90 day

[prolefeed]

Are you considering a 90 day membership period before posting on FWR, like sex topic? Just curious. There’s a vast amount of new traffic as a result of the glinner/ JKR situation. I have no idea if it’s a good idea or not (it’s a free world, and debate and sunlight are extremely important). I have just seen it mentioned a few times - I’m not sure how much moderator time this is taking or if there is no appetite.
FWR Threads were removed from active previously due to doxxing. I don’t know if this is also under consideration during this period of heightened tension?

I think its a good idea

We need lots of opinions on lots of things

What we don’t need is ploppers who have just signed up to post ‘you are all bitches’ and then run away

They don’t add anything and a recent thread looked like swiss cheese when MNHQ deleted a lot of abusive posts

It would be very useful to be able to sort the wheat from the chaff. Maybe 90 days is too long tho.

But I sincerely believe that the out and out goaders' attention span wouldn't last two weeks. Not to mention the fact that the issue is currently changing at a rate of knots, and what you want to say now, is more or less out of date in a fortnight.

The raging, desperate need to call us all cunts after a particular newspaper story, or person talking online, would be diminished by a two week cooling off period.

Obviously, it's not going to affect those who are in it for the long game. But they tend not to be quite as blatant, cunt calling arses, because they don't want to get kicked off.

Hi OP,

Thanks so much for the suggestion - we're always happy to discuss this sort of thing.

We do try, where possible, not to do this because the flow of conversation can change (we only do so for extremely sensitive topics), so it may not be something we'd consider, but it has been raised.

Thanks @lilymumsnet - really it’s the ability of conversation to flow at all with 17 newly registered people deliberately posting inflammatory content to grab screenshots that I’m concerned about. Or the recent Tom Fordy article in the Telegraph where mumsnet was misrepresented because an inflammatory stalker troll’s comment was used as a typical example of a mumsnet view (when it had in fact been planted as a result of stalking the op for the purpose of screenshot harvesting for twitter lolz)

@prolefeed

Thanks *@lilymumsnet* - really it’s the ability of conversation to flow at all with 17 newly registered people deliberately posting inflammatory content to grab screenshots that I’m concerned about. Or the recent Tom Fordy article in the Telegraph where mumsnet was misrepresented because an inflammatory stalker troll’s comment was used as a typical example of a mumsnet view (when it had in fact been planted as a result of stalking the op for the purpose of screenshot harvesting for twitter lolz)

Indeed.

Three or four trolls pretending to be lifelong mumsnetters telling Graham Linehan to fuck off was reported in the press as mumsnet FWR telling Graham Linehan to fuck off.

When the opposite is the case.

And 99% of the thread from genuine members reflected that.

But they got their screenshots and managed to manipulate a national story.

Something that would have been impossible with even a few day's probation.

What datun and prole said

At the moment we may as well add a little target emoji 🎯 to the board