What vonsudafed said.
Specifically with this: "But by confusing the two, MNHQ have made a right hash of things, as Rubberduck, nantucket and a few other people have pointed out. It looks as though the bullying is being swept under the carpet, and the victim made to pay. If this was the narrative of a post about a child at school, MN would be roaring with outrage at the injustice."
But also all the other stuff she's said. And Nantucket.
I'm really, really disappointed by the MNHQ reaction. Like saying to a gay child who's being bullied, 'well, you are rather flamboyant, aren't you? Couldn't you just, you know, be less emphatically you?"
I think that there is an important point of principle here, to which the 'expert/expertise' distinction is a very red herring.
A poster - any poster, could be me, could be you - should be staunchly defended when they are attacked, repeatedly and by more than one poster, with no provocation or proof.
When that attack affects her Real FAMILY Life - however that has happened - MN has an absolute moral duty to show that it will not be tolerated.
Justine: do you agree? Because it is my, and other's opinion that thus far, behind the carefully neutral tone, you've done nothing of the kind.