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

Lou, I wasn't even good enough to be a reject!!
Is this thread still going on, I will have to scroll down and catch up now!

Lou it takes one to know one.

Freckle no I don't think I would , but what if I had been posting merrily away before I realised that my ex husband was a psychotic twat who was trying to dish the dirt out of malice. Or thinking about that period of my life it was a dark and very lonely time and maybe rather naively I would have offloaded on here.

I am just trying to explain why some people feel paranoid especially in light of the fact that some posters have left or namechanged after real life and mumsnet have collided with disastrous effects.

Saying that, though, I never posted RL stuff about anyone other than funny stuff about DH, or the boys - never about my parents, siblings, friends, etc.

So meh, ignore me.

just caught up a bit.
roffle at MP's starfleet friend! Cod God you lead a glamorous life!

Swedes, my post has bugger all to do with Moldies and everything to do with perspective and common sense. Please.

Thanks Swedes I'll do that thing with the name-change.

lol Swedes. Gosh I love you, you big ball of root-vegetable fun.

Hang on.

Those journalists have written a crap article full of mistakes, but they haven't betrayed any confidences or published anyone's personal details in a newspaper. They've done nothing wrong except perpetrate a crime against good writing.

Every single word you write on MN is available to anyone in the world with an internet connection. What's more, unless you post only in Chat, it's going to be available to anyone in the world etc etc for as many years as MN continues to survive.

Anyone who thinks this is like chatting in a pub is seriously deluded.

I'm in a different time zone and I can tell you that while you're having a slightly tired and emotional late-night session with your best mates, I'm sitting here in NZ eating my lunch and reading every word.

I've read some amazing stuff on MN, much of it easily identifying the posters IRL if anyone was interested enough. It just happens that I am not a daily mail journalist have some scruples and have no wish to cause damage in anyone's life.

Anyone who is cross about stuff being copied from here to the national press needs to have a serious rethink about how they believe mumsnet works.

fuck stockholm is in Tokyo, isn't it? shit.

I'm going to do what Onebat said about nicknames too. Right, I really am off to bed. I already waste enough of my life on here and look what happens. That'll learn me.

a brief google confirms that Stockholm is indeed a city of Swedes>

And to me, the only wonder about posters taking their chats to a private board is that it didn't happen years ago.

Thank goodness for another voice of reason. Mumsnet is totally public. Why publishing what one might or might not have said in another public organ engenders such angst and paranoia is puzzling. If someone wants to do some sleuthing and work out who a poster is, they can do it quite well without the Indie giving them a nudge.

Nothing like being kicked when your down. I always love a "well you should have known better post".

Night all.

Stockholm is in Tokyo? You daft bat

I'm actually Benny from Abba. But you all knew that.

Bumper, it wasn't meant as a should have known better post. More a please be careful about what you disclose post.

Nah. You're Columbo. I can tell by your outfit. Never knew he was keen on root vegetables though ...

quad, i cant have red

Wasn't there something on Alphamummy about them using bits of posts or something? Can't remember what exactly - anyone?

My honest opinion: unless you are in a very difficult RL situation or are famous or would be VERY professionally embarrassed (ie are in govt) then I think its pretty hard to find you. I just did it on someone whom I already know, and came up with bu'er all.

(Anyone who read their mother's early 20th century novels will recognize this lovely term. It confused me for my entire ninth year. )

oh no Lou you will just have to keep trying with the rose...honestly a few bottles and you will be fine
that is pants though

Wellie, some may have already taken their chat elsewhere. How do we know that there aren't any number of discussion boards already? We know about Moldies, but only by mistake it would appear. We've no way of knowing if there are any other ones. There is, I discovered recently, a private SN board. Who's to say if other boards have been created for a variety of reasons.

oh the private SN board has been around for ages.

I think it was set up at around the same time that you had to select to see SN Thread titles in Active Convo's, rather than select to not have it (if that makes sense?)