Can we carry on talking about MNSN til we get a Chat Thread sorted out?

[EllenJaneisstillnotmyname]

Just wanted to link to this before the other thread got full.

I want to eat someone elses homemade muffins and have my kids pick apples in their garden

You'll have to come here, Star. Though they might not like the cooking apples...

And not until late August!

I have very happy memories of your boys crashing around our garden eating cake and generally being lovely, Justa. It is amazing how well 6 children can get on, when they are different ages, boys/girls and have never met each other before!

Am baking the most chocolatey cake ever,it substitutes cocoa for flour and contains a LOT of chocolate, I am going to coat it with ganache and edible gold, for dd1's birthday tomorrow. The whole house smells of melted chocolate it is glorious.

On a slightly less glorious note, ds seems to have a urine infection, very miserable and grabbing at his crotch constantly like a small blonde, cherubic Michael Jackson.

@hazeyjane

I don't like the idea of OTBT, there used to be a mnsn chat thread on there, and it basically ended up with 3 of us chatting (which was nice, but it would be great if others had known we were there, and then the chat could meander a bit more).

I reported my post on the other thread suggesting a chat thread, to ask MN if they would put a disappear after 30 days chat thread on the sn boards, but they haven't been back. I can see the thing about it being nice to search the archives, but I suppose I thought that because it was just a chatting thread, there might not be so many nuggets of wisdom(!), hmm I don't know.

I think the thing with the Friday thread is that sometimes it is difficult to catch up on everyones news from the week, then you feel as though you have to comment on the news, and sometimes by Friday I am only good for slumping on a sofa with a slice of pizza in my hand, and staring at shit TV (I have painted a very glamorous picture there!)

I like The Goose and Carrot Pub:ongoing chat, all welcome.

Hello hello. Sorry to be late picking up on this one.

All things being equal, we'd prefer folks to stay in MNSN, rather than decamp to OTBT.

We think your idea of an MNSN Chat topic, in which threads only lasted 60 or 90 days, is a good one. We'll just check with Tech whether that's actually possible.

Thanks Helen! :)

Right. It is technically possible.

Are enough folks in favour of an SN Chat topic within the Special Needs category for us to go ahead with this?

To be clear, it would have to be a separate topic.

So within the Special Needs "umbrella" category, there would be, as there is now:

Special needs: children

Parents with disabilities

Special needs support sessions

Special needs: education

Special needs: legal/financial

Special needs: recommendations

Special needs: teens and young adults

... and ...

Special needs: Chat

Yes?

Yes, I think I could cope with checking two topics on a regular basis

Yes, sounds good to me.

One thought, though...

On the normal talk _chat topic, if a thread gets really useful and therefore worth 'keeping' you are able to move it over to another topic.

How would it be managed if the thread was really useful, so some people wanted it moved over, but the whole point of that topic is that it disappears and some people may not have posted there if they thought it would be moved...and...and...?

Would you have to have a rule?

@lougle

One thought, though...

On the normal talk _chat topic, if a thread gets really useful and therefore worth 'keeping' you are able to move it over to another topic.

How would it be managed if the thread was really useful, so some people wanted it moved over, but the whole point of that topic is that it disappears and some people may not have posted there if they thought it would be moved...and...and...?

Would you have to have a rule?

Yes, we could move a thread over to another topic - but only at the OP's request.

And we would then probably withdraw posts from those who didn't then want their posts remaining on the thread.

BUT if this becomes unmanageable - ie ZILLIONS of posts to withdraw every day - we may have to think again.

Thanks for clarifying, Helen.

zzzzz The schools get funding for 'deprivation' based on FSM eligibility and also funding for SEN.

It's a way of helping you to choose your friends, zzzzz

I'll do some digging and get back to you.

@PolterGoose

Helen is this a good time to ask of you can all consider a slimming down of the SN topics? SN education, recommendations and legal are all a bit tumbleweedy. Perhaps if we just had SN children, SN teens/young adults, parents with disabilities and SN chat there wouldn't be so many unanswered posts...

Yes. Slimdown def on the agenda.

But probably best to get SN Chat up and running first, we think. Or the whole thing will take for ever

Interesting question zzzzz. Is it because their Ofsted rating has to take that into consideration?

The information is probably 'out there' in the public domain through funding information and FOI requests, but I do wonder why it is made so explicit.