Missing in Action

So if you get banned, you can just re-register and continue posting?

I would very much like to join in on Facebook groups, as the risk on banning here is just getting too high.

Can anyone recommend which to ask to join? PM me if that's better for you/the Group

I missed the Stella Creasy Unpleasantness - can anyone fill me in?

Bernard, perhaps someone was unhappy about a security light shining in the dark? Tis a long time ago.

Best wishes to all the banned. So sad to see you go.

Lang

No. I think personal feelings got in the way.

I think if I were MNHQ I would want to reflect on what it was about the Stella Creasy Unpleasantness (SCU) that caused so many previously trouble free, fairly peaceable contributors to all have to be escorted off the premises as if they'd suddenly transmogrified into MitMoo.

Something happened there that made a whole bunch of women who have previously had little or no trouble staying within posting guidelines all behave in a way that MNHQ deemed beyond the pale.

That whole Stella Creasy guest post thread seemed to operate in a very weird way. I don't know what happened there - other than it being blindingly obvious there were cosmic levels of pissed offness going on - but it certainly didn't proceed under the usual mod norms, did it?

I wish MNHQ would do a Super(wo)man, fly backwards around the world, and get us back to where we were before it began.

MN needs to have some kind of standard on how the mods behave, because there appears to be a huge discrepancy in how some mods deal with a post versus how others would.

I'm surprised there isn't more consistency. That's really bad practice.

I wonder how many people per week get banned? Is there really no process to ensure that the grounds on which posters get banned/ suspended, are consistent irrespective of who is doing the moderating that day?

If women who have supported mumsnet for many years providing masses of valuable content are being banned, despite not having broken any of the new moderation rules, and given no avenue to appeal, then none of us are safe.

Surely it isn't too much to ask that the banning system is made transparent. With notification of when and why women have been banned, so that the rest of us have a chance learn what is and isn't allowed?

Could we request that someone higher up at mumsnet looks at who is handing out these bans, to ensure that they aren't being inflicted by a handful of people acting in accordance with their own nefarious agenda?

We've all noticed how TRAs target key positions and then misuse their influence. How can we be sure this isn't happening at mumsnet now that respected long time posters are being disappeared in secret?

Shrodinger's Sturdy Pyjamas

Spontaneousgiventime was banned.

Don't forget Posie.

I liked those posters. Bewilderness in particular. You're throwing star players off the pitch MN.

Also: "It's for your own good?" WTF? Just be honest and tell people why they're banned instead of that mealy mouthed nonsense.

Thebewilderness
Maryz
Pratchet
BusyBoysMum
TheUterati

Maryz banned??? WTF??!!

Yeah. That.

Right
So
Thebewilderness
Maryz
Pratchet
BusyBoysMum

Who else?

ah, busyboysmum too?

i had hoped she was back but under a name change

Maryz banned??? WTF??!!

Just letting you know that, like bewilderness, I am in touch via Facebook with busyboysmum who presumes she was permanently banned after the Stella Cressy thread

However despite several emails to mumsnet hq she's never had an explanation. Again she didn't actually break any guidelines and despite being here 10 years with not a single suspension, no warnings, no "strikes".

Also no right of reply, no discussion by email, just bang, gone.

She's now extremely active on Twitter and in real life. Just seen a photo of her out leafletting with Fair Play for Women.

Maryz I know you from here and from another topic under a different name (the one Lilka used to post in ) and I want to say how much you'll be missed and how wrong I think this is.

Are they really going to keep it up? Is there really no wiggle room?

That Maryz and the Bewilderness have been banned is shocking.

I feel like we are on the slippery slope to a facist society where speaking the truth is outlawed.

I found I'd been logged out & that my password no longer worked. I had to email twice before I got an explanation.

Some posters didn't even get an email telling them they had been permanently banned. The contempt they have been shown is atrocious.

Is there really no process to ensure that the grounds on which posters get banned/ suspended, are consistent irrespective of who is doing the moderating that day?

They won't even respond to explain how the rules were broken when they do ban people.

as someone who also got banned for a week after the Stella Creasy Unpleasantness I can confirm that a consistent approach would be helpful.

I'm really sorry to hear about the way you've been treated Maryz. Among site users at least, you're MN Royalty.