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Mumsnet - please can you sort out all the Jade posts?

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PussinJimmyChoos · 22/03/2009 22:26

Its horrible. Regardless of what she did/didn't do, she was a mother. We are all mums and God forbid we will ever have to go through something like this, knowing we will leave our kids behind and not see them grow up.

Threads like this are not in the spirit of Mumsnet and yes, I can hide them if I want, but to be honest, would like to see them deleted. I know policy is to let the debates run with minimum intervention, but tonight its going too far

Thanks,

Puss

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CatherineMumsnet · 22/03/2009 22:38

Hi all. We did discuss this a few weeks back and decided against it, however it has all got a bit out of control tonight. We'll talk it over at MNHQ tomorrow and let you know what we decide.

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JustineMumsnet · 23/03/2009 09:14

Hi all,
Just to let you know the background here... all the resurrected Jade Goody threads and a couple of troll-like ones (which we deleted) were started by the same person yesterday, using multiple nicknames. That member was, I assume, trying to make a point about hypocrisy/hysteria etc. Anyway we agree it's all in pretty poor taste given the timing and last night we had a word with the poster off-line and asked her to stop.

We don't generally delete things on the grounds of poor taste or even retrospectively delete things because someone, tragically, has died, because it really does become impossible to know where to draw the line - one person's definition of what's unacceptable is not the same as another's and we don't want to end up telling someone that the post(s) they find offensive isn't offensive enough to qualify for deletion IYSWIM, so we'd end up deleting pretty much everything that anyone found offensive - and that would mean deleting an awful lot indeed. Plus it would end up offending those who'd been deleted often when they

It's also not really feasible to combine all the Jade threads that have happened here over the years into one, but there's no reason why they can't just drop out of active conversations and be consigned to history again if folks don't contribute to them. Let's hope so.

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JustineMumsnet · 23/03/2009 09:31

Yes agreed QS but think the problem here was resurrection of old threads rather than a mass of new ones, no? Happy to do a one thread rule if that's what folks want though.

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JustineMumsnet · 23/03/2009 13:42

Hi Seeker - having looked at it (and there were a lot of people who reported it) I'd say your post was deleted on the grounds that it was a personal attack (on Jade and her family). A touch and go call perhaps and maybe something we'd have left had it not appeared on the day she died.

(This moderation thing is, in truth, necessarily more art than science).

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