Daily fail taking stories off here

Sissynova · 19/06/2023 14:54

How is this allowed?

Welcome to the internet.

Posts on a public forum aren't private. People should be more aware of that.

HuxleyPigOinkOink · 19/06/2023 14:56

It's a public forum. You're writing it for thousands to see here, it's hardly a private message to a friend.

ApplesInTheSunshine · 19/06/2023 14:56

Why wouldn’t it be allowed? This is a public forum, of course anyone can lift what you’ve written.

Original poster

thisisasurvivor · 19/06/2023 14:57

But it puts people in danger

Posters who genuinely need some help

Why don't they do something fcking useful

*waves at the daily fail people 👋👋👋👋👋

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Sarahconnor1 · 19/06/2023 14:58

They aren't the only newspaper that does this. The mirror does as does my more local paper.

It's lazy journalism click bait stuff, but it isn't unique to the mail.

ZeroFuchsGiven · 19/06/2023 14:59

Its been going on for years, its a public forum that is the risk you take when you post.

Brexitisreallystupid · 19/06/2023 15:00

If you think this is a scumbag move DON'T buy the daily fail or click on their bait.

I saw that post and don't think it is right for the paper to profit from it. She came here for advice. She published it here. She didn't give the paper the rights to tell her story.

araiwa · 19/06/2023 15:00

thisisasurvivor · 19/06/2023 14:50

Just utterly disgusting

How is this allowed?

I posted questions re my abusive ex many times and my goodness if they had lifted my story and published it like they did with another vulnerable poster It would have put me in so much danger

Daily fail you are the worse 👎👎🤬🤬🤬

It's easy. I just did it

MmeHug · 19/06/2023 15:01

I agree, it puts me off posting sometimes just in case anything ends up in the paper. It would be good if MN made some threads private and only viewable by members with accounts older than say a year (unless there is already a way to do this 😳) I haven't actually seen the thread or article in question but it's awful to think someone could be put in danger just so they can get some clicks.

NiandraLaDes · 19/06/2023 15:03

How is this allowed?. How would it be prevented though, and by whom? Don't get me wrong, I really dislike it, and it's the laziest form of 'journalism'. But when we put information on a very popular website, we have to accept that it might be shared elsewhere, discussed elsewhere, perhaps taken out of context or quoted selectively. That's just the nature of the beast.

Original poster

thisisasurvivor · 19/06/2023 15:04

Unethical

And a disgrace

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ODFODeary · 19/06/2023 15:05

MmeHug · 19/06/2023 15:01

I agree, it puts me off posting sometimes just in case anything ends up in the paper. It would be good if MN made some threads private and only viewable by members with accounts older than say a year (unless there is already a way to do this 😳) I haven't actually seen the thread or article in question but it's awful to think someone could be put in danger just so they can get some clicks.

There is a way to do it

WiddlinDiddlin · 19/06/2023 15:05

This has been how many papers meet their requirement for content for years now.
It isn't just the Mail, its all of them, and it isn't just here either, its NetHuns, Reddit, Facebook... all over the place.

Once you hit post, that content no longer belongs to you, and MumsNet have little choice but to allow it, because stopping it is impossible.

Anyone can quote a chunk of content from somewhere else, as long as its properly attributed.

The bottom line is, don't post anything you don't want becoming public knowledge.

NiandraLaDes · 19/06/2023 15:06

thisisasurvivor · 19/06/2023 15:04

Unethical

And a disgrace

But surely the media behaving in an unethical manner can't be a huge shock to you?

WiddlinDiddlin · 19/06/2023 15:13

I really don't know how it could be stopped.

Private forum area, not available for non-members to read, only accessed for those who have been members over a certain amount of time?

MN is filled with journo accounts already, they've been here donkeys years, that horse has bolted, run the 3.15 at Ascot and gone to meet its maker at the glue factory already.

Subscription only area - possibly but again, as above, and that area unlikely to then be available to those in need of advice/help in dire moments...

Both options would lock out newer members in need of help, whilst not locking out journos.

If posting puts you in danger - don't post.

cocksstrideintheevening · 19/06/2023 15:27

It's nothing new. It's allowed because it's a public forum.

MessyBunt · 19/06/2023 15:29

How is this allowed?

How would you propose that it’s stopped?

sparkleice · 19/06/2023 15:30

MmeHug · 19/06/2023 15:01

I agree, it puts me off posting sometimes just in case anything ends up in the paper. It would be good if MN made some threads private and only viewable by members with accounts older than say a year (unless there is already a way to do this 😳) I haven't actually seen the thread or article in question but it's awful to think someone could be put in danger just so they can get some clicks.

so you think Journos only work for 11 months?

You want private, dont write it on an internet format which is there to make money from you - You are the commodity

PinkFootstool · 19/06/2023 15:33

Did you know that if you put a disclaimer on your posts, they can't lift it to use?

Honest guv.

gamerchick · 19/06/2023 15:36

I see MN threads posted all over the place. It's not just the press.

People need to realise this is not a private board. Thousands of people pass through every day.

readbooksdrinktea · 19/06/2023 15:36

When something on the Internet is free, it is safe to assume that you're the product.

InTodaysNews · 19/06/2023 15:37

Everything that you put on social media is available on the www.
It doesn't matter if it's a picture of your kneecap on Facebook, a post on here about your feeding everyone barbequed baboons bollox at a family gathering, once you press send and it's out there in the public domain then anyone can lift it and repost it.
It's unfortunate but it's the way it is and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
Even if you make a forum subscription only, journalist will simply pay it and continue reposting.
If you don't want your post ending up in the newspapers, then don't post.

Blackbyrd · 19/06/2023 15:44

Sometimes posts being repurposed can be a good thing, drawing the attention of a wider audience to an important issue etc. But newspapers are fully entitled to use any public resource as they see fit, nothing disgraceful or unethical about it at all. If you don't like the prospect of your post or comment being repeated, don't make them in the first place

ExtraOnions · 19/06/2023 15:48

Lazy Journalists post their own threads on here … normally bat-shit crazy ones, so they can write a story on the bat-shit thread they started.

EG .. OP says “my Cat can understand semaphore” … 5 days late a story in The Mail “women believes Cat can understand semaphore” - with various replies from on here, and a healthy number of Daily Mail comments

Journo then gets paid £1000 for an article that took 5 minutes

JaniceBattersby · 19/06/2023 15:50

You do know that MN share posts from here on Facebook: readership 2bn?

Most MN-based stories on the DM are used as filler by people whose job it is to turn social media content into stories. They’re certainly not lazy. They aren’t winning Pulitzers but that doesn’t mean they aren’t working really fucking hard to get a foothold. And most will actually get a lower number of pageviews than they do on MN, which is an absolutely huge website with 8m unique monthly users.

Anything you post on MN, you might as well go and shout it out in the town square tbh.