If you (still) feel the need to discuss Moldies, please do it here so folks can hide this if they want to.

Lou I like it that you never change your name, it certainly helps with all this shite

Freckle may I point you to this part of my previous post:

"it's all very well saying "oh well you should have thought about what you posted before you posted it". WELL THAT WAS FINE UNTIL SOMEONE FUCKING MADE UP SOME SHIT ABOUT WHAT I POSTED.

Now unless you are any of the other people misquoted in this article I beg you not to speculate as to how it feels to see your MN name, which is as familiar to me as my christian name, in print."

Thank you very much.

And I am very angry because I am never like this to other people.

Yes, and if someone is serious about identifying you in real life and trawls through the gazillion posts on MN to do so, they will realise that you were misquoted.

I'm not excusing lazy and poor journalism, but I do think some reactions on here are bordering on the paranoid android.

You are a reject Lou we established that ages ago

and to show i am growing old i am drinking a cup of tea ffs

pass me my knitting please, someone?

all this moldie, noldie, medoldie, where do i fit in , is there a place for those who have been here almost since mn time began?

It would be a lot easier if we just stayed where we were i think, it gets too much for me to keep up with

I don't think it's true that it's difficult to offer good advice on here. I've had loads (professional stuff as well as personal). An intelligent or empathetic poster will often offer good advice even if they don't know all the details - and someone with a lower EQ would probably offer bad advice even if they did know all the details.

Of course it's quite true that all of this is completely public, and it's no bad thing to be reminded of that once in a while.

Because freckle it is no good being careful about what you post if someone elses post is then attributed to you in the press.

Am sorry Bumper
I think the whole archive thing is total rubbish though. It's because MNHQ owns the copyright to your posts and therefore can reuse those posts in any which way they want, and profit from them at a future date.

Well as they all post with anonymous psuedonyms, that matters how exactly?? Are you seriously suggesting that people can get upset that their anonymous alter ego is being misrepresented? And that affects them in RL how?

Swedes I take the point about namechanging to discuss work-related issues but the fact is that I don't discuss work-related issues on here. The point of concern is that I don't want my colleagues/clients to know stuff about my private life - the ditzy au-pair, DD's stuff about reading, what to do about secondary school etc.

There's nothing particularly outrageous in my posts but I still wouldn't want work or the DCs schools finding them. And I reckon I've disclosed enough on here for anyone patient enough to be able to work out my identity.

And us newbies could start up Noldies, or.. "Knarldies" which would sound much the same but make people think of oak trees etc with it's longditundinal impressions.

Freckle they were misquited though.

I do think that, generally, people need to think about what they post here. One can be lulled into a sense of posting to friends when in fact you are actually posting on a very public forum, which can be viewed not only by the people with whom you are chatting, but every Tom, Dick or Bishop who fancies reading it. If anyone is in a profession which might be considered sensitive, then you should think carefully before broadcasting to the wider world that you are a part of that profession and, more pertinently, offering some advice or support as a result of that profession. It is very difficult to give any sort of helpful advice on a forum such as this as one is rarely given the full story and the advice you give might actually cause more problems than it solves as you are unaware of certain pertinent facts.

To then complain that what you have posted has been conveyed to a wider public through a newspaper article is naive because, for all that you know, every single person who reads that newspaper has access to what you have posted here anyway.

So perhaps the lesson here is to remember that you do not know the people with whom you are conversing, anyone in the world may read your posts and, from the information contained therein, may identify you in RL. Post with caution.

Thanks lou!

I'm going to go to bed and hopefully when I wake up this will all be over.

Night all, sorry for the melodrama.

worra lorra stuff n nonsense...

Yeah I've asked before but unless it's due to something awful they don't do it

It really does bugger up the archives though, it's a total pita if you are using the archives for research and lots of the threads are incoherent

Shall we set up our own medium oldies board, invitation only, so as not to be misquoted? We could call it medoldies. Or shall we just carry on having great fun and getting great support on Mumsnet and utilise the nickname change facility when we want to discuss our boss with the bilingual farting fanny?

at 'the new bit of Zealand'

Oh Bumperlicious. That's a bit shite. Is it really awkward fro them to do so? I don't quite understand why they won't just, you know, do it.

A Big Shart Goin' Art to My Sistaz In the New Bit of Zealand!
I do know that about Mum as one of my good friends is from NZ - sorry, a derbrain moment.

I wouldn't mind being quoted - because (with a couple of very small exceptions) I don't tend to say things here I wouldn't say in real life - but being 'mis-quoted' would really upset and anger me. There's just no bloody excuse for it either - I mean how crap a journalist do you have to be to look at a website and then cut and paster posters names wrongly???

THIS is why SAHMing is a good call. I have no professional reputation to uphold. If the school-gate mothers found out I've been swearing and behaving uncharitably on here, they'd just nod wearily.

But seriously... I was very glad not to be quoted and can quite see why people are upset.

I think MNHQ don't like deleting posts en masse because it makes a nonsense of threads. I've seen a few posters recently say that MNHQ have refused to do it. I guess the huge archive of threads must be one of MN's biggest resources.

Thanks guys. Apparently they prefer not to do it unless in extreme circumstances, messes up the archive and makes the site seem disjointed. Fair enough, imagine what the site would be like if we all panicked every time we said something stupid and asked for all out posts to be deleted. I could name change, but it would feel like starting again, I've made friends and got relationships on here. But this has changed things for me, it's left a nasty taste and I'm really angry about it. What a bunch of tossers. How is this news?!

cornsilk yes it is