AIBU by not eeally undersranding the MNHQ Message Deleted message?

[StNiChaolas]

"Replies may also be deleted".

I hactually think "resposnses" would be a better word.

Yeah, Maryz is right - that's the situation the wording is meant to deal with

But message 2 is a response, not a reply - so though you say you will delete replies, you actually only delete responses and leave replies alone.
You should do what you say and delete message 1 only.

WHAAAT?

EmZed is right?

Hold on a duckfeathering minute...

[grr]

arf, younger. I'm sure they would like to delete some of us

Thanks Rowan It took me a while to work it out, but I get it now.

We have to be very careful to say "your posts make you sound like a fuckwit, though I'm sure you don't mean to be" or summat.

Pah, semantic, pedantic, same difference

I think we are probably being pedantic over semantics.

@youngermother1

I think we are probably being pedantic over semantics.

Yes, you blooming well are! Tsk, you lot...

By 'replies', we mean a reply to a (subsequently) deleted post.

So, if I post: "RowanMumsnet, you are a cow"...

... And RebeccaMumsnet replies: "I agree with HelenMumsnet: RowanMumsnet, you are a total cow" or even "Oi HelenMumsnet, what do you mean: RowanMumsnet is a cow?"

...We may well delete RebeccaMumsnet's post as well as HelenMumsnet's post because RebeccaMumsnet's post is repeating the personal attack that HelenMumsnet is making (and which gets her post deleted).

Def a reply situation, IMO

So rowanmumsnet is a cow?

@FivesGoldNorks

So rowanmumsnet is a cow?

Only hypothetically

Ok so that's a yes
Am ieven close to getting banned?

@FivesGoldNorks

Ok so that's a yes Am ieven close to getting banned?

It can always be arranged...

How about 'quotations may also be deleted'?

@SantasNaughtySack

How about 'quotations may also be deleted'?

Ah but then some smart alec will wind us up by posting "To be or not to be" all over the shop...

Repeating nortyness will be deleted?

My chambers has reply as 'to say in answer'. If there is no question in the deleted post,how can a response be a reply?

@youngermother1

My chambers has reply as 'to say in answer'. If there is no question in the deleted post,how can a response be a reply?

In the same way as if you said, "Lovely weather we're having" and I replied, "Wonderful for ducks."

I believe the key thing is that it's a response/reaction to a previous statement or action, rather than something entirely unconnected.

You can reply to a letter or an email, for example. Or reply with gunfire. In either case, no questions need to have been asked.

No, no Helen, much as I hate to be pedantic, you didn't reply "wonderful for ducks", you responded "wonderful for ducks".

I think.

[baffled]

But gunfire would be quicker, when it comes to some of the threads.

Can we agree on 'posts'? Covers a multitude of scenarios...

But the whole idea is that it's a conversation, when you would talk about people replying to something that you said.

mmm, I think Helen retorted, personally.

@MaryChristmaZEverybody

No, no Helen, much as I hate to be pedantic, you didn't reply "wonderful for ducks", you responded "wonderful for ducks".

I think.

[baffled]

But gunfire would be quicker, when it comes to some of the threads.

Reply and respond are synonyms.

@AViewfromtheFridge

But the whole idea is that it's a conversation, when you would talk about people replying to something that you said.

Indeed.

I never get hugs from HQ.

And I'm in soft plat hell.