Gransnet thread in Daily Mail on-line today.

It's on facebook as well so I think very hard before posting now.

No wonder there have been so many name changes.

This sort of thing keeps me from taking part in many of the threads here. It's one thing posting in a forum of registered members, but quite another to have your posts quoted to the general public in the Daily Mail, particularly on personal matters. GN should be aware that this makes the whole forum of limited use and relevance to its members.

Surely not theft though, presumably GN have allowed it.
The fierce debate is more of a gentle bicker, if that!

Go to it (or go back to it) and give your opinion of the DM's theft of the thread. If they want to hear from us, let it be something about them!

Given that politics creep into many threads, you could ... turn it into a political thread so that it goes "off-topic" - at least they would get their "fierce debate"!

I’m appalled by that!

I did post on that thread, but thankfully nothing controversial and nothing that could possibly link back to me.
Agree with all other posters saying that this is very lazy journalism

That's a bit concerning. Glad I didn't post on that thread. I hope those that did are not easily identifiable. Awful I think of DM.

This is why I rarely post these days.

Ummm don’t like that at all sneaky and lazy I hate sneakiness

Ah but the other threads don't fit in with their criteria.

I agree it's sloppy journalism. They needed a filler so trawled Gransnet.

If they'd wanted fierce debating, there are one or two other threads they should have looked at first!

Thanks for that information MotherH

I'm shocked that they just copied and pasted with user names too. Talk about lazy

I find the whole idea distasteful . I know all about This being an open forum but it makes me only want to discuss the weather and jam and knitting!

What surprised me is that the DM listed the posts as they appear on here. I know it is not a closed forum, but I don't think I like the idea of that.

The DM seems to use a mums net thread almost daily it seems, they must have a staff member trawling mumsnet and gransnet to fill gaps in their news feed. Lazy cheap journalism imo.

LOL for the "fierce debate" bit.