Thread deletions.

[usualsuspect333]

Do MNHQ delete threads just because the OP asks to have it deleted now?

It used to near on impossible to have your own threads deleted on here.

Hallo
Nope.
We advise people to hide the thread - there are occasions when we agree to remove a thread for the OP as it will out them. But no, we don't just pull a thread cos the OP doesn't like the way it's turned out, as we know folk have taken time to reply.
HTH

Well you did today

Which thread are we talking about?

The grass cutting neighbour one.

Same the other day, not a single piece of identifying information but the OP was kicking up a tantrum about a perceived slight, all of a sudden....poof!

Really? . I don't recall the OP revealing anything that might out herself in that thread.

This is happening more and more.

Threads get deleted 'to protect the poster's privacy', when all that's happened is the OP has thrown a hissy fit.

Yes, agree that this is happening more often.

I'm not really bothered as such, I just wondered if MNHQs policy on having a thread deleted had changed.

They keep saying it hasn't changed but more and more Mnetters are noticing this.

The 'policy' for deletion is the same but they have changed what they allow or consider as identifiable facts, they are definitely using this reason more readily than in the past, - case in point the grass cutting thread.

Oh dear, I missed the last posts on that thread but I, jokingly, suggested ( under another name) that the OP post a few fictional identifying posts such as her neighbours name and then she could get the thread deleted. . I don't know if the OP followed my ironic advice.

i don't think it's hard to get a thread deleted if you want. I suppose if it's upsetting an OP, even an OP who is in the wrongs then maybe that's not such a bad thing.

It must be tricky for MNHQ to be consistant.

I wondered where the grass cutting one went...