Wednesday register

ScarletBegonias

No email as yet but if I disappear you'll know that's my third strike.

Amalfimamma - yes, I saw that you were one of the victims.

Did you get an email about it and do you know if it counts as a strike? I do hope not.

I see one of my posts in that thread was also deleted. A bloody optical. Illusion photo.

Are optical illusions now bannable offences?

SwearyG - "Somehow still standing. Agree that the repercussions of yesterday’s cessation of hostilities thread will come today. Feel like I’m waiting to be called to the headmaster’s office."

I was just looking through the 'cessation of hostilities' thread and see that there have (so far!) been 5 deletions - including the post where you did say you were going for a red card. So I wonder if you were summoned to the head's study to be shown it?

I know Spontaneous was also concerned about that thread getting her a red card but nothing she said has been deleted yet ...

Nope, can't get in, and no emails to either of my email addresses.

It would have to be 24 hours after their first post, though. Otherwise they are silently reporting lurkers and we can't see and get rid of them.

If I ran the world, you would only be able to report one post for every post you actually make. And also, for every 100 really nice supporting interesting or amusing post you make, you should be allowed one fuck off to a poster of your choice.

Sadly I don't make the rules

The posts deleted for not using the banned language, acronyms etc are just being treated as before I think. You get a strike if you hurty feelz. Fuck our feelz.

24 hours on sign up with limited function would surely help with all trolls, not just here...?

Maryzed, are you still not able to get back into your proper account?

I think they should have a rule that you have to be a posting member for 24 hours before you can report. Because every time someone is banned, they come straight back and start reporting again.

I'm not looking for a two tier membership, or saying that only "regulars" should be listened to, but surely it's not unreasonable to expect people to (a) be members and (b) wait 24 hours before being allowed to run riot with the report button.

Either that or a limit on reports. No-one should be allowed to join, never (or hardly) post, but report hundreds of times, get banned, return the next day and do the same thing again. It's just silly.

I rarely report too.

It turns out that my deleted post didn't count towards a strike.
Which is good to know.

There is reasonable discretion being applied by some of the mods, which is reassuring.

I very rarely report anything. It has to be blatant before I do. Even so the little fuckers love reporting me. WAR is declared.

I can't help but wonder if some MNHQ mods are secretly wishing we would in fact do a bit more reporting on our end. There are probably a few posters who contribute significantly to MNHQ workload.
The GC posters tend to let GFs stand, whilst the GFs maliciously report everything that moves, and the mods have to act upon it.

I wonder if they would be grateful if we could help dispatch the trolls like we've seen this week a little faster so that proper discussion can resume.

The cessation of hostilities thread could get me the red card. Thursday's register will tell.

Here, but off on holidays for a couple of weeks so if I'm not around I may not be on the naughty step.

There was a thread in Chat yesterday about Robbie Williams. There was scarcely a post that didn't call him a dickhead or a narcissist.

Exactly. And that's worse, because it's basically being rude about an individual and not just the work he's doing. It's one of many (many) reasons I don't want to be in the public eye - I would find personal attacks distressing. But they happen by the millions online. My post wasn't a personal attack. It was criticising how the charity have acted and what I believe they are encouraging, which I judged to be a fair assessment of the situation. Robust, yes, but fair.

Just got my first, rather surprising, but now I have a much clearer idea of what's acceptable. I'm afraid I might be bothering the mods with more reporting of the posts of others. They must be so bored of this at HQ.

BOO!

Two down still.

It just seems so unfair.

There was a thread in Chat yesterday about Robbie Williams. There was scarcely a post that didn't call him a dickhead or a narcissist.

And yet no deletions.

As Alan Hansen would say "Where's the consistency?"

I just realised I have one strike against me. I don't check the email account often that I signed up with.

It was thanks to a fairly robust criticism of a well-known charity.

To be honest I'm pretty pissed off. There are certain things which it should be ok to say. Charities sometimes get things very wrong. Kids Company is one example. I am massively critical of a charity related to my illness, as are many other patients. Sometimes criticism is extremely important. Criticism isn't the same thing as making threats or slandering someone. Charities make mistakes. That isn't related to trans issues. If you get public funds or people giving you their hard-earned money, you should be subject to public scrutiny, in my view.

One life down.

No email.

Oh, and try an advanced search on your own posts to see if any have been deleted.

MNHQ have altered the search function. You won't find any of your deleted posts show up at all in search any more. It's like they never existed. So without the email, we can be picked off without even feeling a thing.

Feels a bit like the calm before the storm...

Morning

Morning all.