicious that there are bots at work.

Pieministers · 17/12/2022 07:02

GeneratedRandomly · 16/12/2022 17:51

As usual, waste of time complaining:

*Thanks for flagging this - as this is such a big topic in the news right now, we think that this thread is okay where it is but we'll keep an eye on things and move it if we feel that it would be better suited elsewhere.

Don't forget that you can hide threads if you'd rather not have to see them.*

I reported some and got exactly the same response.

WrongTopic · 16/12/2022 18:45

LizziesTwin · 16/12/2022 18:26

@GeneratedRandomly I last had a response at 9:52, which was we’ll have a look from Liv.

No doubt you will get the same standard reply as posted previously. It's beyond a joke now.

Quveas · 16/12/2022 18:37

GeneratedRandomly · 16/12/2022 17:04

Oh, I remember those days. Good idea. Last time I started reporting something like this the response was that it created interesting discussion or some sort of twaddle. Eventually the threads started to appear in the right topic so I assume it wasn't just me that had stopped bothering with the site.

Maybe the posters that keep going on about it are Premium users and exempt from posting in the right topic.

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The "interesting discussion" twaddle note seems to be code for many many people posting disgustingly offensive posts about any subject at all. Want to be racist? It's an interesting discussion. Disabilist? It's educational. Bash benefits claimants? It's a topic that's informative. Tell another poster they are an idiot and you are banned! I suspect the site owners like the toxicity because it pulls in the numbers and the stats, supports their marketing. Welcome to capitalism at its best. You can sell anything including vitriol and abuse.

Siayg · 16/12/2022 18:30

BeggyMitchell · 16/12/2022 14:27

Now that's interesting.

Can you trace IP addresses MNHQ?

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It’s not that interesting - the sample size was small!

PAFMO · 16/12/2022 18:29

BeggyMitchell · 16/12/2022 18:14

Ah, feeling nostalgic.

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Awww look at his little face. <channels Tess Daly>

SusiePevensie · 16/12/2022 18:29

Oh God yes. Awful racist bilge.

LizziesTwin · 16/12/2022 18:26

@GeneratedRandomly I last had a response at 9:52, which was we’ll have a look from Liv.

Seeusernamehistory · 16/12/2022 18:23

Please move all the threads, Mumsnet. It's ridiculous and not getting better. Harry's book will no doubt lead to another massive surge.

WrongTopic · 16/12/2022 18:21

This thread is being ignored by MN...wonder who is actually posting all those threads - any thoughts MN?