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MNHQ - please could you explain why you deleted my post in the AIBU thread

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Bluebirdonmyshoulder · 15/02/2013 13:17

I'm posting this here because I want to stay away from AIBU because I think it's not a nice place.

Please could you explain why you deleted two of my posts in which I challenged a disablist attitude and said I found MN to often have unpleasant attitudes towards children with SN. Other posters said similar and didn't get deleted and I'm genuinely confused and actually very upset that you did this.

I feel isolated enough as a parent as it is.

I'm fairly new to MN and only really come on this board - what guidelines or unwritten rules have I broken? I'm not being difficult here - I really don't understand.

I don't think your handling of this is in keeping with your recent campaign idea either.

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HelenMumsnet · 15/02/2013 15:00

Hi Bluebird. Sounds like you've got your answer but if you'd like us to fill you in, we'd be happy to.

Just mail us at contactus at mumsnet.com. Might be a bit more private than posting it all up on the thread?

MNHQ

HelenMumsnet · 15/02/2013 15:45

No, that's fine, Bluebird.

We have emailed you already, as it happens.

But, in brief, you attacked other posters personally. Which is against our Talk Guidelines.

As we said in our mail to you, we totally understand why you felt as you did (you'll see that a fair few other posts have been deleted, at least one of them for including a disablist comment, as we posted to explain later in the thread) but we do have a rule about not making personal attacks on other posters.

And we do think it's possible to challenge disablist attitudes without making personal attacks: you can attack what folks are saying ("What a horrible post!") without attacking personally ("You're horrible!").

MNHQ

HelenMumsnet · 15/02/2013 16:05

A pleasure, Bluebird.

It really is splitting hairs at this point but the other poster said your conclusions were harsh, rather than you were harsh - which is fine.

Point taken about other posts in AIBU. But we at MNHQ do not read or pre-moderate every post. Our Talk philosophy relies on all Mumsnetters appreciating the need for our Talk Guidelines and being prepared to report posts that break our guidelines when they see them. We can only deal with posts/threads that are reported to us.

Please do report any posts you see in AIBU that break our guidelines. We'd be happy to take a look.

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