Please sort out moderation at night

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Some disgusting posta appearing over & over. It should be easy to spot and delete these.

The same user name was posting the same obscenity over and over, surely it's possible to block that username after the first report?

Yes they're blocked but they just make a new account. Its really not hard to get round being 'blocked'

Given the salary bill for MN (stated by Justine when talking about Covid and furlough) it’s ridiculous that there is no rota of paid staff doing night time moderation (or someone paid specifically to work at night).

On another forum I use, huge but smaller than MN, there has to be moderators logged in otherwise nobody can create new threads. You also can’t sign up at night and you can’t create new threads after 10pm until you’ve created a certain number of other threads and posts (that number is changed occasionally to stop people deliberately posting to build their profile).

Not only is it ridiculous that there are no paid staff overnight, there also seems to be no way for the volunteer night moderators to get in touch with anyone at MNHQ if anything untoward happens during the evening / night.

The poor volunteers are just left with no support, and have to try and muddle through.

Which given the nature of what the night watch volunteers were exposed to last yeah is absolutely baffling, and quite disgusting.

It exploiting the good nature of members expecting them to volunteer for that - when a site is new and people are helping out that’s one thing, but MN is a multimillion pound business

They couldn't create a new account with an existing user name.

I was ill last night so on the site until about 3am and I must have reported at least 15 posts. I haven’t even had an email acknowledgment. What the hell is going on? How can there not be roles for paid moderators?

Can’t they block the IP address?

Well this is the question.

Cheap female labor??

Back in the day when the fields were green and Chomps were only 10p, MN was a very different place and people moderated for free, because everyone 'knew' each other.

This ain't the case now.

Dickhead's back tonight. I've reported a couple of posts. Went to the other thread before coming in here and found that he's been spamming that one.

@cariadlet is it the same one? I stupidly engaged with them briefly last night and they told me it's a group of them who are 18, sitting smoking joints thinking it's funny that they are repeatedly getting past mumsnets filters.

Tonight's is The Great Quail. I can't remember the name used last night but the style is so similar.

Tbh, I had assumed that it was a teenage boy. A group of immature boys egging each other on and thinking they're being so clever and so hilarious sounds about right.

Very tedious.

I’m glad they’re showing this website up. No other website has these problems. It’s always being said by the mods ‘ooh but other websites have these issues’ but I don’t see it. Just Mumsnet. Again and again.

I reported them to the Night Watch form, and had the troll taking the piss out of me on that thread.