Evening all.
Right, big fat ahem at this thread.
Please can we remind you about our Talk Guidelines, specifically the ones about no personal attacks and no trollhunting (ie suggesting another poster might not be genuine).
A couple of clarifications, too...
The OP's posts were all withdrawn by MNHQ, at the OP's request, several months ago. The OP told us people at the Department for Work and Pensions, who were looking into an allegation that her ds wasn't disabled, were reading her posts and quoting them back. We thought, in the light of that, that her request was perfectly reasonable.
We can see that some of you have searched the OP's history and brought up some of her more recent posts on this thread.
That's fine (although perhaps not particularly friendly
) but we do need to remind you that doing so specifically in order to make personal attacks or trollhunt is not on.
So, if I was to post about how much I loved David Cameron (using him as an example, for no particular reason at all) and folks were to pull up on a search remember me saying a couple of days ago how much I loathed his guts, it would be fine to post, "Hang on, didn't you say you loathed his guts two days ago, HelenMumsnet?"
It would NOT be OK to post, "HelenMumsnet, you fucking troll. This link here and here and here show you to be the biggest liar of all time."
Equally, if I had posted in 1993 about loathing David Cameron, it would not be on to use that a evidence of my lying/trolling today. People are allowed to change their opinions at least once a decade, after all.
Hope that helps.
For what it's worth, Starlight has been on MN for ages and we've never had reason to doubt her as a genuine poster. We'll drop her a line about the dangers of changing genders/ages/details in posts - and how that can often lead to problems when others notice and assume an intent to deceive.
Right, as you were. Can't keep Big Dave waiting...