Why has Stratters been banned for reporting suspected Trolls as per MN policy?

Having an alternative opinion is neither derailing or goading. Reporting someone for views that are contrary to your own isn't really on unless they're an ism or a personal attack, is it?

I am not talking about Stratters.

I don't even know if it's the person referred to earlier in the thread, just saying that I reported someone for constantly goading and derailing.

BishopBrennansArse, if you were talking to me, no, it was for deliberately de railing a thread and goading. I don't care if you thought it was 'nice' or not. Clearly I wasn't the only one.

I think pm is an issue actually.

It's really sad. When someone is being sucked in there is actually very little you can do for them as they will refuse to believe the evidence you present or your warnings.

Has Stratters been banned over that spat with a well known poster where the well known poster was incredibly rude to the OP and made cracks and rude remarks about her sex life? And the well known poster is not very liked by Stratters?

Perhaps there is a rule about pm to users about other users? To stop behind the thread gangs. And it was applied in this case because users were upset to get warnings about another user. Frustrating if you know something is happening and you can't stop it. I can see why you'd pm but it's not necessarily going to go down well.

The thing is she was right about the issue... oh the irony.
MN hq DID vouch for him, they allowed the just giving link to stand, but hey now they say oh we can't vouch for everyone, you can't have it both ways, we aren't daft on here!

Or just go ' fuck it, moderate yourselves '. Which is sort of what take it to the thread means.

I can see why users might then report someone sending them a pm though about something or someone they didn't agree with. Even if it was a warning. They might not take it that way and see it as something else. Even if the original sender had no intention to upset.

I'd hate to moderate. Must be like unraveling spaghetti. I can see why you'd go the other way and have lots of rules to make it easier to sort out these issues.

TBH, they've been beyond sneery and patronising in a lot of their responses lately.

They just really, really don't give a shit. People will feel a lot less frustrated when they accept that, IMO.

OK. What did they mean about ' challenging directly '? Was there an issue with Pm-ing other users about another user?

Stratters didn't PM the troll. She Pmd a few posters with her concerns.

Bishops. That's what I thought. It would have ramped up the drama.

Hence I didn't.

Plus. I'd have got slaughtered given what it was.

But that is exactly what I was sent. So. I don't know

@AmyGMumsnet Could you confirm what process HQ has when imposing potentially controversial bans? Is it a decision of an individual Mod, or must more than one Mod agree to the ban?

Given what Stratters wrote (that she would comply with Katherine's request), it strikes me that perhaps someone was having a bad day and got a bit trigger happy with the ban button ...?

We've always been told NOT to take it to thread - that's always been considered trollhunting. We've been always told to report- they love reports.

Have HQ now decided that clicks are more important? Ramping up drama to get more exposure for advertisers?

I've taken ' challenging directly ' as a pm. Is that what the ban was for?

Urgh to 'we're afraid we won't be' doing anything about trolls or posts that break rules.

Don't be afraid, at least own your decisions and actions, HQ.

Why would anyone pm someone they thought was trolling? That's not going to help anyone. That's just feeding the troll. If you don't agree with a post why not say so on the thread, not in a pm. Reporting is good. Pm-ing people you don't agree with, even if you are justified and they're an arse, is something else entirely. I can see stratters was feeling unheard but I can see why mnhq did not want her to continue to pm someone she didn't agree with.

I hope I've understood that correctly. If not, my apologies.

I was reporting a poster for lying about what happened on a deleted thread.

I was told to take it to the thread. The lies were to be allowed to stand.

Please don't derail this thread!