Reporting posts: you now have options (in case you haven't noticed)

[LittleTownofBethleHelenMumsnet]

Hello.

Just thought it might be worth letting you all know that, when you want to alert us at MNHQ to a post (or a thread) and you hit the Report link, you now get two options: you can either 'Report as spam' or 'Report for other reasons'.

We've introduced this to make life a little easier for us and, more importantly, to try to make sure we can quickly see the Reports that might need dealing with more urgently than others.

Do please try to take the time to select the right option when you're reporting. It would really help.

And if you have any other questions about Reports and how the whole system works, do please post them here.

Could you clarify what you would class as spam?

Obviously someone posting all over the boards with the same message promoting a website or blog or whatever is spam.

What about an individual post which is blatently trying to recruit volunteers for something?

What about a post that we are reporting because we think it might be a journalist and want you to cast judgement.

Tia

@HauntedLittleLunatic

Could you clarify what you would class as spam?

Obviously someone posting all over the boards with the same message promoting a website or blog or whatever is spam.

What about an individual post which is blatently trying to recruit volunteers for something?

What about a post that we are reporting because we think it might be a journalist and want you to cast judgement.

Tia

OK, blatant recruitment would prob fall under 'Report as spam' banner - but if they're really posting all over the shop and therefore annoying the hell out of everyone, do 'Report for other reasons' so we can get to it quicker.

As for the possible journo scenario, prob best to 'Report for other reasons': if she is a journo, we'd likely want to drop her a nice line explaining how MN works before folks have a go at her

So the spam option is the slow option?

@HauntedLittleLunatic

So the spam option is the slow option?

No, let's call it DefCon2, as opposed to DefCon1.

Before we had this new system, we couldn't distinguish easily between Spam reports and reports of, say, a mahoosive bunfight.

This new system allows us to see the difference and so prioritise a bit.

It's kinda like the red flag thing you can have on email.

arf @ defcon1 and 2.

Hmm...ponders if I could test the system and measure the difference in speed between defcon1 and 2...and being a scientist I would have to repeat and take averages...hmm...

@HauntedLittleLunatic

Hmm...ponders if I could test the system and measure the difference in speed between defcon1 and 2...and being a scientist I would have to repeat and take averages...hmm...

Well, you could, but you'd have to adjust for time of day, volume of simultaneous reports, gin-swilling quotient of MNHQer on duty, mandatory biscuit breaks...

Can't the option for reporting the mahoosive bunfight be the slow option? Spoilsports.

Great....multifactorial experimental design....rubs hands...

What about a spam bunfight? Oh the possibilities...

What if we don't report the bunfight at all...it will remain indefinitely :o

Or a bun spamfight?

Spam, spam, beans and spam.
Sorry. Someone had to

...wonderful spam...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

So do suspected trolls go under defcon 1 then?

@TheOneWithTheHair

So do suspected trolls go under defcon 1 then?

Absolutely. They're probably Defcon 0.5, tbh

Sobdo you need a 'suspected troll' option then?

And whatvwould be defcon 9.1....offering pleasantries to mnhq?

Sorry that should have been defcon 0.1...typo...honest Guv..0 is next to 9 and I have fat fingers and small phone...honest Guv

@Whistlingwaves

Can we not just have buttons that say [mahoosive bunfight] [suspected troll] [spam]

What if it's a mahoosive bunfight with a suspected troll over some spam, though?

Well then you let us tick all the boxes and it gets a huge score alerting you to the fact you need to grab all available gin and head to the air raid shelter until the site has imploded...

Can I be awkward and ask about the reasons you put up for thread deletion too, please? There was one a couple of nights ago where the message put up was that it was deleted for "descending into trollhunting", when it was a troll invasion from the Honda boards and they had linked back to their own site themselves to demonstrate the fact. After reporting, being good , a few people rightly ticked them off for being crass enough to invent a sexual abuse scenario for lulz. That isn't troll-hunting! But the thread deleted message made MNers look like the norties.

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