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not to understand why Mumsnet deletes threads?

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bluegreygreen · 28/12/2018 19:28

I mostly stick to AIBU, with rare forays to other pages.

I thought as a general rule Mumsnet usually only removed threads where the OP was a troll, or where there were a lot of unpleasant personal attacks.

Recently I've been reading a few threads where the thread has then disappeared, with the message 'OP has requested that we remove this', for no very obvious reason.

AIBU not to understand this? In that case, surely any OP could request removal if people weren't agreeing with them?

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EstherMumsnet · 28/12/2018 19:54

Hello!

We are going to move this thread to Site Stuff in a mo.

Threads get deleted for various reasons. For example, sometimes we have concerns about the poster, sometimes the poster gets concerned they have shared too much, sometimes we feel the thread has stopped being helpful to the people contributing to it, sometimes it breaks our guidelines, sometimes there is a legal reason, and sometimes, but really quite rarely, we just press the wrong button.

Does that help? If you ever have concerns about a thread and think it shouldn't be there just hit report post and we'll try to press the correct button if we agree it should go.

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HebeMumsnet · 04/01/2019 11:05

Deepan. That's maybe not a bad plan. We will give some thought to ways we can make it clearer to people that we can't always delete threads. We do send out reminders when we are asked about thread deletions that people should be circumspect about what they post but maybe there are ways we can make that more obvious.

We don't want to be completely black and white about it. While we try not to delete whole threads, we don't want to make anyone's life a misery, and we do have to accept that it's very easy to post in haste (and occasionally inspired by four glasses of wine!) and then repent at leisure! But yes, perhaps we could look into ways we might be able to be clearer without putting the fear of God into posters.

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