I am boycotting threads about the plight of the McCann family - anyone else?

[Blu]

I have the utmost sympathy for the Mccann family, and hope for a happy ending to thier trouble. Meanwhile I am not happy about many aspects of teh many threads, and hearby resolve to completely boycott them. By not clicking, not reading, nor responding (however horrible the views), and thus not adding to the circular and predicatable route they take, no matter what quality of ontervention is made.

Clasp your right hand over your left Nork and repeat the boycott pledge after me!

Do I have to clasp my right hand over my left nork to pledge alliance?

Wait then until I'm out of the office!

BUMP as the other awful thread is back in active convos.

they are breeding as well...one ends and another is born. and who are all these people?

I don't know 2shoes

you don't know me

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I don't know who THEY are, I know who you are

[opps what a bump}

Hi MellowMa, my guru....

oh thank goodness was worried there

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{wags fag finger] in a nice way

what is all this fag stuff?

Mumsnet Mentors thread...I think I am still a newbie, so I have been allocated MallowMa as a mentor,,,,,

[2shoes is she OK?...whispers...she appears OK]

What a beautiful day. It was so good to see the sun again.

still buming

opps mean BUMPING

[missed a 'p' BOB]

BUMP!

Buda - this is absolutely not about censorship. If you want to post, then post.

This is for people who have stayed away since the beginning, and those who have tried entering into discussion perhaps to counter attitudes they do not agree with, and have found that the challenge has simply caused a reaction in which even more vitriolic assertions and exactly the same circular arguments and points are made. So people who would like to come together to agree that they will make a personal choice not to add to the threads, not to cause a response and proliferation are agreeing to be part of that shared tactic here.

People who want to be part of what goes on on those threads - well - who is stopping you?

There is some suggestion that a lot of people are joining MN simply to post on those threads, having googled the family's name.

Or add to the threads until they get too big to post on any more, which kills them.

I had been boycotting so much I hadn;t even dared look at this thread

I have to say it is slightly difficult to type with one's right hand clasped to one's left nork.

I didn;t realise I could type so well with my elbow

LDC - yes, but that does have the effect of 'shouting people down' rather than just staying away and not feeding it. That is why my personal choice is to boycott.

Not if you "shout them down" with something utterly trivial