Can you see a line? Blog!

It’s come to my attention that we have some problems with trolls on canyouseealine.com!

Not only have test photos been stolen and re-posted, but many hurtful and inappropriate comments have been posted in response to users’ test photos. 

I’ve found this really quite upsetting, as canyouseealine.com is supposed to be a nice, supportive community site. To think that there are people out there with nothing better to do than make unpleasant comments to women who are newly pregnant or trying to conceive is awful and, frankly, quite sad.

For this reason, I’ve taken the following action:

* I have disabled right-clicking on the view test picture pages
* All comments are now MODERATED (by me) before appearing on the site. This means therewill be a time delay of up to a few hours – especially if you’re in a different time zone to me (I’m in the UK).
* Unfortunately I had to delete ALL old comments. There were so many comments (over 50,000) that it would have been an impossible job to go them them all to strip out the nasty/spammy ones. So, it’s a case of having a clean slate, fresh start etc.

I’ll shortly be introducing a ‘report this picture’ and ‘report this comment’ feature in case anything slips through the net. In the meantime, you can email me at mail@canyouseealine.comif you have any questions, problems or suggestions.

I try to respond to messages as quickly as possible but please do remember that we might not be on the same timezone (and I do occasionally step away from my computer  !)


Carol x