If you (still) feel the need to discuss Moldies, please do it here so folks can hide this if they want to.

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Well hopefully the title says it all. There's been a suggestion, and we agree, that as we did with Baby P and the Mc Canns we just have one thread where anyone who feels they still have anything to add on this subject can post and those who'd rather move on can hide it away.

It feels strange to put this thread in site stuff as we are definitely not wanting to encourage further discussion of Moldies (we have presents to wrap too you know ) but we weren't sure where else to put it.

We will delete any new Moldies threads that are started, so please feel free to report them in case we miss any (what with wrapping the presents and all...)

And if you do want to carry on the discussion please remember that Mumsnet's here to make everyone's lives easier and not the reverse, and that Christmas is a time of goodwill to all mumsnetters past, present and future

Thanks,
MNHQ

Why are you having help with your posts then?

I had never made teh connection between rev and your job title. Couldn't you just have ignored/denied any such suggestion?

Ok rev
Sorry, obviously I got wrong end of stick

So Rev, if the press had quoted any of your posts correctly- the one about slagging people off on Friday 19th Dec for example...would you be okay with that?

Thanks for the clarification, Rev. Are MNHQ OK with you having this role?

ahhh. You're doing a religion thread. Weeell, you do leave yourself vulnerable, doing something in a professional capacity on a public messga e board. Have you reconsidered?

I'm not having a go at you, honest. Just that self-appointed "experts" (wrong word, but there's a bottom upstairs that needs wiping) have caused issues on MN in the past. And bf counsellors generally stick to bf counselling on here imo and ime - I haven't seen eg Tiktok post on the Moldies stuff!

V good point rev - there are lots of mumsnetters who give advice that relates to their own line of work. INcluding the BFCs, lawyers and teachers.

Rev, some of the GPs, for example, who post on here have a name for posting in their professional capacity and change it when they post as themselves. It might be worth considering having a different name for your general chatting and keeping the Rev name for your religious thread?

Saint George - you are sounding unpleasantly smug.

I think the Rev is showing more of the milk of human kindness to both you and hunkermunker than I would have done.

if you were, for example, a practising counsellor, then you would need supervision,(a non-involved, professional third party 'ear' to help you support others, ensuring you adhere to whatever professional or ethical guidelines you are ruled by) which I imagine is similar for Revs.
However, I do find it odd that you need to do the same in a non-formal capacity on a parenting website.
Are you our new, self-appointed pastoral care on here?

religious job people, like mental health job people, spend their whole lives seeking spiritual direction / psychotherapeutic supervision and therefore reflecting on / decronstructing their every decision. It's just part of the way they operate innit. The examined life and all that. And accountability.

Although I know some people panic a bit when they discover that their therapist is in therapy

That is rather a disigenious post Onebat- is there any reason for you to get involved in what seems to be a perfectly amicable conversation between other posters?

its a risk a lot of us take. i give advice about what i know in my field ( which isn't a lot ) i suppose if you open yourself and your knowledge in your professional capacity - whatever that may be, rev, lawyer, doctor, you can be identified. it rather depends on the person - personal choice i feel.

It must be doubly cruel to have a post attributed to you that puts you in the spotlight when it isn't yours.

god works in mysterious ways.

she ain't getting in the neck from me, I was just about to wish her the best of british, if she is MN pastoral care Talk about spreading yourself thinly!

You are being a bit MEAN. Do you ask whether MNHQ are okay about Floerybeanbag having "the role" of Person-Who-Knows-About-HR? Or the bf counsellors or the people who work in any area at all and offer advice? People want ADVICE and ask PEOPLE WHO KNOW STUFF for advice.

i.e. Stop poking her with sticks just cos she's a vicar innit

I was just wondering the same thing, dittany