AIBU to ask what is with the new trend of just deleting entire threads for minimal reasons?

[Wookiecookies]

Ok, I know MNHQ, its your bar and all that, but I have noticed lately that rather than just issuing a warning to return threads back to track, you just delete them altogether. Many were heavily invested in a previous thread and one person came along, started namecalling and the entire thread dissapeared! Why? A gentle reminder would have sufficed I am sure?

Its not that I have an issue with one thread being vapourised here, its the current pattern of threads just going poof for tiny reasons. It makes it hard to invest my time here, because whats the point ultimately if the thread just dissapears?

Am I being unreasonable? Or is anyone else noticing a pattern?

Not trying to start a TAAT, just feeling a little frustrated really.

A thread I was on was deleted for not being in the spirit of MN or of Christmas.

W.T.A.F.

I think I was absent on the day the spirit of MN was defined.

Isn't it gin?

Me too Gowgirl

I've noticed it too. More and more threads being deleted for whimsical flimsy reasons.

waves at gow! Me tooooooo!

Bah humbug! And whilst we are on the topic, the spirit of flaming christmas? What the?

And yes, it does seem that asking if you are unreasonable, then being told that you are, is the catalyst for a lot of upset by the posters of these aibus, who then want threads removed!

A thread i was on was deleted because it had 'rl (real life i assume) implications'. Is that a new category for deletion? Quite a lot of threads would fall into it surely?!

I suppose the ones about 'love actually' wouldn"t come into that category as that is a film not real life, so at least those are safe!

Maybe the precious types should stay out of aibu?

We know! knownposter

Aww crap.. its just happened AGAIN on another thread. Great. Please someone remind me why I am here?

I feel like we were naughty school children that got called into the head teachers office.

This one was a chat thread not an aibu, amd it was a case of OP not loving the responses so she asked for it to be removed, some of which in fairness were harsh, although understandable to a degree. Why delete it though? Thought chat threads automatically delete after 30 days anyway!

Soo frikking frustrating.

It's utter nonsense. Someone asks a question, doesn't like the answer they get and goes running to the prefects crying.

This website was built upon robust differences of opinion. The only person I actually saw throw personal insults on that thread was the op...

There's got to be somewhere better than this to chat/exchange views these days this is becoming so bloody insipid.

And that's not to mention the trolls...

I agree RJ, I think this kind of silliness is killing the draw of the site. Although I am aware now, that having said this, it wont be long before this thread dissapears into the nothingness too.

Which thread was it this time?

God, if only life were like this new fluffy world of MN, where you could just delete every real world opinion you disagreed with!

I'd hate that wookie! Although with all the tailored news and info folk get now through the Internet maybe that's the way we are heading...we will just have our views reinforced and not challenged in the future.

Bloody depressing...

Chat thread about OP buying her DD an xbox when DD actually asked for a nintendo DS. Apparently her DH was excited about the xbox and had bought some games for it already. That naturally raised some eyebrows and then it headed into bunfight territory. The only reason it was deleted was because OP requested it, which was odd, as she had asked for an opinion. We dont always hear what we want to in life, I dont think deleting threads is the answer here. I was not one of the harsher posters, although I can see why other pp's were frustrated with OP's response to their opinions, which she had asked for after all.

God RJ, agree, so depressing, I liked the world I used to live in, where all views were welcomed along with being challenged, but not ignored or squashed just because. Maybe some misty eyed nostalgia here, but the world feels like a really strange uptight place lately.

A thread i was on was deleted because it had 'rl (real life i assume) implications'.

Yes! What the hell kind of reason is that?

Oh ffs essential how ridiculous. Why would the poster not consider that before hand?

Well I don't want to identify any particular thread that may have gone missing, but the last one I read had posters missing or skipping vital details of the OP's request so it is derailed from the start so to speak! But surely a MNHQ message would be useful to drag the thread back to the point? I would welcome the deletion of individual messages, especially between two posters who want the last word

EG after a present is purchased the recipient is asked what they want - at a late stage they come up with something completely different. Posters pile on to the OP about buying wrong item, oblivious to the fact that it wasn't the wrong item when they bought it!

As the site/no of posts/threads/users increase, MN has to grow and add moderators who ultimately have to make the decision not a computer so don't expect consistency.

I like derailing threads....
Some have meandered for days then the PO get involved and poof!

I do not understand MN at all.

I asked MN to delete an old post I made (not a thread, just one single post) about being sexually assaulted, which led to me being outed in real life and being threatened by the man who assaulted me. It took weeks of begging for MN to delete it (originally they refused to).