MNHQ can ban whoever they like, but I wish they weren't so quick to delete threads, even if they are by a Previously banned poster.
Even if the OP is trolling, some of the responses can still be helpful to others
Yes, certainly. I would have far fewer threads deleted. Obviously, anything using very offensive language needs to go, or at least the offensive word(s) replaced with “I’m an idiot poster in red”; however anything just really nasty should remain, but with the whole post surrounded by a box of sparkly glittery moving tinsel saying “Ooh, get you!” or “If you can’t say anything nice….”. Deleting it just draws more attention to it and makes people wonder what it said. Within reason, it’s better to allow them to remain and be challenged/ridiculed rather than just let a nasty person get away with plopping and then anonymity.
All new posters should have to tick a box at registration to confirm: “I have read and solemnly understood that this forum is open to ALL adults, thus there is NO NEED for me to start a thread demanding to know why men, and women who aren’t mums, are on Mumsnet, as though nobody else has ever thought to ask that before”.
Automatic suspension if you type ‘would of/could of’ or ‘que’ when you mean ‘queue’ or get lose/loose/your/you’re/his/he’s wrong.
But almost every time people wrongly type ‘que, they actually mean ‘cue’…. Even so, I’d still automatically replace it with a gif of Manuel!
Personally, my rule would be no one could post on a 4 page plus thread, unless they had at the least read all of the OPs posts. A big memo could flash up RTFT before you could post.
Preferably also with a message in big letters saying “If you think the thread is already too long for you (or anybody) to bother reading it all, do you realise that adding your comment will only make it longer – and thus mean that, according to your own reckoning, you are wasting your time posting something that you do not expect anybody to ever actually read?”