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MN Talk Guidelines need an amendment

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paxillin · 24/02/2018 14:42

I propose a change. They currently read:

No personal attacks
No posts that break the law
No trolling, misleading or deliberately inflammatory behaviour
No trollhunting
No spamming

The most important one is not in the bullet point list: Do not out other mnetters. This should never happen and is surely the worst case scenario.

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JenMumsnet · 24/02/2018 15:21

Hi Pax,

You make a good point here, and something we will discuss in the office.

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DawnMumsnet · 26/02/2018 13:05

@WorraLiberty

If misleading behaviour is against guidelines, why are reverse threads allowed?

Good question! We'd say they're not allowed as such - if we're applying Talk Guidelines strictly to the letter, then they're technically breaking the rules because they're misleading. The problem is, by the time we're made aware that a thread is a reverse, they're usually in full swing.

We'd always discourage people from starting a thread from the reverse point of view - they inevitably turn sour when MNers work out what's going on (and nine times out of ten we end up zapping them).

But we'd view each thread on its own merits - if we don't think the OP is being deliberately provocative then we'd be a bit more lenient. What we usually do is encourage them to post again telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth...

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SophieLMumsnet · 26/02/2018 13:26

Thanks for the feedback, FlibbertyGiblets - we can't make any promises about that one but we can certainly relay the suggestion!

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YetAnotherHelenMumsnet · 26/02/2018 15:36

Noted, thanks. We will pass that upwards as well.

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