REMOVE THE ABILITY TO POST PHOTOS COMPLETELY

[FreshEgg]

Yes I’ve posted in all caps because this is something that needs to be yelled about. It’s not good enough for them to be reported and removed, even if 24/7 paid mods are employed. They should not be able to be posted at all. I can’t see any 100% cast-iron system that can prevent such images from ever slipping through, and that is too high of a risk to pay. We don’t need photos that badly here. This is by and largely a text-based forum. I feel utterly sickened that this has happened and can happen again at any moment. Unless photos are disabled completely, no one is safe from being assaulted with such disgusting images.

Ok, but that would be survivable for a period of time while MN gets its act together, surely? I’m sorry, but I don’t think home and decor or style and beauty should trump trying to prevent the promulgation of horrific CSA images. If MN can’t police and control the images people are allowed to upload, then there has to be a ban until they can, imo.

edited for typo

Read the room, or all the threads about what happened last night. Your post comes across as insensitive, to say the least.

I agree with this all day long.

I host a long running thread where we share photographs. We can absolutely live without the photographs, however, and I hope MN put some stringent measures in place quickly.

This is the absolutely most awful thing to happen and preventing it happening again going forward trumps everything.

Surely the sensible thing would be that any post with photos has to be cleared before being published , it can’t be that difficult .

On a thread the other week a poster mentioned a book describing something perpetrators of CSA use as a technique. That disturbed and upset me, and is still playing on my mind, so I'm eternally grateful I went to bed early last night and missed these horrific posts. I can't even begin to imagine what those poor children are going through; it's utterly heartbreaking.
Something needs to be done to stop people posting these atrocities.
I sincerely hope @mnhq are working hard behind the scenes with the police and doing everything in their power to help track the monsters.

Afternoon, everyone.
Understandably we have a lot of threads in Site Stuff about what happened in the early hours of this morning. In order to update you all about next steps as quickly as possible, we're going to close this thread and others to new posts for now and will post any updates on this thread so we can keep all the answers to questions and info on what's happening together.
We'll be back with any updates as soon as we can.