To wonder what mumsnet are doing about the daily mail poaching stories from the forum

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Is this normal? People are posting seemingly anonymous threads on her then they are ending up on mailonline?

There are two problems here:

1. Many columnists [waves hello!] trawl Mumsnet for topics for their weekly columns. It must be stressful to find a new hot topic every week, and this is a rich resource.

2. Consider EVERYTHING you've posted on Mumsnet over your membership - which could contain years of innocuous information you've posted. Someone can search your history and collate enough information to create a petty good profile on you.

Lastly, a silly friend of mine has been posting endlessly on FB about her DH being away on business and ....lo and behold - she has been robbed while she was alseep in bed. Don't tell anybody anything about yourself. Ever. Well, certainly not stuff like: "I love living on Mill Road in Sandbanks. Just bought a new Imac, shame my husband is away". Be discrete.

Off The Beaten Track (OTBT topic) is not indexed by search engines and posts last 30 days only. But you lose out on the specialist posters on places like the bereavement and SEN boards, and the traffic is so low you'd have to be dedicated to bumping your thread for a few days to get any responses I think. it does exist, however.

Huff post do it too, all the frickin time. Modern journalism is shite.

usual is right, DM are publishing troll threads, serves the fools right.

I wish we could wind the clock back, to how it was as MrsDV describes, but sadly those days are long gone. Blame Penisbeaker and Brian from Hull.

Why would they do anything? It's free advertising for them. And given how many posts on here rant about the DM they aren't going to stop trying to make the users look like twats. It's a win/win for MN and DM.

But loads of newspapers have crap filler articles people don't like it, but I think it's quite smart to just lift threads for revenue etc, a lot of new media news outlets do exactly that but from Reddit and make a killing

The weekday morning Channel 5 Show 'The Wright Stuff' does it too. They claim to hate the Daily Mail, yet the DM are prominently featured in their newspaper roundup of each day and MW claims to hate MN, and does his 'BooHoo, poor me, MN hates me' stuff. Yet still pinches subject matter for his little show.

Uncontrollable, and you can't post entirely anonymously (which is a good thing). I wish journalists could find their own subject matter, though.

MNHQ are probably the ones feeding the stories to the Daily Fail. All publicity is good and all that.

And the only people I see mentioning Penis Beaker are those who are saying that it's all gone to shit since then. I think any interest in it has long since died. It may have caused an initial influx of members but not all would have hung round.

And it can't be 'protected' - It's public. I have seen it described as a 'safe space' - it isn't. Don't post anything on here that you don't want others to see, that's the answer.

Ah come on... When you log on to Twitter and FB and see that MNHQ themselves are actively promoting a thread about someone's partner sitting with his cock in a pot of yoghurt, it doesn't take a genius to work out who is feeding the DM of some of these threads .

In fact a redditor who did well accruing Karma ( reddits voting system) was a landscape architect and because he was so good at Reddit he got an executive role at unilad which is gets millions of hits and make tons In ad revenue by doing exactly the same as the DM
www.forbes.com/sites/fernandoalfonso/2016/06/01/cashing-in-karma-how-a-former-landscape-architect-turned-his-reddit-fame-into-a-career/#64031f8f21a0

And the more threads like this, the more people will be tempted to look at the mail website (although for all the moaning about them, there are often links to their site with the standard 'sorry about Fail link' on here so someone must be looking at their site) so you are doing MN/DM a huge favour

I remember when it was a safe place and people really got support and there was very rarely any doubt that a bereaved parent was indeed bereaved. There has been some very nasty stuff here where women have had the life blood sucked out of them by trolls.

Oh dear Lyvia...sorry

I think twice these days about posting in case it ends up in the DM

I posted a photo of my DD years ago asking for some advice about a scar she has. It's now the number one google image if you search a certain common phrase. I feel terrible about it!

Fly, surely that's down to SEO done by MN if it was before the DM did it mainstream? If so it shows that MN was never that private

Although that's really annoying on your behalf

I always find it odd that people who stress so much about teenagers and what they get up to on the internet are happy to pour out masses of private and identifiable information to a bunch of strangers. How can anything posted on a forum that you don't need to log into to read possibly be considered a 'safe space' and how on earth do you think Mumsnet can make it so ? The only way to do it would become a closed and probably fee paying forum.

Louis, no I don't blame MN was totally my fault for not thinking before I posted.

Have just checked and it's number 5 now so a bit better than number 1!

What's been published recently to cause this thread just really nosey and bored right now hahaha

Omg I just googled mumsnet and the Daily mail! WHY WOULD ANYONE READ THIS SHITE???? Seriously I genuinely didn't know they randomly picked stories out of the AIBU page and published them?? Weird!

I always think there should be a disclaimer at the top of every thread. A bit like the one on AIBU which says it's not a fight club or the standard one about no-one being experts. There should be an extra line that says, your posts may end up published in a national newspaper or magazine. It might make people a bit more aware.