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ScrambledSmegs · 25/03/2013 10:42
Is it for anything? Or is it the germ of an idea that wasn't fully fleshed out? Or something else?
Enquiring minds wanna know...
HelenMumsnet · 25/03/2013 10:58
Morning, morning.
Weeeeeeeell, it was something dreamt up many a moon ago when Profiles first went live.
The idea was that some folks might not want their profile pics to be visible to EVERYONE on MN; that they might prefer instead to limit viewings to just a few MNers.
So, you could make some folks your MN Mates - and then, if you wanted to, set your profile pics so only your MN Mates could see them.
If I remember correctly (was a tad before my MNHQ time), there was then a bit of a robust objection to this, on the grounds that it would create little cliques and those who weren't in one group of MN Mates or another would feel sad/excluded/angry/all of the above. So it was ditched.
But, it appears the "make these people your Mumsnet Mates" bit in My Mumsnet was never nixed oh how efficient and joined-up we are!
We'll take a look at that now.
HelenMumsnet · 25/03/2013 11:55
@ScrambledSmegs
at 'robust objection'. Is there any other kind of objection on MN?
Well, we tend to classify them as Robust, Very Robust, Super Robust, and Run For The Hills, each with different allotted quantities of accompanying gin.
HelenMumsnet · 25/03/2013 12:00
@Maryz
I have collected a few mates with useful profiles now, so when I'm bored I can instantly click and see where they are and follow them around whinging talk to them.
I have decided I like it.
Of course, I don't have a profile [gimmer], so no-one can find me [evil cackle]
Aha, maybe that's why we kept it
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