Breaking guidelines - the "what are you wearing Xmas day" thread

[TheOrigRights]

What ON EARTH did someone say to break guidelines?

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Maybe they said they would be wearing Crocs?

Might have been spam.

Perhaps they recommended some mum boots.

School run dress?

I can see why a single post might be deleted (banned poster, spam, troll etc) but a whole thread? And which guideline was broken?

They may have said they're wearing their matching Christmas PJs and a Christmas jumper over the top?

@mumsnet

Maybe they were linking to PJs to wear for going to the supermarket.

Must have been a spammer as the "what are you eating apart from Christmas food" thread and the "what was in your garden as a child?" and I think "what was in your childhood area?" threads have also been deleted.

They were all started by the same person, iirc so I'm guessing a lazy journalist perhaps?

So why not give the reason?

I was really enjoying that thread.

So many deletions lately...

I don't think the tabloid freelancers who forage and feast on MN are supposed to be quite THAT obvious.

MNHQ probably found it too blatant, rip-offy and embarrassingly clumsy.

There's been half a dozen enjoyable and gentle threads cancelled in the last 24 hours. 🥲

There's been one in gardening asking for childhood garden memories.

I smell a rat researcher on the loose.

It makes me less likely to join in anything. MN can't really stop lazy journalists. The site will slowly be taken over by spam/journalists etc

Oh yeah there is a poster popped up recently called Jayb44 (I think) who keeps starting endless threads asking about your childhood bedroom/garden/diet and what you're doing/wearing/eating today etc etc.

Was it one of their posts?

Yes there was one about childhood living rooms that was deleted too!!

I suspect it was started by the same poster as the one about your childhood living room. I asked the same question here: www.mumsnet.com/talk/site_stuff/4704987-did-my-childhood-living-room-break-talk-guidelines
Posters suggest it a lazy journo starting them.

Hi @TheOrigRights,

Sorry it's taken us a while to reply!

Thanks for asking about this thread. We've just posted a similar message on Angelontopofthetree's thread in Site Stuff asking about this same poster. We took the thread down as we thought the OP was likely to be a journalist (and also most likely a previously banned poster). 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.

Is there no way you can expand on your deletion messages? Would avoid speculation.

@JoMumsnet they are back. Slightly different user name, five threads created so far. I'll try and report them all.

Thanks for those reports, RainbowZebraWarrior . We're working through them now.