I'm sorry to do this, I'm sure if I read 2000+ posts I would understand but please could someone explain the DM business to me

Why don't they just ban her? That wouldn't stop her lurking and cutting/pasting (although a nice stern letter from MN's lawyers should) but at least then there would be no fear that she was starting or manipulating threads.

Wonder if mn will pick up on your new name and delete too!

They must be working overtime at mntowers tp protect the privacy of this mn journo who makes a living off the details of our private lives.

I knew it...

You tease ssd - I just know you're sat there in a Boden dressing gown.

whats style?

ssd start a nice style thread instead. I'm bored.

donnie, you know what I began to search but I lost the will to live.....

oh well guess it doesn't matter in the scheme of things...

Not sure of the right thing here...surely if we're being misquoted, splashed all over some rag we don't approve of etc etc without our specific consent

but then, we post here knowing it can be lifted

NOT for people to make money from though, which in turn funds their dubious premise for a newspaper

I really do have strong feelings about this. I don't mind being quoted if it isn't a profit making activity. Or by HQ in order to fund this board. But the ferking DM is pushing it.

Do you think someone has been sat up all night with a finger on the delete button?

ssd if you search on the thread I mentioned you will get it. Not sure of her most recent name but she will have changed it now anyway.

Apparently not SSD I believe it would be construed as 'outing'

don't want to lower ourselves, now do we

so are we not allowed to know the MN names of the journalist on here?

is that why there are so many "message deleted" further up this thread?

christ, its like the secret service on here sometimes

It's like being paid to copy and paste

what's the point of that?

Donnie...I think it's hideous, and doesn't pass for 'journalism' in my book.

Makes me very angry.

and now she is making cash off the backs of other people's - specifically women's - problems. And not even bothering to talk to them, just filching their own comments verbatim, without their permission. I call that pimping.

whatever, georgimama. so you were rude, on purpose, and yet you object to being told that there's no need for it. there was no need for it, you acknowledge that. so what's your problem exactly? (other than the fact that you can't let a single thing lie from me?)

Totally agree Donnie. Laughable and repulsive thread.

"I think anyone who voted Labour in the last election is complicit in murder"

this is an In the News thread which was started around 2 years ago by the hack in question. If you get a chance to read it before MN deletes this post then you will get the measure of the calibre of this 'writer' - ie total red-top stylee shite.

I hope everyone gets a chance to read the thread though - it's good for a laugh.

Why should I deny my rudeness? I was rude, for good reason. It is concerning that MN seem to have so little grasp of these issues considering what a massive media presence they have - massive enough for the DM to want to get in on the game, even though they must be aware how much the majority of MNers dislike the DM. They're riding a tiger.

I don't really understand how replying to you when you were the only person who said I had been rude is "attacking you personally, as usual." Self obsessed much? Believe it or not I don't hunt you out. You post on the contentious threads and the busy threads and so do I. We don't seem to agree very much about things, but that is allowed. For every post of yours I respond to, I probably ignore or don't even see 20. Same as I do with any other prolific poster.

mmm-kay. you didn't seem to be in possession of the facts, i can't think where i would have got that impression. maybe something to do with your having posted a new thread explicitly saying that you needed the DM business explained to you?

and you know, if someone posts 'i'm sorry but' then it's generally because they are about to say something ill-mannered. i note you didn't deny your rudeness, just attacked me personally. as usual. it's getting awfully boring.

Being lectured about rudeness by you is quite funny really Aitch. By the time I posted that comment about "bunting cupcakes" I was in full possession of the facts, having read Justine's posts in just the manner you describe.

The fact that she didn't appear to be aware that the draft new copywright notice gave MN the right to reveal and print on MN or in the books our real names and geographical locations was a bit mind blowing, considering that what was exactly what it said in words of not many syllables.

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