On the subject of deleting threads...

ah, tis OK, I have had an axe since halloween, then kept it for troll issues

thankyou for the sympathy.....am on the mend now, but had a very deep rooted mole cut out my leg last week, and the recovery has been very painful. stitches come out monday tho, so nearly back to full fitness.

well, if I allow them out.....am terrified and they not offering me gas&air for it. never had stitches like these before....always had disolving ones. these are not nice!

I posted on that, it was really insensitive and it should have been removed, as should have the one about an OP being sick of reading about husband's leaving in the relationship section.

Righto Devil Don't you know that's an ANTI-FEMINIST question?

Bunny, the case you describe is a bit different isn't it? Fair enough to delete when it comes to explicit incitements to violence. I mean, if the OP on the thread we're talking about had stated that rape is just fine and all men should do it, I'm sure it would have been deleted in a heartbeat.

Psycho, I think I must have missed a few threads - I'm not sure what you mean about the axe but I'm sorry to hear about the incapacity.

Mmmm Vodka!!! I wish I'd have paid more attention to that thread, then I may remember who the OP was so I can tell if they are still around. Oh well!

oh i agree...what were they thinking!

the Bond films always make me laugh..he's supposed to be a spy but everyone knows him...he can walk into any bar in the world and get his vodka martini..

I think they escaped that daftpunk as they really were very quick to remove it. It's not necessarily a good thing to post the need for a translation of terrorist literature on the web though to be honest. Crazy!

oh, I'm sorry......was you wanting to wind me up till I had a tantrum and threw my axe at you???

I must say though it does annoy me when troll threads are deleted, sometimes the evidence is blatant and it would help other posters to be able to read them.

i think it's a judgement call for the newer people at MNHQ and my impression rightly or wrongly is that justine would be more lenient as the owner of the site and her underlings would be more cautious and sometimes make what i'd consider to be bad decisions.

wow..MI5 investigations on mumsnet.

I'll debate with you Policywonk,

so, erm , does my bum look big in this?

I remember a thread ages ago where the OP was asking for info on how to translate a foreign language document on how to make a bomb or something stupid like this. It was very quickly removed. I can't see why they leave others when they are clearly designed to cause distress. The mental health of each person on here should be equally as important as the threat of an MI5/MI6 investigation. (I know it's extreme but can you see my point?)

Aw, does that mean you're not going to debate with me and I'm going to have to do some work instead?

you make a good point policy.

I think it's true that MNHQ are deleting threads that might lead to legal trouble fairly quickly. I find it hard to blame them too much for this though - it's not like they're a national newspaper with an enormous legal fund. If they get taken to the cleaners, MNHQ founders will be personally responsible for the costs.

exactly PW...a thread was started this week calling all the striking RMT workers "lazy greedy arses"....that's offensive imo.

policy, was not thinking of those TBH.....there have been others this week that I have been on that were.

having said that, the threads you allude to, they too also seem to get deleted don;t they??

I was thinking about it tho lots last night....(yep, still thinking MN when I am not on it......addicted, me, nahhh), and I think that MNHQ have been burnt so much by the legal action they went thru, as much as we have been with trolls (and on my part I have been!), that I think they are maybe getting over cautious now and delete thru worry(IYGWIM).

And I really don't think we can delete stuff just for being upsetting. We're all upset by different things - I've used this example elsewhere this week, but I'm extremely upset by posts slagging off smokers and saying that the NHS shouldn't treat them (as my mother died recently of a smoking-related disease), but I don't for a minute expect MN to cater for this.

And I really do think that the thread in question is doing a rather good job of correcting a fairly common misconception.

Surely it's better to discuss these things in the open?

Divvies, haha.

I read that thread and had to sit on my hands.

Do you mean S t e i n e r threads, Psycho? Or were there others this week?

BOF....how do you know that thread was started by someone from the BNP?....i've re-read it and tbh it sounds like a woman just ignorant to of few things.....i'm not sure the BNP have even heard of mumsnet....a bit too fluffy for them i would have thought..

right, so that thread is ok, upsetting people and the OP is ignorant (to be mild), but that is ok.

so what was wrong with all the other threads this week that they deleted with no reason then that we can see, and certainly were not upsetting anyone bar one person off board who might/might not be real???

Yeah, that's what I think, I think

Have a good day, BoF. Don't suppose you want to edit an article about house-building in the UK while I go to your BBQ?

oh is that the 'how can etc in marriage' one? that's not offensive in itself, imo. she's just ignorant and, some might say, fortunate.