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Trolling on vegan board

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dangermouseisace · 27/02/2018 23:25

It’s a really good idea to have a vegan board on mumsnet, I thought. A place to discuss issues pertaining to vegans or general people interested in minimising their reliance on animals, or so I expected.

The reality is that a sensible post starts off the thread, relating to or about aspects of veganism. But then the thread gets derailed by non vegans basically saying why people shouldn’t be vegan (like we haven’t heard that a million times before) or the most inane whataboutery

Can we have a pinned post at the top explaining what a vegan is, and links to info about veganism please? And how can we manage the mindless anti-vegans, or the concerned, “I’m not a vegan but you shouldn’t be vegans either” people?

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FlissMumsnet · 28/02/2018 10:05

Hi There dangermouseisace

We can understand your frustration with the derailing - we know it can make threads hard going at times.

We try, as far as possible, to allow debate to flow freely and to let people have their say, even if it's not one that we, or the majority of our members, agree with.

We do ask that MN talk guidelines are followed but, sadly, we can't insist that everyone share the same pov

We often find the best way to get people to change their perceptions is to allow them to be challenged by other posters. MNHQ interfering is often less well received, as you can imagine! HQ deleting a post isn't likely to provoke much thought, whereas a well-crafted post from another Mumsnetter just might. So if you think like that's something you could do, please feel free to post on any of the threads yourself outlining the reasons why you disagree.

Let us know how you get on - and feel free to report any posts you think break our TGs.

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FlissMumsnet · 28/02/2018 13:11

dangermouseisace we like your thinking - that could work.

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