Deleted insults

[paxillin]

I know personal attacks are deleted on MN. Someone hurled an unusually unpleasant insult at me and another poster not long ago. The post stayed until the thread was deleted for a different reason (the rude poster was not the OP of the thread).

On one of her slightly goadier threads, I repeated the insult she hurled at me. My post was deleted, presumably because she doesn't want to be associated with her ghastly post.

It irks me she is out there giving advice with her sweet as pie username. Could you clarify your stance on such deletion, please? I feel I own the insult, the original stood and the poster did not take it back in any way.

Posts only get deleted when they’re reported though so wasn’t the first one not reported and then the second one was?

A prolific poster on here was once fucking offensive to me (she was drunk) and I’ve never forgotten it. I had a different name then and have got her marked!

I quoted her on her own thread. Since this was what she called me (and that is all I said about it), what right does she have to remove it? Since I called nobody that, I cannot imagine someone else reporting it.

This one wasn't drunk, she just hates parents (breeders as she would say).

I remember this Pax (and was shocked by what she said to you). You're right, why should your post quoting her be deleted? Presumably like you say, she reported it, but still, you should be allowed to call people out on their previous words without being deleted.

But yes, I have got her marked, too.

Hi there pax - as Shirley says we can only delete if posts are reported. We also tend take each case on its own merits and aren't often able to follow from thread to thread, as it were. Too late for the deleted thread, obviously - but do report if it happens again, or any similar unpleasantness, and we'll have a good dig?

Thank you, @KateMumsnet.

This is Site Stuff, so I assume I can repeat the insult here without deletion. I won't name the poster. She called two of us "lazy cunts and breeders". I did not want her insult deleted, I thought it is good that someone this unpleasant is known to be so. She said worse on the thread, also against parents, which I won't repeat.

I would argue someone so hostile is no addition at all to a parenting site, yet she hands out advice with an unblemished reputation. Furthermore, she gets to silence someone pointing out the fact.

If I'd seen that paxillin I would have told her she was posting like a twat. Lots of posters say that they do stick up for other posters, not that it lessens the impact of an insult though.

I expect she'll say something similar on another thread sometime soon. What a horrible thing to say to anybody though.

Yes, people did protest at her language. I'm just aghast my post repeating what she called me gets deleted. It's my insult, I own it.

Well quite. It's hardly fair, is it?