A bunfight? Oh No!

Add in DIL from Hell/MIL from hell.....

Interesting idea Trisher. I wonder what the key words and phrases to use might be? Pity Shoezone, onesies and daps have already been used.... (wanders off pondering)

People can be very perverse.
As I have found

I do wonder if perhaps this will now become an ambition for some posters- getting a thread taken down, I mean. People can be very perverse.

I only saw the OP very briefly in fact as been so busy today and I didn't see most of the comments and how it developed. My comment was actually meant to be a more general comment about the problems that arise when post threads do get taken over by some real nastiness etc etc ...rather than about this particular one ...but I don't think I made that very clear! Sorry!

Come on, madgran it was pretty bonkers from the outset as some of us remarked very early on!

It is a real shame that some posters make comments that descend it real nastiness and personal comments and also that some or make posts descend into the ridiculous!

I must have a really suspicious mind, I sometimes see a thread that starts like the one in question and think to myself “seriously?”. I then see many good hearted folk offering sympathy and advice and berate myself for being so cynical. Later it turns out to be a wind up of some sort and am glad I didn’t waste energy on it.

Glad I didn’t read it

Definitely seems to be a theme

As the thread has now gone are we allowed to comment?
Do you think these threads are computer-generated?

Runs and ducks behind parapet

For those who missed it, it was about MIL trying to give a cookie to toddler before dinner and feed “exclusively breast fed” 4 month old frosting, and then poster had to grab baby back from MIL. Sound familiar ?

I'm intrigued now. Wish I'd read it. Drat!

Maw... my thoughts exactly!

Not having even looked at the MIL thread I have no idea what went on.Typical!

Surely if the posts deleted are troll-hunting or personal attacks, then we won't miss them and the thread will still make sense.

I have before now reported “suspicious” posts and have had my concerns disregarded.
GNHQ seem slow off the mark these days
And as for “personal attacks” a member was called a “Nazi” not so long ago and accused of wanting to “see the swastika flying over Whitehall.”
Where does that stand on the sliding scale of “ personal attacks”?

And personal attacks - well that rule definitely hasn't changed.
I rather thought it had

I agree Maggiemaybe; the diverse opinions are hopefully useful to OPs and to have the whole thread disappear is frustrating. And - I have no intentions to start a bunfight about a bunfight, having always held the opinion that you should charm the birds out of the trees; it is generally more successful than throwing a brick at them. Any rows and arguments are to be avoided at all cost!

I’m off to do a spot of baking, FarNorth.

I also hope that the OP of this thread isn't hoping to start a bunfight about a bunfight.
I, for one, have no buns with which to take part.

I hope that was the case, Craicon, rather than a genuine poster whose whole thread has been removed because of some unpleasant posters.
Was no explanation given?

I don't think this is a thread about a thread, btw.
It's about GN's policy on deletion.