MADELEINE MCCANN - News Updates (please try not to argue)

[MrsSpoon]

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Lets hope this is the one that contains the good news that she has been found alive and well.

I will always remember the christmas santa thing that soapbox done.Keeps me on track and believing in mumsnet and good people

Its no use appealing for empathy or anything like it. I get the feeling pple laying blame at the family have no ability for compassion. No one is stifling debate. Everyone (except you gruesome lot) is asking for some tact and understanding but you don't seem to get it. You've made your point - you are perfect and they are not - we heard you, now leave it and have the post mortem when we know where she is.

Well said niceglasses.

I am concerned at the number of people who post on the Madeleine threads for hours and hours on end simply to pass judgment on the tragedy of others and to turn this whole thing from private grief to a public wallowing.

oh fgs, i'm starting to get really pissed off wihtt eh new posters/name changers coming on to attack the mccans and other posters. it really is going beyond a joke now.

it doens't matter how much every one argues the little girl is missing, so what if the mccans put their other two in the mkids club - maybe they're trying to protect them form being exposed to everyhting that's going on around then re madalkine being taken, maybe at the minute they have to focus on their selves and getting their strenght back what's the use of two parents who can't focus/see straight when if it took a few hours for the other two children to be with someone else to get them selves togetther then so be it.

stop attacking teh family, it's NOT THEIR FAULT YOU KNOW!!!!!!! they didn't ask for their little girl to be taken. tis' done now focus should be on getting her back.

call yourself bloody mothers where's your compassion for the family fgs are they not allowed to try and maintain a 'normal' life for their other 2 children.

will go back to making dinner for my son and playing with him, sorry to offend anyone but seriosuly these one off posters you should really look around the whole of MN before you assume and jump to conclusions aboutt he site.

I have watched all this, mostly from afar, for the last few weeks, and I honestly, honestly think that the ONLY course of action is to simply not post on them. At all. However good the intervention, it always gets dragged back to the lowest common denominator, it always goes back round exactly the same predicatbel route. Can we just collectively ignore, desist, not rise to it, not click on it and if we must parp, do it silently without posting it, even?

agree its time to take action

AND sorry mumsnet towers I totally agree with what dino says about not being able to talk about gina ford and YET dora74 can call me a bully

it IS double standards

no blu that is not enough IMO

I suppose I should just leave mumsnet - but I don't really want to

everyoone ask MN to have this deleted - perhaps??

I have emailed MNHQ

it is double standards

this sort of thread contravenes the mumsnet ethos

It would be a shame if established posters , who actually contribute to the community that is mumsnet, leave because of this

I was under the impression that this thread was for news about Madeleine McCann. For those who are interested, here is a link to some real news
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I pray God this is spot-on as usual.

no enid, I really don't see wy you or any other of the'oldies' should leave as they feel like they have to after a few newbies kick up a fuss.

if u do decide to go thou mn will be worse without u.

Don't leave, Enid, don't let the wierdos who have turned up just to spout their horrible bile on the McCann threads drive you away. Agree with Blu (although am defeating the proposal by posting, obv.) that maybe the regulars should just stay away from these threads and leave them to the loonies who aren't actually interested in MN but merely in spreading their vile opinions everywhere they can.

news = "brians predictions"

I stopped coming on MN a couple of weeks ago after 4 years. I don't like the way it's been going for a while now but I really hated all the Madeleine stuff and the bitchiness. I didn't even lurk and tbh I felt a lot better to be away from the nastiness. However, I missed a lot of the wise and funny MNers so decided to change my name and see if that made a difference. It hasn't and that makes me really really sad.

I agree with Blu we should all agree not to post on these threads, but still think a thread stating that,which we can all sign up to would be an effective collective message which would demonstrate the ethos of MN.

Enid you could start it, you're a Mn bigwig!

Also ask everyone to request the deletion of this thread also, when they sign up.

you are being sarcastic aren't you roseanglais? Please tell me you are...

no don't go, Enid, why should you? I basically agree with Blu but I've also emailed MN to ask them to delete this. There's discussing the news freely and there's treating somebody else's awful tragedy like a particularly juicy episode of Eastenders, which is what's happening here.

Enid - I thnk there are 2 issues: one the proliferation of 'nothing to discuss / everything to pick over' McCann threads with thier cast of people who do everything descrivbed below, and also the 'double standard' issue.

One could be contained, perhaps, buy a boycott of the threads, the other by making your views known to MNHQ? They are usually v good at listening to the Voice of MN.

I have refrained from all these threads with great effort as i've been dying to post at times and now i can't resist.
I have posted on the find Madeleine thread and done my tiny bit for the poster campaign.
I just feel incredibly sad that this little girl's name is always said lately in an angry manner.
I would only discuss my true feeling with DP on this but one point i must pick up on. Leaving the twins in a kids club. I can totally totally understand how they would be better off there at the minute. This from soneone who has been called 'obsessive' and 'over=protective' on here more than once but those Parents , whatever you or i think must be in there own Hell and it it not good for toddelrs to be around that.

Sigh! I'm done

If it gets deleted, there will only be another one started about this or something else. The best thing is for nobody to post on this one anymore.

I can't bear all these Madeleine posts - it just feels like it is stirring up lots of fear and negative feeling and it isn't going anywhere

There doesn't seem to be any positive point to it - it is tabloid hysteria

the poor child has got totally lost amongst the super sleuthing and hysteria. will not post any more here.

Boycott pledge thread started.

The thing is, there has been a "boycott" from posting but there is a small number of posters who then re-start the "NEWS UPDATES!!!!!" speculation about whichever particularly suspect is the pervert de jour

I will be really pissed off if Enid leaves because of this.