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Sarky deletion messages

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Pipistrella · 24/01/2016 09:26

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) Grin

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?

Brew

BeccaMumsnet · 24/01/2016 15:01

Hi Pipistrella - sorry that you're feeling this way Sad

Do you have any links to examples we can take a look at?
We'd love to work on this - thanks for posting about it.

DawnMumsnet · 24/01/2016 21:18

Hi Pipistrella,

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

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!' Flowers 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? Wink

DeliaMumsnet · 25/01/2016 09:20

No hard feelings then, eh? Wink

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