to think that MNHQ shouldn't do this?

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That they shouldn't edit our posts if they are going to post them on Facebook and they shouldn't post them on FB without an automated message to let us know that they have?

YABU. Their house. Their rules. Don't like it. Don't post.

It's their website, they can do what they like.

They post them on Facebook?

They post them on Facebook?

and Twitter.

It's in the terms and conditions you sign up to when you join Mumsnet. MNHQ own all content on the site, including user content, and are free to do what they like with it.

YABU, it is not some confidential site. There are I think about sixteen million members, posting it on other sites makes little to no difference.

If you don't wish it in the public domain don't post it here.

You signed up to it though.

YABU, any posts started on here can end up on their FB or Twitter page.
Or Twitter's MN Madness (to be fair I don't think that's anything to do with MN though lol)
It's not like it doesn't say it's MN content on here as it does.

That they shouldn't edit our posts if they are going to post them on Facebook

How are they editing them?

They can post them wherever they like so YABU about that but I'm curious about the editing.

And instagram

Wtf our posts go on FB and Twitter?!

I didn't know that either - bit late now, but If I discover any of mine have been I will be off I'm afraid - fair enough if they want to but I think if they are going to do that they should message the OP to warn them!

I agree OP. I would have unpleasantly surprised to find my post had been edited before being used by MNHQ without having had the courtesy of being notified first.

I think you need to think very carefully about why you are happy to post on social media but at not happy for that stuff to be on social media. Mumsnet is not a private space! It is no different to Facebook/Twitter/Instagram

They have never hidden the fact that they use people's posts - it's in the T&C

By submitting User Content to us, simultaneously with such posting you automatically grant to us a worldwide, fully-paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, fully sublicensable, and transferable right and license to use, record, sell, lease, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works based upon (including, without limitation, translations), publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, publish and otherwise exploit the User Content (in whole or in part) as Mumsnet, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate. We may exercise this grant in any format, media or technology now known or later developed for the full term of any copyright that may exist in such User Content.

Yes but the OP is happy to post her own posts as she has written them on MN.

I wouldn't wouldn't want my post edited, which may fundamentally change the meaning or tone of the post, and then have it widely distributed without at least having the opportunity to OK the edits.

That's entirely different from just more widely disseminating OP's posts as they stood.

YABU to be one of these posters who imagine the forum as a little bubble , safe and that no one in real life can read.

Who do they think MN readers are in the first place is anyone's guess.

It’s part of the T&C, and I think it’s pretty predictable that they’d have to edit for those platforms.

I think they have a moral responsibility to not misrepresent a post through the editing choices. As long as they don’t do that - caveat poster!

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Yes but the OP is happy to post her own posts as she has written them on MN.

She said she expects to be notified.

Anyway, I was responding to the posters just before I posted who didn't want their stuff re-posted.

If you're not paying for the product, you are the product.

In what context do they post them on social media?

they post on social media to get interest and people to go on the forum, what else should they used posts for?

MN is a business, it's not a charity.

Can you give an example of edited posts please?

Oh wow just looked them up on FB.
I had no idea they could have posted one of my threads on there!

I think they do need to make it more clear that that is a possibility, or at least let you know when they are going to do it.

I need to start making my username and posts more generic