Afternoon, everyone.
This is a topic that has come up a few times recently and our stance on it hasn't really changed but this is where we have landed for the moment:
Generally speaking, while we do delete posts that we think are offensive, or designed to be so, we try not to take a blanket approach to terms or points of view. As a discussion site, Mumsnet has always hosted a broad range of perspectives so coming across views that do not chime with your own or that you find offensive is inevitable to some extent.
There is always the option to hide a thread from yourself, of course, but we do encourage people to directly address such posts on the threads in the spirit of free and open discussion. Who knows - you might offer someone a perspective they hadn't considered and lead them to rethink their post. If you think a post breaks our guidelines, however, please do report it to us. We're always happy to take a look and will consider each post on its merits (or demerits).
While we will delete ageist posts that we consider to be deliberately inflammatory, for example, or where age is being used as a personal attack, we tend to have quite a high bar for deletion where widely accepted and widely used langauge is concerned - terms such as 'snowflake' or 'boomers' for example. However, it is something that we are still considering and we aren't ruling out a change to our policy in the future, once we get to a point where we feel the majority of people understand the potential problems with some of these terms.
For now, we don't think it would be in the interests of good discussion or good moderation to delete every post where terms like these or generational difference is mentioned. We'd prefer to keep conversation flowing where possible, and perhaps help to change persepctives, too, rather than simply delete.