Hello everyone
Thanks so much for bearing with us yesterday while we were scurrying around behind the scenes trying to sort this out. We're a bit thin on the ground at MNHQ this week and it's taken longer than usual to check with each other, but didn't want to post till we had all our facts straight.
SO... first up, a big apology from us for taking the word 'Nappies' out of the title of the Nappies/Potty training topic - crossed wires at MNHQ.
We'd like to reassure everyone that we never meant to remove Nappies as a Topic - we love nappies (almost!) as much as you do and would never dream of depriving you (and us) of the chance to chat nappies, swap nappies and generally shoot the reusable nappy breeze.
What triggered all this was us realising there was a lot of buying and selling on the Nappies/Potty training topic. And as you may or may not know, we have a general policy on Mumsnet that all buying and selling should be kept within the For Sale/Wanted topic (where, incidentally, there is a special Reusable Nappies section).
We were alerted to the buying and selling by posters, NOT advertisers - and CERTAINLY NOT TotsBots.
Some of the posters were reporting others for buying and selling in the wrong place - and sometimes these posts were deleted. Others were objecting to their posts being deleted, saying they'd paid for a Small Business Ad. Yet others were wondering why some posters were buying and selling on the thread when they hadn't paid for an SBA.
Basically, there was a lot of confusion (and clearly on our part as much as anyone else's).
I got the wrong end of the stick when I posted at the beginning of this thread that we were getting daily complaints from small business advertisers - and I'm really sorry for my mistake. But in my defence it's fair to say we were regularly being asked to clarify what was allowed and what wasn't.
So, what we propose to do now is to split Nappies and Potty Training into two separate topics.
At the top of the Nappies topic, we're going to put a note, reminding everyone that it's just a topic for Nappy talk and Nappy swaps, and asking people who want to buy and sell nappies to do so in the For Sale/Wanted topic.
We hope that's a workable solution for everyone - and apologies again for spooking you all by renaming the Topic out of the blue.