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Clarification please

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Hullygully · 05/12/2013 16:25

So I come back to find that you have deleted my thread asking why my Santa thread was deleted.

Of course it was a thread about a thread, it was asking a question about the thread.

Wtf else is one supposed to do?

I put it in site stuff.

It was also a really nice friendly thread full of poetry and laughs. Why why why why was it deleted? What the hell is going on there?

Secondly, if one wants to talk about something, and that something has been deleted purely owing to others mischief, does that mean that one is never to talk about that subject again??

How mad is that?

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BIWI · 05/12/2013 21:34

Are you a namechanger then Shredded? Because a search of your name suggests that you've only been here for a few months. In which case you might like to wonder why people are cross about this.

If you're not a namechanger, then surely you would understand the point behind this thread?

bruxeur · 05/12/2013 21:35

It's often said - by idiots.

See also country/job/relationship, and takes no account of the complexity of, y'know, adult life in which one has to work at problems and in which one can love the whole and not enjoy a component thereof.

reelingaroundthechristmastree · 05/12/2013 21:35

Sure stick around, I was only suggesting you also have the choice of finding another site.

ExitPursuedByAChristmasGrinch · 05/12/2013 21:36

Let us go then. You and I.

ShreddedHoops · 05/12/2013 21:39

BIWI I'm a frequent namechanger. I just don't get why some long standing posters get so irate when HQ delete threads because of goading / PAsor whatever. Last time iirc Hully you were upset that you weren't allowed to banter, and wanted a topic for that, now you're upset that you were trying to be serious (although I don't think you were but that's beside the point) and you want a topic for that? Really HQ always seem to pretty much stick to their rules for deletions - what do you want from them exactly?

ShreddedHoops · 05/12/2013 21:39

Reeling I'm quite happy here. I have no beef with the site. Those who do have the choice of other forums.

GodRestTEEMerryGenTEEmen · 05/12/2013 21:40

Mouldies was five years ago.

Just sayin'.

SconeForAStroll · 05/12/2013 21:42

I was very much enjoying the TS Eliot on the second thread having completely missed the first. It seemed perfectly reasonable and discursive.

It seems such bizarre modding. It doesn't make sense. I wish HelenMN hadn't left. :(

BriarcliffBelle · 05/12/2013 21:42

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reelingaroundthechristmastree · 05/12/2013 21:42

But you do seem to have a beef with people who aren't happy with the way the site is changing.
Why stick your oar in if you don't care?
My point is that if you don't like people saying they aren't happy then you don't have to read those threads or get involved.
No need to poke a wasps nest is there?

IamtheZombie · 05/12/2013 21:42

Zombie is Sad that this same sort of 'discussion' is occurring so often recently.

BIWI · 05/12/2013 21:42

Well why not read the threads more carefully? Then you might understand why some people are so irate?

youretoastmildred · 05/12/2013 21:42

I wasn't here then (came soon after). That is why I was wondering really - in 5 years you either need new blood or you accept that the current generation of discourse is going to be pretty weak and warped

usualsuspect · 05/12/2013 21:42

I miss Helen.

youretoastmildred · 05/12/2013 21:43

sorry x-post to godresttee

youretoastmildred · 05/12/2013 21:43

exitpursued :)

reelingaroundthechristmastree · 05/12/2013 21:45

See Shredded, why did you have to add that bit about not really believing that Hully wanted to be serious?

Not necessary.

That is just stirring an already boiling pot.

MyMILisfromHELL · 05/12/2013 21:47

Apologies, have only read the op.

You can't even post a thread to discuss social injustice in the UK without it being pulled.

MNHQ have their own agenda IMO

SconeForAStroll · 05/12/2013 21:47

I do understand of MNHQ want to change the site and its ethos. It is their right of course, but following on from Justine's impassioned defence a couple of weeks ago it appeared that it wasn't the case.

This implies something quite different.

ShreddedHoops · 05/12/2013 21:48

Reeling - I enjoyed the Santa thread - would you say it was posted in seriousness? Cos I wouldn't have thought it was. Anyway it was a bunfight by the end, ergo deleted. Then a taat, also deleted. Several posters enjoy banter on threads like that and some get very irate when they're deleted. Dunno - these threads are a bit car-crash though, I can't seem to tear myself away, imagining HQ going Hmm and Confused at them!

ShreddedHoops · 05/12/2013 21:49

Scone - do you think HQ want to change the ethos of the site? In what way? I don't feel like it's changed.

greenhill · 05/12/2013 21:50

BTW my DH's DF has written the definitive book on T S Eliot. The quotations were very expensive and the family were v unhelpful.

youretoastmildred · 05/12/2013 21:52

interesting, greenhill - probably is about the Eliot.
(dying to know who your FIL is)

ShreddedHoops · 05/12/2013 21:52

Briar - on the HQ web chat they admitted that different mods may treat threads slightly differently and there's not much to solve that. But they do have a set of guidelines and dunno, I thought the webchat was clear and simple.