Why zap when you can lock??????

[LookItsMeAgain]

It really is very very annoying when you're reading/contributing to a thread and the thread gets zapped instead of being locked to add more comments to it.

For example, recently I was reading and contributing to the thread where the OP of that thread had put a stop to giving lifts to her colleague.

This is the one I mean:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4989467-updates-on-not-doing-a-carshare-any-longer-with-a-work-colleague?page=6&reply=132484684

The thread goes POOF! in a second due to troll hunters. Instead of leaving the thread and just deleting the troll posts (and possibly banning the troll hunters for a time as that isn't permitted according to the explanation of why the thread is gone) the thread could have been locked so that no one could add any further posts.

Why, Mumsnet Admins, do you pull so many threads and discussions instead of locking them? You have the capabilities to do either but it comes across as the first choice is to pull the thread but never to lock it. Why is that?? It seems very drastic to pull the thread instead of locking it.

I posted a query asking if it would be possible for MN Admins to specify which rule someone has broken in the explanation if a thread gets pulled and in fairness, the one above does have an explanation but did you have to pull it? Really?
(This is the thread where I asked if the actual rule broken could be included in the explanation where a post gets pulled:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/site_stuff/4871219-threads-that-get-pulled-for-breaking-talk-guidelines)

I agree with you. It seems to me that the easiest reaction to multiple "reported" posts is to just zap the entire thread and forget about it. That's so easy to do, instead of leaving the topic there and deleting the reported posts, then locking the thread if it becomes out of hand or whatever MNHQ is not happy with.

It is just so sudden and unexpected in the case of lots of interesting and often controversial threads to find it arbitrarily gone Whoosh.

I do realise that HQ have to be careful of libel, free advertising and so on, but those threads could still stand if the offending posts are deleted. It's looks to me like an easy way out. I hope I am not arbitrarily BANNED for saying this. 😄

Hello @LookItsMeAgain on this particular thread, the OP requested we take it down because practically every other post was calling her a troll. We quite understand her reasons.

We take your point though that some threads would be better locked than zapped. If you think we've been hasty over deleting something, do drop us a line.

Thanks for that update @BeckyAMumsnet .

As the thread got zapped would it be possible to get a last update on it please? Was there an updated request from the colleague who was taking liberties for a lift home or how did it end?

I wouldn't need to start a thread about another thread had the original been left but locked. Sorry about doing that but it's true. I do understand why but as you are the owners of the site, surely you can put in rules/guidelines that threads will only get pulled under certain circumstances but they will be locked in the majority of cases if required.

Hi there @LookItsMeAgain. If we recall, the whole thing sort of just subsided on that thread. Having been a bit frosty with the OP, the passenger calmed down after the OP cleared the air with her and that was it really. Hope that fills you in a bit.