to be confused about what Mumsnet do about Journos?

[InvisibleLlama]

Was reading a great CFN thread earlier (play park) and now it's disappeared. Has MNtaken it down bcs DFM got involved? Is this normal. Frustrating really - both that threads poof and that crap media get involved.

MN has few rules, but even the ones they do have are enforced sporadically with pretty much no consistency whatsoever. Moderation is reactive not proactive, which is fine and all, in fact it's good but it's pretty hard to figure out sometimes.

This is my 2nd account, first one got banned and I still have no idea as to why. I emailed asking but never heard a whisper.

Thread is still there OP, it's just dropped off the front page.

As to MNHQ and the DFM, other than send them a big floral display saying "fuckity bye bye bigots" I'm not sure what they can do. We're all posting on a public, anonymous forum, otherwise known as fair game for lazy, unimaginative shitbags who pass themselves off as journalists.

I also love that my phone knew that the last word of that sentence was going to be journalists.

Missing the point but what is DFM? I googled it and all that came up was bifold doors? Ha

Ahh workrd it out now...

What would you expect MN to do?

MNHQ will like threads getting in DFM. Free advertising is always good.

I don't understand why it matters?

Talking of MN advertising, I read recently that they have lost a couple of advertisers recently due to all the swearing by us posters. They should have read some of the threads before advertising if they are so fragile.

Pickley The Daily Fucking Ma*l I assume. They're a bunch of thread-lifting bastards.

I like to think they invite them in for coffee, then lock them up.. Hmph

Kally195 - thank you - I've found it now - but still a little strange as it doesn't appear to have been commented on since 10.53. And, to Headinhands, it does matter as DFM is a hateful, racist, nasty piece of s**t.

I know people pretend to hate the DM here but other leftie papers are equally likeloy to lift threads.

Why would MN care. When it says 'by parents for parents' they don't mean it's their job to nurse you through the big bad internet. If you're stupid enough to post identifyable information on an open and indexed website then frankly, you don't get a second's sympathy.

MN is a business. An adage in e-commerce is 'if it doesn't cost you anything, you're the product'. How do you think MN pays for its servers and webmasters? webmasters should be sacked but that's another story

FallingOrbit

You probably offended MN Royalty. I often wonder how feminist you need to be or how many posts you need to make before you get admin privileges.

solar

Yeah probably! I said I had no idea why I got banned but what I mean is what I did wasn't ban worthy. I'd never even had so much as a warning or post deleted before. I posted a topic which would have been more apt in a different area of the board, but instead of moving the topic they just banned me without warning. Kinda dumb really. I have years of experience admining various fora, as moderator and admin and until not too long ago site owner. It's not how I'd run it but then again it's not me running it so not much I can do about their strange and inconsistent moderation :(

It doesn't matter if stuff gets I daily mail.