Meet the MNHQ moderators. Live chat Friday 8th Nov, 1-2pm

[JustineMumsnet]

Hi all,
We promised you a webchat to discuss all things moderation (and anything else you fancy really). So, tomorrow lunchtime RebeccaMumsnet, RowanMumsnet and I (and possibly a few other team members - suspect that OliviaMumsnet might be lurking) will be on hand at 1pm to answer your questions. If you can't make it along, then do post your questions here in advance. Mind the guidelines at the top of the page now - only one question each and be nice .

[ZingWantsCake]

it is MaryZ just had a taste of that tonight.

mocking me, mocking my kids, bloody nasty to everyone.
I had to report.
some people are just nasty fuckers.

kudos to all who knew exactly what to do about it.
thanks

[ZingWantsCake]

as in it's hard to ignore.

did the best we could.

[reelingintheyears]

Who mocked you Zing?

Fucking hell.

[reelingintheyears]

Did you report, you should have.

[ChippingInBatshitArse]

Justine have you read this HERE?

It is a link to a site where the Goady Fuckers are laughing at how easy MNers are to wind up...

[ChippingInBatshitArse]

Zing the only way to do it (IMO) is not to permit namechanging for a year. If people want to namechange for a good reason in that year they can request a change through MN, name changing 'for fun' can wait a year.

[reelingintheyears]

Yassin was one of the posters on the 'I've been booted from the other place' thread the other night.
It was nasty and got deleted.~

Hard to know what can be done to stop it happening though.

[reelingintheyears]

I'd agree with the name changing Chipping.

[bloodyhatefireworks]

Would the mods like to get rid of AIBU?

[ZingWantsCake]

Chipping

@ that link! no words.

[PetiteRaleuse]

I think as long as MN wants to be a popular forum they will be open to trolling. The particular type of media attention we get from papers like the Fail and the Torygraph plays right into trolls' hairy hands.

Would you consider suggestions as above ie limiting name changes (which I think is the case on Gransnet) and paying closer attention to new members with outrageous problems? Maybe giving people the chance to have one regular name and one name they use for more anonymous posts? Which would fuck up the name change competitions but hey, that could be reworked, ie a thread where users suggest spooky or xmas namechanges for themselves.

I think the mods do a good job with what they have to be fair. The site is bigger than mnhq with their resources can handle though. I think the trolls are something to be expected (albeit reported) on a site like this.

Last webchat Justine said something along the lines of don't call a cunt a cunt, but saying their posts make them sound like a cunt would be ok. I think this has been rethought, could we have some clarification on that?

(More than one question i know but rules are there to be broken, right?)

Personally this year I have had zero problem with the site. Couldn't care less about deletions or bannings. Just want the fun and supportive parts to shine through so that the press give us a break.

[ChippingInBatshitArse]

Zing - if you google you will find loads more like that. I don't know why people seem unable or unwilling to accept there are Goady Fuckers.

[ZingWantsCake]

you should be a mod Chipping, not joking.

you and some others have an excellent bullshit - radar.

I don't know why people don't accept facts.
weird

[PetiteRaleuse]

Just realised am a bit hypocritical when I say the press shoukd give us a break. I love to have a go at some of them, but they set thousands against us with every story. They bully us, because they feel threatened in some way, and along come the trolls. Is any publicity good publicity?

[RoxanneReidsChafingFishnets]

I just want to know when MN will welcome windows phone compatible or at least an app. The site does not like my phone it appears.

[SpecialAgentFreyPie]

Can you explain why PAs are deleted straight away and yet attacks that are aimed at groups of people are allowed to stand?

Yes this!! I can report someone for calling a specific poster a cunt, but what about 'you bunch of idiots/morons/bitches/cunts/etc?' That's just as offensive.
Where do you draw the line on goady posters who are very careful not to technically break guidelines? Because if I ask, I get told that poster is being 'watched very closely' but they're still here months later hurting people's feelings.

[SatinSandals]

I agree with PetiteRaleuse, in one way it is good that the national press have picked up the site and given it a voice but at the same time it gives it publicity to people who have no intention of using it the way it is intended. Each new story, especially if detrimental, brings in new posters and more if the ones who want to be a 'pit of vipers', not to mention the spate of teenagers who want to play.
Is it now bigger than MNHQ can handle with present resources? Do you feel it is out of control or that you are rushing around doing limitation damage and nothing much else?
Last week people were 'outing' an ex poster, not to mention discussing her, and the first person to do it actually said that it would be deleted. There was no doubt the thread would go because an very similar one was deleted the week before. It took until 11am the next morning for it to be deleted, by which time anyone who wanted to know the true identity had ample time to read. Are there enough moderators at night, or do trolls etc have free rein until staff come in at normal working hours?

[ZingWantsCake]

ok, I know I shouldn't ask another question but apart from reporting and ignoring what exactly am I supposed to do about one poster who has started following me from thread to thread, saying nasty shit to me and about me?

I've actually got some things I'd like to post on my regular threads today but there's no way I can share now - so that's not very nice for me, is it?
this poster could easily stalk me and try and ruin things for me but I can't even answer back or I'll risk deletion/suspension etc.
so I won't.
I have to bear the nasty fucker bugging me.
and even if their posts get deleted eventually, the damage has been done.

so sod the , my question I'd like an answer to is:

How on earth can these people be stopped from carry on posting if it's clear that they add nothing to the thread/topic apart from playing their own sick little twisted games of personally attacking others?!

thanks

[BrightSunshineyDay]

I don't think any posts or threads should be deleted.
More than once I have read a poster retell what a post said or how a thread went - I have had that thread open on another tab and realised the "regular" was misremembering or shit stirring. Deletable posts should stay up with a comment from MNHQ and deletable threads should be locked. That way we can all see who the cunts are.
However, rightly or wrongly, if a regular smells bullshit on a thread then I do tend to listen. Do MNHQ do the same? Do you look more deeply if something is reported by a regular rather than a newbie who has only posted a couple of times?

[BrightSunshineyDay]

Oh and a second question, sorry.
Is TheSecondComing going to be allowed back?

[magimedi]

I also think that threads should be locked, but not deleted.

Also agree with no name change for a year - except in extreme cases, sanctioned by MNHQ.

[LittleBearPad]

Can there be something noted next to a poster's name that shows when they joined - maybe a month and year or even just a year. It wouldn't break anonymity and people could still name change but having November 2013 next to a username might help other posters. It could be linked to a poster's email address so that goady fuckers who were banned when reregistering would never appear to be long term posters unless they played a really long game and registered names months before using them. In light of Chipping's posts above I doubt any I them would have the patience or intelligence to do so.

[BOF]

I understand that you have to give Olivia 24 hours or so off so she can have these twins, but could you not have glued Helen to her chair? She wouldn't have put up with all this penis nonsense .