Is any mention of Tattle now banned?

[whitershadeofpale]

Last night I wrote a reply to a thread with a link to Tattle life and straight away it came up as being hidden until Mnet can take a look. It never ever showed up. I thought it was rather bizarre as I’ve never seen anything be premoderated like that before so I replied to the thread and explained that it must have been hidden due to the link. This morning that comment has been deleted for breaking talk guidelines. However, the guidelines don’t seem to have anything in them that I’ve gone against.

I assume all mention of the site is banned, but some clarification and updating of the rules would surely be better than just deleting.

Screenshot of the relevant guideline which I certainly did not breach and doesn’t mention any particular sites.

Which bit of Tattle Life did you link to? It's quite variable in content for the little I've seen.

@Sparklingbrook it was to a thread in the celebrity section. But it was sifted out before it ever posted, so it wasn’t that.

I think it's MN policy not to link to external message boards.

Maybe a klaxon goes off? Links to Tattle would never end well.

There are some key words and phrases that automatically hide a post. A certain new-ish chat site with a similar name used to be one of them. Racist terms also do this and, I think, some things that scream "spam"

It might depend what the link was about I guess.

@AlfonsoTheTerrible if that’s the case then the guidelines should say so. I don’t appreciate being told I’ve broke the guidelines when I can’t see where I have.

Thanks for flagging this, @whitershadeofpale

To explain, we remove links to certain websites that tend to reliably draw complaints from MNers. As @Sparklingbrook says, posts of this nature don't generally end well..

That said, we don’t automatically delete any discussion of such sites unless they break our guidelines.

Thanks @LouMumsnet I appreciate the reply but can you please clarify what guideline I broke because I can’t see that I have at all?

Thanks

Is it just the deletion message you are worried about? It’s just a standard one.

@Sparklingbrook I think the rules and guidelines should be transparent. Deleting comments and saying you’ve broken the guidelines when you haven’t isn’t conducive to transparent moderation.

[quote whitershadeofpale]@Sparklingbrook I think the rules and guidelines should be transparent. Deleting comments and saying you’ve broken the guidelines when you haven’t isn’t conducive to transparent moderation.[/quote]
So it is the deletion message that worries you? You would have been happier if it specifically mentioned that links to Tattle draw complaints and therefore are not allowed?

@Sparklingbrook I don’t think the deletion message needed to mention it, but the guidelines should be updated if that’s now mumsnet’s position. I don’t what site it is, I just think we should know not to post them in the first place.