Threads that are deleted after 10 days section?

[tigermoth]

In view of some of the sensitve threads tht appear on mumsnet, how would people feel about adding them to a section where they are deleted after a very short while?

Reading some of this week's 'in the news threads' has made me suggest this.

People could choose to start threads in the quick delete section and mumsnet HQ could also have the right to move threads to the quick delete section if they were likely to cause grief to other parents who are in the news and might log onto mumsnet in the future.

Just a suggestion.

Strikes me it would be an ideal home for those sort of "motivate me NOW" threads that appear in Good Housekeeping & Student Parents (eg). I think I'd probably make use of that ..

Yes, I think that would be good, too Bink.

I just reread my previous post about mumsnet deleting individual posts on quick delete threads as per usual. Sounds like I am blithely assuming the mumsent team have all the time in the world to do this. Sorry I didn't mean it to read like that.

Excellent idea.

You could call it 'embarrassing problems' or 'Fark! I never thought I'd have to name change but...' - isn't that what it's going to be most used for?!

definitely

definitely yes - could aibu go in that category too if you decide not to get rid of it ?

thats a good idea scatterbrain it must be filling up wherever MN hoards the old threads

good idea, tm.

Essentially it's a good idea, but I would have some concerns:

firstly, I think it would be widely open to abuce. people who might want to start a fight might choose this topic to start it, knowing that it would all kick off but that the thread would be deleted after 10 days so essentially it wouldn't matter.

People who might want to make really nasty comments on a thread might wait until the 9th day to do so, and then go forth and post, knowing that their comments would be deleted anyway thus giving them licence to say whatever they want.

someone might start a thread in this section and it might end up in useful discussion which might benefit people in the long-term, and after 10 days that discussion would be lost.

re news threads, while I can understand peoples' feelings on threads that are currently active in the news, I don't think such threads should be deleted after 10 days, firstly because this news story is still ongoing, and rightly or wrongly, people wish to discuss it, so to delete it after 10 days would take away the continuity of discussion, and secondly, if, as has been pointed out, a parent that was at the centre of such a news story were to come on in the future and discover there were no discussions relating to what they had been through, this might cause more upset than what had actually been discussed, esp given that most is positive, and the majority of bickering had gone on between users, not against the parents iyswim.

I think chat is 10 days after the last post? so this would work in the same way?

wannabe, if the threads were deleted sometime after the stated 10 days, so no one would know at precisely what time a thread would go, that would hopefully lessen the attraction for trolling and abuse.

Also, if someone made a habit of abusing the system in the way you describe, it would soon get noticed as their postings would gather red exclamation marks and mumsnet HQ could take further action against that individual.

I wouldn't suggest that all threads on a news topic are automatically for quick delete, just some of them. So in the case you describe, there would still be plenty of supporitive threads left (ie the poster and email threads). It would be a matter of judgement for us and for the mumsnet team.

Also, going back to the possiblity of trolling and abuse, if people knew mumsnet could choose to move a thread to the quick delete section, this might prevent people perpetuating a discussion that changes a 'good' thread into a 'bad' one.

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Sorry Tigermoth for delay in coming back to you. We will discuss this at next meeting and let you know our thoughts.