Should mumsnet be moderated?

[QuintessentialShadows]

Is it maybe time for mumsnet to get a few moderators on board?

Wot PW said.

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fire is excellent!

i'm a brixton girl now living in suburban surrey....no wonder i'm confused!

gotta run.....see you around LG.

Please don't ruin mumsnet I will have to stop reading it incessantly and pay my family some attention god forbid

Thanks Lenin, for answer.

Definitely not. The sort of people who want moderation usually want to be moderators themselves - and they are invariably hissy-fit-throwing, paranoid, narrow-minded silly cunts who cause far more trouble and ill-feeling than you get on an unmoderated site.

MN used to have moderators. But the moderators had no real power, over what a non moderator could do. The only thing extra (everyone can report posts) was that they could use the term Moderator in a name change to address individuals or groups on a thread.

After solidgoldSneezeLikeApig's post however I am not sure I want to admit to having once been a MN moderator, or a Moderator on another site. [hmmm]

FWIW I am not sure if Mn really needs moderators, as most MNetters are on the ball and will report posts that go against what MN is all about, and there are plenty on people at MNHQ to be on hand to sort them out promptly. Moderators are needed more on sites where there is only one or two owners of a site, as extra back up really.

I didn't realise that mods would be special elite posters. I thought they would be paid drones at MNHQ. The paid drones would be bad enough. But elite posters as mods would be the seventh circle of hell.

What AnarchyAunt said!

Would there be a badge?

No, next thing you know we will have sparkly bits and time thingy's.

Works fine as it is.

Surely we are all, in our own way, moderators?

No. Don't want moderation AT ALL.

PMSL at the thought of trying to moderate you, Kerry!

To OP - no. What made you pose the question now?

Minty - there have been a couple of very horrible threads over the last day or so, with very unpleasant things being hurled around.

I have reported spammers etc and MNHQ are quick to send a post it note to Tech in the shed to 'sort it'. Normally works out OK.

Quint how are you?

go solidgold...you said exactly what i wanted to say earlier...

Good god no, no, no!!!

Although I'd love to know what it was like back in the day with moderators???