To ask - IF YOU COULD RUN MUMSNET FOR A DAY - what would you do?

[peachyandkeen]

What changes would you bring in?

What would you get rid of/implement?

Let's hear it - I'm intrigued :)

Stop banning people for acknowledging biology.

Stop appeasing others including advertisers at the expense of women and children.

Listen to users cos the site doesn’t exist without them.

Ban the ‘lighthearted’ threads that are nothing more than ‘I want to be a nasty cunt about a ‘celeb’ and if I call it lighthearted it’s fine.

I would also like to see it made mandatory to change usernames every few months. There’s a few posters who others just agree with because of who they are. They’re often quite nasty but have a following even when they’re talking absolute nasty shite... which is most of the time.

what is 'a reverse'?

When someone starts a thread, usually an AIBU, about an issue but which purports to be from the other side of the argument to the OPs actual views. The aim is to garner lots of YABUs.

If I ran MN for a day I'd probably waste half of it trying to be helpful.

Immediately ban blatantly obvious liars with outrageously unlikely stories about cheeky-fucker friends, relatives (especially in-laws), neighbours (especially “middle-aged”) and brides.

Immediately ban any poster who goes from “I’m a bit upset with my husband” to “I’ve found a lovely flat to rent, my solicitor says I should get everything I want and I’ve just shagged a much nicer man” in the space of a fortnight.

Immediately ban any poster who posts a picture of a blatantly unsuitable outfit and asks whether it’s OK to wear it to a wedding, funeral or job interview.

I'd bring back Phyllis!

@yacketyyak who is Phyllis?

yes who is Phyllis 🤔

Toss a heap of nasty posters off the Coronavirus board - they dominate it and drown out any other voices.

Require all users to prove who they are via ID before they are allowed to post again, users who refuse have their account deleted.

Name changing banned.

Racism taken seriously by the moderation team, one strike and you’re out.

Add the ability to edit posts.

& create a Women & Girls Sex Based Rights section.

Remove the racism.

Get rid of all the sycophantic royal family threads.

That's all.

I’d have a ‘like’ button.

Give the Corona doom mongers a special board so the rest of us can easily avoid the doom and gloom.

Plus a special board for 'do I have to isolate' or not understanding contact tracing.

I'd move threads to its proper topic, leaving AIBU to proper AIBUs, and putting more into chat and the themed topics.

And clamp down on the ageism

2 weeks suspension for all posters who publish here really shitty things from the bottom feeders of the Internet in the guise of condemning them - if it's unacceptable there, don't repeat / publish exact screenshots here. Discussing the phenomenon is one thing. Actually publishing the gross stuff is blatantly wrong.

Do something about the intrusive ads.

Oh, and I'd ban anyone for using the phrase 'doom-monger'

I would add a function where - privately, not so other people could see it - you could tag other posters with your own custom tags. Then once I see someone expressing an opinion I think is really awful, I can tag them as a numpty and not be upset or surprised when they do it again.

I'd also delete the fucking

@yacketyyak

I'd bring back Phyllis!

Not @whatwouldphylliscranedo, is she gone? I played a couple of very fun games of Among Us with her!

Yeah I’d have a tougher line on racism and homophobia.

Also I’d try to stop the blatant forum-sliding that goes on especially on the corona threads. You get the start of an interesting discussion going on and then some person with an agenda comes on and starts dolloping post after post after post of ranting, drunk-sounding irrelevance until the thread gets deleted.

An edit button is the main one - but agree it should be time limited so you can't go back and change something because you didn't like the responses to it.

And I would ban the stronger swearing - no need for it at all.

And improve, encourage more use of, the search facility.

Oh and for zombie threads we need something stronger than the current message to disencourage people to post. Or maybe lock threads after a year? Although I suppose people do come back and update occasionally.

Id give red cards to posters who post to say "well you had a child with him" when some poor distressed abused trapped mother finally posts looking for help.

Oh and for zombie threads we need something stronger than the current message to disencourage people to post. Or maybe lock threads after a year? Although I suppose people do come back and update occasionally.

I'd have thought that was easy enough to solve. Lock after some period since the last post, but MNHQ could reopen if someone requests it with a reason. That would stop threads being resurrected by spammers and shitstirrers, but allow genuine updates.

I love the "can i wear this to a wedding?" posts.
It's always some sort of WHITE DRESS 😆

I wouldn't bother with an edit button (seems to me it would just encourage sloppiness) but I'd get Tech to implement a 'review post' function on the app - you can't tell if markup has been mangled before posting.

I'd allow free speech.

I'd also sanction and then ban posters that repeatedly report posts just because they don't like what is being said.

Have an auto delete for any posts in AIBU that feature the words 'not really AIBU but posting for traffic'