"on mumsnet this week" in the Mail. Is this a new thing

[jujumaman]

Came across this this morning when I should have been working

Is this a new weekly rip-off by the Mail? Or has it been going on for months and I'm behind the times as usual

I'm not quite as virulently anti the Mail as mnetters, find it silly rather than the end of civilisation as we know it. But still ...

omg...i have photos on my profile.....will i be splashed all over the DM as their no;1 fan..?

It's terrible, sorry. On BBC1?? Some Dracula movie with cute blokes??

DP it is bleedin' obvious, but take a look around the boards, it isn't how the palce works...
and if you post here, then did you really expect that stuff you posted was going to be written verabitm in the DM?

A lot of mental people on MN Fluffy.

Oops I get what you are saying - I just can't see it happening.

More nutters read the DM Nancy!

Having spent time on both I would say it's even stevens Fluffy..!

Yes that. It's a crappy film but it has Gerard Butler, who plays Dracula,in it looking very young and very hot.

tbh oopsagain, i'm not bothered at all....i have already been quoted in the telegraph (twice)....i would never post anything on here i wouldn't say or think in RL....all my immidiate family know my posting name.

Well, if I owned MN I would be ringing The Guardian tomorrow, telling them what happened, pointing them in the direction of this thread and suggesting they write something about it in Media Guardian on Monday.

if it makes a big enough piece i wouldn't be surprised if the DM column was quietly dropped.

oopsagain;

if you are worried about this (and i can see you are)....why not name change once a week? quite a few people do.

not really sure what else you can do.

Oops we haven't sanctioned anything - as I've said had we been asked we would have put it to the MN jury, who would have undoubtedly have said no!
I seriously doubt we have any right to stop publication of short extracts from MN but I will check for sure.

he's a nice guy, i used to know him pretty well years back.

i think some people are being deliberately obtuse, the 'threat', such as it is, comes from people's personal stories being placed in a national newspaper without their permission, where people who know them and are aware of their stories might put two and two together and spot them. so, for the lovely pregnant lady, it might be her boss. if she takes him to a tribunal, he can snoop about her on here (say she'd been posting for a while and had pulled sickies, posted from work etc). or say someone posts about a dv situation and their not-so-dh sees the set of circumstances in the paper and searches etc etc etc.

I like Nancy's suggestion (you haven't seen me btw)

The Dracula dudes are hot!! (without the fangs etc though )

I wouldn't mind the Guardian, they are far more women friendly then the Mail. I get the impression the Mail is responsible for the stupid amount of anorexia sufferers in the UK. On the odd occasion I've been bored shitless and picked up a copy it's been full of sticks and had articles bitching about curvy ladies. It's stuck in the past where women ran the home and the men went out to work and came home to their slippers and a cup of tea, supper roasting away. Twadle!! Like women want to return to this shite.

nooo, i personally am not worried about it "dcatching up with me" or anything like that- i doon't paost enough tbh.

And the point i'm making- which you are missing every time i make it is it the principle involved, not that i'm owrried about me persoannly being idnetified by anyone in particular....

and justine, now it is in the open- you said that it is becoming a regular thing, so that must mean you have decided that tere is

1. euther nothing you can do or
2. you are hapy for it to happen.

therwise you could ask them not to print until you have thought about it/discussed with lawyers.

I need more info Aitch.

oh aitch, thanks!!!

i thought it was jsut me having this thought and eberyone was thinking i'm freaking ot scared of nutters

see, somebody else thinks what i do too

,passes aitch a nice cup of tea>

things have changed around here, when I was posting in 2001 it was just not something we worried about. But has MN has become bigger adn more successful, more journalists are using it for research. and for writing cheap articles.

I post very differntly now and change my name often

justine, can you not at least make them reduce the nicknames to much less identifiable versions, so that they can't easily be searched on? I realise that it isn't that hard to search on a quote and it could still lead back to the MN thread and therefore the full nickname of the poster, but it might reduce the perceived threat somewhat.

Justine, you can opt for a prohibition/restraining order to prevent them from printing anything else from here until you have all the correct (not pinched from other sites) legal stuff in place.

We could just start a 'ban the daily mail' campaigne Lenin, it worked for the Lolita childrens bed.

oopsagain;

the avarage DM reader couldn't give a toss about this, they have better things to worry about than what a few anon posters from a parenting website are saying....

re; principles...my view is that MNHQ own this site, it is an open forum, we have been quoted in papers before, we are warned that our posts are open to all.

i wouldn't lose any sleep over it