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Original poster

Clarification please

766 replies

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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HoneyDragon · 05/12/2013 23:33

Have I missed the bit where we didn't like Amy? Confused

I thought her tone a bit off and described how I found it. But that doesn't mean I dislike her.

DeckTheHallsWithBoughsOfHorry · 05/12/2013 23:33

I bet Rowan and her colleagues have typed and deleted ODFOD even more often than the rest of us Grin

reelingaroundthechristmastree · 05/12/2013 23:33

Indeed, did you show or were you a lurker?

thecatfromjapan · 05/12/2013 23:33

Anyway. I am off. I do just want to wish everyone a good night. And much good cheer.

SconeForAStroll · 05/12/2013 23:33

Might be some boxing of ears as well cat

usualsuspect · 05/12/2013 23:34

Rowan has just typed JUST FUCK OFF,then deleted it.

DeckTheHallsWithBoughsOfHorry · 05/12/2013 23:34

thumb biting? I think that's R&J.

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Hullygully · 05/12/2013 23:34

I thought Amy was Boffy's daughter. That's how clued up I am.

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ExitPursuedByAChristmasGrinch · 05/12/2013 23:35

Amy is guilty of being young bjitch

ExitPursuedByAChristmasGrinch · 05/12/2013 23:36

Really Xmas Shock

SconeForAStroll · 05/12/2013 23:36

Time for me to hopelessly thrash my way through the bed covers.

May we all awaken in a new and more zen frame of mind.

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RowanMumsnet · 05/12/2013 23:36

@thecatfromjapan

RowanMumsnet: "As you've probably noticed, on threads like this there's an imbalance of arms - in that MNers can pretty much say what they like about MNHQers, but we have to respond in a professional way."

And there we have a quote that summons a picture-and-a-half. I imagine Rowan typing away furiously, and then regretfully, professionally, hitting the delete and typing something completely different - far more slowly, and with a hint of sadness.

Obviously not on this thread. But I bet you do it sometimes.

I know I do.

In Shakespeare, there might be a comic nose-pulling episode, what do you think? Someone says something a little close to the edge of appropriate, and a character loses their decorum and resorts to nose-pulling. That would be surprising. Especially on the internet. Actually, that would be more like a comic version of "The Ring", or something ...

hahahahahahaha

I'm shocked - shocked! - that you would think we would ever do such a thing

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Hullygully · 05/12/2013 23:38

Rowan, seriously, you know how upset you are by the aspersions cast on your colleague?

Can you see why I am so upset about those cast on me?

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DeckTheHallsWithBoughsOfHorry · 05/12/2013 23:40

Hully you were accused of what? goading? which a load of people have defended you against. Being stubborn? ditto, although that's less offensive anyway.

That's not equivalent to bring accused of being shit at your actual job.

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Hullygully · 05/12/2013 23:41

aspersions are aspersions

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RowanMumsnet · 05/12/2013 23:41

@Hullygully

Rowan, seriously, you know how upset you are by the aspersions cast on your colleague?

Can you see why I am so upset about those cast on me?

We're genuinely sorry you're upset Hully, and that we've been the cause of it.

But (sorry but yes, there is a but) we were applying our Guidelines - and that's our job.

In deleting a thread for being deliberately inflammatory, we don't intend for the poster to take it as a personal affront.

In all honesty we think it's a bit different (us applying our Guidelines as consistently and as fairly as we can) from a couple of people openly casting aspersions on the way people perform their job (and - in one case - being a great deal nastier than that)

IamtheZombie · 05/12/2013 23:41

Zombie agrees with Hully's post at 23.38.

Just in case (as usual) there's loads of cross posts before this goes live.

ironytastic · 05/12/2013 23:42

It is evident that MNHQ apply the rules as they wish, ignoring their own guidelines and self-imposed moderation protocols when it suits.

Or else it's remarkable how I can suddenly no longer post as bruxeur, with no message or mail from MNHQ. Tried for a password reset, no email back.

So careful with your objections, peeps, the finger on the big red button is shaking and a bit lacking in self-control tonight...

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Hullygully · 05/12/2013 23:42

So you are still accusing me of being deliberately inflammatory?

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IamtheZombie · 05/12/2013 23:43
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Hullygully · 05/12/2013 23:44

Asking in SITE STUFF why my thread was deleted = deliberately inflammatory?

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Fairenuff · 05/12/2013 23:44

Where do deleted threads go to die? Can they be recalled if HQ decides they made the wrong call? Or are they never, ever wrong?

MNHQ
RowanMumsnet · 05/12/2013 23:44

Yes Bruxeur, you were banned for saying an MNHQer was a faeces-flinging monkey. We don't think anyone on our team should have to put up with that.

reelingaroundthechristmastree · 05/12/2013 23:44
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Hullygully · 05/12/2013 23:45

And I have sat here all day and night arguing about it because I am a big fat liar?

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