Warning about posting in the Relationships Topic on Mumsnet

[bibbitybobbityyhat]

Don't do it if you don't want your personal stories lifted and splashed all over the Mail Online.

The DM used to restrict themselves to copying and pasting mainly made up (Penis Beaker), lighthearted or neutral threads.

But now they are quite happy to publish deeply personal and very identifying threads too from people posting at crisis point.

I do actually foresee Mumsnet's inability to prevent this being the end of the website tbh. Or MN as we know and love it, anyway.

I know we've had a zillion threads about this already, but I just want to remind people again:

Don't post on Mumsnet if you don't want your thread to be reproduced in the Mail Online.

Thanks for posting about this. It's been bothering me for quite some time.

I'm currently dealing with something that I can't talk to anyone IRL about. I would have liked to post here as I know I'd get tremendous support with my issue.
However, to explain the situation properly I'd need to share some quite identifiying information.
Not prepared to have it splashed all over the DM, so I won't post. I did consider NC (I tend to NC quite regularly nowadays anyway) but realised that even with NC the details are identifying.

The warning is appropriate in my view. Even though the paper that supported the Hitler-sympathising Blackshirts has done and continues to do much worse.

It's very sad I have found this site supportive in the past but I won't post anything personal on here now.

It's a real shame, there's loads of stuff on MN which needs to be shared but some threads are deeply personal. People are looking for support or a place to vent. I think some topics should be off limits for the lazy journos.

But I guess the answer will always come back that the internet is a public forum.

Trippy depending on what the issue is, if you search for the issue on the message boards you may find that there's a trustworthy regular to send a private message to if that would help?

Indeed, Jane, I like to think I am swishy in my satin & tat. Thanks for that, interesting that you can't see exactly which t&cs have been amended.

There's loads of threads and posts I haven't made in the last 6 months since the Mail Online started lifting threads more than daily.

I can't namechange as I can't remember my password and MN don't give you the opportunity to create a new one when you forget.

That's a good idea Jane, thank you for suggesting.

You can name change if you've forgotten your password. Log out then click 'forgotten password'on the log-in page then MN sends you a link so you can change it and then you can name change.

I needed some support at Christmas and got some really useful and wonderful support on MN. Posters really helped me make a decision and get through some serious emotional difficulties.

After a couple of days I panicked about the Daily Mail using it. It was too identifying and the possible fallout had massive repercussions for my family. So I asked for thread to be pulled.

I am really struggling but I can't ask for help here anymore. Well done D. Mail.

Ah, I didn't know. Thanks for that Fallon

and what "services to the economy" is really code for is "delivering a shitton of previously non-voting women to the tories". Similar to what Gary Barlow did the previous election when he gave his Sun front page Vote Tory interview. And rIght before he got his honour.

I have been on the site for 10 years. I now frequently start typing out a post and then delete it. My post are mainly on fairly bland topics now like how much for a new kitchen. I wouldn't post anything anecdotal about myself or friends/family or give strong personal views.

Just seen that thread on DM, how disgusting, it's just a cut and paste job, do DM not employ jounalists anymore? And the comments are shocking, really sick.
It's a shame people can't use mumsnet as a safe place anymore there are some people who post on here who clearly have no one else to turn to for support

Well, there's a gap in the market that MN used to inhabit. A kind of RetroMumsNet.

RETROMUMSNET

Strapline: back up, back up, just a little tiny bit to the left, there we go, beautifully parked.

RetroMumsNet: never knowingly oversold to the Daily Mail

I hadn't realised they'd moved into relationships What's next? The bereavement forum? (sarcasm not an invitation if you're reading, DM).

I think MNHQ needs to seriously consider having a warning at the top of each forum (not a sticky thread - but a warning right at the top, bolded, stating that it is a public forum and threads may be republished elsewhere in the media).

I've just done a google news search for 'Daily Mail Mumsnet' and in the last week they've nicked 5 threads. for the last month the search results run into 4 pages. It's a piss take.

I saw this today and was so sad for that poor woman. I've been on Mumsnet for about two years and it's been an invaluable source of information and support to me in addition to providing adult company when I'm at a low ebb. I'm not exaggerating when I say it's got me through the last year. To think the Daily Mail are ripping that away from others in desperate need of support does prove what ignominious scum they are.

Well bib, it just makes me realise why there was a need for mouldies to be created

Are we able to report historic threads and ask for them to be deleted?

There's an Irish TV programme, similar to the Loose Women Prog, that has recently begun to quote from mumsnet.

I did a quick Google to find out what you were all on about, and there is a thread about bereavement used, it even names the child. I'm absolutely sickened.

I can't see the connection with moldies, Lard, as Mumsnet was not being trawled by the Mail at that time. And it was started for other reasons. But that's by the by.

Just looked down Active Conversations and there's at least 10 threads on there which would make perfect Mail Online padding.