Lorffingl that they want you to report homophobic behavior so they can handle it. No, they do not. In fact, they made Rumbawhatver a super mod, even after she told wifemomma I flagged her posts and the reasons I have.
Not only did they not take care of it, but Runbawhatever shared thing publicly she saw in the mod forum and was rewarded for if.
Post by Kcthepouchh8r on Jan 14, 2015 14:45:25 GMT -5
I wish I had more free time/some it knowledge fore ban dodging to be that person xo is trying to avoid with the sole purpose of fucking with them and their target demographic.
It's back now. I mean, I guess they could be faking a hack to cover all of the banning/deleting they've been doing? BM tried to claim it wasn't them who deleted a whole bunch of parenting threads.
I assume this is what Gwapes meant, BM's post on parenting earlier:
the massive deletion of parenting threads
It wasn't done by The Bump; we are trying to trace who did it and how it was done, and hopefully restore all those conversations to the site. Please bear with us.
Post by amynumbers on Jan 14, 2015 15:31:44 GMT -5
I missed that good old Carley sold a shitton of her shares in the end of December. Sweet jesus, if anyone involved at XO goes to jail for insider trading I will pee my pants with glee.
Do they really think their users are that stupid? I mean, a mass banning of all the firecracker members simultaneous to the roll-out of a new TOU which basically relinquishes TB to a bump version of Babycenter? But, no really, they were hacked! It's pure coincidence! /sarcasm
OK, guys, here's the scoop, xposted from A15--I actually feel as if I got some real things done, sort of. And I took exhaustive notes. That being said, these are PR people so please take with a grain of salt. I am reserving judgement, as some of it is clear BS, but The new guidelines are meant to be just that: "guidelines," not TOU. While TOU will be changing soon, these are meant to be guides only. The guidelines were shared with moderators and supposedly they did their best to address concerns.
Some moderators--this is where it gets weird--reacted badly and threats were sent to the point that the legal team is getting involved.
RE: bans without warning: Emails were supposed to go to each banned mod and member with specific feedback, and you were supposed to get a warning before being banned. If you didn't, you should email community@thebump.com. They're claiming tech glitch, but the two people I spoke with were actually surprised that this has not been happening/taken aback, legitimately.
RE: deleting content. Since this is a public forum, the Bump needs, legally to have a record of anything that's been posted, in case people come back with law suits et al. They have some tech limitations as to what can, therefore, be straight up deleted. They're working on fixing this and in the meantime working on a work-around so posts are at least not publicly findable.
Overall, the PR people were completely blindsided by what happened yesterday--I get the sense BumpMay is in some serious trouble (I think she's been unbanned now, though, sadly.).
Meantime, at the very end of the call, I was told that they couldn't tell me what specifically, but More Stuff had just happened, and that things will continue to be crazy. The exact term was "more pain is coming," I believe. So, hold tight. I think it's going to continue to be a bumpy ride, no pun intended.
I brought up the concern about drive-by posters using BMBs as google: they said they are adding staff to compensate and to do a lot of the basic question-answering, in order to keep the community itself working. We'll see. I mentioned what everyone said about demographics: they're what makes this site unique. The women agreed from a business/PR perspective and I think they're actually seeing the problem there and that's the part of this they're freaking out about.