Moderation Sex Board

[onirgellep]

Back in February Justine* committed to an urgent review of moderation of the Sex Board subsequent to the considerable concerns mainly arising from the longstanding Sex Chat thread

Unsurprisingly, issues continue

Would it be possible to have an update on the progress of the review?

And hear when do you anticipate it being completed and the new moderation put into action?

Thank you

I'm afraid I'm unable to link Justine's post on the thread References to Underage Sex on the Sex Board* page 13

Peoples interpretation of decent human can be different. That’s ok. Everyone judges, let’s not pretend otherwise.

Hiding the Sex Topic from public view would achieve that I believe.

Good idea.

What do you think, @PipMumsnet ? Would it be possible to close the thread until tomorrow (or whenever a full response is available)?

I would also like to ask for the thread to be closed @PipMumsnet

Oops sorry! Seem to have pressed some random emoji there!!

@HornyBee i spent way too long trying to decipher what you meant 🤣 I’m a muppet!!

Is anyone actually against asking HQ if they could hide the sex board from public view?

Clearly some people would prefer the thread to be deleted

It’s the emojis for liar. As in pants on fire.

That’s what I thought it was too.

If the thread gets deleted I'm sure it doesn't get deleted for mumsnet, so I'm sure they'll still be able to see all the important comments.

I’d like it to remain up. Posters come on at different times of day and may have good suggestions and they should be heard. But if the alternative is deletion, then yes, closing the thread would be preferable. Theres too many other deleted threads that many now have no idea what was said unless they’ve took screenshots.

@Surplus2requirements no, I am not against hiding it, I’m not against pausing this thread until tomorrow either. Whatever suits!

Yes. Leave it.

Its not just about mumsnet having access to it, It’s important that posters who want to, can come back to the thread and look what was discussed. If the only way of ensuring that is to close the thread, that’s what should be done.

Hi all,

As requested by many of you, we're going to close this thread for the night so it doesn't get derailed any further and to give us a chance to review the points being raised.

Thanks for your patience.

Hi all. Thanks for your questions. While this thread has, unfortunately, been dominated by disagreements between posters, there are several questions for MNHQ that we’ll try to answer.

We reviewed our approach to the sex chat threads in February and more details can be found on this thread.

Firstly, we’ve never had the expectation that posters on the Sex board will moderate it themselves - like everywhere else on Mumsnet, we ask posters to report content for our community team to review. We also have no plans to make Sex (or anywhere) pre-moderated as we believe this would have a very negative effect of slowing down discussions, preventing those who need advice/support from receiving it, and would ultimately kill off the board. Quite honestly, we find things are reported really quickly and we act as fast as we can to deal with any issues.

We think there may be a perception that there’s a gang of ‘sex people’ who only post on Sex - we’ve not found this to be the case. This board has many regular, long-term posters that are across many topics. Clearly, sex is an important part of their lives and we don’t think it’s unreasonable for them to want to talk to others who feel the same.

Following the deletion of the chat threads, there’s been a few attempts to stealthily restart them but we’ve deleted these and will continue to do so. We’ve also banned a number of users that we didn’t think had the best of intentions. As for the site mentioned up thread (we won’t link), it has been recommended by MNers to other posters for years and we’ve not had previous concerns raised about it but we’ll have a further discussion about the points made on this thread.

We’re going to leave this thread closed given the direction it had taken but please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions or comments, or if we’ve missed something.