I hereby apply for the post of night time moderator

[JakeBullet]

...to tackle the trolls which appear once the gin bottle(s) is/are empty and MNHQ have staggered off to bed.

I warn you though...I am not cheap ..but may accept wine in lieu of payment...and promise not to engage with said trolls by trying to help them see the error of their ways....honest.

I like the idea of 'volunteers', made up of MNers. Experienced posters with an ability to be objective, keen, get some intern IT/social media experience.

Volunteers wouldn't work. Would need to be someone who has same ethic as daytime mods as detailed above.

I mod on another forum, sometimes is quiet sometimes a debate starts and its all hands on deck. We've a mod able to be contacted within reasonable working hours at all times and we have a fair agreement as to how we manage issues. I'll check in on it from 9am ish until 4pm ish on and off but watch most evenings from 7pm ish till 9pm ish.

Then someone else takes over. Helps we have mods in Canada, US, Aus and NZ as welk as UK.

But the vast majority of us need to be paid to work pan!

GetOeuf (ha!) I think I'm seeing the night time mod role as a very simple deleter-of-spam-attack one. Not so much the more nuanced calls about whether a regular has gone over the line with something that might or might not be a personal attack.

Well, yes monmatre but for the specific needs of MN, it can be achieved by recruiting the person/people with the right awareness/balance/values and giving them a chance to test themselves and gain valuable experience in the tangled messy world of social media. Lots of pros start with volunteering activities. MN shouldn't be any different, imho.

At a time when the media is being criticised for their elitist, exclusive practices? Internships, volunteering, work shadowing etc all marginalise those that cannot afford to give away their time for free.

Don't get me wrong, I spend more than half my life on MN but if one is doing it as a moderator, one needs to be applying a code of practice, or set of standards rather than keeping half an eye on it between popping toddlers back into bed for the fifteenth time and supervising the tweenie's flute practice, which as volunteers parents would be justified in doing alongside the moderation.

Well, yes but proposed volunteer mods don't need to be parents of those children which are demanding all of those tasks, at all.

The employment world is v fluid and inceasingly quite 'specialist'. IF MNHQ can help promote, and benefit from, skills and aptitudes of bright people with an attachment to the site then every sensible business model in existence says they should go for it.

Not parents?

I suppose you'll be suggesting they might be men next!

OP :)

What I think might help is to have any nighttime new registration held in quarantine for a few hours to vet it.

erm...men parents have those demands too!!

Quarentined regs is a good short term idea?

The Invasion on Monday night was done by posters who had previously registered. Quarantine wouldnt have worked.

My twopenneth.

Stop all new registrations totally.

It big enough here as it is.

Good cross section of socirty.

Open up a distillery for extra revenue.

Hide threads with more than X (defined by complex logarithm and wet fingers in wind) reports during the twilight zone. To be assessed in the morning.

There.

Easy.

Noneedtothankme.

Hey, we could become a local site, for local people, and develop an extremely small gene pool! Surely some of the people already registered -who didn't register with the express purpose of trolling- might be motivated to become trolls in their turn, since there'd be a gap in the market?

I like that idea, local site for those of us spread far and wide. It is a small gene pool though...

See, we're all here. Where are MNHQ? WHERE ARE THEY? I really want a red button.

We could unleash the time bomb.... She who must not be named? Or we could say Mtoo 3 times whilst looking into a mirror? Then MNHQ will appear.

After 9 obvs after everyone's had a jolly good brekkie.

Haha chaos that's great, love the logarithms and wet fingers in the wind, appeals to my scientific nature.

Anyone else get an email from MNHQ today?

Ooh Have they offered you the job Montmartre?

I wish!

It was actually 'Parenting News'...

Ah well. I'm sure it's very interesting.

I thought I had been left out of another quiche. Night-time mods quiche...

I got an email from HQ. It read..."Not on your nelly". Which was a bit uncalled for, I thought.