What are you up to Tech?

[SaintGeorge]

Messages all vanishing and now strange new 'report this post' boxes coming up.

Are you tinkering?

If you download the googlemail Notifier, then googlemail will be your default email client. However when you click on the report link, you're simply taken to your googlemail inbox - a new message is not created with a link to the offending post ...

I wish I could help with the googlemail problem, but no can do as I am not of the select few who have googlemail (have I said that already?)

SD that is what happens here

But why?????????????

SG do you want an invite?

Because googlemail doesn't recognise the data contained within the link in the same way as Outlook etc do kanga. So all the link does is go to the googlemail inbox. This is why it would be much better to have an email form on the website rather than the mailto link. It's a make-do solution for now - as hub2dee said, when there's time it'll be replaced by an email form which will work the same for everybody.

FENNEKEPANS are you lost?

saintgeorge, non taken....but can't you see that it totally sets a tone of: be careful what you say because at the flick of a mouse, i can report you, and in fact this is what mumsnet is all about.

it's bad enough that people go bleating to mn towers about offensive posts (grow up people, if you can't take the heat, don't engage in debate and if someone is really out of order, the rest of the posters come down like a ton of bricks), let alone giving them a flipping huge button to press.

it will change the nature of mumsnet

:(

"report this post" should change to "grass" or "snitch"

Im all for anything that makes life easier for mnhq.

also because I did a 'test' report ALL the report links have gone red!

FENNEKEPANS

This is a bit of a techie conversation, you need to be on a different thread. I have started one \link{http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?rn=18462&topicid=1375&threadid=166187&redir=18462\here} for you.

HTH

"DOB THIS POSTER IN TO MISS"

That's better

Yes please Kanga.

sophable - but people, as you say, go bleating anyway. MNHQ then have to sift through posts trying to find what has been offensive.

This way they get a direct link to the post in question and if they get multiple mails flagging up the same post they can instantly spot a flare up occuring.

Sorry, guess you need my email

antlxstew @ yahoo .co .uk (remove spaces)

Thanks

ok. maybe i'm a horrible person. but for me mumsnet is about two things: amazing support and kindness and instant advice....AND flareups!!!!!

I see where you're coming from soph, but I agree with StG - it's a practical issue and as I said before it is standard on most internet forums. Mumsnet started quite small, but it has grown and become a busy site which is much harder to moderate. The big link does need to be replaced by something much more discreet though.

Jools - you wouldn't normally do a test report though, would you?

Assuming you have reported a post, you don't (hopefully) need to report the thread again.

(you picky bugger, who cares if all the links go red, mumble, mutter)

i wish we had that fierce growling emoticon that you have on msn...you know...the bare teethed one....that's what i'd post right now!

:o

I agree with sophable, I think it sets an unpleasant tone, especially to newcomers who may be wary of posting anyway.

How about just a one 'report this thread' link at the top of every thread, rather than one attached to every post.

That way it's less obtrusive and yet it would still give MN HQ the link to the thread that they need and make it easier for people to report nasty threads.

I think it's only the fact that the link is so in your face that makes it so unpleasant though

Me too. I know it's standard everywhere else, but one of the (many, natch) reasons we love MN is because it isn't the same as everywhere else. I do think it would tone it down a bit if it was just a small symbol, but I still think it would be better not to have it at all.

(the "me too" was to Kelly and sophable, BTW)

(I don't like it either)

Rhubarb - the whole point of it though is that it reports the actual post that is causing offence. One link on a long thread wouldn't eliminate the need for MNHQ to trawl through.

I think those of you who don't like it might change your mind if you had the job of moderating the forum!