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To think it's time MN becomes a closed forum?

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minipie · 02/08/2016 15:55

So:

The bastard Daily Mail cuts and pastes very personal stories from MN, discouraging others from opening up and seeking support.

Trolls come on and waste everyone's time, increasing our cynicism in genuine cases and discouraging others from giving support.

Spammers jump on any related (or unrelated) thread and post a link to their crappy product, wasting MNHQ's time in weeding them out.

Hairy handed truckers come and get their weirdo jollies from MNers seeking sexual or physical advice.

Isn't it time we became a closed forum?

I appreciate that wouldn't completely solve all these problems - but it would surely reduce them.

Otherwise, I'm worried the site is going to die, or become limited to the most bland and anodyne threads (lentil recipes and so on).

This is a genuine AIBU - I am not at all techie so there may be downsides I haven't thought of.

Open to debate...

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KateMumsnet · 03/08/2016 14:16

@EmmelineW

I was contacted by a different news paper to ask for permission, if they didn't need permission why bother asking? I reckon Daily Mail have some kind of deal with MN.

Hello all

Just to confirm that we absolutely do not have an arrangement with the DM.

Emmeline, the journo who contacted you to ask permission was being courteous; in truth it would be very hard to challenge media outlets who lift posts without asking (though they shouldn't PM you - against our rules.)

We do understand your frustration with this wholesale lifting - it's not ideal, for sure, and we're really sorry if you've been upset by it. We've posted before on this over here, but I'll c&p here too:

As many posters have pointed out, unfortunately there’s not a huge amount we can do about it - they'd likely claim Fair Use and that would be difficult to challenge. It’s one of the downsides of Mumsnet being an open site, and as always, we remind everyone that this is a public forum, searchable by Google, legally linkable to - and quotable by - all and sundry.

On the upside, this openness means volume of users and volume of users means Mumsnet is available for free to anyone who needs advice 24-7. It also means fresh faces, a variety of points of view, and the wisdom that comes from a very sizeable crowd (which, as an aside, tends to mean that wrong or misguided advice doesn't stand unchallenged).

Only you can decide whether the upsides outweigh the downsides; we hope you’ll stick with us, of course - and making use of the name-change facility with reasonable regularity (perhaps with only a small tweak) makes it a lot less likely that your anonymity will be compromised.

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