Reporting - I give up

[sherbetlemonade]

Even a cross-eyed baboon could see that some threads are suspect, but nope, they get reported, they stay up. Total waste of time.

Reporting is a total lottery ime.
But I agree that reporting suspect threads is usually a waste of time. I do wonder when a thread is eventually deleted what it is that prompts MN to take action. Whether it is the sheer number of reports or what.

You have to hope they stray into bereavement (well, you don't, but ykwim). That is the only recourse. I have reported obvious and returning trolls but it wasn't until they posted in a sensitive topic that they were removed. I just hide any thread that I know is sus. Much calmer!

And yet if you even hint someone isn’t genuine , it’s your post that gets deleted!!!

I have reported threads for a long time, but not any more. All I get back these days is a generic 'we looked at it and can't see anything wrong' type response. Well, they ain't looking hard enough. The one I reported earlier today was the last straw.

I reported someone advertising the other day but apart from that I don’t remember when I last reported something. It’s ‘their’ website, not mine, if they’re happy with how it’s run and the reputation it has and the articles about their AI useage, then who am I to try to stop it?

“But please carry on reporting posts to us”

🙄

What was wrong?

Looking at it today, there’s a definite sense of people being here to stir up trouble and so on, but that’s probably the bread and butter of an Internet forum to some extent.

Hello @sherbetlemonade we don't want you to have the impression it's not worth your time reporting to us as it absolutely is and we very much appreciate it. We'll take a look at your reports and will get in touch shortly.

It’s the inconsistency.

Some posts you leave up even if they’re really distressing to people.

Plus, the classic lemon of a post you left up for weeks despite multiple reports, when someone said peaches cure cancer or something.

I don’t bother any more either.

Thank you.

Hey @sherbetlemonade we'll be in touch now about the threads you reported. You can of course also raise anything else you may have questions about. Thank you.

@BeckyAMumsnet Hi there, thanks for the message and comprehensive report, I do now feel a lot more reassured, so thanks again.

I reported a suspicious post last night. Heard from Mumsnet HQ within half an hour of reporting

I don't understand why MN panders to some people's version of personal attack, even if the poster complaining isn't named in the deleted comment and hasn't posted on the thread but has in fact followed the deleted poster across various boards for over a month. I start threads and contribute across the boards but one troll can just bump off posters they dont agree with? Wow. MN you need to get a grip on the ME board, they clearly think they are running the show.

That's an oddly specific scenario.

Yes, it is happening to me. Posters who pay seem to be able to class anything as a personal attack on them and get posts deleted, even if they have not been on the thread and are not tagged.

How do you know who 'paid' to post?

What does 'posters who pay' mean?

The one thread I posted on in the ME boards was discussing it and that is where they have followed me from over weeks with a different name. Seems to be a priority setting somehow.

Subscribers.

Do you mean a Mumsnet Premium user?

Oh in that case you couldn't be more wrong.

We don't get any special treatment at all.

I don't know what they pay or how much but it seemed to be a very common thing for the posters of those boards to be paying MN.

If they're changing usernames, how do you know who they are? And whether they're paying?

Pretty sure you're the poster who made a bunch on antisemitic posts on a thread a while back, that's more likely to be why they were deleted.

Why are you all reporting? It's words on a screen. If you don't like then scroll on.