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Secret Location on Mumsnet

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GeppaGip · 02/09/2013 12:32

Does Mumsnet really have a secret area where only those who have happened to be in the right place at the right time know about? I have just seen a load of allusions to a new thread in a secret place and it is the first I have heard about it!

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Tee2072 · 02/09/2013 12:39

It's not secret, it's not indexed on Google, but it's actually no more private than the rest of MN.

DameDeepRedBetty · 02/09/2013 12:43

Is this an Off The Beaten Track thread?

AnyFucker · 02/09/2013 12:45

It isn't a private place. All posts can still be seen and anyone can join in if they are a member of MN, they just don't come up on Google searches.

usualsuspect · 02/09/2013 12:46

Do they nean off the beaten track?

If you a member of MN you can read it

usualsuspect · 02/09/2013 12:48

Or is there another secret place,no one told me about? [Paranoid]

AnyFucker · 02/09/2013 12:49

You don't need to be a member of MN to read posts in OTBT, but you have to be to post (like all the topics)

usualsuspect · 02/09/2013 12:50

Which I don't blame you really, my typing is shocking

usualsuspect · 02/09/2013 12:54

I thought you had to be a member to read it?

Tee2072 · 02/09/2013 12:56

I don't think so Usual. I could be wrong, though!

AnyFucker · 02/09/2013 12:57

I thought so too so I just checked. I logged out and could still read it. the checked the bumpf at the top of the OTBT threads. Go have a look.

usualsuspect · 02/09/2013 13:09

I've just checked too, I was wrong non members can read it.

AnyFucker · 02/09/2013 13:11

Nothing is "private" on MN.

Pancakeflipper · 02/09/2013 13:12

So the secret 'site' is OTBT ?

Sorry, confused....

AnyFucker · 02/09/2013 13:16

There is a topic called "OTBT" which I think OP is referring to.But it isn't secret, not really. It's listed with all the other topics, and you don't have to be a member of MN to read it.

usualsuspect · 02/09/2013 13:19

It doesn't come up in active convos.

But its not very secret really.

Pancakeflipper · 02/09/2013 13:54

Oh I heard of it, thats ok, not missing an entire secret place where you have to be asked to join cos that would never happen....

Original poster
GeppaGip · 02/09/2013 14:16

No no secret place. Thank you all, I now 'get it' haha. I had misunderstood the context of another thread!

Glad OTBT exists. I didn't know about it before but it is fab to know there is somewhere you can post freely without Google bringing your personal life to the number one spot.

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Tee2072 · 02/09/2013 14:52

The only thing different about OTBT is it doesn't get Google indexed.

FruOla · 02/09/2013 15:52

"The only thing different about OTBT is it doesn't get Google indexed."

What Tee said - and the threads only last 30 days.

Sparklingbrook · 02/09/2013 15:59

I always thought OTBT was a section about about hiking til someone mentioned what it really was. Blush

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GeppaGip · 02/09/2013 16:02

Me too, Sparkling Grin

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Tee2072 · 02/09/2013 16:58

Yes, that also Fru. And, actually, it doesn't show up in Active.

So...the only thing different about OTBT is:

Not on Google.
30 day deletion.
Not in Active.

Other than that, it's not private.

everlong · 05/09/2013 22:02

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Sparklingbrook · 06/09/2013 09:04

Somewhere that the thread doesn't come up on Google or Active conversations and disappears very quickly everlong I think. But how do you ever get to know about it except for threads like this? Confused

I wouldn't know what to post on it TBH.

Mintyy · 06/09/2013 09:07

You can post about whatever you like in otbt. Its quite easy to find via the usual list of Topics.