Hi everyone.
We've posted on Site Stuff today to explain some changes we're making to how we moderate this board. It’s become clear from recent discussions that we needed a rethink about our approach and so we’re going to introduce some rules to help ensure that posters can get the support and advice they need from the board and that everyone has clear expectations of the behaviour we expect.
Posters must be at least 18 years of age - Mumsnet has always been a site for adults but we want to be crystal clear about this for this board.
The board is text based - we don’t allow NSFW (not safe for work) images.
We don’t allow links to any NSFW sites or personal profiles on other sites
We will not tolerate creepy or harassing behaviour in particular from male posters
We’ve also had concerns raised about the ongoing ‘sex chat threads’ including the risks involved with allowing users to PM each other. Our approach has always been to allow consenting adults to make their own judgement when it comes to what they’ll share and, broadly, that is still the case across the site - but we acknowledge there are additional vulnerabilities here that we ought to consider.
With that in mind, we will no longer allow users to ask for or to offer to send PMs for the purposes of sex chat. For one thing, we can’t guarantee that the person you’re chatting with is who they say they are and we can’t realistically safeguard these kind of off-board discussions. We’ve looked at the moderation principles of similar boards on other sites and this is indeed the policy on several others.
As with everything, we’ll continue to monitor the situation and we hope these new rules will go some way to reassure you. If anyone has further questions, please post on the Site Stuff thread and we’ll do our best to answer them.
Thanks.