Did my childhood living room break talk guidelines?

[AngelontopoftheTree]

I posted on this thread, and was interested in what others had to say. It seems to me to be the most innocuous thread ever, whatever was it that broke talk guidelines?
www.mumsnet.com/talk/home_decoration_pictures/4704297-what-did-your-childhood-living-room-have-that-your-current-living-room-doesnt

How weird

@MNHQ please could you shed some light about this?

The garden one got deleted too.

I’ve had a weird email to say they’ve been getting a lot of reports about my post on the Prince Andrew thread, and then quoted a completely random comment not made by me and on a completely different thread with a different subject entirely (something about an ungrateful child I believe).

Perhaps something going on with MNHQ?

Yeah, and the food one.

I think they were all started by the same poster.

I'm guessing spammer / journalist.

They were all started by a poster who only did things like start threads with these sorts of questions. Nothing malicious, I don't think, but clearly not a genuine poster.

You'll probably find the OP was a pbp

There's been quite a few of them just lately, all fairly innocuous, but asking the same sorts of questions. Takes all sorts I suppose.

What/where are the talk guidelines?

Google is the quickest way to find them

Clicking on the link above the message box is the quickest way to find them.
Still waiting for @MNHQ to confirm they were a pbp, but even if so I still think there needs to be a judgement call and let it stand for such an innocuous thread that's not harming anyone.

Here they are

If you're on the desktop site, scroll right down to the bottom of the page and there's a link to them there, for future reference

I suspect it may have been a lazy journalist starting threads to create a story they could then use.

Fair enough, what a shit job though!
I would have thought there was plenty enough of real threads to pilfer.
Thanks @BIWI

I'm only assuming that's the case though! Can't think of any other reason to be honest, especially as the questions posed weren't exactly challenging or goady in any way.

Hi @AngelontopoftheTree - so sorry for the delay in responding. We took the childhood living room thread down as we thought the OP was likely to be a journalist. They'd only recently joined, had started TWENTY THREE threads, all with just one line in the opening post, and hadn't replied to any of them. That's not the work of a genuine Mumsnetter!

It looks like we mass deleted all of their threads and used the standard message ('This has been deleted by MNHQ for breaking our Talk Guidelines') to save time. Even if some of the threads were perfectly harmless ones, we'd still rather not let them run if we don't think the OP's here in good faith.

Thanks Jo!
23 threads 😲 wowsers!!