Late night surprise about reputation of FWR

[IwantToRetire]

I was on Site Stuff to report back on ongoing freezing and noticed another thread about whether Mumsnet should apologise about deleting threads about ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

And there were some comments about there being a border line between legitimate criticism of Israel's policies and anti semitism. And it is this last that get these threads deleted.

So was surprised to see some comment on this thread saying it was as bad as some threads on FWR, and those particularly at fault are thos with a GC view point.

(Funnily enough AI suggested a title for this thread along the lines of "Are FWR debates judged differently ..... " but now it has hidden its suggestion, just when I was going to use it.)

Oh its come back

"Are sex and gender debates on FWR judged by different standards?"

It is ludicrous to suggest that "Any infrequent or new poster" on any of those threads would find that their posts to other Boards were being AS and then picked apart, or even that they would observe it happening to others.

The only posters who are AS'd are those ones who have posts filled with red flags / dubious content. Because they get the spidey senses twitching.

Posters who claim that they have had regular negative or unfair responses on this board almost invite AS, especially if they dont link to the posts in question.

I dont know what some posters really want - it's fine claiming that the board behaves a certain way, but without real examples, what is anyone supposed to say? Also, its really up to MNHQ to moderate, not other users.

I really dont think unfamiliar names get a harder time, I think the board is too big to know who is new.

I name change relatively frequently. I've been loitering here for the last 15 years. Sometimes I had disagreements and criticisms and I still think I'm right, sometimes I've changed my mind. I've never felt victimised though - after all, we're all pretty much strangers here, and here for discussion - that's going to involve having to take criticism and justifing your position

When Helle mentioned posters who thought they were more moral than others, some names certainly sprung to mind - not yours though Orwell I have to say.

Appreciate that, Teddy.