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Shit, blood, injuries, genitals

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AnxiousPangolin · 29/11/2023 20:44

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.

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LilyMumsnet · 29/11/2023 21:03

Hi OP

Thanks for getting in touch about this. We'll delete references to the current thread this is related to, because we don't really think it's fair to publicise a concerned user who is looking for support.

We urge anyone with a health concern should speak to a professional, and we have a disclaimer on our health topics. Ideally, everyone who had a health concern would do this immediately - but as we all know, that just isn't the case.

Mumsnet is, above all else, a support site for adults. Sometimes, this means sharing the not so pretty things. We understand that it can be frustrating to click on a thread and see an imagine without warning and that's why we have tools in place to prevent you from seeing something that you don't want to see.

In this case, we added a content warning to the title and the OP added a 'sensitive photo' block. The title discussed the problem, which is also a warning when a photo is attached.

We really do think it best in this case, to ignore the threads that have these warnings on. As always, if you have concerns about something, it's best to report it to us. We're always happy to take a look.

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LilyMumsnet · 29/11/2023 21:40

AnxiousPangolin · 29/11/2023 21:35

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.

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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!

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LilyMumsnet · 29/11/2023 21:43

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.

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LilyMumsnet · 07/12/2023 12:57

AnxiousPangolin · 06/12/2023 19:40

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.

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Hello,

This is standard practice when these threads are flagged and the user is genuine, so we'll continue doing this going forward. If you think there's something we missed, please let us know and we'll go back and take another look.

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BeckyAMumsnet · 09/12/2023 15:20

@slipperypenguin we can see you reported an image on 29/11 at 9:43 pm and we responded at 9:55 pm. You may wish to check your junk folder in case our response has gone in there. If you've reported anything since then we're afraid we didn't receive it.

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