It is very good advice to "Advance Search" a User Name.
For example, anyone reading this thread might assume from the discussion that it refers to two threads previously posted in praise of Graham Linehan and that the OPs in both cases are long-time members of Mumsnet.
That is not the case.
Mumsnet has taken down one of those threads "to look at it". The OP in that case was (apparently) a first-time poster on Mumsnet. (Hello JaneHathaway2 in this thread).
The purpose of that thread was (apparently) to engage Mumsnetters on FWR in a discussion about that OP's lengthily detailed "concerns" that Graham Linehan might be suffering from "mental health problems" - the "symptoms" (apparently) on display in Benjamin Boyce's recent YouTube interview with Linehan.
So many eloquent posts in that thread from that OP, demanding repentance and apologies from Glinner alongside exquisitely detailed expressions of "concern".
I do not believe that that is how "mental health problems" are diagnosed and cured these days - it sounded more like a combination of a Maoist struggle session , Stalinist "psychiatry" and a witch trial.
Pleased to see that that thread is being "looked at" and hoping that that is the last we have seen of it.
As far as I am aware it was the only thread highlighting the BB interview with GL. The video itself was not linked by the OP. All the better to invite speculation without the bother of providing anything so trivial as evidence?
Beyond irony, the video referenced in the now-hidden "mental health concern" thread, is titled:
"Cancel Culture Club | with Graham Linehan"
The first victims of "Cancel Culture" mentioned by Linehan in that video are Julie Bindel, who he decided to listen to along with "the many, many women who were shut down like her".
I am disappointed and sorry to learn from women here that they have suffered in different ways due to Linehan's actions (it is all very mysterious and unspecified but I am happy to take their word for it).
I was in two minds about adding to this thread and "bumping" it but there were a couple of things that bothered me.
First, the "Advanced Search" for user names thing. I did it when I saw what I thought was a bizarre OP post about Linehan (the thread now "being looked at"). The results showed that this was apparently a "first time poster". However, people change User Names so, for all I know, it might have been someone who has been posting here for years under another name or names.
Secondly, the unintentional false impression given by this thread that there were two other threads started around the same time that were "boosting" Linehan, ie. at the expense of women who have been doing good things. I thought that impression needed correcting as one of those threads sought from the outset to portray Linehan as "problematic", made unsupported insinuations about his mental health, was extremely distasteful and possibly defamatory.
Finally, the irony of what I perceived as an attempt to deflect attention from the articles in the Daily Mail and The Times by using an interview with Linehan that focussed on "Cancel Culture". You really could not make that up!
(Just checked in case there is another Glinner thread that might lead to this post being misunderstood and yes, there is, it is about a Glinner Newsnight interview. No comment - this is already uncomfortably close to being a "Thread About A Thread" as it is.)