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Original poster

to want the sleb twaddle board GONE?

338 replies

Empressa · 09/04/2016 08:40

It encourages the worst sort of nasty, libellous speculation, creepy fan obsessing and vicious gossip mongering.

It is inhabited by the type of posters who would feel very comfortable on the Sidebar of Shame.

It is not in the spirit of the mumsnet site - celebrities are parents too and it is in no way a happy and supportive place.

AIBU to think that it is surplus to the requirements of Mumsnet and shouldn't be there?

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MelanieCheeks · 09/04/2016 08:42

Why do you go there?

Queenbean · 09/04/2016 08:43

Not this, again Hmm

How about, if you don't like a board, don't go there, don't read the threads and look elsewhere. There are bajillions of other threads to read, you don't have to like everything

Thisismyalias · 09/04/2016 08:43

Yabu

Different strokes for different folks.

nancy75 · 09/04/2016 08:43

Just don't look at it.

StarlingMurmuration · 09/04/2016 08:43

I didn't even know we had a sleb twaddle board. If you're not interested, don't read it.

Sparklingbrook · 09/04/2016 08:46

Hide the whole topic. YABU

AppleSetsSail · 09/04/2016 08:46

Ditto - didn't know we had it.

Has the sleb board ruled on the threesome super-injunction?

SanityClause · 09/04/2016 08:47

I have it hidden. I never read Hello or OK or whatever, even at the GP or the hairdresser. I don't watch the Kardashians, or TOWIE, or the like. I'm just not interested in that kind of thing.

Some people like it, though. So, let them crack on! How boring life would be if we were all the same!

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Empressa · 09/04/2016 08:47

It comes up in active.

No where else on this site is nasty, baseless speculation about real, identifiable people allowed to stand.

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LetThereBeCupcakes · 09/04/2016 08:47

If they get rid of the board, people will just start the posts in chat. Just hide the board.

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Empressa · 09/04/2016 08:48

The posts with identifiable people in them should be deleted. So if they were started in Chat, they wouldn't hang about for long.

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Empressa · 09/04/2016 08:49

Plus all that Larry stuff is just attracting nutjobs.

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Sparklingbrook · 09/04/2016 08:49

If you hide the topic threads on it won't come up on Active.

Sparklingbrook · 09/04/2016 08:50

The Larry stuff has all gone now.

HotPotatoOrchestraStalls · 09/04/2016 08:51

surplus to the requirements of Mumsnet

Surplus to whose requirements? What are 'the requirements of mumsnet' anyway? Confused

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 09/04/2016 08:51

Just hide the topic.

You don't have to read the posts. You sound worryingly overly invested. There are lots of topics that aren't relevant to my life so I hide them, that way they don't come up on Active

PaulAnkaTheDog · 09/04/2016 08:52

Of course YABU. Also, this comment was completely unnecessary and decidedly nasty Hmm

It is inhabited by the type of posters who would feel very comfortable on the Sidebar of Shame.

You don't want Sleb Twaddle on mumsnet, I don't want nasty comments like yours. I don't think either of us will get our way...

Sparklingbrook · 09/04/2016 08:52

Here's the topic if anyone wants a look.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/sleb_twaddle

AnchorDownDeepBreath · 09/04/2016 08:53

The Larry stuff isn't really a product of that board... No more so than saying Chat should go because most of it is inane and unnecessary conversation, or that AIBU attracts trolls.

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Empressa · 09/04/2016 08:53

Thanks for worrying about me Smile

The requirements of mumsenet would be either to support, or to inoffensively entertain, imvho.

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Sparklingbrook · 09/04/2016 08:54

It's not a very well used topic when you look at it. Hardly busy.

BrianCoxReborn · 09/04/2016 08:55

If we are getting rid of something, can it be goady fuckers instead please?

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Empressa · 09/04/2016 08:55

What's wrong with that comment Paul? The Sidebar of Shame is nasty misogynistic bile aimed at oppressing through ridicule. The sorts of comments you would read there are mostly unpleasant and directed at women.

Why should that be encouraged on a site which is supposed to help and support mums (and parents/women in general)?

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AnyoneButAndre · 09/04/2016 08:56

The board itself (having just checked the recent thread list) is pretty innocuous - and anything that's misogynist in a Daily Mail way gets jumped on quick. There were some threads that got pulled about a recent front page injunction story but getting rid of the ST topic wouldn't have stopped people having the exact same conversation in Chat - it just means you can hide it (and AFAIK that means you don't see it in Active).

Sleb Twaddle is subject to exactly the same talk guidelines as anywhere else on the site.

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Empressa · 09/04/2016 08:56

Happy to get rid of GFs Brian.

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