Why has Mumsnet HQ retroactively edited four deleted messages?

[DaemonPantalaemon]

I do not want to start a thread about a thread. But I am in a Catch-22 logical bind here in that I cannot ask my question on the thread itself because the thread has been deleted.

So I am asking it here.

Why has Mumsnet edited its deletion messages on at least 4 threads? When the threads were initially deleted, they had deletion messages that said, among other things, our heart goes out to Poster X at this difficult time, and he assures us the support from Mumsunet has been helpful to him.

Another thread said it was important to give Poster X the benefit of the doubt.

Those deletion messages have now been edited with a generic "its time to stop talking about this".

So my question is, why is MNHQ so keen to gaslight the members of his forum by retroactively editing deletion messages?

Thank you.

I honestly feel like I spend far too much time on here yet still miss everything!

It'll blow over, but it's certainly another thing added to the ever growing failures on HQ's part.

This is so going to get deleted.

Yes bubblegum it's one great big fuck up.

This is so going to get deleted

Aah, but do you think they will post a deletion message which they retroactively delete two days from now :)

This is turning into a masterclass on how not to deal with a dodgy poster situation

They are doing that annoying "my house, my rules" thing.

Even though it's the posters/members who make MN what it is and who have supported the MN for years (13 in my case).

Poor show MN.

They're just hoping they will delete everything and we'll forget their responsibility and failings.

People chatting about it over on Reddit.

Are MNHQ just hoping everyone will just bored and move on?

I didn't post on these threads but the whole thing is becoming more of a mess everyday and HQ could help draw it to a close by engaging in the discussion around the issues this has highlighted rather than just closing everyone down and hoping it all goes away.

Although now I'm wondering if I'm allowed to post that link here...

I have only found out about this whole thing from the threads discussing it. While I can see that MNHQ has probably been advised to stop all discussion on legal advice, it does seem unnecessarily patronising and heavy-handed to just keep shutting everything down with no explanation.

The Justgiving page is still up - was it really all a scam?! If so, I'm mega gullible!

Deletion message placemarker

This is turning into a masterclass on how not to deal with a dodgy poster situation

This. ^

This is turning into a masterclass on how not to deal with a dodgy poster situation

Yep!

Amazed this is still here.

Fucking hell MNHQ, this is turning into a bit of a fuck up isn't it?

I saw the just giving thing but didn't read the thread- is Stratters still banned? Seems barmy.

it's all gone very weird round these parts today

Evening all, and hello, OP. We're really sorry but we're genuinely confused about this one. We did make one edit to a thread title this morning (we had typed 'are' when we meant to type 'as') but that was all. You'd barely have noticed. We've just been through and checked this with everyone who has been working today and no one has edited thread titles in the way you are describing, so this is very odd indeed.

Could we ask you exactly which ones the thread titles were? We'll go back and double check but this might be a Tech query. You are sure they are the same threads? We did delete a lot of threads with similar titles in the last 24 hours, and they would probably have had different deletion messages. Is it possible you're looking at different threads?

If you have screengrabs you can send us that would be brilliant and we'll look into it further.

Iona are you going to acknowledge anything else people have been saying about the entire situation??

But we did notice, Iona!

While you're here Iona, do you know why the deleted threads aren't showing on TIO anymore? Many thanks.

Iona. We are talking about deletion messages not thread titles.