Why was this thread deleted?

[FlightCommanderPRJohnson]

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5343393-finding-it-increasingly-difficult-to-justify-eating-out-at-pubs-etc?reply=144614697

I wondered why this thread was deleted just as I was catching up with it! Message just said it 'broke guidelines' but it's been running for a few days now seemingly without incident or individual posts being deleted, and it seemed to me a valid discussion about the impact of the COL crisis on hospitality and the choices people make about eating out.

I read that thread and it seemed innocuous enough! Maybe things got nasty - who knows.

I read it too, and it looked like a pretty standard "everything has gotten so expensive" thread - nothing that breaks guidelines. I'd also be interested in knowing why it was deleted!

Me too!

I was following it quite closely (I was on the thread under a previous username) and it didn't seem to be nasty at all - a few civilised differences of opinion around people wanting to eat out but not being prepared to pay the cost of giving hospitality staff a decent wage, but all as far as I could see reasoned and polite argument, no name-calling etc. and I hadn't noticed any individual posts being deleted.

I wondered too!

Snap, I thought it interesting . Wonder what guidelines it broke!

Oh dear I am sorry I just started another thread asking the same question!

My bad, I should have included the thread details in title.

Me too but as this is a taat it will likely be deleted soon rather than garner any answers

This is in site stiff so will hopefully be answered by MNHQ.

I will try reporting my thread so MNHQ see it. Absolutely not intended as a TAAT, I'd just like to know why it was deleted.

I was reading the thread late last night and it was fine.
Maybe it got trolled in the early hours.

I don't think it did - it was up and running around 7am-ish and I didn't see any troll posts. I'd just caught up and was going to add a post, and when it refreshed it was deleted - unless a troll started spamming it between my loading it and refreshing it, but even then, why would MNHQ not just delete the troll posts?

Sometimes the op is a troll. They then start trolling on other posts and all posts get deleted.

It might be that, or PBP I suppose, but the opening post didn't strike me as anything out of the ordinary - not obviously goady or anything like that.

I was just about to catch up with it too and wondered why it was deleted! I’m getting fed up of threads that I get invested in being deleted.

Thanks for asking about this thread. It looks like we had a few concerns and needed to check things out behind the scenes, but we've reinstated the thread by now. Sorry for the disruption.

It was an interesting discussion. I hadn't posted but was following.

Thank you @JoMumsnet - great news that it's back.

It's back @FlightCommanderPRJohnson - weird!

Cross post with JoMN
Raises an interesting question for me.... all those threads that are deleted for MN to "take a look behind the scenes" but never come back - does that mean MN just never bother to reinstate them, unless someone raises a question about the deletion 🤔

I asked exactly this question a while back when I found an old thread in my watched thread list which had been “behind the scenes” for over a year.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/site_stuff/5262441-this-thread-has-been-hidden-until-the-mnhq-team-can-have-a-look-at-it

I do old threads in this state from time to time but there isn’t a button to report them on the message page.