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Are you allowed to ask about deleted threads?

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curlew · 18/01/2014 23:44

I posted on two threads earlier on today, and have come back to find them both deleted. One was about trolling- and the deletion message was about not tolerating trolling. Does that mean that talking about trolling isn't allowed- or did someone come and troll on the thread? The other was about the covert and overt racism around the reposting and response to Mikaeel's death. The message "We don't tolerate racism". Once again- were there racist posts? Or was the whole subject declared unacceptable?

Or am I not allowed to ask these questions- in which case, I assume this thread will be deleted too?

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CatherineMumsnet · 19/01/2014 21:58

Hi Curlew, of course you're allowed to ask the questions - we have different moderators on at different times and for that reason we haven't got a definitive answer for you. We will flag this up to the rest of the community team though, who'll be in the office tomorrow.

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RowanMumsnet · 20/01/2014 13:02

Hello there

Thanks for raising this. You're right - our deletion message was a bit of an unhelpful fudge. We don't think it's racist to have a discussion about this sort of thing in principle, but we did think that this particular thread at that particular time was in poor taste, and was upsetting an awful lot of people (we got a lot of reports about it).

Sincere apologies to those who felt branded racist for agreeing with the OP - that wasn't what we meant to communicate at all.

We've edited the deletion message now (www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1970128-AIBU-to-think-if-this-boy-was-white)

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