Well done Justine and Becky. We told you it would happen again.

[NoCommentingFromNowOn]

Just sort it out please.

I don’t know any website as badly run as this one.

You deserve to lose all your advertisers and lose the website.

Is it seriously still true that unpaid volunteers are doing moderation work on MN? Why? I don't just mean why would an advertising business rely on volunteers in any way. I also mean why would anyone want to take on this role?

I could sort of understand it 15 or so years ago, when MN very heavily traded on the semi (or total) fiction that it was some sort of campaigning grassroots group, but it is pretty amazing that this is still the situation.

Just seen that lots of posts have had to be deleted for personal attacks on MN staff. If you insult employees who are just doing their job, knowing that those employees have to read your venom, you are likely to be very much worse than whatever trolling or abuse you are complaining about. Do you also slag off retail workers, waiters, NHS staff to make their stressful days worse?

She's still around in a new name. As to whether she's meant to be or not I couldn't say but still pissing those bloody gifs all over the place.

MN waiting for the troll tonight

Those posts were made by the troll

@BeckyAMumsnet maybe MN should suspend new registrations after hours for a few days?

That was the troll posting.

ok sorry. I'm in a muddle.

Hello @spokenorchid we're being trolled overnight and yes they were finding risqué GIFs to add some...colour...to their posts. We've since placed tighter restrictions on the GIF content.

@MyThreeWords thank you - the deleted posts were the troll in question, though. We do have paid moderators. Nightwatchers are not expected to moderate the site or have set hours. If they happen to be using Mumsnet and spot something concerning, they can temporarily hide the content and suspend the account’s ability to post until a moderator reviews it. It’s an entirely voluntary extra layer of support, and we’re enormously grateful for the help they give us.

Sorry just so we’re all clear… you do have paid moderators in the daytime. There is no moderation overnight. The night watch aren’t unpaid moderators in your words, so there is no moderation overnight.

You still sound like you think the gifs were funny

They weren’t ‘risqué’ they were offensive

Thanks @BeckyAMumsnet - sorry to hear this. A lot of stuff seems to happen on here overnight which is a concern!

Can you not just disable GIFs entirely? I don’t see that they’re needed, and if someone is finding a way to abuse the feature it seems logical to just remove it?

I really still don’t understand the overnight moderation that’s not moderation though. Surely MN makes enough money from the ads that are plastered everywhere that there could be one member of staff overnight to moderate the boards? Do you rely on unpaid foreign labour? Seems a bit unethical to me. But then Justine was asking for photos of naked teenagers the other week so who knows what code of ethics this site follows any more.

Oh god. I haven’t noticed but I’m sure now I know she’s here she’ll find me… and keep calling me girl.

Do you have paid moderators working evenings and overnight?

@spokenorchid But then Justine was asking for photos of naked teenagers the other week so who knows what code of ethics this site follows any more.

Oh thank you for reminding me about when Justine was asking for the photos of naked teenagers, I had almost forgotten that.

Is Justine still around or has she sold up already?

I've tried reporting stuff overnight before, and things are usually still up until mid morning (presumably when the mods have woken up and got sat down at their desks or whatever.)
There seems to be absolutely no moderation in the early hours.
I've since learnt that from a previous post like this that you're supposed to tag Night Watch or something in the hope they pick it up, but how many people are going to know that? You'd think pressing the report button would work like it usually would.

She’s around, a month or so ago she was asking people to send in naked photos of teenagers!

If it's the one I'm thinking of their written word was depraved..

Girl…. I am with you that we don’t need GIFs.

Why on earth was she asking for such photos? That’s grim

@BeckyAMumsnet - can't you just say that no images or GIFs are approved overnight - should deal with the immediate issue?

Justine was asking for naked pictures of teenagers - that is appalling.

I don’t understand how this website gets away with unpaid volunteers anyway. Unless someone is work shadowing (and not actually doing any work) or working unpaid for a charity, then NMW rules apply and anyone doing work should be paid.

I said something similar yesterday and the response was that someone may desperately need help and that apparently outweighs all the regular late night users being exposed to this filth . It isn’t all about gifs and images ( edit)

What?? What was the context of this?