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this no special needs in active convos business

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Cappuccino · 19/10/2006 14:29

it's all getting swallowed up in the thread about secret areas

but basically mn has decided to take special needs out of active convos and have a special 'with special needs' button

I don't agree with this - I know they are trying to do the best for everyone but I object to people being able to 'edit out' special needs when they are looking at active convos. I don't want people to be able to edit out my experience of parenting or my daughter in rl and I object to it here

I feel it pigeonholes; additionally I remember when I first found out that dd was sn I knew no-one and had come across nothing about cerebral palsy or sn; if I had seen the odd thread while scrolling through mn it would have felt somehow more normal, something that I was not alone in. I wouldn't want newbies in this situation to start suddenly having to seek out a new button

I just don't like it and I know there are others who share this view from the other thread

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JustineMumsnet · 20/10/2006 16:44

Hi all,
Can we just reassure you that we are not trying to hide anyone or anything away. For a while now many of the posters who use the special needs boards have said the current set up isn't working for them and indeed many have either stopped posting altogether or are posting much less and using a private yahoo group more. As a result we wondered whether a private area on Mumsnet (by private all we mean is non-public and password protected) to run alongside the public SN boards might be worth a try. The idea to drop SN off active conversations came up during the discussion of a password protected area and we agreed with most that it seemed a sensible thing to try - to try to ameliorate the problem of folks stumbling on threads in active conversations and not realising they applied to special needs situations and consequently posting insensitively.

As most newcomers tend to arrive at Mumsnet via the home page and then the talk home page, which lists all the topics, we are confident that people who were looking for a special needs topic would find it this way.

As a general rule we think that if any area of the site isn't working well, we should explore ways to make it work better. There's not much point insisting on no change (to special needs or any other topic for that matter) if the result is that many of the mumsnetters for which it's primarily designed don't use it.

But we do understand how it is possible to misinterpret the removal from active conversations as "editing out" - which is extremely unfortunate. Rest assured our motives are exactly the opposite - this move is entirely designed to try and allow the SN area be as helpful to those who use it as it can be.

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