"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 ...

I've emailed her and asked her to pop over and explain

OK, she left two years ago?? Does anyone know why?

Yes Dp they ahve (and you know that will ahppen every time you post) but the essential thing is you haven't been stopped from posting.

You now we disagree on almost everything yet I don't wish to see you off MN. At the sametime though if you post thi9ngs that are often controversial you know it will happen. If yopu posted 'bumsex is a bit crap' (pun intended ) then that'd only attract annoyance, the truth is you have directly offended people with disabled chidlren, immigrants, gay people...... that's perhaps your right, but to do it and not expect to be upsetting epople to the extent they will complain (and often take it personally- there have been times I have felt attacked though I know it wasnt deliberate) is at best naive.

There are many, many things in life that piss me off and traits in oeple that I loathe, but I choose not to start threads about it because I don't wish to upset people / be complained about (mopre the fiorst); you chose the opposite road.

FGS, it's easy enough to be reasonably oblique in how you post. People shouldn't be daft enough to assume we're a little private club here, but it's easy to avoid being searched by little tweaks to your posting name now and again, and maybe a full-on change with just hints for your mates in the OP if you want support for something sensitive. It's just asic internet security.

And FAQ, you're not that easy to find, because I was looking for your shopping trolley post the other day and couldn't find it! Well, I did eventually, but not through your name. As an aside, I chose a very pretty two-wheeler from a link you provided- so cheers for that

I did complain about one poster but only I thought she was edliberately targetting a vulnerable poster and asked MN to keep an eye on it.

I expect she is already reading this! But yes I assumed she had gone for good, just goes to show you never know who is reading or for what purpose.
I do feel uneasy, although I can see that there is no law against anyone doing anything they like with what is written here. I suppose we all have to make a living.

Although interestingly, I have discovered that she has a son with Aspergers here so she may have some understanding of those who are asking for the SN boards to be left alone.

I don't think why she left is relevant - iirc it wasn't anything sinister, just a thread that got overheated as they sometimes do. She'd left at least once before similarly.

Do you mean that sometimes people get out of this place?

I bet they more done than I do...

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StealthBear, she was taking part in a thread which resulted in a number of posts being deleted. The manner in which it happened meant that someone who later read the relevant thread would have misunderstood what her position was. So essentially she fell out with MNHQ over the way in which it was handled.

At least that is how I remember it. I think that she had previously taken a break for a bit, and hopefully I'm remembering the right "leaving".

{waves, twirls then trips and falls}

Just wanted to try out my new name... What do you think? [blush}

'FGS, it's easy enough to be reasonably oblique in how you post. People shouldn't be daft enough to assume we're a little private club here, but it's easy to avoid being searched by little tweaks to your posting name now and again, and maybe a full-on change with just hints for your mates in the OP if you want support for something sensitive. It's just asic internet security'

None of that stops missquoting.

From poopscooop "We need to spend the entire week creating threads that slag off the daily mail..."

I was under the impression that this was already our raison d'etre?

yes peachy, definitely.

See what I mean...

Of course anyone can write this article - the work experience girl etc. You don't need to have this particular journalist's experience to copy a few threads

And of course the DM can edit them however it choses

But get it in perspective, it's only a few lines a week of the hundreds and thousands that get posted here. Anyway, I think the DM is shooting itself in the foot, if you publish extracts from websites that look fun and diverting then readers will desert your publication even more quickly than they are already for those fun and diverting websites.

COuld imagine the outcome if someone printed a thread claiming to be from me which ocvered pregnancy / illness / emlpoyment / housing.......

pretty marked ramification I reckon, the entire county would know before I did

Tamarto, I agree actually- that would irritate the pants off me. If I were Thunderduck I would be livid just now.

Nothing I have read so far has convinced me that its a good thing.

BoF - it's still not the same knowingly posting something that could be recognisable to someone who knows you on MN as it then being printed in a National Newspaper.

If I wanted to share my stories in the National Newspapers I'd shared it with them ! (but I don't). Actually if I wanted to share it in the "printed press" - I'd go the full hog and sell some of my quite frankly bizarre stories with a trashy womens weekly type magazine.

I certainly don't expect to post on a forum which I know is "public" and then find it reprinted willy nilly in a "column" in any national newspaper.

Yes ok I have once been mentioned - but it was my name that was commented on and nothing more.

I know full well it's public - I've often searched for my own posts using google when MN search has failed me - but there's public - and there's public

LM that ties with my recollection