Hi all,
After months of discussion, the moment has finally arrived: the much-anticipated Night Watch will begin active service as of this evening
The Watch will initially be staffed by seven lovely volunteers, who tend to spend time on Mumsnet during the wee small hours and who have the ability to hide posts or threads of a spammy nature or posts that overtly break our Talk guidelines.
They will not see or respond to reports; they're simply equipped to deal with the sort of beyond the pale posts that you and - and they! - would normally report to us.
We've asked them to delete things like obvious spam and properly beyond-the-pale language and/or images. We're not asking them to make judgement calls on things like personal attacks, bunfights, troll-hunting and so on.
If you come across a thread that you feel needs urgent attention during the night, then you can start a thread or post on here. The Night Watchers aren't obliged to be around, so there's no guarantee that they'll spot it, but they when they are online they will look in this topic.
Night watchers do not have to identify themselves, and don't have access to personal data.
They're doing this out of the goodness of their hearts so we'd be really grateful if you could bear this in mind during the settling-in period.
Fingers crossed it will all go swimmingly but do keep letting us know how you feel it's going.