To never post on MN again...

[DMwankers]

Fucking Daily Mail So shit how they lift people's threads. Lazy journalism at its finest.

What was it this time?

The work wife or the nativity one?

The partner-colleague-Instagram one is there now. Maybe bots start them and then filch them......

you can post, just change enough details that you are not easily recognisable and NAME CHANGE so even if you are recognised, no one can read your previous posts.

The solution to this is simple (see username).

You think everyone should change their username to some variation of

Fuck the Daily Mail and all who sail in it?

I rather like my username. I’m thinking that

ButchyrestingfaceandtheDailyMailareshitebtw just wouldn’t have the same ring to it.

Totally agree 😊

I think ButchyrestingfaceandtheDailyMailareshitebtw is lovely.

Shouldn't it be DailyMailjournosarerubbish?

Anything that they wouldn't want to print in their rag is fine.

I mean, we can't be too picky - more and more of us are creating anti-DM usernames.

Lemon I think the whole paper is junk

But I like your suggestion and I am so sick of private information from women who are in a crisis being made so public. This is so dangerous and one day is going to cost someone their life.

Yep, everyone grab a name like this and then try to comment as early in the thread as possible. It's worse than junk, it's racist hate filled ignorant rage. Resist!

Yeah - this place is just easy fodder for the Daily Mail now.

Changing names does nothing. It just makes them quote you as 'One poster replied' or 'A poster replying to the thread commented'...

I realised a long time ago that posting here puts me at risk of being picked up by the stalker I once had(think police involvement,the whole bloody caboodle), and when I read posters saying that they've checked a persons past posts,etc., it reinforces my caution.

And I bloody hate the Daily Fail, too.Bastards

This is why I long ago stopped posting anything personal. I would never post here asking for help with personal stuff except boring stuff like toilet training. MN is not a safe space.

It's incredibly naive anyway to assume that anything you post on the internet will stay private and confidential. Even if the DM stops being linked with this forum, there are plenty of others who forward threads too.

I do think though MN should have a warning for posters about this. So many posters in crisis do treat MN as if it is a safe space.
It is fine if you want to talk about what is in the news, or ask for tips around ordinary toilet training, or argue about trans stuff - those threads are never picked up. It is personal situations that are picked up. To be safe on MN these days you have to use it as an entertainment site, nothing more.

I agree that if I had personal problems I wouldn't post here. OK for trivial stuff but otherwise far too identifying. And I don't want my life plastered all over the DM. It wouldn't be though. It's too boring.

I have had issues that at one time I would have posted on here. MN used to be great for less common issues with children. You would get sensible advice. Now you know it is more likely to end up in a newspaper. It is very sad because I think one good source of support for women has gone.

My kids are in Primary School and are already told about the dangers of internet. You would think adults had got the concept by now

But most adults did not grow up with the internet. And the way MN site is designed does invite confidences.

It's just lazy journalism innit

The thing is there are domestic violence threads that clearly could get the poster killed if read by the wrong person and depression threads that could lead to suicide if they ended up in the paper. There needs to be a warning. People who are emotionally stressed will not be thinking clearly when reaching out for help. Mumsnet does provide help and support for many vulnerable people and all the daily mail is doing is turning a women’s distress into entertainment.