dear MNHQ please could you do something about all the threads

[2shoes]

about baby P in the news. The amount of them is getting bizarre and mawkish. surely one thread to discuss/debate and one for the weeping wailing and woe it's me, would do.
PLEASE
(and before someone berates me for starting another one, I have posted it rather than emailing MN hq in the hope that If people agree. MN will take more notice)

the details of the torture baby P suffered and links to pictures of his injuries, do not need to be posted in multiple places all over the board

one thread is enough

lulumama do they need to be poste dat all?
what i just read was so sick, how could someone think people need to know that. (anyway rant over and will not hi jack my thread)

Well said combustiblelemon. That should be flashed up on the screen before you can press create new message.

I agree.

2shoes, the information is in the public domain, on the news , in the papers, all over the internet. so it is reasonable it is reproduced here, but on one thread only, imo.

your right, my mistake for opening the thread, I just thought it had turned in to a sensible debate, will not do that again!!

Do people really check to see if similar threads exist before they start one though? I for one, never do.

Have just looked at that thread and agree with 2shoes. It's beyond hysteria.

It would help if people only posted links and didn't feel the need to post actual detail on the thread(s).

And I hate the fact that the media are still referring to the child as Baby P yet people on the threads feel it is ok to constantly name him.

mrsmaidamess, if it is something current, a hot topic if you like then yes, I do check. I check on active convos and I check in search for messages. For this very reason.

I agree too.

I know I have the option to hie, but when there are many you have to trawl tho active convo's hiding one and a time (why is there not a thing where you can hide 10 at a time??), and in the meantime yet more pop up.......I could spend half the time hiding threads rather than reading and answering at the moment!

bump

I have to say that I have only seen one thread with a gruesome thread title (which I have hidden, with the problem that I posted about the other day where it shouted at me in red for the next 10 minutes). The others, it is obvious what they're about but at least the titles themselves aren't offensive. I can ignore without having to hide them.

Def with you on this, 2shoes. The mawkishness is quite disturbing in itself. Please sort it out MNHQ.

Agree with op.

I agree, one thread is enough

I disagree to a point.

I know it's painful and I haven't read the threads you're on about - I don't want to discuss it at length, have only posted twice about subject.

But I think it's wrong to try and shield ourselves from the pain, somehow.

Every time I see something about it it rocks me to the core - it makes me feel squeamish and sick and desperately, desperately sad.
It makes me want to cry every time.

But in some small way I feel that our taking in of this pain might actually help...I am not sure how - it is like trying to take some of the collective grief and absorb it, almost like when you would literally pick up your own child and try and take their hurt away - I know it can't help him now but I just have a strong feeling that we all need to feel it and to grieve and to keep that pain alive for a while - not in a weird deliberate way but sustaining the outrage which is completely justified and healthy. To put a lid on it is just wrong.

This doesn't mean I think we need loads of threads about gruesome details but I do think we need to acknowledge that yes it's painful but it did happen and is probably already happening again somewhere else as we speak. I will not be hiding any threads.

I agree with Flightattendant. I really do not see that many threads about the case itself, and I do not generally read the ones I do see. But you cannot-and should not- pretend these things do not go on.
Someone had written on one of the threads "objecting" to the posts that people had been "put off their cornflakes". Well what a shame, that they are so inconvenienced in their comfortable lives by this horrific story.
And what is so hard about hiding the threads? Some people are even going onto threads saying "another one to hide"-thereby putting the thread on their "Threads I'm on" lists. Attention seeking or what!

Okay I'm going to join in abit here because I assume that someone on the thread was refferring to me re the naming thing.

Yes I have been saying Peter because the fact is Baby P is not a real person he never was IMO Baby P is the computer generated images we saw, that was not real.

The pain and terror he sufferred was therefore I don't see why we have to call him 'Baby P' thing is we know his name it's not as though I let out some major secret! I find it very undignified, no one thought on him as a human being when he was alive so isn't it about time we started realising he was a child and not a doll on the news?

Accuse me of being sick or whatever but I do agree we dont need so many threads on the matter.

And whilst I'm at it I reckon that everyone involved should be named, well they have been anyway don't know if we are allowed to give names though.

An d I havent printed his second name on here because he deserves that so calling him Peter is hardly a problem it's not like I'm saying Peter C is it?

I'm not incenced and we know his name was Peter anyway it was on the news when he first died as was his mothers name. Was all over SKY news I remember watching it!

I'm hardly letting the cat out of the bag and anyway not that I go onto Facebook but there are loads all over there who have his full name printed I mean both his middle names and all.

Of course I feel for his siblings as I said yesterday his 3 sisters are going to have to somehow try and rebuild their lives after this, they sufferred too and one of them was badly abused so they felt his pain, saw it and heard it too. Poor girls must be traumatised

As I said I do not and will not be drawn into arguments over this I was stating my point.

blimey you're even going on about it on this thread!

agree with op

Nah South just someone made a comment at me and was just answering I dont wish to talk about it anymore anyway am going to divert my attention into trying to achieve something through it

please lets not turn this into another thread about it.
this is just to ask mn politely to control the ever increasing threads. there is yet another one in chat.