Shit, blood, injuries, genitals

[AnxiousPangolin]

Please, for the sake of all of our eyes, can we have an outright ban on people posting photos of shit, period blood clots, injuries and most of all, photos of their skanky genitals?

No-one, apart from the OP’s doctor, needs to see this stuff and it’s frankly revolting. MN is not a fucking hospital, people should go to their doctor or A&E. It’s also a magnet for perverts.

What tools do you have in place to prevent people opening a thread with no warning to find a photo of someone’s turd? Yes, a lot of the threads have warnings and I don’t click on them, but there certainly have been threads with no warning at all.

And don’t give me that passive-aggressive ‘oh just ignore it if you don’t want to read it’ line. MN know perfectly well that posters don’t always post warnings.

I think the tool you are looking for is “get a fucking grip”.

You can buy it in various bottled forms - wine and gin being mumsnet favs. Or your GP can prescribe something in tablet form.

If that was to happen, we would either edit the title to include a content warning, or ban the poster if we felt they were not genuine.

This isn't something that's limited to Mumsnet - it happens on many internet sites and we're not able to foresee when a poster will post an intimate photo before they do it. We do, however, deal with it once we've seen it. Pretty quickly, too!

I do think you need to just avoid the thread if they are titled appropriately - however ai do share your concern... there is one particular thread I recently reported in the childbirth section and something mg seems "off" with it... it seems to have been spanning many years but is account after account continuously posting really increasingly graphic photos of episiotomies... I don't know why but it doesn't seem like there just happens to be all these genuine posters posting such graphic pictures into the mums net void one after the other and there is something more sinister about it

To add, if you click on a link and see something that makes you uncomfortable, we are sorry for that. But there is nothing we can do to prevent that from happening - when you open any thread, you are essentially agreeing to see that content.

As we said, happy to deal with any concerns if you report them to us but we don't have a way to stop you from seeing content before we see it ourselves. Mumsnet is a post-moderated site and we make this clear - posts are not pending, pre vetted or waiting for a moderator to see it. Once a user hits 'post' the post is live.

They posted it because it’s true.

If a thread does’t have a decent warning report that, other than that don’t click and mind your own business.

That's a very good point. And no one has verified that is the poster's genitals.

OP, I can cope with seeing shit and I can cope with swearing but I find your swearing much more unpleasant than a photo of shit or a blood clot by a genuinely concerned poster

I did report a thread with these types of images though a few weeks back (the one I referred to in my last post) and nothing has been done - not even a trigger warning

The only turd photos I've ever seen on MN have been in the Gardening topic when people are asking if anyone knows what sort of creature has defecated on their lawn.

100% agree with this. That lady needs support and reassurance. It’s censored. Don’t look if you don’t want to it’s not compulsory 🤷‍♀️

You are completely right OP. I can't get over the number of people wanting to post gross photos on a chat forum. I don't care how many warnings - have some fucking manners and use the site appropriately!

The person should have the sense to crop the photo, if she hasn’t got the sense then it should be removed. What if it’s someone else’s photo posted in spite?

There is a real risk that people can also get false reassurance. 100 people with no medical training say 'I always get spots like that', 'looks just like my pimple in 2018, 'yep, that's a x', etc., etc., so the poster doesn't seek medical advice and slips through the net with a much worse outcome.

I've seen some amazing threads where posters have been told to get to hospital and it's saved their lives, but I'm sure there are many where treatment has been delayed by well meaning false reassurance.

@AnxiousPangolin I don’t know which threads you normally read but I very very rarely came across photos like this.
Seriously.

As fir whether it’s ok or not, I’d not post most if those photos out of privacy FOR MYSELF (I tend to think MN isn’t as anonymous as you’d like to think).
But after that, everyone can chose? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

You have to wonder how women this uptight ever manage to give birth.

Honestly OP chill out.

Don't click on the thread. So simple yet so true.

You can do lots of things to prevent it happening. You can stop people posting photos of their private parts for a start.

I cannot think of another parenting or chat forum where this would be acceptable.

I recently was asked to send a photo of my issue to the GP. Before I could even upload it, I was warned not to send a picture of my genitals or anus. If my GP surgery doesn't want to see that without prior arrangement, I don't see why the rest of Mumsnet needs to see it. Especially given that 99% of readers on Mumsnet are not even medically qualified anyway. So why the fuck would you do it? Makes me think TOO MANY SUCKERS on here.

Can you please look at including an update to the app in line with the website so you don't just open a thread and with no warning that there's a pic, see a full size pic of someone's vulva and vagina?? If you look on the threads on the website, there's a banner saying 'sensitive content' and you have to actively click. There is absolutely nothing of the sort on the app so you can open a thread by mistake and find yourself seeing something you really didn't want to see through no fault of your own.

Would it be possible to put an auto censor on any photo, like an opaque filter ?

Yeah, I come across the photo before the filter etc was applied. I do not understand why it wasn't cropped to show the problem area only. There was no need to have a full view of everything, and it should have been removed imo.

It's not a good idea for MN to allow photos of people's genitals, for so many reasons, including not knowing who the photo really belongs to.

Indeed. It’s all very well to say that people post intimate photos all the time on the internet, but I’m not talking about the rest of the internet, I’m talking about Mumsnet.

At the very least, if @mnhq really think it’s appropriate to allow posters to post photos of genitals (their own or other people’s, who knows!) then they should at least move them out of AIBU and Chat into the General Health topic and apply a blur filter so if someone accidentally clicks on the thread, they’re not immediately faced with a stranger’s arsehole.

Shame to see this thread dwindle and HQ just hoping that it will go away.

Apply a few rules to your own website, come on @MNHQ!

Fairly typical though sadly.