Inconsistency in deleting threads

[Fieldfly]

I was on a thread that’s just been deleted- nothing identifying or particularly unkind, just didn’t go the way OP wanted. I, on the other hand, had a thread picked up by the press, with identifying info. MNHQ made it clear that there wasn’t a good reason for my post being removed ‘Thanks for getting in touch about this and sorry to hear that you're worrying. Just to explain, we don't generally delete threads.’ and then explained that I could hide the thread or move it to 30 days only. So how come other threads get deleted just because the op gets a bit of push back after an insensitive title or post?

I’ve noticed an increase in threads being deleted for what seems like the flimsiest reasons recently. As you say, just because the OP doesn’t like the consensus, it seems.

It’s really irritating if you’ve taken the time and trouble to read and post. There were so many around last weekend that it put me off posting for a few days.

I don’t think threads should be deleted unless there’s a very good reason and the criteria should be consistently applied.

It’s been hidden not deleted. Why not message the kids? It was rubbish anyway the way the topic was handled, we get the message that mumsnet is not a space for women who haven’t been able to have kids that’s for sure.

Mods, not kids!

Sorry mods!

Also a thread that identifies me was left up, but they let me delete the most identifying posts.

Yup. They have done the same to me as well.

I reported this awful thread but MN wouldn't take it down...

About time every Russian goes back ( visit at least)to ensure Putin is removed? http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/4678323-about-time-every-russian-goes-back-visit-at-leastto-ensure-putin-is-removed

‘This thread has been withdrawn at the request of its author’ is that a thing we can do now? Policy change? Contradicts the ‘we don’t generally delete threads’ answer I got after an identifying thread was in the press!

It's so inconsistent it's insulting, to both OPs and users. Some threads are taken down purely because the OP doesn't like what people are saying, others are kept up despite being identifying. MN needs to get its house in order.

I, on the other hand, had a thread picked up by the press, with identifying info. MNHQ made it clear that there wasn’t a good reason for my post being removed ‘Thanks for getting in touch about this and sorry to hear that you're worrying.

How long ago was that?

I'd say for the last year or 18 months MNHQ have been deleting threads just because the OPs don't like the replies.

Not sure why they do it but it's ridiculous, especially considering we're allowed to name change.

There’s been a huge increase in them deleting threads because ops just don’t like it. It’s like MNHQ have forgotten there’s ‘hide thread’ option.

It’s ridiculous if they do that but refuse to taking posts down that out people.

I’ve noticed a few moving over to 30 Days Only but once the 30 days is up, you can still find a brief version of the post if you search by user name, which means that for people that use 30 Days Only for advice they don’t want stuck in AIBU or Chat forever, now have nowhere properly anon. This has all been since the new platform was released by MN.

Can you ask MNHQ again?

I didn't know that @VainAbigail, thanks for sharing that.

I've posted a few threads in 30/90 days because I miss when chat was like that. I also regularly name change because MN just isn't really 'anonymous' anymore.

Yes, agree. If the OP doesn’t like the way the thread goes, they just have to not read it again, no? That’s different to where something is properly outing. I’m getting very tired of investing time and effort into reading long threads and posting, only to see the thread disappear for no real reason at all. I won’t be putting the time in anymore if it continues.

How do you all know it was because op didn’t like it? They probably removed it because it was a shitty pile on for no reason. It’s always the same on all the threads about child free or women without children, one last week about Jennifer Anniston was awful and again reminds me why I never talk about the topic to women in real life or online.

Not awful about Jennifer Anniston, just women trying to air the topic and getting shut down with shitty comments.

If she’s referring to the childless mothers one the OP said repeatedly that she’d asked for it to be deleted and was very upset.

Im not surprised mumsnet aren’t deleting ones that get picked up by the press though given that they actively encourage it by sharing trending threads on social media like Twitter telling everyone that’s not on mumsnet to take a look. It’s not like they value our privacy.

Nice example here, mumsnet post screen shots of popular threads to Facebook, doing half the newspapers work for them.

There’s one about Ukrainian refugees that’s pure xenophobia, but that’s fine apparently.

I wasn’t posting about a particular thread and don’t think I’ve seen the ones people are referencing.

I’m just talking about the general trend for long and popular threads to go poof on the basis of not very much and for the deletion message to say it’s because OP was upset.

There was also a thread I posted on that was taken down because ‘we’re not sure it’s helping anyone’.

That was baffling, because it was helping me! And I wasn’t the only one either. In that case it seems to have been because it was making a case for women’s spaces. It felt like we were back to the bad old days of censorship around anything that could be construed as ‘anti-trans’, when in fact it was pro protecting women and girls.

I don’t want threads to be shut down on that basis. And I certainly don’t want to be fibbed to over the reasoning, or gaslit about what I find helpful or not.