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Trigger warnings

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TheDisillusionedAnarchist · 16/03/2016 01:58

I was wondering why there are trigger warnings on posts mentioning child deaths.

Are they there at the request of the OP? Or was there some kind of agreement among the bereaved parents of mumsnet that they wanted them? If so okay I guess I missed it.

I have to say if not I find it quite offensive. I find a lot of things 'triggering' on mumsnet not least threads about living babies but I don't get trigger warnings. I've seen them even when the thread title is quite clear. What are they for? Why are they there?

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PresidentOliviaMumsnet · 16/03/2016 10:18

@TheDisillusionedAnarchist

I was wondering why there are trigger warnings on posts mentioning child deaths.

Are they there at the request of the OP? Or was there some kind of agreement among the bereaved parents of mumsnet that they wanted them? If so okay I guess I missed it.

I have to say if not I find it quite offensive. I find a lot of things 'triggering' on mumsnet not least threads about living babies but I don't get trigger warnings. I've seen them even when the thread title is quite clear. What are they for? Why are they there?

Please be assured that at MNHQ we are aware how difficult life can be for bereaved parents, and our raison d'être is to make lives easier.

We only ever add this kind of warning following a request to do so, whether it's on a thread about bereavement, DV, rape or something else such as eating disorders.

We tend to add them pretty much whenever we have been asked for them, as if it's affected one MNer it could affect more.

We hope you understand.

Thanks
Sending so much peace and love to you, OP
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PresidentOliviaMumsnet · 16/03/2016 13:58

We don't want to upset you OP, we're not in the business of upsetting anyone.

To reiterate we look at each report on case-by-case basis,
Hope this helps
Kindest
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PresidentOliviaMumsnet · 16/03/2016 17:32

@TheDisillusionedAnarchist

And that sugar is the best argument for getting rid of them.

I'm still not actually clear what MNHQ policy is since they have given two different policies on one thread. If their policy is the second I am frankly disgusted with them. It is grossly offensive and means I and others I know can never share about our children on here. Hopefully they will come on and clarify.

Hi there
Apologies if we have been less than clear here.

We really hope that you aren't disgusted with us - we work very hard to ensure that we read every single report that comes in and try and apply our guidelines and indeed the spirit of Mumsnet to each of them,

We react to each request to apply a trigger warning on a case by case basis - that said we don't want to upset anyone and so usually if we've had a request, and we can see why it would be distressing to someone we would edit/amend a thread title.

Of course we would prefer if people were clear in their thread titles etc but we understand that people are often more interested in getting their post up asap.

Kindest wishes to you OP - so sorry about the loss of your DD
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