To think mumsnet HQ are deleting far too many threads?

[Prettybluepigeons]

It seems that not liking the replies you get is a valid reason to have a thread deleted these days.
Yesterday someone posted about bloody fake nails and it was deleted.

Agree

Were they risking being outed because of their nails? Privacy concerns? That seems the get out of jail free card to play.

Agree! They deleted a very active thread of mine that was about a subject that was of social importance, I thought, because of one poster who was obnoxious (not me). Everyone else was making valid, important points and adding good research.

But fake nails was a pbp. Otherwise I agree, it's sometimes very annoying and seems unnecessary.

Totally agree. It's getting ridiculous.

I agree, it is a bit ridiculous, they might as well allow the OP to delete their own threads and be done with it

Agreed. We're told not to invest time and effort in threads as not everyone's who they say they are. But as the actual contributors to the site, we do invest time and effort on threads that appear to be deleted for the most minute reasons.

I agree...a completely innocuous thread deleted recently at an Op's request...wouldn't have mattered in the slightest letting it fall away naturally as there were so few responses but no OP took umbrage and HQ withdrew it.

Oh, YADNBU. It's probably fair to allow OPs some jurisdiction over threads they've posted, but this is a problem in other areas too. IME it's FWR which is the most rigorously-policed board on the site. Excellent, long-standing members who are absolutely not trolls kicked off for their 'three strikes', threads pulled for not being 'in the spirit' where no other discernible reason existed for pulling them. And even where threads survive some of them are so full of holes they resemble Swiss cheese. Other contributors watched a good many of these deletions happen and read posts before they were pulled, and as far as they could see not many had broken talk guidelines. The policing of language is so ridiculous it's very easy to make a blunder without having realised it, as the rules seem to change arbitrarily and without notice.

We're living in an increasingly censorious culture and it's beyond wearisome.

I do agree but in some cases people can be quite rude and even nasty and if it's a few comments similar it's not nice even if it's true .
I can see why for that reason they want it deleted.
If someone wants a thread deleted then that's that .

I'm not sure why it matters.

FWR has lots of deletions because people repeatedly post similar comments, and they get deleted every time.

Not because outsiders are out to get the topic, but because MNetters find too much goes too far.

What is wrong is people getting threads pulled because they don't like the answers.

Or because one doesn't like a thread (or a particular poster), scribbling on it until it's so full of holes it has to be taken down. There have been a few instances of posters being insulted across threads recently, and fortunately MNHQ deleted the troublesome posts and left the thread standing, despite intermittent Swiss cheese. Good calls.

If someone wants a thread deleted then that's that

That's the crux of it.

MNHQ was quite specific that that was not sufficient grounds to delete, and people needed to stand by what they had posted.

I don't think it matters. Plenty of other trolly threads on the go.

@lifesalongsong

I agree, it is a bit ridiculous, they might as well allow the OP to delete their own threads and be done with it

As a lot of other forums do.

I had a thread deleted recently about good products you have found. First couple of comments were from catty people telling me that the post wasn't relevant. I didnt do anything about it and then had quite a few informative answers and suddenly it disappeared. What gets me is that as the OP you arent told why the post was deleted.

I think some are advertising etc.

There was one the other day, new poster suggesting affairs were ok and saves marriage and posting about using a particular site which looked like she was promoting the site for affairs..... it was a strange post so went

Some are purposely meant to annoy/upset and so get removed.

Agreed!!!

I think they should lock the troll ones. Because they are fun to read!

It seems I find a good juicy thread. Close my phone. Come back 30 seconds later and the whole thing is gone!

I don't come on here half as much

Just opened a thread about neighbours cars. Boom. Gone.

There is a pbp who starts the most innocuous looking threads.
They are quite prolific.

I don't understand what "not being in the spirit" actually means. It creates such a grey area. Just stick to where something broke community guidelines for goodness sake.

The one this morning about gender disappointment was crazy. Woman asks if boys are 'enough' , everyone goes and the op gets the thread deleted!

I agree. I think it’s partly down to the site being very popular and shared through twitter and newspapers picking up threads.

Some threads get deleted and I find it so frustrating as there is actually a lot of information on them but other posters report the fuck out of it because they find it uncomfortable to talk about.

I agree, especially when there is a lot of interesting discussion and information.
We're grown women, surely we should be able to discuss anything, and accept that there will be dissent and controversy? Yes, and idiots.
People don't have to read threads that make them uncomfortable or offended.

I think they do a hard job with everyone moaning at them no matter what they do.
We all think we'd love to read MN for a living but I bet it's not all it's cracked up to be.

Agree! I think they are bored.