mn is a public website. We do not sign up to terms and conditions that say threads may not be discussed outside of mn, on twitter etc...

[wannaBe]

yep, thread about a thread... big deal.

so - thread started on mn. Another poster tweeted about said thread, came back to the thread and said she'd tweeted about it.

Subsequently posters called for her to be banned for tweeting about a sensitive thread, followed by lots of other nasty name-calling.

Thing is, the thread was public anyway. You don't have to be logged into mn to view it. You don't have to have a button next to each post to tweet about it - all you'd have to do is copy/paste the link into twitter. Once you put your private business on a public website you lose control over what happens to it/who talks about it/tweets about it/potentially writes about it in the press.

To suggest that a poster should be banned for talking about a thread that is on a public website, on another public website is ridiculous.

Mn has hundreds of thousands of hits a day. People are very naive if they think that their private, sensitive business is limited to the few people that post on the threads in question.

And people do discuss mn on twitter. Both in terms of threads/the potential genuineness of posters/the outcomes of threads. It's just that they don't come back on to mn to talk about having done so.

AF its exactly these kind of nonsense arguments that I get drawn into and accused of bullying!! Probably best I leave now before I say something right wrong

Isnt pasting to here from twitter when someone has made their tweets PRIVATE worse than pasting a link from a public board?

I would say it is.

Georgi - its like typing "why" into Google to try to confuse it

Squeaky - [nods vigorously!]

I tried. Google was unfazed.

Yes, please could we stop pasting tweets here

I don't want to see them, tbh

was about to say the same squeaky

it's all public, either accept it or don't use it

But this just comes back to just because you CAN should you? Just because you can tweet about a thread to get your mates to come and stick the boot in because you're unable to hold up your point of view intelligibly yourself, should you?

I understand all the posters saying well this is a public forum etc, no one's broken any rules, internet is not private, Poster Beware - I think everyone on this thread understands that.

And I don't view those who disagree with the tweeting as saying that they think some rule has been broken - it is just simply a shitty thing to do. Alouise has told us her reasons for doing it and they are shitty reasons. Quite straightforward really.

Ironically she now seems quite protective of her own privacy having blocked her tweet stream or whatever it's called.

I dont get it, whats ironic about ALG hiding her twitter?
Shes having the shit ripped out of her here so chose that it was best that all you randoms weren't able to see?

see that's the difference, you can make twitter private, but MN is a PUBLIC forum.

I would say so Squeaky, yes.

The thing is SS, even if you managed to change everyone's mind and got ALG banned, even if you got them to put some warning at the top of every thread about C+Ping posts...it would happen again. The internet is full of unscrupilous individuals. If it makes you unhappy then it's your posting style that needs to change, not MN.

But you wouldnt, or certainly shouldnt repost a private message, so you shouldnt be reposting a private twitter comment.

Threads on any of this board are public and if you google "bathroom porn" see what you get... (its the 7th one down in my list)

Obviously depends on what setting you have on google too..

Squeakytoy Presumably anyone posting AG's tweets on here now is one of her 'friends'. One of the hazards of the befriending 295 people you don't necessarily know in RL on twitter is that they might forward on/re-tweet/copy and paste her tweets wherever they wish. It's not private to her 'friends'. Her friends are just the equivalent of MN but smaller. So the OP's advice/stance goes for AlouiseG too. It has come full circle.

Esperanto - I completely agree.

but you post on here for an opinion yes?
most of my twitter friends are MN'ers
what's the difference?

So many cats bum mouths on here. Have none f you ever tweeted or emailed your mates something you found interesting online? A picture, a joke, something odd or a thread on a message board they might be interested in?

Stupiditysquared, I actually think that you're most annoyed at yourself for posting about the porn in the first place, rather than what ALG has done. I really don't see HOW you can believe that something you have posted on a public forum should remain 'private'.

And now you are making it even more widely known by keeping this thread going. Don't you realise that is just going to get MORE people looking at it? Isn't that the opposite of what you want?

Making Twitter private does not prevent any of your "inner circle" from retweeting/posting/C&Ping your tweets anywhere. Poster beware, tweeter beware. Same difference.

The difference is of course that I didn't refer to her as being a troll or having her vagina sewn up.

You are right I think that this isn't very edifying, and nor is it progressing the debate.

It's a simple proposition. Will MN put a note on top of the sensitive threads asking people not to circulate them? Even if it can't be policed, I agree with the idea that simply not having a twitter feed is too oblique a message for some.

How can this hurt?

you can retweet any of my drivel
honestly it's not worth it

SS it can hurt because it gives a false sense of security.

I think the terms Malifence used further up the thread were a lot more insulting than sewn up vagina brigade!

That is exactly it AnyFule.

Allsquareknickers I'd bet there's quite a few randoms amongst her 295 friends. I'd be looking to do a cull if I were her. The irony is that in having no regard for others' "privacy" (I say that in recognition of the fact that there is none, just a sense of decency which for some people means they would respect that "privacy" despite it being perfectly possible and legal not to) she has compromised her own. Something of an own goal. Or in the context of the thread that she was so desperate to win she needed to draft in her followers, a Pyrrhic victory.

but SS you name changed for a reason. The reason being that you didn't want your regular MN friends knowing it was you. So once you had that covered, you were OK.

There is a teachers forum that watches this site all the time making awful remarks, you'd have to police all those types of sites as well.

Whether you think it was right or wrong to tweet the thread, the fact is that twitter is probably the least of your worries.

As long as MN uses twitter to promote this site I'm afraid you're onto a loser really.