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?

[MollyBear]

Picture?

You did say you would if I wanted

And I do

Very much

[Weebo]

The more I see of this the more sinister it starts to look.

[Rufustherenegadereindeer1]

You are a fine one to talk about sinister weebo you are having conversations with people who arent here

I am expecting you so say

'I see dead people'

Any second now

[Weebo]

They're everywhere...

[Rufustherenegadereindeer1]

[Weebo]

Dixie :o

[QuentinSummers]

weebo
I hate the subreddit. Its weird and makes huge assumptions about people (may be pissed off at being referred to as an "auntie")
Super cliquey too. Why can't everyone just be friends over here eh?

[Battleax]

You can't get much less cliquey than a "anyone can join, anyone can read, non-secret, out in the open" sub-Reddit.

[paxillin]

Why can't everyone just be friends over here eh? Why not?

MN attracts an ever-increasing number of very naive and quite vulnerable posters. It also attracts seemingly uncontrollable pervs, scammers and trolls. It is a most unfortunate combination of new friends.

Pair this with a ban on troll hunting (which translates as a ban on warning others) and you can see why people get frustrated.

[IMightMentionGriddlebone]

I think the downvoting of any post that doesn't meet with the approval of the main members ( one or two of which have openly admitted to having multiple names) might make it a bit cliquey, no?

Gotta guess having an account on every device you have, just to get around the bother of logging-in and logging-out (or whatever the reason was) must really help when you want to make any dissent disappear.

[Weebo]

Of course there are cliques - It happens naturally on these sort of things. It's naive to think it doesn't.

It's like the PTA. Any parent can join but there will always be separate groups who think they run the place and are secretly bitching about everyone else.

If you are not getting the bitchy PM's you're just not in a clique yet. :o

[paxillin]

I think there is the clique- forming and the non- clique forming sort online and in RL. The clique- forming sort spot cliques everywhere, MN, work, school gate, tennis club. The non- clique forming sort doesn't form or spot them.

[Battleax]

Of course there are cliques - It happens naturally on these sort of things. It's naive to think it doesn't.

Well in that sense MN is "super cliquey" too, isn't it?

I've been over there. I don't know any of them from Adam.

Given how many Moldie-style secret Facebook groups of bitching MNers there are, it seems strange to describe a wide open web page as "super cliquey".

[Weebo]

Being cliquey isn't the same as being secret though.

MN is definitely cliquey.

[BoucleJacket]

I'm rather hoping that the lesson learned from this situation is that posting very identifying details about your life, work, where you live etc. etc. is A Very Bad Idea.

If you work in a public sector job you should bloody well know to keep schtum about identifying details.

If you don't already know that then you really aren't competent to be working in certain environments.

[Battleax]

So your objection Quentin is that someone over there called you "Aunt" (intriguing) and it's got people being friendly like anywhere else?

I'm going to have to go back now to see what Aunt is all about

[SoupDragon]

the downvoting of any post that doesn't meet with the approval of the main members

I got downvoted for asking why on earth I would lie about what sort of dog I have after someone there, who claimed to have "the memory of an elephant", said I had a designer crossbreed. Utterly bonkers.

I used to look as a Troll Check when I had suspicions about threads here but don't bother any more.

[SoupDragon]

I thought the "wider audience" Lorna mentioned meant more places rather than specifically greater numbers. With the amount of audience crossover, numbers wouldn't be much higher.

[Rufustherenegadereindeer1]

So you can down vote or up vote posts like on a newspaper website

Oh i dont think i would like that

I would be paranoid about getting voted for
Or not

[FarseAboutAce]

They can't make up their minds whether I'm LaQueen, or the op of the other thread is LaQueen. I wonder if they think the op of this thread is LaQueen as well. Molly, are you LaQueen? Or are you me, maybe? Which would make you LaQueen. Is there anyone else who agrees with me? If so, you are LaQueen's sockie.

Dixie, I love your picture

Battleax, it occurs to me that it is in the interests of the members of a clique to deny the very existence of said clique.

[IMightMentionGriddlebone]

Yep, Rufus. And downvoted posts are hidden. If you get downvoted enough, your posts are automatically restricted, and you will only be able to post every x minutes, which rather reduces your ability to participate in the conversation.

It's a great way of getting rid of actual spam, but one could easily buse it to silence unpopular opinions, like, "OP, that ain't a troll" and "Hang on a minute, I was on that thread too before the deletion and the MN OP did not say that".

[JoJoBow]

We are all LaQueen

[IMightMentionGriddlebone]

I'm LaQueen and so's my wife!