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to ask what's soooo wrong with netmums?

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sassy34264 · 10/07/2012 16:13

noticed a lot of derogatory remarks about them.
what have they done?

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JustineMumsnet · 11/07/2012 17:13

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no.cherie daily mail is linked on mn daily.mnetters love dm mnhq had a collaboration with dm to share posts,generate a column

To coin a phrase SM, that's Tosh Grin! There was no collaboration with the Daily Mail - they just stole a chunk of MN content and turned it into a This Week on Mumsnet column, completely unbeknownst to us until it appeared. We asked them to stop, which they did, eventually.

Re Netmums, well it's horses for courses imho - live and let live and all that?

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JustineMumsnet · 16/07/2012 13:06

@scottishmummy

hang on wasnt the mnhq suggestion that a (then) prominent poster collaborate with dm? a bit suck it and see

Yes, to be absolutely clear this is what happened.

When the Mail started doing the column This Week on Mumsnet (without our knowledge or collaboration) we held a poll to see what Mumsnetters wanted us to do. Based on those results we went back to the Mail and said we were only happy for them to have a column based on MN threads if MorningPaper (prominent mn poster who wrote Talk round up at the time) chose threads and compiled it, as folks were worried about security, crass choices of threads, not being a true and fair reflection of MN etc. The Daily Mail dropped the column.

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