To think the Daily Mail are taking the piss?

[DailyFailAreABunchOfCunts]

As you may infer from my NN I am not a fan. However I saw this on today's Mail online:

DM Link

For those who don't want to click it, the DM have mined the recent thread from a poster who lost her DS at a young age, and was asking if she WBU to still buy clothes for him and join clubs. I remember the thread as it was really moving and so clear that the poster was struggling with her grief.

The Mail has lifted the story - and the child's name - lock, stock and barrel. I'd be interested in MNHQ's view on this. I realise that posts are in the public domain but this feels so horribly invasive.

The press complaints comission need to hear about this

Independent press standards organisation (IPSO) are the people to complain to, press complaints comission closed 2 years ago

Riverside. I disagree. MN advertises the site and the talk facility as a supportive place. They have also previously set a precedent by providing confirmation in the past that they have contacted vulnerable posters.

If my request was for them to provide a blow-by-blow account of who said what, then I'd agree with you. But all I want to know is whether MN have taken 5 mins to email someone who is clearly very fragile at the moment, to warn her that her details are on a major news website. As MNHQ have been fairly quiet about this whole subject - despite there being at least 3 active threads on it - then pushing by way of posting asking for clarification, does not seem unreasonable.

its fine for mn to confirm or deny that they have contacted the op

yabu to demand that they tell you

Thanks Papaya! If you want to do something about this complain to the Independent press standards organisation (IPSO). The more of us they hear from the more likely they will do something about it. Lets all get onto it and voice our disgust for this unethical article.

Riverside I disagree. This isn't about one post- I want to know what MNHQ do when this kind of thing happens in general. They can't control what the Daily Fail do, and I'm not expecting them to monitor news websites every day. but when it comes to their attention that a post has been used in this way, it's not unreasnoble to expect that the OP is contacted. Especially in an instance as sensitive as this.

Their response could be "we always contact OP's once we hear of this". I don't need specifics. I don't want to know what they or the OP say. But I do think that MNHQ should accept that there is something they can do, rather than just pointing out everything that they can't do.

I also don't want to be rude, so let's agree to disagree on that one.

arabia it was a request, not a demand. And again, I certainly wasn't "goady".

Let's also agree to disagree. We clearly aren't going to see it from each other's POV.

i wasnt saying your specific post was particularly goady, i was talking about general goady posts always asking for more and more personal, irrelevant info

look at the tread about the partner getting a childs hair cut- what relevance is the sex of the op, partner or child but people demanded that info

But why did you quote me and then write that "stuff like this is part of the problem" and refer to "goady posters"?

I wasn't asking for more information about the original OP, I never ask for identifying information on posts on MN, and I wasn't being "goady". I was simply enquiring about the response from MNHQ. I don't think there is anything wrong with asking a question- it's up to MNHQ if they respond or not.

I genuinely feel that you choosing to quote me like that is unfair and inaccurate.

I fail to see how what I asked is in any way like the questions on the other post you mentioned.

People are talking here as if the op of the thread in question must be oblivious to the fact that her story was posted in the DM yesterday, even though some million or so other mn'ers as well as the other however many millions of people who read the DM may be completely aware of this fact. There are several issues here which people are not considering:

1. It's entirely possible, likely even that the OP of the thread in question knows of the existence of the article and has even been in contact with the DM over it. In fact it's possible the article may have even been written with her consent, and that MN HQ are aware of this but don't want to draw attention to the fact.

1. The article was published yesterday. While I don't agree with it (assuming the poster wasn't aware) the fact is that if there hadn't been three or four threads discussing it, it's existence, and linking to it and therefore by definition linking to the thread in question, it would have been published yesterday, and by today have been virtual chip paper because they will have moved on to something else. By continuing to talk about it here, to post threads about it, linking to the article and even highlighting some of the details, MN'ers have in fact given this particular post far more exposure than the DM. How many of the outraged here have also shared the article on social media in order to further express your outrage I wonder? I'm certain some will have.

Why speculate about whether she knows or not? Even if she knows, why would that prevent MNHQ contacting her about it?
At the least, they would need to tell her her thread has been deleted.

As invested as some of us are in saying this was outrageous, others seem very invested in saying it's business and usual and we shouldn't give a shit.

we shouldn't give a shit.

Where has anyone said that!?

Yes, they are awful, but they get the clicks. What they do isn't illegal.

you bumped a year old thread to defend that pile of shit?

Zombie, zombie, zombie

Wasn't defending anything

Just meant it's the DM so they'll do anything for clicks - fact!

Unfortunately, what they do isn't illegal - fact! So impossible to stop them.

Didn't say I was happy about it!

Love that Zombie!!!! Now why can't there be one of those at the end or Zombie Threads?

This is the 2nd zombie thread I've seen you bump today,Kath.

Yes, thank you pp. Sorry sorry sorry and all that. I will be more careful to look in future I am used to forums being run in a different way re zombie thread. Also very stressed at the moment. Please forgive!!!!!!

Awful, and the reason why I never post on here asking for advice.

They are a fucking disgrace. And the reason why I only start light-hearted threads or something that I feel sure they wouldn't jump on.
Sorry for the OP of the thread and sorry that the daily mail continues to have any kind of readership.

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