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Can MN confirm there is no flooding of alleged Reform bots?

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DangerQuakeRhinoSnake · 09/06/2026 14:26

I find it hard to believe bots would post on this site anyway. Sigh. But the repeated accusations from what I assume are extreme left wing posters of so called "Reform bots" to anyone who might offer a counter opinion, is both wearying and juvenile (imo).

(Notable that this same accusation is rarely - if ever - found to be made in the opposite direction).

Please can MN confirm to all that "Reform bots" are not flooding the site?

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BeckyAMumsnet · 09/06/2026 18:06

Hello @DangerQuakeRhinoSnake thanks for posting. We've not seen evidence of this and you're most welcome to report such posts to us. Accusing someone of being a bot for having a different view is akin to troll hunting, which breaks our guidelines.

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BeckyAMumsnet · 10/06/2026 16:55

Hello @TwoOnThe, we're really sorry the threads felt like that to read. Please do report to us in the usual manner if you feel posters are being shouted down.

@DangerQuakeRhinoSnake on bots, we haven’t seen evidence that we're being taken over by them. Mumsnet probably isn’t the obvious first choice for large-scale bot activity in the way huge social media sites are. A post here doesn’t get automatically pushed out to millions of people because it’s getting lots of attention - it sits in a thread, where regular posters are often quick to spot if something is off. That doesn’t mean bots or organised posting can’t happen, and we do keep an eye out for it, but not every repetitive or inflammatory post is evidence of bots. We also have security settings and monitoring in place to help us spot suspicious activity, such as signals that something may not be a normal user.

Please do keep reporting specific posts that concern you. Thanks for raising it, we do hear the wider point about tone, and we don’t want posters to feel pushed out by the loudest voices.

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