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Should mumsnet be moderated?

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QuintessentialShadows · 15/05/2009 11:29

Is it maybe time for mumsnet to get a few moderators on board?

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QuintessentialShadows · 18/05/2009 19:25

Thanks for taking the time to post Olivia.

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OLiviaMumsnet · 18/05/2009 09:53

Hello
Justine's posted about this kinda thing over here
Hope this helps.

MmeJaffaB · 17/05/2009 20:49

NO WAY!!

MN is what it is because it is NOT moderated. Moderators suck the LIFE out of a forum... they feed off the power!

I think MN'ers do a pretty good job of moderating themselves, people fight their corners and their beliefs and if anyone is offended terribly the post gets reported and often then deleted.

Don't fix it if it aint broke!

Peachy · 17/05/2009 18:59

I think MN should be a bit more general about deleting- such as when someones mental health is at risk or a lot of people have been upset by a post that is deliberately provocative- but mods probably not. more input from MN would be good though.

kittywise · 17/05/2009 18:54

it went something like "I wish we could stop all the bitching pregnant dogging and be nice"

treedelivery · 17/05/2009 17:58

Either way I imagine the post to be

'....my mil was bitching pregnant doging about her....'

Which has me giggling.

kittywise · 17/05/2009 17:51

That's right it should be dogging but it was posted up as doging!!!!

treedelivery · 17/05/2009 17:41

Rofl!

All the apostophe containing posts would take hours to appear due to close scrutiny.

None of my posts would appear due to spelling .

RustyBear · 17/05/2009 17:38

OMG - you couldn't possibly have moderation of that kind on MN - the pedants would go mad! It should of course be pregnant dogging.

treedelivery · 17/05/2009 17:36

Ah!!! LOL! Unfortunate 'ing' placement by the moderator! LOL!!

Clasic case against moderators I feel!

kittywise · 17/05/2009 17:30

no it's a pregnant dog which is of course is a bitch. Well any female dog is of course, pg or not!

treedelivery · 17/05/2009 17:03

Eh? Pregnant doging? Is that watching pregnant people have sex?

I prefer bitching!

Bonkers!

kittywise · 17/05/2009 16:14

Well I posted on a site this morning which was moderated and I used the word bitching. It came back as "pregnant doging" and I didn't preview before I posted either. not that I usually swear you understand!!

anonandlikeit · 17/05/2009 11:30

NO NO NON

CKelpie · 17/05/2009 01:14

No to moderators from me too.
I was a mod on another site for a while and it took the fun out of posting. Mind, it was a different ilk of forum.

Mumsnet aint broke...

And can I just ask...was the original QS plural or is that a new development?

KerryMumbles · 17/05/2009 00:48

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KingCanuteIAm · 17/05/2009 00:46

Kerry some of your posts would look something like this;

I XXXXX XX XXXX and then XXX XX

So I think XX XXXXX XXXX

tattifer · 17/05/2009 00:43

Or bumsex!

KerryMumbles · 17/05/2009 00:36

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KingCanuteIAm · 17/05/2009 00:35

Seriously it is worth a bit of a look, you would not believe how the other half live

Pink and fluffy does not happen all by itself you know

PaulaYatesBiggestFan · 17/05/2009 00:29

ahhh !

i stand corrected

KingCanuteIAm · 17/05/2009 00:28

They are very very different Paula, things like posts going through a moderator before they are put up on the site, words being taken out of posts, people not allowed to dissent in any real fashion...

I think one of the reasons MN is so popular is because moderated sites can be extremley restrictive - and pretty dull too!

GrimmaTheNome · 17/05/2009 00:22

No. Wouldn't a couple of people trying to moderate all of MN go raving mad after a few days? It'd be physically impossible.

PaulaYatesBiggestFan · 17/05/2009 00:22

no...

only been on mn

KingCanuteIAm · 17/05/2009 00:21

??

Have you been on a fully moderated site? Even when there were mods around it was never a moderated site like some of those out there