Dear MNHQ, I didn't see all the problems kick off over poor Revjustabout...

indeed ruty

i really don't get this posting 'officially' stuff - the church is made up of individuals with different opinions. And anyway she has said nothing dodgy anyway so all rather hypothetical.

Taunting she is a fantasist because she said she'd lost relatives in the Holocaust is however pretty unequivocal.

pmsl at notrubber

Justa quick wave to the Rev. I have never posted on your threads I don't think but you seem lovely and sound - have only quickly skimmed over other threads but have to say I think it's all a poor bloody show.

I don't think she is gone? she hasn't flounced at all...probably just lying low for today until the dust settles...

Sorry anyone, not everyone.

I agree about the MNHQ workings being occluded this time, soph. Usually they come on and I think 'Ah, I see.' Then I think 'that's why they're in charge of a multinationalconglomerate commercially-viable website with an impressive media presence, and i'm not.

But this time, I think they're really v wrong.

Well, sophable, I have to say I didn't agree with everything she said on Gaza crisis and there were others too but I don't remember seeing anything attacking her personally on this area. I could be wrong. But I felt she was amazingly informed and I learned a lot from her.

Has she gone? No. Surely not. She's so valuable on MN.

Sindie?

sunday independent?

so what bothered you was her talking about moldies???

ahh

HOW would he arsing about on the veggers thread constitute official pastoral care?

ruby: justabout was around for ages and always had good and very informed opinions on church matters (threads that normal most people would not exactly hang around on). She posted one thread one day (a year or so ago?) saying "Which Mumsnetter is the least likely to be ordained?" and then talked about her forthcoming ordination about which she was nervous! When she was ordained she added the 'rev' just as a bit of a laugh TBH.

What made me think? The things she said about the Sindie- about how she was worried because her supervisor knew her MN name and how she talked to him about her mn posts. I don't remember the exact words, but I thought it was odd.

Why didn't I ask? Because I wasn't that bothered. 'd a few times at some posts, but tbh have bigger things to worry about than whether a rev's posts are likely to upset the church. I'm not a churchgoer or even a christian so it didn't feature on my radar much (sorry). I probably only noticed it at all because my lawyer dh is so obsessive about things he says online & I thought it odd someone would be do what I thought she was doing.

I do think its good for her for people to realise that she's not posting officially - clearly I wasn't the only one who thought that. Means she can post what she likes if everyone is clear these are her own opinions and not representative of an organisation.

Why does everyone think she was semi-official? She's here as a person. One who wants to help if she can, and occasionally asks for help herself.

Do any of you believe that the Dept of Education or whatever have sponsored ScienceTeacher to come on here? Do you refrain from questioning her, because she claims to be a science teacher?

and my English is crap tonight, apologies!

The MNHQ post also implied she wasn't entitled to use Rev as she was a Deacon (which has since been disproved - Deacons can use the title Reverend) - I wonder if that was a factor in their "request".

lots of posts deleted. then a conversation where mnhq and rev agreed to take rev out of her name.

I really don't have a clue about the Reluctant worshipper thread, as I never go on the Philosophy/religion threads. I've never given too much thought at Rev's name either.

I read the gaza thread without knowing rev's posting history, tbh. And she was bullied, imho. Has that been addressed by MNHQ?
(sorry, I'm too tired to go and look in details what's been happening on mn in the last 3 days)

Or indeed both of those.

winky one of two possible reasons as far as i can see:

best case scenario becuase she was a vociferous critic of the israeli govt's actions in gaza.

or

because she is a vociferous critic of the moldies website.

Ruby

The Rev has been on MN for Some Considerable Time, posting as Justabout. She was an interested Christian, nothing more, for a while. Then she began her thingummy training which she posted about, then she was preliminarily(is that a word?)ordained and was v happy and we all (atheists/muslims/jews/christians) congratulated her.
I think that's why her job is in her name; that, and because she was organizing the RW thread.

I agree, pooka. Or if all Mumsnetters are truly equal then all login names should fall under the same scrutiny. It's only fair and honest after all.

So how many mumsnetters are there now? How many man hours do you think it would cost them to authorise each and every one (and after every name change, of course, just to be thorough).

I know i'm not the first person to say this, but the more I think about it the wierder it gets.

And as policywonk said earlier MNHQ seem very, um, unclear on this. Normally they let us see their workings, but not this time. Which is why, I think, their posts seem so unsatisfying.

she sounds like a thoughtful, liberal, intelligent, intellectual renegade member of the anglican church actually.

bit like my RL vicar!

I always found her posts to be balanced, caring, intelligent even in the face of provocation.

Why was she picked on then?

have any of these people who object to her name actually ever looked at the Reluctant Worshippers threads at all?
What has she said that made you think she was here in a semi official capacity jute? I've not read anything to make me think that.

She jokes a lot. I think the name was partly in jest. but more fool her.