Hi everyone. We’ve had a closer look at concerns about these threads being derailed, and just wanted to pop on with a quick reminder about how we handle this. Not every shift in conversation counts as derailing as sometimes discussions naturally broaden or move in a slightly different direction, and that’s part of how threads evolve on Mumsnet. We can’t realistically (or fairly) moderate discussions to that level of granularity.
Please keep in mind that everyone is of course free to ignore posts or posters they don’t want to engage with.
However, if we spot repeated patterns of posters entering threads purely to provoke, disrupt, or otherwise drag the discussion off-course, we will step in.
Deliberate attempts to derail conversations or wind other posters up aren’t acceptable here. If you think you might be posting in that way, please take a step back. We'd also ask posters to report any posts to us that they're concerned about, and refrain from calling people derailers/bots/trolls etc on the thread.
Thanks, all.