Deletions due to being discussed elsewhere

[Coconutspongexo]

Hi

I was wondering if this is going to be the case for all posts now? Can they be deleted just because they’re discussed elsewhere?


It’s a public forum of course all posts might be discussed elsewhere, that’s the risk you take when you post online.


Why doesn’t this happen when people’s threads end up on Facebook/twitter pages dedicated to slating MN users? Not to mention the scummy journos who lift entire threads on here but MNHQ are happy to keep them?


I thought you didn’t delete threads unless against guidelines etc? Is this going to be a new guideline? Must not be discussed on certain forums?

[LoveProsecco]

Soooooo confuses!

[Goldenbug]

If people read a thread and want to talk about it but they're banned, they have no choice but to discuss it elsewhere. And if they discuss it elsewhere of course they don't have to stick to Mumsnet rules.

The OP in question needs to be more careful in future, and I'm sure she will be.

[Christinayangstwistedsista]

[Battleax]

Cheers

[FarseAboutAce]

Oh my goodness, the op of this thread seems to have inadvertently caused a shit storm.

I do hope no-one is upset.

[Saucery]

Christina I have less than a Clue about it all, I’m just along for the bunfight, to be brutally honest.

[paxillin]

I just see a bench full of hiccuping drinkers necking it in the hope they'll understand.

[Christinayangstwistedsista]

Oh well, have a drink then

[Battleax]

That's uncanny, if slightly cruel, perception you have there pax

Drink?

[paxillin]

Might as well .

[Goldenbug]

I'm not allowed drinks like that. I'm only 3.

[Christinayangstwistedsista]

Fruitshoot?

[paxillin]

OP did say her question was answered, so our debauchery doesn't derail thing, right, Dippingmytoesin?

[paxillin]

I'm only 3. Go here.

[FarseAboutAce]

If anyone sees any doxxing they should report it to mnhq, because it's against the rules.

Searching and compiling lists of identifying information from what people have posted on a public site is entirely different, apparently. Some people think it's ok to post such lists (because after all, they say, it's the fault of the poster for being too trusting). Personally I don't think that's acceptable adult behaviour, and I suppose other people might call it troll-hunting.

I wonder which is worse? Is there a sliding scale.

Troll hunting > Trolling > Doxxing -->

[FarseAboutAce]

I was also wondering how the mn troll-hunting rules work.

I know it's against the rules to troll-hunt on mumsnet. Is it against the rules to point out trolls on other internet sites?

That would be an interesting question, but probably for another thread.

anyone?

[Battleax]

I think you'd need to be sober for those big questions.

[paxillin]

If only we'd had a recent thread on trolls and troll hunting and troll hunter hunting, that would have been a good place to discuss this. People would surely have been nice to each other and discussed this in a grown-up way. Such a thread wouldn't go kaboom because of a huge fight. Oh, wait...

[CoteDAzur]

Molluy - "Are you being deliberately obtuse, Cote? Neither of Lorna's posts mention anything about the number of readers"

I love it when people who can't read get aggressive

Here, let me help you see where exactly Lorna talked about the number of people in the reader audience of the thread they deleted:

LornaMumsnet (MNHQ) Wed 15-Nov-17 12:37:56
When we are approached by a distressed or anxious OP who has concerns that their thread is being discussed within a wider audience...

You're right, it can't have been easy to find it in one of Lorna's two posts, because the word "number" wasn't there. So you would have had to use logic and English comprehension skills to figure out that the phrase "wider audience" referred to an increased number of people who could read the post in question (which actually wasn't true, since followers of the Reddit sub are MNers).

Did that help? If not, let me know and I'll try to explain it with a picture

[MollyBear]

Or, y'know, maybe it meant just that - a wider audience than the original MN topic.

I am assuming that MNHQ knew where the thread was shared, and that they also know that the Reddit sub isn't pulling in new readers/members at a rate of knots...

As you say, Lorna only posted twice.

Perhaps if you'd bothered to read and digest her posts, you would have seen that she explained exactly what was meant by that phrase, as well as explaining that it wasn't so much the wider audience that was the concern, but privacy issues.

I'm really not sure what is so hard to understand about that.

[MollyBear]

Oh, and please do explain it with a picture, since you offered so nicely.

[User843022]

If people want threads and posts deleted so what? why on earth start a thread about it.

'I have seen it said that that behaviour is fine because they are free to go and say their piece, but it really is like walking into the lions den where 90% of the posters are so invested in whats described as freedom of speech but in reality is freedom to viciously attack'

I had a 300 post thread all about me on a 'splinter' group, frothing and calling me names , wondering if I 'was mnhq' all because I don't think it's as bad here as some there constantly waah waah waah about. I couldn't give a rat's ass, if they're ripping me to pieces they're leaving someone else alone. Other posters who may be vulnerable might be upset though, but that seems to fly totally over their gormless heads. They get a bit excited though at a mention on here .

[Weebo]

Have they suggested you are LaQueen Myrtle? You have to shout bingo if they do.

We should do a MNTroll drinking game. If they mention:

LaQ - Take a shot
MNHQ - 2 shots
Overinvested - 3 shots
Freedom of speech - Down the bottle

[CoteDAzur]

"maybe it meant just that - a wider audience than the original MN topic."

Oh you got it. Well done

Now you see why you were wrong to say "Neither of Lorna's posts mention anything about the number of readers". Because she referred to a wider audience.

You are welcome

[User843022]

weebo

I've never registered, just after one of cotes handy links I had a look. In between the rows over down voting and the speculating over who is laqueen this week it is quite amusing, bit like the DM comments.