Well done Justine and Becky. We told you it would happen again.

I've tried reporting stuff overnight before, and things are usually still up until mid morning (presumably when the mods have woken up and got sat down at their desks or whatever.)
There seems to be absolutely no moderation in the early hours.
I've since learnt that from a previous post like this that you're supposed to tag Night Watch or something in the hope they pick it up, but how many people are going to know that? You'd think pressing the report button would work like it usually would.

I think it’s good for it to be said. Quite a few times in posts of moderation and, in particular, over the adverts and paid memberships it’s clear that MN themselves sometimes forget that without people posting they don’t have a business.

We already know that, it doesn’t need saying.

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

We are the product, MN. Your users (us) are the product.

It was a campaign (around May time) called something like ‘your mum wants you to live a little’, apparently about the pre smartphone ages. The campaign featured a photo of 3 naked teens from behind, and said ‘your mum didn’t sent nudes, she was nude’, then asked people to send in similar photos of them having fun as teens. So not quite ‘please send naked photos’, but extremely unwise (and bizarre!) in terms of the imagery and text used.

Hello @spokenorchid we're being trolled overnight and yes they were finding risqué GIFs to add some...colour...to their posts. We've since placed tighter restrictions on the GIF content.

@MyThreeWords thank you - the deleted posts were the troll in question, though. We do have paid moderators. Nightwatchers are not expected to moderate the site or have set hours. If they happen to be using Mumsnet and spot something concerning, they can temporarily hide the content and suspend the account’s ability to post until a moderator reviews it. It’s an entirely voluntary extra layer of support, and we’re enormously grateful for the help they give us.

It was a campaign (around May time) called something like ‘your mum wants you to live a little’, apparently about the pre smartphone ages. The campaign featured a photo of 3 naked teens from behind, and said ‘your mum didn’t sent nudes, she was nude’, then asked people to send in similar photos of them having fun as teens. So not quite ‘please send naked photos’, but extremely unwise (and bizarre!) in terms of the imagery and text used.

They are allegedly in different time zones - so not under UK law

I don’t understand how this website gets away with unpaid volunteers anyway. Unless someone is work shadowing (and not actually doing any work) or working unpaid for a charity, then NMW rules apply and anyone doing work should be paid.

What?? What was the context of this?

She’s around, a month or so ago she was asking people to send in naked photos of teenagers!

@BeckyAMumsnet maybe MN should suspend new registrations after hours for a few days?

Thanks @BeckyAMumsnet - sorry to hear this. A lot of stuff seems to happen on here overnight which is a concern!

Can you not just disable GIFs entirely? I don’t see that they’re needed, and if someone is finding a way to abuse the feature it seems logical to just remove it?

I really still don’t understand the overnight moderation that’s not moderation though. Surely MN makes enough money from the ads that are plastered everywhere that there could be one member of staff overnight to moderate the boards? Do you rely on unpaid foreign labour? Seems a bit unethical to me. But then Justine was asking for photos of naked teenagers the other week so who knows what code of ethics this site follows any more.

Oh god. I haven’t noticed but I’m sure now I know she’s here she’ll find me… and keep calling me girl.

You still sound like you think the gifs were funny

They weren’t ‘risqué’ they were offensive

Is Justine still around or has she sold up already?

Sorry just so we’re all clear… you do have paid moderators in the daytime. There is no moderation overnight. The night watch aren’t unpaid moderators in your words, so there is no moderation overnight.