Moderation Sex Board

I do report.

However, first it has been suggested that those of us who have issue with the type of threads and links on the sex board just hide the topic. If we do so, who will report? The regulars don't seem to have the same standards as I do, therefore I cannot be sure that posts that I find offensive would be reported and so I look.

Second, the topic should be actively moderated. It is particularly putting mumsnet at risk of hosting links and videos That are at best distasteful and at worst illegal. (Due to the poor moderation and types of threads posted)

Well, we don't need the report button anymore then do we? Because if everyone always follows all of the rules and guidelines then no one will ever be in breach and we can all just go about our lives.

Take it up with MNHQ then because they have said that NSFW images or links should be posted. Or links to profiles on other sites. Or threads that are sex chat threads.

The recent thread has merely shown up - in my opinion - how much there needs to be more stringent moderation in the sex topic so as to ensure that something like this does not happen again.

An advert for a diet pill is indeed very damaging if I have a difficult relationship with food.

Anyway - I was comparing the sex chat thread promoters to aloe vera sellers, not the posting of links.

Of course I think that all of that stuff is bad - the overwhelming majority of users does, certainly the poor poster who posted it does! - but it's starting to feel like you're rather using this extreme example to further a campaign against the sex board.

Looking at the sex board as a whole, over the last few months - how many awful degrading and heinous links have been posted and caused offence?

I'm no expert and despite what others will tell you I'm no more a Sex Board regular than a regular on many other MN boards but I've never seen and only heard of one link being posted on the sex boards...which is now the subject of a 3rd Site Stuff thread so I doubt I've missed many

@horridjobescapee I’m sorry, I picked you up wrong!

They are all spam posts though? This was a regular poster posting a link to a sex chat site with questionable content. It's hardly the same thing.

I'm not specifically talking about you @Mermaidparades I'm talking about the sort of links that the sex threads will attract.

please leave @Maybebe alone, of course no one thinks those videos are ok. I didn’t realise they were there when I posted the link, I have apologised many times now for my error

That is EXACTLY the issue.

@Maybebe I disagree that it's equivalent to spam selling spells.

It has the potential to be very damaging indeed to posters and also promotes links to sites that promote pornography which is problematic. Unless you think videos of teenaged sex and incest are ok?

@TheShellBeach you're wonderfully frustrating, like a toddler that just won’t let something drop! I did not rekindle the sex chat thread. As you well know as you have the screenshot to prove it!! 🤣

I think we should just view the sex chatters as aloe vera sales persons!! I mean it's a bit annoying but it's not really causing any great offence is it?

As for the link that was posted, I agree @horridjobescapee - posters should check but that does seem to have been a mistake by the perhaps a bit over-zealous poster.

I don't see why a more authoritarian regime needs to be in place for the sex topic.

It's a great pity that it is necessary. The posters there keep rekindling the sex chat thread.

@Maybebe I think someone posting a link should check themselves what the link is.

I regularly report spam shite selling aloe Vera and spells.

I do believe the sex topic should have a different standard of moderation, due to the potentially problematic type of sites linked to

You find things abhorrent, then report them. I'm sorry but I wouldn't look at the sex topic while I was at work or with a child looking over my shoulder. The clue is in the title of the thread.

@Maybebe You're missing the point. Nobody is suggesting that the whole sex board should be closed.
Some posters are concerned about the sex chat thread re-emerging. It never seems to die away. Somehow or other, someone always starts it up again, in direct contravention of MNHQ's directive on the subject.

Ah - I see your point but can MN be expected to check every time someone posts a link to a site? Isn't it like when someone posts a link to an aloe vera selling page, or a website selling dubious diet pills - A member of the community (us - you in this case, we done!) reports it and it gets taken down?

I don't see why a more authoritarian regime needs to be in place for the sex topic.

@Maybebe you need to take it up with mumsnet then since in the thread titled "The Sex Topic - An Update on Moderation", YetanotherBeckymumsnet said specifically "The board is text based - we don’t allow NSFW (not safe for work) images.

We don’t allow links to any NSFW sites or personal profiles on other sites"

In the opening post.

The thread is here www.mumsnet.com/talk/site_stuff/4753533-the-sex-topic-an-update-on-moderation

I'm all for a Sex topic, but I think MNHQ should just ban any 'chat' threads.

Keep it for questions, discussions and info sharing, but none of the 'fnar fnar pearl necklace, facials wink wink' garbage that changes the whole tone of the place, and leads to inappropriate PM's from blokes, and websites featuring teen sex and incest being shared on here.

You didn't. I meant that surely a lot (if not all) threads in the sex topic are NSFW? Isn't that the nature of the sex board? I might ask a question about erection problems, lack of libido, a kink that a partner had proposed that I didn't understand, a desire to explore my sexuality - I wouldn't discuss that at work.

Unwise and not happening.

That would be most unwise.

also. In the statement thread mumsnet said that links that were nsfw would not be allowed.

I reported on that basis.

@Maybebe where did I indicate I was looking at the threads at work or whilst a young child was anywhere near me?

@CrotchetyCrocheting well that’s the problem, it isn’t true.

1. I was not a frequent contributor! I posted a couple of times.
2. i started a chat thread, like they have in Weight Loss or the Reading sections, just for chat.
3. Yesterday’s thread I was trying to tell people the name of another site that they could chat on.