Emma Healey was subject to a data breach

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EH was subject to a data breach herself, then does it to others. So she knows what it feels like so gets revenge by doing it to others. Shocking!

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I mean I have had 'media requests' from other users and NEITHER of us are moderators, so it's a bit bizarre as a justification for giving her moderator rights.

I feel like shouting "EH was not a moderator" on every thread running at the moment, as the narrative that she was is running thick and fast. She was, as I understand it, an intern in the press office and for some time she had - as did everyone working at MNHQ - access to the behind the scenes bit of the MN platform. Then changes were made a couple of months ago so that far fewer people at MNHQ had this access and EH, along with others, lost the access.

I think that's a very misleading narrative you are portraying. A forum is a standard bit of internet software that has been online for literally decades, and in terms of the software she absolutely was a moderator.

Her responsibilities were not as a moderator, but her account's user role on the site was moderator.

Facebook for example has five different roles for pages: www.axiapr.com/blog/facebook-page-roles-explained Facebook staff would have a whole another set of roles on top of this.

The mumsnet forum software appears to have had grossly inadequate permissions graularity/insufficient variety roles to reflect the jobs actually done by staff and/or insufficient care was paid to granting the minimum necessary permissions to users to allow them to do their jobs.

in terms of the software she absolutely was a moderator

OK, fair enough

But my point was that she was not part of the mod team, the people who make decisions about what threads and posts should stay up or be pulled, whether someone is sock puppeting or being a GF, whether to ban someone.

The reason I think it's important is that there have been some inconsistencies in the past, as well as some odd decisions, but by and large the mod team do a good job in what must be difficult circumstances on occasion. It's only a few days since we were told that the admin burden of the FWR board on the mod team meant that it was being taken out of "Active".

I think it would be unfair for people to make an erroneous connection between EH and the actual mod team