For the Attention of The National Autistic Society

What is to stop literally anyone from signing up to this website to spread disinformation? What are your safeguards?

There is no automated process so it is down to people to report posts they believe to be spam or abusive.

I don't think they are here to police the accuracy of information however. They can respond is someone is giving dangerous advice about using drugs etc but if it is for political opinions then that is down to freedom of speech.

Can you cite any misinformation that has been spreading recently that is provably incorrect?

I  did type out a response to this but it has been flagged for spam. I guess someones not in favour of my freedom of expression

I  did type out a response to this but it has been flagged for spam. I guess someones not in favour of my freedom of expression

I understand. But like I'm trying to say in my own post to this thread - budgets for the NAS will be extremely tight - they are running with a huge multi million pound deficit, and I think that they are doing the best that they can under the circumstances. The software is trying to protect us, and does a poor job in some circumstances. If it wasn't there, I bet the site would be drowned in nonsense and v i a g r a adverts. I've had this happen to me. I contested it, and it was reinstated.

Yet another one flagged  as spam! It's apparently wrong to post about things that affect your mental well being.

Same has just happened to me. The NAS needs to sort the problem out. For me being falsely accused of things, be it spamming or anything else,  is a major psychological trigger. That's a product of childhood experiences at prep school.It's further made worse by the often very negative way that mental health professionals  are  found to have behaved to those of us who are later found to be autistic.

That is a major problem the NAS urgently needs to fix. Perfectly decent posts can end up being flagged as spam,due to the technical shortcomings of the forum software, while some posters are given free rein to make posts deliberately designed to cause  disharmony.

I think this can be triggered by some random things - it's automated, as far as I know. People have pointed out some things that can trigger it, but I can't remember them now. If you contest it, a real human will reinstate it.