To think threads shouldn't be deleted half as often as they are?

[CaptainPugwashed]

No thread in particular. I think it's completely unreasonable that threads are pulled so often.

We are presumably all adults here and capable of having discussions and debates without thought police.

A thread doesn't get pulled just because people reported it.

not in the spirit of mumsnet always seems to me to be the most patronising and vomit inducing phrase in the history of the world. But maybe it's just me.

There’s definite some serious censorship on some issues that we simply don’t seem to be allowed to debate for very long.
And yet there are some appalling threads that are left to stand

@mmmgoats is 100% accurate on this

Anything that gives suggestions about how people with Anxiety/Depression can improve their situation gets removed.
The thread last week about whether people with MH issues should get blue badges was apparently "disablist" just because some posters dared to suggest badges should be for physically disabled people.

It irritates me too and was the main reason I deleted my account a few months ago. Even though I'm back I spend far less time on here, and quite frankly I'm wary of investing any thought and time getting involved in threads now. No point when so many disappear.

@SugarIsAmazing That's accurate too. Constant Brexit threads in AIBU that stand for days and days without being moved to the Brexit board. Yet anyone who posts about depression gets shunted off to the Mental Health board. Which gets very little traffic and is therefore often not much help. I remember a thread last year where the OP BEGGED MNHQ not to move it to Mental Health and everyone on the thread backed the OP and they still moved it. Disgraceful.

Too many people on here set themselves up as thread police and are trigger happy with the report facility, there's also a rush to be the most pc, especially when any ethnic group such as travellers are discussed.
I think a lot of posters have a very narrow frame of reference and think if it hasn't happened to them, it hasn't happened.

The one that really annoyed me was a big anti trans petition which was allowed on the main AIBU page and not moved to petitions until after the deadline.

I don't mind political stances by companies (and that's all MN is) but hypocritically pretending to be open to discussion whilst enforcing different rules for different situations pisses me off.

Yea it's getting a bit shit.
However I do think that people should stick to the topics they are interested in and posters need to post on topic too.
There's random boards where most people post for traffic Sigh
Yea really.
STAY ON TOPIC