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Why is it suddenly ok to make multiple threads on the same subject over and over again?

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DayBath · 04/03/2021 16:36

I'm talking about the Feminism board. Please could MN explain why it's ok for the same poster to keep starting new threads on the same topic repeatedly without the previous ones filling up or reaching any limit?

Surely there's a point where this is considered "not in the spirit" as you love to say. By all means this person should be allowed to post but why are repeated threads within hours of each other being allowed to cause Groundhog Day over there?

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YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet · 05/03/2021 11:36

Hello.

It won't be news to anyone reading this that MNHQ's commitment to hosting conversations on this difficult issue has been costly for us in lots of ways. It would be much easier for us to throw up our hands and say we won't host these discussions anymore, but we carry on because we believe it's the right thing to do. However the flip side of that is that it's absolutely crucial for us to be inclusive to voices from both 'sides' - because if we aren't, we're not hosting a discussion: we're hosting a filter bubble. There's no running away from the fact that in some circles FWR is regarded as being hostile to trans people and we're determined to show that we are not. Mumsnet is a site where almost anyone is welcome to post so long as they can stick to our rules. That's a fundamental decision we took a long (long) time ago and it's never changed.

A diversity of voices means there will be threads and posts outlining positions that many in FWR strongly disagree with. This may feel like goadery to some but, frankly, we disagree. It's not surprising that some brand new posters aren't yet fully up to speed with site etiquette and we're inclined to take a laissez-faire approach to that unless we think someone is purposefully here to goad - which, to be clear, we don't think that OP was given her apology on yesterday's thread and her generally constructive posts.

On 'cis', we think it's deletable when it's being used deliberately to inflame, but we also recognise that for a lot of trans-friendly voices it's a crucial piece of language, so that's the context in which we consider reports about that.

Please bear in mind that it's against our rules to 'chase off' posters - there are a few posts here that seem to us to fall into that category.

We're committed to hosting conversations in FWR that are inclusive. We know this will feel uncomfortable for many at first, but it's a really important operating principle as far as we can see.

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YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet · 08/03/2021 14:50

Hello. Thanks for all your posts about this.

We might as well be upfront and say that our approach as laid out in our post on Friday hasn’t changed. We are committed to allowing conversations on this topic to showcase the full range of opinion.

As Justine explained in her post here all the way back in 2016, ‘We've chosen to be public, un-paywalled and welcoming to newbies with different opinions… We're mindful of the fact that many of our users are exhausted and often in impossibly difficult situations and would much rather people just understood or piped down - that we just deleted those comments which upset them or banned those who made them. But rightly or wrongly, that's not the Mumsnet we've chosen to be. We've chosen to be open and welcoming to new people and challenging different opinions. We've chosen to be a broad church not a narrow one.’

As we said on Friday, we know this will feel uncomfortable for some but we hope with a bit of patience and adjustment things will settle down.

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YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet · 23/03/2021 12:56

Hello @Helleofabore - we will retrospectively change a user name if it's offensive.

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