Deletions - These are ludicrous

[Hullygully]

Ok, that's enough now MNHQ

Stop it with the mad deleting.

In that case, then HQ need to have someone watching over the threads morning, noon and night, then Helen.

Far too much time had passed between the 'offensive' posts and what was being posted.

Again, we didn't delete the thread because anyone asked us to.

We deleted it because some "regulars" (for want of a better word) were attacking other "non-regulars" AND because some the the "non-regulars" were attacking the regulars for being bullies and troublemakers.

WE WERE NOT ATTACKING ANYONE. WE WERE RESPONDING TO SOME NASTY SNIDE POSTS ON A THREAD ABOUT BOFFY AND STRATTERS.

Ive noticed quite a few threads lately bitching about "regulars" having a friendship and talking to each other

It's ridiculous, were all adults (I hope) so why can't we be truthful? If someone's behaving in an inflammatory twattish way, why are we deleted for pointing it out?

if it acts like a twat and speaks like a twat, it's generally a twat

But given that the 'bunfight' had died down, via the usual MN style of derailing, what was the point of a deletion at that point?

I can understand someone might want to have a specific post deleted, but not the whole thread.

And to argue that you haven't got time to delete individual posts is, frankly, rather insulting to the users of this community.

O we know that the "middle class clique" thread was deleted? Have I missed the explanation?

We'll all be the laughing stock of NetMums soon I can just see them all standing there, saying 'hah, finally they're being brought in to line with us', then hoisting their boosums

Ah, now this sounds familiar. I recognise it from the feminism section where people posted to provoke a reaction from the regulars and he regulars were the ones who were deleted and told to behave. I suspect it's happened in the Special Needs section too from the threads I've seen in other bits of MN, with posters being expected to 'educate' and not react to deliberate attempts to insult/rile them.

Both of those have lead to posters leaving permanently.

I still have the BOF thread open in another tab (up until about 2pm) - it's fairly obvious who started the name calling and it 'aint the 'regulars' < btw I hate that term but you get what I mean.

Posts saying the haterz are regulars with grudges just causes loads of shite on MN .

It's that underlaying feeling that you can't disagree with a so called popular without being called a hater that pisses me off far more than the deletions tbh

No one minds disagreement and indeed a jolly good bunfight, usual. Haterzing is something deliberate, targetted and repetitive in my book.

And bunfight? Hardly a light dusting of breadcrumbs.

Funny how a thread about MN policy causing regulars lo leave goes poof...

I tremble with anticipation, darling. So exciting wondering when little tsc will pop her pleasant head over the parapet and have a pop!

What a lucky lucky gel I am.

Mwah.

you can disagree all you want but judging from the other deleted thread it's ok for people to call others cunts yet expect to get away with it!

i can't see what's wrong with the deletions mn make (that i've seen) being abusive to others was becoming boring and rather pathetic

i don't advance search you or stalk you btw.

hahahaha having to add that just ever so slightly undermines your menacingness. Bless

TSC I refuse to be involved in this but for whatever reason, Artex had been posting some fairly off comments about people. Whether she had an agenda or was having a bad week I don't know.

You won't gain anything dragging it up, it looks like your stirring, although I am 100% certain that is not your intention.

If she has been banned temporarily than I am sure it is not a decision made lightly by Mumsnet, and only they know why.

And I know a lot of people make light of the fact that they've been banned before and it's no big deal. But it still means HQ think you've been a bit of a twat and that ain't good, imo.

And I actually posted 'ignore the empty vessel' on a thread the other night because someone was doing exactly the same thing - trying to derail a thread by, on the first page, being rude and confrontational and not bothering to read the OP, then being a general arsehole to anyone who called them on it.

Just leave bunfights up - deleting them causes ill feeling and just means another thread will go ballistic later with even more ill feeling.

If you just left as is, it would burn out after awhile and those who didn't like it could just ignore the thread. Hell, if you really must, feel free to have an ignore poster button which hides their posts so you have to click in to read it if you really feel you must. But stop flapping every time someone has a disagreement.

It doesn't work with siblings and it sure as HELL doesn't work on an adult internet forum. Sure step in if someone's going to seriously get hurt (aka libellous) but otherwise just let us get on with it.