Bunburying and wassailing into winter - thread 7

The posting on one of the latest "tell me about" threads seems to be about one particular poster getting gratification from being successfully goady rather than engaging in any real sense. It gives me a sense of uneasiness.

Is it time for carols yet? I’m feeling the Xmas spirit.

Another thread gone tonight and I’m trying to figure out which one

Only realised the point of this thread last week. Had previously ignored it as the title made no sense to me. Useful, point taken, will focus my posting and avoid posting on zombie threads.

"..frequent flyers.."

😂

I don't think I've ever posted here (frequently NC) but I'm fed up of all the questions based thread. Problem is I get sucked in. Must do better. Aargh. (Okay, I won't post again probably). Thank you. As you were.

There's a lot of it about this weekend

I see we have a new influx of the wide-eyed "gee, just asking."

And as its Saturday expect a couple of frequent flyers to pop in later to goad comment

I wandered over into AIBU yesterday. I rarely venture there.

Gosh, it's a bit more forthright than FWR, isn't it? Personal discussions of famous people - generalisations all over the place - it's like a different forum!

I see we're being attacked by zombies today on here. Best ignore them and avoid being eaten altogether.

Posting here is becoming rather like trying to navigate the Hogwarts staircases. Things constantly move around, are only work as you expect on the second Tuesday of months with an R in them, and frequently disappear altogether.

Fun being female and wanting equality with males, isn't it?

Well that’s disappointing.

MN say
“This thread has derailed somewhat from the initial discussion and is drawing a lot of reports. We're taking it down to go through the posts.”

Which is kinda no shit Sherlock, of course some people don’t want some subjects to be bought to a wider audience, but derailing is pretty much standard on any thread on MN and not a reason to pull a thread, and reports should be ignored if posts aren’t breaking FWR / MN talk guidelines.

Or do we have new guidelines that we have to guess now?

I hope that once the posts have been gone through, MN reinstate the thread.

It’s not like the OP went looking for a contentious subject - this information was put into the public domain, I’m assuming for comment, and we are commenting much more constructively than I’ve seen on the media that broke the story.

Problem is, you can’t win on that either, potholes because a bunch of posters will pop up to say that avoiding “vile transphobia” is why they keep the feminism topic hidden, and we should all fuck off back here.

Clearly is being deleted here because it's not a feminist issue.

Actually, agree. Whether UK is continuing to follow a policing by consent model is a wider issue, and should be in chat or AIBU.

Well, I am confused. New poster set on telling us off (seeming to not realise the tone set by their first couple of posts) , when in the end the poster agrees with much of what the topic was about. We just got to point of moving back to topic and ... gone!! Just as I was about to post. I hope that they put it back up but I doubt it.

Yes. Lots of useful and important information about public services on that thread. Why those tactics are allowed to undermine important conversations I really don't understand.

Oh for fucks SAKE I was literally just in the middle of pointing out that the police thread was so derailed it was 100% going to get pulled...when it got pulled.

Unusual new tactic used there, IMO.

I suspected that there were attempts to get that one removed - third one now

I think MNHQ has made a statement to the effect "old posts shouldn't count for a strike", but I can't now find it.

I believe MNHQ do make a distinction between reports on historical posts before and after the extra guidelines were introduced. Imo that's not too unfair - whether a post is reported at the time is somewhat a matter of luck.

I hope they keep track of who makes reports on old posts though. It seems like it would generally be people who aren't operating 'in the spirit' of MN. Even moreso with resuscitators of zombie threads - they quite often are shown the door though unfortunately not always before they've trashed a thread.

Frustrating Kit. A time limit on reports would make sense.

Kit - how did you find out? Did you get an email off MN?

Do you know if it counts as a strike?

I agree that it's a bit rum reporting old threads.

thanks everyone :))))

It was for a post I made back in April Still

as has been said before, I dont know why complaints about old posts/threads are allowed

Morning