"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 ...

Tis always good to keep namechanging for that very reason vons

now as much as the threads about us "poor people" irritate the brown stuff out of me i cannot imagine the world of MN will be made any more interesting by the onslaught of Text speak and discussions on which designer to name your child after.

It's a bit like the difference between leaving something private that you don't necessarily want your MIL to see in a drawer, rather than on the kitchen table in full view.

(Although in a thread recently, the MIL took it upon herself to look in said drawer, only to get a nasty surprise).

The MIL comparison is very apt...

Is the DM now to be know as the DMIL

loving your name Per

Why thank you

Pretty much everything about my life is identifiable simply becuase of the way it has unfolded.

I'm going to go away and have a very good think about whether I'm likely to cause our family big issues through continuing to post on here, it may be readable to the wider public but you do know whether certain people read forums (or even have PC's- such as MIL) yet if it were rpinted in the DM it's liekly those people would see it.

Needs consideration. And sadly, looks to be the end of me getting support on MN. If I can't post details, I can't explain circs and
that's a shame as we have no close family (geograpihically) or anything.

mamazon;

what are you on about?

txt spk..?

Peachy - can't you just work a few more name changes? iirc you've had regular variations, which itself makes it much harder to search the site unless you know the specifics of what they were? Or be 'peachy hates bumsex as much as the dailymail' for specific threads?

Sorry, just realised I've assumed you hate bumsex - no offence

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PerArdua hates bumsex as much as the DailyMIL

If this journalist is known to & on good terms with MNHQ, perhaps she might accept a 'gentleman's agreement' that she doesn't trawl SN threads for copy?

I didn't realise this MNer was an ex MNer - what happened?
I feel uncomfortable about this, but there's nothing legally that can be done and it is good advertising. there's nothing to stop someone picking out all my posts in chronological order and printing them on the front page of the DM if they choose (or would that slip over into stalking?)

"By AtheneNoctua on Thu 13-Aug-09 12:16:08
Really??? Can I have a link please to info/T&Cs that say MN is responsible for what I type.

I think Sarah Palin (and a lot of other people) could sue MN for slander if this is true. "
Well that's exactly what happened with SWMNBN isn't it? Libel rather than slander I assume

Might just be a bit more careful about what I post...which is a shame...I can see where this is going to go, before long MN will be a private members club

But the journalist isn't trying to air one person's personal circumstances in the the column. Obviously it brings awareness of MN to more people, so if you are that clearly recognisable from what you have written on here, then a name change may be in order anyway, as you have no control about who might read it. What we write on here is public. MN have in the past published books, magazines and done a TV show on the back of what is on here. If you have a concern that you might be recognisable with negative repercussions, then you need to address that regardless of the Daily Mail column.

The first column is a discussion about fake tan on children - fine. The second is about someone's personal circumstances, very much so.

A fair assumoption Perdua

You're right, I am unsearchable to a alrge extent. My worry is more that some of my threads are the type that might get picked up-

last year there was one about ds1 and a situation at school that led yto me being threatened by a parent. Grat newsw (esp for DM- in the 'violent as (if it really exists) child causes problems for nice MC family' vein.

But you know, whilst I need the support, I don't need the publicity! I'm terribly careful about being truthful esp.with threads like that in case I am spotted (it will happen- OPrm recognised me on here from RL) bt whilst I might look into the eyes of any individual and say 'it's all true', I am not sure I want it as a news story IYSWIM

mumsnet is there any way you could negotiate a get out for certaina reas? Say, if we restricted such threads to SN could they agree not to pubclish from there?

I agree LadyMuck, but I know for example that my mum is not an MNer. It's about the risks - and I think the risk of being identified now we're in the DM is much higher.

Times are hard, the ex mnetter will need work desperately if other freelances I know are anything to go by

I just think it's so pathetically lame of the Mail to not even bother coming up with an original idea and openly plagiarise another website.

That's why print journalism is dying. The papers can't be bothered to offer something new, just cherrypick off the web. Then they complain the internet is destroying them.

It would concern me a little as the Daily Mail has a much wider audience than Mumsnet. If I've posted a scenario on here that would make me identifiable to the people it concerns, I know that it's pretty much safe as those people are soooo unlikely to browse Mumsnet. However, they may well browse through DM online, and recognise me. In future, I guess I'd change lots of details in my posts, so that I could in no way be identified. Seems a shame though.

X'd with Rusty LOL

There are a few posters I can name use SN for essential support (we all do for pahses esp. around dx / illness etc) and I could see Bad Things happening if said poster were published.

DP - i am hinting at the fact that people who read the DM are a bit dim and chavtastic with a narrow field of vision with regards to many of the more emotive subjects of discussion.

The wrong username thing worries me, i don't post anything that everyone doesn't know anyway and my DP knows my posting name.

But being linked to comments i haven't made in somewhere like the DM wouldn't be great. Why should i have to name change because some journo is being lazy by using quotes on here and even lazier by not making sure that she has the proper names linked to the proper quotes.

Peachy the MNer/exMNer concerned used the SN boards - I expect that she will be sensitive to the issues.

Could we also exclude Relationships? Thinking about how many people have had huge support in there, which they might not have asked for if they'd thought it could be published in a National 'news'paper. Lone Parents ditto. Oh, and Legal.

Maybe they could restrict themselves to Chat, Style & Beauty, and Property. All topics in their comfort zone I'm sure

some of you are so far up your own arses it's laughable.