Are you avoiding posting on here in case the media pick up on it?

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Just that really. Aibu to think Mumsnet has run it's course?

I only wish that were true.

People can now get their threads deleted at the drop of a hat, mostly because they don't like the answers they receive.

9 times out of 10 (despite the name change) MNHQ delete it for 'reasons of privacy' 🙄

No, that's not why I don't start threads.

Public domain is public domain. It's lazy clickbait churnalism but it's not immoral. It's effectively a share from one public site to another. Boring but not objectionable, except in terms of lowering industry standards. But it must drive traffic or else they wouldn't do it.

Funnily enough, the "fuck off Daily Mail" lines are only ever on incredibly boring stories that wouldn't get picked up anyway. For all the effect they have...

Public domain is public domain. It's lazy clickbait churnalism but it's not immoral. It's effectively a share from one public site to another. Boring but not objectionable, except in terms of lowering industry standards. But it must drive traffic or else they wouldn't do it.

I don’t really know how they get away with using MN threads as a basis for ‘news’. Whenever I see an unlikely headline on FB I immediately think ‘MN thread article’ and low and behold it usual is. They mostly report on what are highly likely to be troll threads - it’s just made up non-news. How can you report on something that did not happen?? No wonder so many grown adults believe any old shit they read on the internet, when official news outlets are able to treat made up crap on chat forums as factual events.
I think the majority of trolls on here must in fact be lazy Daily Mail writers looking to report on their own thread.

I hardly ever start threads but wouldn't in any case post anything that I'd be bothered about the media picking up.

Plus no one I know would admit to reading the Scum anyway.

This

“I think the majority of trolls on here must in fact be lazy Daily Mail writers looking to report on their own thread.”

That would be one interesting toxic parasitic ecosystem - journo sets up a provocative thread as a troll, MNers fall into the trap and whip it up, journo troll then harvests this content for article and MNers are then unwittingly one of the end consumers of their own content….

However I think that the journos are actually too lazy to tend to the troll threads and their deadlines for click bait content wouldn’t allow them to invest the time and effort and I doubt they even have bandwidth or imagination to create the scenarios in the OP.

However the proliferation of troll threads may indicate otherwise - unless all of the reporting of MN threads not just in trad media but other social media sites is like a trigger and a sign post for trolls to assemble here!

I won’t start a thread on here because The one time I did, genuinely distressed, and in real need of help I got told I was mental and belonged in the bin. Took me weeks to get over it.

I think most trolls on here are insecure, uptight men who are scared shitless by a well-known, female-oriented discussion forum.

@JaniceBattersby
Most people who don’t already read mumsnet are unlikely to click on a DM story about a mumsnet thread.

Disingenuous at best. The Mail doesn't have a headline like "Mumsnet Mum says Aliens have Kidnapped her DH" it says "Woman thinks aliens have kidnapped her DH" and only later if there are screenshots or it says "on mumsnet" is it clear to anyone but a mumsnetter who saw the thread what the origin of the story is.

You call it "content" that's fine. But trawling around mumsnet and other messageboards is a soul sucking job and the resulting clickbait that turns up on a newspaper's website makes me not visit their site any more. No loss to them, i think.

I'd hope I wouldn't be recognised as I doubt my friends read the Daily Fail, The Sun or The Mirror!

Yes.

There's nothing wrong with critically consuming a wide range of media. But even if your immediate circle limit their exposure, it's unlikely that everyone of your acquaintance does, unless your world really is extremely insular.

I'd hope I wouldn't be recognised as I doubt my friends read the Daily Fail, The Sun or The Mirror!
You'd be surprised, they probably don't admit it.
I have read wedding threads from here in the Irish Independent newspaper too.

Re asking other posters threads…like what keeps most on here..

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