Sarky deletion messages

[Pipistrella]

Hello

I hope you don't mind me saying this. It may be a crappy job dealing with reports and so on especially when it's the night shift, (though actually I quite like the sound of it myself, being self-important and nosy)

But I've noticed a couple of deletion messages that seem a bit, well, sarcastic, lately - I don't mind the humour in them at all but it feels almost like whoever is writing them, isn't really up for the job, doesn't like us - there's no sense of 'come on, chaps, behave' or the simple 'AHEM' we have grown to love.

It reminds me of being at school and there are teachers who like you, and teachers who just don't want to be there...and it makes me a bit sad.

There's another forum I frequent where the mods can bitter old sods, and people get pretty resentful about it, pretty quickly.

I'd hate for MN to turn that way. we're all on (roughly) the same side, aren't we, after all?

I think actually you can see them if they are still listed in trending by mistake, or something. Or linked to obvs. But generally you only see them in TIO.

i thought we asked for different messages?

I've been pleasantly surprised this week to see a few gloves off/cards on table deletion messages.
Call the trolls and goady fuckers out on their fuckwittage I say. Mind, I'd vote for a sticky listing who has had the banhammer and who has sockpuppeted. Or who all the PBPs are.

I can see nothing wrong whatsoever with that deletion message.

One message, amongst the vast variety and reasons that there are for thread deletions .

And if a site veers from a standard deletion text then there will be some you like and some you don't.

Yes I get what OP was saying.

sarky comments for blatantly obvious troll posts, funny.

But I don't think that one was. Some people don't come on mumsnet every single day of their life and its a bit like if some posters have "seen it all before" it gets a bit patronising. It was annoying to see that kind of attitude from MN.

I'm glad someone gets what I meant. Thank you - just to know it wasn't just me is helpful.

Cheers Cruikshank.

Hi Pipistrella,

Thought I'd better hold my hand up about that deletion message and say that was me.

We had a LOT of reports about that particular thread when it was posted, and valiantly defended it at first as the OP has been around for years and isn't a goady sort.

However, it wasn't long before it started kicking off, and the reports about it began to pile up. I have to admit, it did feel a bit like groundhog day, which was probably reflected in my deletion message.

For what it's worth, I've just nipped back on to that thread and added a 'Sorry, OP!' line at the end of the message.

And I'm prepared to change my name to DeliaMumsnet for tonight as a penance, if that'd help?

I like the slightly sarky deletion messages - so much better than the drab standard messages on other forums (or worse still, no message at all, the thread just disappears in a puff of smoke)
I see nothing wrong with the one mentioned.

I think it was clear that the message was about posters and the 'turn if the thread' rather than the OP.

Maybe MNHQ could invite a writer-in-residence of the day to do deletion messages.

Mine would be downright acerbic, never mind sarky!

I liked the rapping deletion message

I love the deletion messages, including that one

I think that dawn posted in the spirit of several other posters who said various versions of "this won't end well" almost immediately

Because those threads never do and HQ know it

Oh Dawn! Please dont apologise. I was more sort of concerned than anything, I thought you sounded like you had had enough and didn't like us any more - which would of course be terrible.

Thank you for making it clear and it's lovely that you went back and added to it.

to you too.

No hard feelings then, eh?

LOL!! certainly not.

Love it actually!