'ParentPort' folder - still not used 'right'

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Don't know why this bugs me so much - but I've raised it a couple of times, because I can see that this folder (in 'Being a Parent') is not being helpful to users. Posters new to mumsnet (AFAI can tell) post queries there that would get far more help if they were posted in the appropriate places. ParentPort is not for parenting queries or health queries or anything except what the blurb at the top says (which people apparently don't read!!). It means that people are asking questions and missing out on the great support MN can offer.

I suggest MNHQ move the folder, or move the posts, and definitely write a clearer blurb :)

Thanks!

Thanks for heads up tiktok
Will mention to the powers that be.

Just report the posts to HQ and they'll move them.

Dis anyone actually use Parent Port?

I contacted MNHQ a while back about this, and asked if it was worth keeping given how it's not actually used by anyone for 'ParentPort' issues.

I didn't get a response

What's ParentPort? (I'm a regular, but exceptionally dim and this is the first time I've heard of it.)

Oh, ok, found it. I didn't understand it, but I did find it.

As you were.

It gets hit because it's first in the list.

They just need to move it.

Yes - I thought that too OP.

It is misunderstood and generally misused. Bit of a jumble sale really.

Oh - just realised OP is tiktok of very helpful BF advice from back in the mists of time when body was generally failing and hungry babies were wailing... Can imagine that tiktok is infact one of the posters who newbies wouldn't want to miss advice from.

:)

can you just explain what parentport is for old people like me please

....I see someone has just posted a query about their baby's head shape in Parent Port.

You can read what Parent Port is - just read the blurb at the top of it. It has nothing to do with health or baby's head shapes or sleep or behaviour.

The only time I went in there was to see lots of apron flapping about the Oreos advert.

Never been back!

ooh pardon me for asking !!! wow helpful........not.
perhaps if MNHQ read this thread they could tell me.

Here's the blurb:

This discussion topic is in partnership with ParentPort, a website run by the UK's media regulators. They set and enforce standards across the media to protect children from inappropriate material. If you've seen or heard something you felt was unsuitable for children ? maybe a programme on TV or online, a film, an advert, a video game or something in a magazine ? feel free to start a thread here to discuss it with other parents, and you can also make a complaint to the regulators via ParentPort.

Ah, all makes sense now, I have spent time wondering what it was
Could part of the problem be that the blurb doesn't appear if people are accessing the forum via the app? This is why I was confused about what it was for.

threesocks, sorry, I can see my post sounded a bit curt! Was not meant to be - I was just directing you to the explanation of what it was, and eye rolling a bit at the topics that have appeared there :)

CuriosityKilledTheCrap thank you so much all makes sense now

@CuriosityKilledTheCrap

Here's the blurb:

This discussion topic is in partnership with ParentPort, a website run by the UK's media regulators. They set and enforce standards across the media to protect children from inappropriate material. If you've seen or heard something you felt was unsuitable for children ? maybe a programme on TV or online, a film, an advert, a video game or something in a magazine ? feel free to start a thread here to discuss it with other parents, and you can also make a complaint to the regulators via ParentPort.

Hello, yes, we're aware that lots of folks do post the wrong kind of thing in the ParentPort topic by mistake - despite our note at the top.

We will try to move threads across to a more appropriate topic when we can.

Thanks for flagging this.

Helen - the blurb doesn't appear on the app. Is there any way for it to be added as this might be part of the problem?

@WhispersOfWickedness

Helen - the blurb doesn't appear on the app. Is there any way for it to be added as this might be part of the problem?

Ah- OK. Didn't realise that - thanks for letting us know.

Which App: android or iPhone?

There isn't a blurb on the iPhone app.

Ooh, it's all been cleared up now! All the non-ParentPort topics have been mysteriously moved elsewhere :) Someone's been along with a big cyber-hoover and done a spot of cleaning.

Thanks, MN!

@tiktok

Ooh, it's all been cleared up now! All the non-ParentPort topics have been mysteriously moved elsewhere :) Someone's been along with a big cyber-hoover and done a spot of cleaning.

Thanks, MN!

No probs (was the day shift, I had nothing to do with it )

Oh that has made my day!

Well done MN.