STAND UP AND BE COUNTED AND STOP THE ATTACKS ON SN PARENTS

[4madboys]

ok NOT an aibu, but this is where it will be seen the most and it NEEDS awareness.

quite frankly, i along with others am appalled at the comments that are being made and left to stand, toward the SN community, they are downright offensive and quite simply appalling.

i am sure (or hope) that the majority on here do NOT agree with them but yet the SN community on mn are not being supported, whether this is because people do not know what to say, or they havent seen these posts i do not know?

BUT IT IS ABOUT TIME THAT THINGS CHANGED, so this a thread where you can stand up and be counted and say that you do not agree with the disregard, blatant trolling and offensive behaviour towards our lovely mn who have or are dealing with sn in their family.

they need this place for support, not the vile behaviour that they are getting.

so please post here and show your support and help make a change for the better.

all it takes is a smile next to your name to show you agree :)

RustyBear... Well that's the nature of a chatboard. You'll agree and 'like' some posters' view and disagree/dislike others. Some posters put too much of their personal lives for all to see, as is their choice, but in doing that you give people ammunition if they are so inclined.

Offensive/inoffensive is very subjective indeed.

Bigoted/Non-bigoted isn't, though.

But feenie, these people exist. We can't ban people for being idiots

daftpunk is the perfect example, I think she truly believed what she was spouting (I have met people like her) They believe the conspiricies, they believe the daily mail - they are stupid people but stupid people are allowed to speak. We may not like what they have to say but we can't stop them being stupid

We may not want to share a board with them but this is an open forum, there will be tories/labour, bf/ff, sahm/wohm, etc etc - you can't stop people having opinions.

:)

Standing up to be counted.

One DS on the way to diagnosis.

"The definition of internet troll is someone on a wind-up, someone who posts to upset and inflame, with a few sub-categories."

This would be helped if MNHQ were using the same definition of troll that the rest of the internet uses.

Yes, you can - daftpunk was banned, eventually, with very good reason. There are laws against this kind of abuse; are you saying then that there should not be, because we 'can't stop them'?

LyingWitch - ust because someone has ammunition doesn't mean they have to shoot....

LyingWitch
Posters whose chidren have SN should not have to feel that they cannot mention their children unless they are on an "SN" topic thread.

And the problem is not that MN should be moderated more. But that it should be moderated equally

dittany... How do you know who is on a 'wind up' and who is just 'genuinely on a different channel'? I can't tell. I have no choice but to take each post as it is and either engage or not. I know that MNHQ will look into reports - even if they do it quietly - no fuss, no drama.

I think there are some subjects that are so polarising that they're very much 'you're on one side or the other and there's no in-between'. I find some subjects easier to discuss than others and can see how 'debates' get out of hand.

Taking SN as a category, I would imagine that the posters who post there are very much attuned to 'normal' posting and would quickly spot an interloper - same with feminism, I expect. It's less clear cut on AIBU, it's a different board with myriad topics, none of which are to be taken seriously, I think.

Ok so why don't we all message MNHQ with the names of those posters we feel are trolling on here at the moment and as HQ what they plan on doing about these posters, I'm sure some names would come up over and over again . No is named on board so no troll hunting and maybe MNHQ can see the strength of feeling and upset caused by these posters,

Daft punk went to her solicitor about it in the end, didn't she? I wonder how she got on with that?

RustyBear... Exactly so, but why run the risk? Some people say hurtful things - some mean to do it and some just blurt out, both hurt.

:) Count me in for 1 DS with SN

What did you say, Shiney?

MmeLindor... Posters do have the right to mention their children though, don't they? Nobody is stopping them from doing that.

I don't know what you mean by moderating equally? As far as I know, MNHQ investigates all reports.

The one that POG took offence to? Ridiculous.

Oh yes- I did see that at the time. Have you asked them to reinstate it? I don't believe it contravened guidelines at all

no reason for shineys post to be deleted at all- sorry but it's all a bit touchy and stupid, why report it?????

Yes, parents with children with additional needs do get a bit fed up with well meaning people telling us that only special people get special children or as shiney said we are fighters but come on people, it isn't said in hate!! The same way people love to send you the 'holland' poem.... I didn't want to go to fucking holland and I don't like being in holland, stop giving me the stupid poem

Save your energy for the true haters and the true bigots, not the well meaning clumsy people or the clueless people or the stupid people