Clarification please

[Hullygully]

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?

I suppose that's why it's so frustrating Sinterklass. I genuinely do believe that MNHQ try to listen to us.

But on certain issues, like this one, it's like they dig in their heels and continue to support a initial, unwise decision with a series of unconvincing posts.

Oh, and I'm definitely Team Hully.

Well I'm not saying it should necessarily turn into a bunfight if it's in AIBU, but it's a distinct possibility. Not your fault - as you say, there were PAs aimed at you, which is crap. But then the thread was deleted. So really, all is well. No? Next time post somewhere more conducive to a philosophical debate?

yes biwi

Office behaviour

I love you mildred and cat, you are now on my Love List

Try not to faint with the honour

But exit, irl you are not allowed to have a philosophical debate because a minority of people like them and the facts of physics are that only one person can talk at any one time in a group and groups are stastistically only big enough to contain one or two people who want a philosophical debate and the others who feel threatened by it close it down by a variety of means. On the internet there are many more people, so statistically a greater number will be up for it; and those who hate it and feel threatened by it can't actually physically talk over you or turn their backs on you or make twirly finger gestures by their temples at you. So you can physically do it and find people who want to do it with you; it is just annoying that the others find other ways of making sure that we are only allowed to talk SCHTEWPID (said in voice of Trisha Yates in first series of Grange Hill saying "you firstcheers are all SCHTEWPID")

We haven't yet had part three of Burnt Norton, it's true.

if I had "The Deception of the Thrush" as a new name, would you all know it was me?

Are you typing on a keyboard Mildred?

I agree with you Artex. Nonetheless it is what it is and I wouldn't post there as a seasoned MNer without knowing what to expect. No point having a go at HQ over it, or not like this.

Can you get cream for that?

Hello catfromjapan! Big snogs. How are you, precious?

What I don't understand is why people report at all. If people say foul things surely it's best if they are left for all to see. And if a thread turns into a bun fight, then there's only so many buns you can throw in 1000 posts. I suppose the out and out libellous has to be removed. But I have been annoyed in the past when some kind person has reported a personal attack on me and it's been deleted, only to leave my witty rejoinder looking incomprehensible and sad. People can hide behind the fact that deletions happen- and say something vile secure in the knowledge that it's going to be reported and deleted.

Exit, yes, why?

HQ want reports. It prevents threads having to be deleted, often, if a few posts are deleted, an HQer comes on and says oi watch it. Not in this case but often. Many more threads would go poof and the 'tone' of the site would be shite.

oh right, yes, sorry, it does have punctuation on it. I just forgot about it.

My ability to debate is hindered by typing on an iPhone. Hence the brevity of my posts. Yours are long.

I'm not team Hully.

I'm Team PARD. that got fucked up the bum, tied in a sack and thrown down the river though, that did.

I forgotten what PARD stood for.

exit the great joy of hurling ideas into the void on the internet is that some of them will take root. Or fornicate replicate, as mildred has said.

Oh - and I see Mildred has said a lot more just now. Which is also v. true.

"Love list"? I might pop with joy!

Artex please do more gang shapes! I'm now thinking of a video for this thread which is along the lines of "I got 99 problems but Santa ain't one."

look! the first part of Part III is strangely apt:

Here is a place of disaffection
Time before and time after
In a dim light: neither daylight
Investing form with lucid stillness
Turning shadow into transient beauty
With slow rotation suggesting permanence
Nor darkness to purify the soul
Emptying the sensual with deprivation
Cleansing affection from the temporal.
Neither plenitude nor vacancy. Only a flicker
Over the strained time-ridden faces
Distracted from distraction by distraction
Filled with fancies and empty of meaning
Tumid apathy with no concentration
Men and bits of paper, whirled by the cold wind
That blows before and after time,
Wind in and out of unwholesome lungs
Time before and time after.
Eructation of unhealthy souls
Into the faded air, the torpid
Driven on the wind that sweeps the gloomy hills of London,
Hampstead and Clerkenwell, Campden and Putney,
Highgate, Primrose and Ludgate. Not here
Not here the darkness, in this twittering world.

Polite and reasonable discourse.

Something we should all concentrate on.

Agree curlew. I think there are too many deletions.

After I've watched some programmes about Nelson Mandela, I am going to go out of my way to find a feisty thread from a few years back which would not be allowed to stand now. To prove that its all gone very bland round here lately.

God (in a non-religious sense) that man was good