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Calling all night owls!

113 replies

RebeccaMumsnet · 23/02/2016 13:24

Hi all,

We'd like to recruit some more of you into the Nightwatch, to help out alongside our current night time volunteers.

The Nightwatch are a group of MNetters, many from overseas, who have the power to hide posts or threads of a spammy nature, or posts that overtly break our Talk guidelines.

They can't see or respond to reports, and aren't asked to make judgment calls on stuff like personal attacks, bunfights, troll-hunting and so on; they're simply equipped to deal with the sort of beyond-the-pale posts or images that you - and they! - would normally report to us.

Night watchers don't have to identify themselves, and are under no obligation to be around full-time - it's more a question of popping on the boards as you would do in the course of a normal day's Mumsnetting. We will be drawing up a rota and asking what works for you and what doesn't; if you thought you were likely to be around one night a week, that'd be about perfect.

If you're interested, please post below and we'll mail you with further information. We are looking for a handful of people, and will be looking at the global timezones to help cover as much time as possible, so please don't take it personally if you're not selected: it doesn't mean we love you any less Grin

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magimedi · 24/02/2016 10:10

I see you have used Monday night as an example!

How many reports do you get from midnight to 9am on a Friday/Saturday?

Another one who thinks you should be paying someone for this job. If you were a charity, it would be different, but you are a business, with some assets:

Taken from company check:

companycheck.co.uk/search?term=mumsnet

It doesn't give a date, but I assume it is fairly current:

Mumsnet Limited:

Cash: £2.2M

Net Worth: £3.2M

Assets: £4.2M

Liabilities: £1.0M

leghoul · 24/02/2016 10:20

Sorry I was overcomplicating matters. IN one of my other lives I run training blabla other stuff for a national support service and get twitchy with anything OUTSIDE MY CONTROL that may involve RISK etc. arrhh
maybe I'm not the man for the job Grin

Can people put it on their CV? are there certificates? any perks other than a feeling of power and secret service about it Grin

I think it's okay for it to be unpaid if people willingly volunteer & are lurking about anyway & it's voluntary. Not sure about rota though which conflicts with the informality a bit.

JOEYDOESNTSHAREFOOD · 24/02/2016 10:32

You have contradicted yourself MNHQ - Either you are drawing up a rota for night watchers, or it is a role for "when you are lurking anyway".

Sarah715 · 24/02/2016 10:32

But someone who gets the email and it involves one of their own posts...what happens then? They're supposed to agree to hide their own thread or post? Will they see who reported it?

Sarah715 · 24/02/2016 10:35

To be clear, there are people on this thread whose posts I have reported in the past. If they become mods I won't want to report their posts, to them.

Sparklingbrook · 24/02/2016 10:35

Nightwatchers having their own posts and threads reported. Shock There must be some guidelines for that. Grin

ouryve · 24/02/2016 10:36

between 9am and midnight we get 98 reports.

Blardy hell, half of them are probably mine Blush

RebeccaMumsnet · 24/02/2016 10:51

@ouryve

between 9am and midnight we get 98 reports.

Blardy hell, half of them are probably mine Blush

That's just reports ouryve, we also get mails in for various other things to all departments and deal with approx 300 per day.

@magimedi

I see you have used Monday night as an example!

How many reports do you get from midnight to 9am on a Friday/Saturday?

From midnight to 9am we get 17 and from 9am - midnight we get 81 - that's on an average Saturday using a years worth of data just on reports.

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fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 24/02/2016 10:57

The reports don't go to the nightwatch though Sarah. They just get a message to say something has been reported a lot.

See, I should get a job MNHQ.

Sparklingbrook · 24/02/2016 10:59

Nightwatch could choose to ignore the message if they had a personal interest I guess.

usual · 24/02/2016 11:07

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Sparklingbrook · 24/02/2016 11:09

Posting stuff on the actual Nightwatch thread makes you feel like supergrass.

usual · 24/02/2016 11:15

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Sparklingbrook · 24/02/2016 11:17

It really is Usual. Grin I can understand why people wouldn't want to post on it and let everyone see them grassing.

That said, every time Nightwatch is mentioned many posters say they didn't even know it existed.

usual · 24/02/2016 11:18

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magimedi · 24/02/2016 12:06

And the link to Nightwatch really should be in Shortcuts, so it is easy to find.

gooseberryroolz · 24/02/2016 12:12

Do the Nightwatch threads show up in Active?

That one the other night was in Trending for ages.

AlpacaLypse · 24/02/2016 12:38

I'm torn about this. I volunteered last time round although you didn't want me

I am in the UK but frequently up ridiculously late. However I do think you need to have a paid, pro moderater on duty 24/7.

Sparklingbrook · 24/02/2016 12:40

If a Nightwatch thread is in Trending that's a good sign things are going very wrong.

ThenLaterWhenItGotDark · 24/02/2016 14:29

Obviously HQ would have to be very careful with whom they choose, if this goes ahead.
No-one with a personal agenda, or who gets deleted/reported a lot themselves or who seems to be desperate to do it, because frankly, the mind boggles as to what, apart from the power kick, anyone would get out of it.
I just don't get why someone properly employed can't do it. It would us all from the Apocalypse Now scenario of MNers gone powercrazy batshit upriver and someone having to be despatched to wrestle the button from their desperate clutches.

ThenLaterWhenItGotDark · 24/02/2016 14:30

Save us all.

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 24/02/2016 15:25

Yes and you wouldn't want grudge bearing petty types to do it either.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 24/02/2016 15:29

There's a Night watch thread? Learn something new every day..

Don't you need a Weekend Watch as well?

Hennifer · 24/02/2016 15:52

Yes how do you revoke their powers if it all goes wrong? Change the system password or something?

YOU CANNOT TRUST THESE PEOPLE

Grin
gooseberryroolz · 24/02/2016 15:56

It would us all from the Apocalypse Now scenario of MNers gone powercrazy batshit upriver and someone having to be despatched to wrestle the button from their desperate clutches.

It's only the ability to temporarily hide threads (and they'll sack anyone who abuses that), hard to go powercrazt with THAT.

They're not going to hand out banhammers and secret access Smile

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