Qui tacet consentire videture... I want it to be understood by MNHQ and by guests to this site that my silence on the subject of the recent speculative threads does NOT condone their existence.

[Aitch]

Aitch.

Yes, I have sorely missed some familiar names, and this answered my worries - another reason why in the virtual world a voiced silence is a needed thing. So Aitch thank you for that too.

And it is nice to see a very active thread with a word like disingenuous on it. One of my favourites.

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abrasive?? Having a fisticuffs over BLW is abrasive. The things theyare discussing belong on wereallsickweirdos.com

the ? was to NKF, btw. i don't know what you mean.

The abrasive comment referred to someone talking about swearing and the site being embarrassing to have open in front of young children.

You said my questions had helped you get more signatures. I'm glad to have helped.

You said my questions had helped you get more signatures. I'm glad to have helped.

Ok, I do 'get it' and no I didn't read the threads in question as they are boring now.

I understand that you are all stating that you do not wish, as a collective part of this site, to be associated with these threads.

I doubt very much that a journalist is going to pick up this thread up though IYKWIM.

and tbh fisticuffs about BLW is in some way more understandabl;e, since the protagonists will both have the wellbeing of a child's digestive tract at heart, and will be wanting to change each others' minds for quite a good reason.

Whay is the 'debate' about mm for? who is it helping? what good end does it serve?

I honestly don't think that it is going to help the issue, and I can't see how 'debating' disgusting ideas is good for anyone? If I had a mate in RL who kept doing it, I'd worry about her, and I'd deffo avoid the conversation, and tell herr why.

no i didn't, NKF, in fact i think your persistent questions have been a distraction and have only muddied the waters tbh. not to mention allow people to say 'well now this is just another thread discussing the McCann case', which it emphatically wasn't in the first instance.

Sorry, Aitch. I misread "due for the most part to".

I'll wander off now. Good night.

night nkf.

thank you Aitch!

signed
pickie

I have defended the right of people to talk about a subject which is leading the bulletins all over the world.
I haven't actually read any of those threads, but felt very irritated by the hysterical bumping to try to quash them.

That said, I remember the nature of those threads from a couple of months back and was really horrified at the speculation and the content. I did consider leaving MN when thread after thread filled with gossip about this tragedy dominated active convos for a while.

I haven't seen a return to that unhealthy level of interest and I have found it very easy to avoid threads on the subject because there are plenty of other good ones around.

Talk about, discuss, yes, but really the thread I read went way beyond that.

The thread went the way it did because of one single poster! The one who talked about suitcases. FGS, i was there throughout the thread, all this drama has come about because of one poster (who works within these types of cases and has had to closely deal with it 3times in her career)If your all soo upset about what was said by that one poster then complain to mnhq or contact the poster directly.

I tried to point out that one "fact" being discussed on that thread wasn't a fact at all but mere speculation (again). Was completely ignored so shall instead sign up here and give up the unequal fight for some reason.

Kewcumber

and no haychee it wasn't about one poster - there were repeated reference to things taht teh McCanns had done which `people were responding to saying thinsg like "thats disgusting" when in fact it was just tittle tattle but know even more deluded souls are probably now off saying to their friedns and families "well I know that teh McCanns...."

haychee, you have made it clear many times on this thread that you believe it was a single poster that caused this. I disagree, I saw posts from numerous posters that were at best distasteful and at worst vile. I can see you feel got at because you started the thread, and feel the need to defend it, but most people probably haven't even registered who started it, it's the repulsive posts that they are objecting to.

I agree with gess and Aitch about why so many of us feel strongly about all this- MN is an important site to us, we feel part of a cimmunity (or used to) and want to have some simple way to register that we regret what's been going on.

gess I haven't read any threads. I'm concerned though that these anti-discussion-of-that-topic threads are far more prevalent these days than the threads themselves.

Surely it's a negative response but it actually still focusses on the issue you're trying to avoid.

A better way forward would be simply to go on other threads or start great, funny, supportive, worthy, MNish threads about other stuff.

Haychee

You have a gob on you the size of the Mersey tunnel.

Shut it, listen, you will learn. I promise.

I think repulsive posters ought to be dealt with individually and not using this driftnet approach which has a catch all effect on ordinary non repulsive people.

ROFLMAO LGJ, more brevity I see, you made me LOL.

Spidermama, when posters tried to post other threads as a distraction (and some of the ones bt Rhubarb , for example, on slugs were quite funny) they were told by the ghoolish ones that they were being 'sad' and 'childish'

Well,that would be good Spidermama, but I don't know how really- MNHQ have not deleted many if any posts, and arguing back didn't work. This is meant to be a peaceful way of registering our feelings.