Can you tell me what the score is with posting a thread and saying you're only wanting it up for a while then you're going to get it deleted?

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Just I was posting on a thread which has now been deleted or hidden until the MN team can take a look at it.

I have no issue with the OP of the thread (just to make that clear!) but they said from the get go that they were going to put the thread up just for a short time and then get it deleted.

I didn't think that was really how it was supposed to work?

Is it possible to get some clarification on this?

Thanks.

Tank you Olivia, because I think some posters have a misconception as to what the policy is and hopefully things are clearer now.

maths

If you can't see it, then I don't know how to explain it to you, but I'll try :)

You are saying it's not policy - whereas MN have followed their policy.

You are saying it's annoying - but if it's allowed you want to do it . So why is it not OK for someone else to do it, but OK for you to do it?

Why shouldn't someone use the biggest parenting website to their best advantage if the people running the website are fine with what is happening?

By parents, for parents for support. Not entertainment of others.

Of course it's for the 'entertainment of others' It's the internet. Not a private space.

Latte I never ever used the word entertainment. And that's not where I was coming from in this thread.

I felt that there was a misunderstanding that threads could be automatically deleted and I wanted to find out what the rules were, because it is annoying to post and have someone be supremely confident that a thread will be deleted as soon as they ask.

And I thought Olivia had just said that deletion was a rare thing, not allowed just because I or any other OP want to do it?

And as far as I can see it's not policy to delete on demand. If it were we would have the ability to delete our own threads.

the thread was useful and it made me realise that I hadn't worked out in my head as much as I needed to what I'd do in a similar situation

Then you are free to start another thread. It was for the OP's benefit, for the OP to get some advice and support. Anyone else benefiting from it is a bonus, that's all.

Latte I have already said I started another thread

walkonthewildside

Of course it's for the 'entertainment of others' It's the internet. Not a private space

What an odd response.

I didn't say it was private did I?

MN's prime objective is 'support' not entertainment. There are lots of things on the internet that are not 'entertainment'.

I felt that there was a misunderstanding that threads could be automatically deleted and I wanted to find out what the rules were, because it is annoying to post and have someone be supremely confident that a thread will be deleted as soon as they ask

One person math, ONE person thought it was OK. Just the one.

And I thought Olivia had just said that deletion was a rare thing, not allowed just because I or any other OP want to do it?

She did, it's what we have been saying since the start of this thread.

You must be incredibly naive if you think that for every supportive post there are not loads of lurkers rubbernecking for the next installment.

That's the reality when you use a public forum.

Well I've been on a few threads recently where it has happened, but what odds if there's only one person who thinks it? Isn't it worth clarifying for the sake of that one person?

Oh for heavens sake!

Will you too stop picking at each other's posts before I bash your heads together.

The talk guidelines are guidelines. Not definitive set in stone autocratic oaths of bastardem.

That's why sometimes we query them or misinterpret them.

And we are lucky that this isn't like netmums some other similar forums in that we can ask for clarification.

NOW CAN EVERYONE STOP RUINING MY HAPPY BUZZ.

"It's what we have been saying since the start of this thread"

That a royal we, is it?

Anyones thread on here about anything will be used as entertainment by some people.

You can read this site without being a member.

A number of people on this thread, me included, thought it was a legitimate question Latte. For me I thought "well, afaik Mumsnet doesn't work like that but now we'll be inundated with similar threads" because that's what happens isn't it?

I might well have started a thread like this one in Site Stuff had I not been busy cooking an amazing chicken casserole.

Amazing you say?

Do elaborate further...

walkonthewildside

You must be incredibly naive if you think that for every supportive post there are not loads of lurkers rubbernecking for the next installment

You really are missing the point. Yes there are people rubbernecking, yes things on MN are entertaining - the point is that the main purpose of MN isn't entertainment, it's support and therefore THAT takes priority. It's not that difficult a concept to understand.

It's not so difficult to understand why the OP started this thread, either.

You seem to have managed that though.

The main purpose of Mumsnet to me is most definitely entertainment.

I used to feel entertained by the threads and thoughts of Mumsnetters in bucketloads, now I find it to be home to a whole host of of humourless nitwits who would argue black is white (and then someone else would stomp up and tell them they were racist for doing so).

Anyway I will leave you to your snarling.

I'm more interested in Mintyys Chicken casserole.

You seem to be taking this OPs perfectly reasonable query a bit to heart Latte.

Any reason?

Most of the posters on this thread seem to get what she means.

Well, if the main purpose of MN is support, and I take that on board totally, should there not maybe be a change in policy that threads are deleted at the OP's request? (Which Olivia has said won't happen automatically)

maths - no, I think the policy is fine as it is :)

I hope your other thread helps you work out whatever it was you were working out