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Where are the teenage pregnancy threads?

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Palika · 15/12/2013 19:30

There were 3 or 4 teenage pregnancy support threads here (by two different people), which I have followed with great interest. Now they are all gone. Does anybody know why?

(hope I do not commit some terrible faux-pas by asking this Blush)

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tallulah · 15/12/2013 19:33

They were pulled because somebody connected to the other family emailed the OP and threatened legal action if they weren't Sad

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furlinedsheepskinjacket · 15/12/2013 19:36

blimey

I haven't seen the one where ops husband arrested re computer lately either

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Slipshodsibyl · 15/12/2013 19:37
  • I am not surprised and am not sure why the sad face?
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pixiestix · 15/12/2013 19:39

Because it was a hugely supportive thread and nothing warranting legal action was said?

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Palika · 15/12/2013 19:45

threatened legal action for what? It was all anonymous and aren't we are country with free speech?

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Slipshodsibyl · 15/12/2013 19:46

The intrusive unsubstantiated insults and criticism of the other family was unjustifiable and so detailed they were easily identifiable. As for supportive - the thread became intrusive and very strange.

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Palika · 15/12/2013 19:49

still don't get it

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MooncupGoddess · 15/12/2013 19:50

There are real privacy issues involved when it comes to posting about vulnerable and in this case identifiable under 16s... I think pulling it was for the best.

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tumbletumble · 15/12/2013 19:51

It wasn't anonymous any longer OP - someone recognised the poster IRL

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Palika · 15/12/2013 19:52

so mumsnet removed it because the teenagers involved could have been identified? Isn't that possible with an awful lot of threads here? Why are they allowed to continue?

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Slipshodsibyl · 15/12/2013 19:54

Palika do you recall the terms in which that family were described? Repeatedly.

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oldbaghere · 15/12/2013 19:55

I would assume this thread will be zapped too because it's a thread about a thread?

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Palika · 15/12/2013 19:56

So mumsnet removed it because the teens could have been identified - or were identified - by someone who threatened legal action if the thread would not be removed. Is that it?

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MrsCakesPremonition · 15/12/2013 19:57

IIRC, it wasn't that there was potential for RL identification - people were actually identified in RL.

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MooncupGoddess · 15/12/2013 19:57

Well, MN usually remove threads if a poster has been recognised by someone in real life and wants to pull the thread as a result.

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Aethelfleda · 15/12/2013 19:58

Palika, this is an "anonymous" forum, but if a poster states her 28 year old porcupine has been caught snogging next door's prize poodle, the owner of said poodle (if they get on here) will soon realise there can't be that many people in their circumstances and so the anonymity is somewhat limited. Poodle-porcupine relations are likely to be affected.

This, however isn't as far-reaching as if the porcupine and poodle (and all their doggy friends) were themselves able to search the interet and discover all this stuff being posted about them. Because that can happen, it's entirely reasonable that such threads are pulled. Those that aren't are simply the ones that have got away with it so far IYSWIM?

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Palika · 15/12/2013 19:59

Something is weird with this thread as well - I post something and then it does not show up - probably we are not meant to talk about it. Too bad!

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stickysausages · 15/12/2013 20:02

Yup, as above. The danger of such a big forum I guess

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tumbletumble · 15/12/2013 20:02

MN removed it because the OP asked them to, because she had been identified.

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JanineStHubbins · 15/12/2013 20:04

The other thread was deleted because it turned into an amusing bunfight.

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JulieJingleBellsMumsnet · 15/12/2013 20:05

Evening.

The threads you're asking about were deleted at the OP's request, as stated in the deletion messages.

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Palika · 15/12/2013 20:06

ok

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5OBalesofHay · 15/12/2013 20:06

My 13 year old had s baby in April. If she had been spoken about like that I would have been devastated, and very protective, even if she couldn't have been identified. BTW, she's growing slowly biut surely into the role and doing brilliantly back at school. We have to give a lot of support, but it's not forever.

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Ladyglamalot · 15/12/2013 20:07

I thiught we could'nt just ask willy nilly if we can delete threads though? It was all chinny reckon too.

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JulieJingleBellsMumsnet · 15/12/2013 20:18

@Ladyglamalot

I thiught we could'nt just ask willy nilly if we can delete threads though? It was all chinny reckon too.


We don't tend to delete entire threads unless they break our talk guidelines in some way but we're also not here to make people's lives any more stressful then they already are. We look at each request on a case by case basis.
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