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TECH, please can we have a facility to hide posters who...

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PestoLovelyMonster · 29/09/2009 09:20

we feel have very offensive names?

I don't want my dcs looking over my shoulders and seeing certain nicknames and asking what they are.

Thank you please

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hullygully · 29/09/2009 09:38

Don't you fucking dare.

Blackduck · 29/09/2009 09:38

I just don't want to see the C word or the F word on a daily basis thanks very much. Not a prude, just don't want to see it. Also don't understand why MNHQ allow it and don't have software in place that filters this stuff...

QueenOfFuckingEverything · 29/09/2009 09:38

Nobody ever asterisks out rude words in posts on MN do they?

I would change my name if the majority view is that its offensive and inappropriate. Will watch thread.

RealityIsAnAuntie · 29/09/2009 09:37

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hobbgoblin · 29/09/2009 09:36

this rather brings me back to why i teach my children that swearing is not ultimately BAD but that it is part of the language of adults. Those DC of reading age can surely understand this. This is not a site for children it is a site by parents for parents, to quote an important strap line

hullygully · 29/09/2009 09:34

I think we should all have a posting uniform as well. Some sort of floral pinny perhaps? And tranquillisers all round.

choccyp1g · 29/09/2009 09:32

Hear hear, I don't want to see offensive words highlighted in bright blue. Usually if we use these words in a posting most people would asterisk them out. So why is it OK for a name .... (or could we insist on *s in names?)

QuintessentialShadow · 29/09/2009 09:29

I agree.
My son is 7 and reads very well.

I dont want him to come and read over my shoulder and see some of these posting names.

More importantly, we have a duty to our next generation of internet and forum users. (our childrend) What children learn from seeing posting names on here, is what is regarded as acceptable.

We cannot let children think that some of the names on here are acceptable. They might go and form their own identities based on names they see on mumsnet.

Because, it is on mumsnet, mum uses the site, it must be ok.
As parents, we endorse this product in front of our kids. We therefore have to show some responsibililty and wisdom in chosing our posting names.

And if some of us dont, well then you have to do it for us...

ZacharyQuack · 29/09/2009 09:26

PestoLovelyMonster, there's lots of things on Mumsnet that you probably don't want your children asking you about .

wannaBe · 29/09/2009 09:24

tbh rather than that I think that certain names shouldn't be permitted - ie ones that contain offensive language. there really is no need to have names like that.