MNHQ input please

Aside from the obvious trolls, you can't know if multiple identities are being used to post different stories, for whatever reason. (Has happened before I think on sensitive threads, not nice.) Mind you that is true of all internet forums.

Thirded

Rhyme, have you seen how some of the most sensitive threads, that you think any decent person would respect, get derailed by doubters and attention-seekers ? It is very upsetting. The main crux of the thread is often lost as people are rightly outraged by anyone who would do that.

I hope that MNHQ seeing the responses to this thread so far, will add to a growing sense that they are not tough enough with the "concern" trolls, the "what about me" derailers and the ones who seek to minimise others distressing experiences for their own dubious satisfaction.

Agree with LeBOF. The last thing you'd want would be for some fuckwit to turn up and start spouting hurtful bollocks.

Poking my nose in here, I would suggest that you invite people to join a private group, keeping a request thread open on here to point to it. Only because I think it would probably attract the same kind of trolls that plague Feminism and more recently, Relationships. With your own group, you at least have the jurisdiction to unceremoniously boot them out, which doesn't happen often enough here, IMO.

I would have my own rule, personally, that if anybody whinged about free speech, they would get red buttoned immediately. But that's another thread.

Good luck with it anyway- it sounds very worthwhile, and I hope you find the right place for it.