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Not being funny, but this purple bar thing at the bottom.

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BertieBotts · 04/01/2016 13:01

I swear it was originally promised to be "only for important threads" and rarely used. Now it seems to be used for any old thing and as such, I'm far more likely to ignore it because most of the things it advertises aren't relevant to me.

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KatherineMumsnet · 11/01/2016 16:51

Hi there BertieBotts, thanks for flagging this.

We've made a note, and are going to take a closer look into how and when we use them.

Apologies for the annoyance, all.

Thanks Flowers

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OliviaMumsnet · 13/01/2016 14:54

@Lweji

Yes, very annoying. Ahem, MNHQ.

Did you just ahem?!?
Shock

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BeccaMumsnet · 14/01/2016 16:58

You'll find out.

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SarahMumsnet · 22/01/2016 10:59

Morning folks,

Just coming to update you on this. We totally see your point re anything that could be triggering, and will make sure such things aren't promoted in this way in future. On the wider use of it, we're going to do an audit of how often and why it's used, and see if we're overdoing it; will come back to let you know the results.

Thanks for the feedback, meanwhile
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DawnMumsnet · 23/01/2016 16:27

Hi Crotchet, hi TheCrow,

The bar should in fact be deactivated when you hit the 'x' button. That definitely works for some people, so we're thinking there must be a glitch.

Huge apologies - we'll get our Tech team on the case.

In the meantime, if you could give us a few details about the device you're using to access Mumsnet, that'd be a big help.

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SarahMumsnet · 25/01/2016 11:33

Hey everyone,

So: we've had a proper dig into this, and our findings/thoughts are twofold:

  1. If you click on the purple bar at all - either on the cross to get rid of it, or on the link to go through to the page - you shouldn't see it again. Tech have checked behind the scenes, and this appears to be working at our end; could we ask, therefore, whether those of you who are seeing the same slider lots of times no matter what you do are looking at MN in a private browser or in incognito mode? If that's the case than you will re-see the bar, unfortunately.

  2. That said, having had a look behind the scenes from an editorial point of view, we agree that, due to a lack of joined-up-ness, we've been overusing the bar. We're going to make sure there's one central person who's keeping an eye on everything that we're linking to this way, so that we don't have 15 different people posting different links at the same time and driving you all nuts as a consequence.

Hope this makes sense - shout if you've any further questions!

SarahMN

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CatherineHMumsnet · 03/02/2016 12:04

Hello - sorry it's been driving you mad. We've gone over our systems once again and the offers one on the purple bar shouldn't be showing now. It is supposed to be for important messages, so that was an error on our part.

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