Mumsnet – it's got a bit heated offline

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33985706

“An armed response team turned up at my house last week in the middle of the night, after reports of a gunman prowling around,” she wrote.

“A Mumsnet user who engaged with @DadSecurity on Twitter was warned to ‘prepare to be swatted by the best’ in a tweet that included a picture of a Swat team, after which police arrived at her house late at night following a report of gunshots.

and it’s not even gamergate related

Just reading about that, I was about to ask if it was anyone here.

In seriousness, if anyone (or their OHs) use Mumsnet, now would be a good time for a password change.

those pesky dads wearing purple, tsk. 🙂

Lucky she could get hubby @ BBC news to shill the story…

She doesn’t look very happy at all does she 😯

Sometimes find it a bit worrying that people with such influence over the nations thinking habits are so closely linked.

Wonder how much infomation Ian Katz as editor of Newsnight withholds?

Same with Mumsnet…

I’m sometimes surprised on here that the mods can be so selective in what they censor

That said, sorry to hear they’ve been victimized in this manner, being on holiday was one in the eye for whoever set them up.

I’m sometimes surprised on here that the mods can be so selective in what they censor

Didn’t we have the Moderator bashing thread over the weekend?

Cyril Smith and Jimmy Saville started Mumsnet off as a cunning ruse to gain access to children.

A little known fact

*hides back under the desk*

Didn’t we have the Moderator bashing thread over the weekend?

Mebe, but perhaps I wasn’t clever enough to link it to an event which has only just been publicized with regard to Mumsnet…

Maybe now’s a good time for a vajazzle joke:

An mumsnet user tells her significant other she is off to have a vajazzle.

‘What’s a vajazzle’ he asks

‘It’s where they put sequins all over a c**t’ she replies

‘Oh, so you’re going to be on strictly come dancing’?

😯

erm…

That was not what I was expecting form a JHJ post! 😯

maybe the Mumsnet hacker managed to get JHJ’s STW credentials?

I’m sometimes surprised on here that the mods can be so selective in what they censor

Excuse me? Such as?

Surely you have access to all the forum logs?

It’s not forum logs I’m querying, it’s your accusation.

What are you suggesting is being censored (selectively or otherwise)?

The logs will tell you all you need to know… though not necessarily the public at large 😉

I do love that JHJ uses the word ‘censor’ to refer to what most people would call moderation – it’s just perfect for that ‘they’re all out to get me’ attitude.

[edit] ‘the logs’ prove that aliens abducted JHJ but Mark and Chipps have been censoring every reference to it. Cougar and the other ‘grace and favour’ mods aren’t in on JHJ, there’s no point alluding to it they don’t know.

Maybe the Bundeburg lizards are really a group of stressed middle class housewives in Balham ruling the world for sinister reasons? The Muffia?

If there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s don’t mess with the Muffia

No, sorry, I’m not having that.

You’ve just levelled an accusation at me. I want you to give me an example of this selective censorship, or I want it recanting and an apology.

I have no need to “do my own research” when the people you’re suggesting I look into includes me. I am, I think, pretty uniquely positioned to know exactly what I do and don’t censor without requiring log files. So let’s have it. What’s been censored?

Yeah they seem to ignore all sorts of trolling conspiracy theory stuff

You tell me… you seem sure you’re the moderator in question 😉

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I’m with Cougar on this;

JHJ – put up or apologise and shut up

It’s all very well to make blanket statements on forums but these are real people you’re levelling accusations at.

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Oh God this is escalating quickly…calm folks!

I’m with bearnecessities on this~ there’s no need to be so uptight; just an observation.

it all just went a bit “weird kid at school pulls a knife”

I’m not a moderator

just an observation. accusation

ftfy

It’s one thing to make off the cuff comments/allegations about public figures we are several steps removed from, to make them about a specific group we all know/deal with requires backing up or retracting.

Intended or not, JHJ needs to put the pin back in the grenade and step away quietly…..

Cougar seems hell bent on taking offence… if it was an accusation, I would have named a moderator

Being as there’s multiple moderators, I don’t know who’s doing the moderating and thus am in no position to make accusations, merely observations…

Prepare to be swatted, jhj

I don’t know who’s doing the moderating and thus am in no position to make accusations

you accused the mods (plural) being “selective in what they censor” yet can provide no examples at all.

Do you have any examples where you feel selective moderation has been carried out or is it just vague accusations at a group some of whom are publicly identifiable on here?

Anyway, back to the original subject, who’s feeling nervous about their partner finding out they have a mumsnet account?

Well, being as in the past, the mods have chosen to censor subjects, it would be somewhat disrespectful of me to re-raise issues that are evidently deemed taboo…

Anyway, back to the original subject, who’s feeling nervous about their partner finding out they have a mumsnet account?

+1

Is this about Friday Kylie?

it would be somewhat disrespectful of me to re-raise issues that are evidently deemed taboo…

how convenient.

perhaps you could post some examples where you felt moderation/censorship should have been carried out but wasn’t due to ‘selective moderation’

Well, being as in the past, the mods have chosen to censor subjects, it would be somewhat disrespectful of me to re-raise issues that are evidently deemed taboo…

No you made an accusation against the moderators and now you are trying to weasel out of it. Post what you are talking about or post an apology.

perhaps you could post some examples where you felt moderation/censorship should have been carried out but wasn’t due to ‘selective moderation’

That would seem a foolish course of action, intent on stirring controversy…

Wonder what guidelines the mumsnet moderators have?

intent on stirring controversy…

whereas what you’ve posted so far on this thread wasn’t? 🙄