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

[LittleDonkeyCarrieMaryMumsnet]

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

sorry should be 'left lying around'

Bumperlicious, won't speculate, I posted and felt a moment's horror I might have been quoted (with an unrecognisable christmas name).

It must feel awful. You "FFS" away.

I'll do one for you.. FFS

The best Slippery Nipple is made with Baileys and Black Sambuca ( never seen it in UK)
Or it is sometimes called Oil Sump
I lurve it...

Black sambuca is not available in the uk? Well that's no bloody good!

Why won't they delete all your posts Bump?

They have done so for other people in the past haven't they?

Oh Bumper

We will all moon MNHQ for you bumper.

I am really sorry all this stuff has been quoted in the newspapers - particularly for the rev for whom it has professional implications.

FWIW it's made me think carefully about posting on here - I've always tried to guard privacy very carefully for work-related and family reasons. To find MN invaded by hacks intent on misquoting and variously stirring up a lot of trouble is disturbing.

I have just had a moment Quattro as I have been posted rude silly stuff and thought this would look really bad if it was leaked and my work found out.

cornsilk yes it is

Thanks guys. Apparently they prefer not to do it unless in extreme circumstances, messes up the archive and makes the site seem disjointed. Fair enough, imagine what the site would be like if we all panicked every time we said something stupid and asked for all out posts to be deleted. I could name change, but it would feel like starting again, I've made friends and got relationships on here. But this has changed things for me, it's left a nasty taste and I'm really angry about it. What a bunch of tossers. How is this news?!

THIS is why SAHMing is a good call. I have no professional reputation to uphold. If the school-gate mothers found out I've been swearing and behaving uncharitably on here, they'd just nod wearily.

But seriously... I was very glad not to be quoted and can quite see why people are upset.

I think MNHQ don't like deleting posts en masse because it makes a nonsense of threads. I've seen a few posters recently say that MNHQ have refused to do it. I guess the huge archive of threads must be one of MN's biggest resources.

I wouldn't mind being quoted - because (with a couple of very small exceptions) I don't tend to say things here I wouldn't say in real life - but being 'mis-quoted' would really upset and anger me. There's just no bloody excuse for it either - I mean how crap a journalist do you have to be to look at a website and then cut and paster posters names wrongly???

Oh Bumperlicious. That's a bit shite. Is it really awkward fro them to do so? I don't quite understand why they won't just, you know, do it.

A Big Shart Goin' Art to My Sistaz In the New Bit of Zealand!
I do know that about Mum as one of my good friends is from NZ - sorry, a derbrain moment.

at 'the new bit of Zealand'

Shall we set up our own medium oldies board, invitation only, so as not to be misquoted? We could call it medoldies. Or shall we just carry on having great fun and getting great support on Mumsnet and utilise the nickname change facility when we want to discuss our boss with the bilingual farting fanny?

Yeah I've asked before but unless it's due to something awful they don't do it

It really does bugger up the archives though, it's a total pita if you are using the archives for research and lots of the threads are incoherent

worra lorra stuff n nonsense...

I'm going to go to bed and hopefully when I wake up this will all be over.

Night all, sorry for the melodrama.

Thanks lou!

I do think that, generally, people need to think about what they post here. One can be lulled into a sense of posting to friends when in fact you are actually posting on a very public forum, which can be viewed not only by the people with whom you are chatting, but every Tom, Dick or Bishop who fancies reading it. If anyone is in a profession which might be considered sensitive, then you should think carefully before broadcasting to the wider world that you are a part of that profession and, more pertinently, offering some advice or support as a result of that profession. It is very difficult to give any sort of helpful advice on a forum such as this as one is rarely given the full story and the advice you give might actually cause more problems than it solves as you are unaware of certain pertinent facts.

To then complain that what you have posted has been conveyed to a wider public through a newspaper article is naive because, for all that you know, every single person who reads that newspaper has access to what you have posted here anyway.

So perhaps the lesson here is to remember that you do not know the people with whom you are conversing, anyone in the world may read your posts and, from the information contained therein, may identify you in RL. Post with caution.

Freckle they were misquited though.

And us newbies could start up Noldies, or.. "Knarldies" which would sound much the same but make people think of oak trees etc with it's longditundinal impressions.

Swedes I take the point about namechanging to discuss work-related issues but the fact is that I don't discuss work-related issues on here. The point of concern is that I don't want my colleagues/clients to know stuff about my private life - the ditzy au-pair, DD's stuff about reading, what to do about secondary school etc.

There's nothing particularly outrageous in my posts but I still wouldn't want work or the DCs schools finding them. And I reckon I've disclosed enough on here for anyone patient enough to be able to work out my identity.