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AIBU by not eeally undersranding the MNHQ Message Deleted message?

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StNiChaolas · 27/12/2012 19:50

"Replies may also be deleted".

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

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RowanTheRedNosedMumsnet · 27/12/2012 20:05

You're seriously complaining that we're not being clear enough? Grin

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RowanTheRedNosedMumsnet · 27/12/2012 20:18

OK

What's the difference between a 'reply' and a 'response', and why would the second be better? (Disclaimer: I may be being thick)

(Further disclaimer: given the size of Tech's to-do list, this conversation in almost certainly academic in more than one sense)

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RowanTheRedNosedMumsnet · 27/12/2012 20:21

Apologies if I sound a bit intense Blush This is the closest I've got to a proper non-Christmas-based conversation in about a week

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RowanTheRedNosedMumsnet · 27/12/2012 20:53

Oh I see, yes. That is a nice distinction.

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RowanTheRedNosedMumsnet · 27/12/2012 21:33

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

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LittleTownofBethleHelenMumsnet · 28/12/2012 10:33

@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

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LittleTownofBethleHelenMumsnet · 28/12/2012 10:38

@FivesGoldNorks

So rowanmumsnet is a cow?

Only hypothetically

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LittleTownofBethleHelenMumsnet · 28/12/2012 10:42

@FivesGoldNorks

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

It can always be arranged...

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LittleTownofBethleHelenMumsnet · 28/12/2012 10:44

@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...

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LittleTownofBethleHelenMumsnet · 28/12/2012 13:23

@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.

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LittleTownofBethleHelenMumsnet · 28/12/2012 15:02

@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.

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LittleTownofBethleHelenMumsnet · 28/12/2012 15:03

@AViewfromtheFridge

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

Indeed.

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LittleTownofBethleHelenMumsnet · 28/12/2012 17:22

@StNiChaolas

And I'm in soft plat hell.

Is soft plat hell what you get if you're trying to tidy up your girl's freshly washed hair?

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