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Are you ever going to do anything about trolls?

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MaRyzerection · 21/04/2014 00:46

Because it's really got fucking ridiculous.

You need to change your stance from "we have to prove it's trolling before we delete" to "we have to use common sense and realise this is ridiculous before we delete".

The site is becoming a parody of itself.

I'm getting to the stage that I no longer believe my own posts Confused

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elQuintoConyo · 21/04/2014 00:49

^^ what she* said.

(Except the bit about not believing my own posts, that's just embarassing!)

  • or he
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MrsCakesPremonition · 21/04/2014 00:52

Tonight there seem to be an especially persistent group of trolls galumphing around the boards. Maybe it is some sort of invasion from another board. It all feels much more like a nasty anti-MN campaign than the usual, lone oddball who posts crap.

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MaRyzerection · 21/04/2014 00:52

Grin

I'm a she (I think)





Yep, she Grin

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elQuintoConyo · 21/04/2014 00:55

Grin

Another one's just started in Other Subjects, some crap about 'funny threads'. Yawn. My report button is wearing out.

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RhondaJean · 21/04/2014 01:03

It's just school holidays surely

The obvious trolls don't annoy as much as the ones who slip under most radars and say have people charging up motorways to save them.

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chocolatesaltyballs · 21/04/2014 01:03

Another one here who's fed up of bridge dwellers.

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Sparklingbrook · 21/04/2014 01:07

Tonight has been total madness. I have been called a troll. It's really scary out there.

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MaRyzerection · 21/04/2014 01:07

There's a few of them atm Rhonda.

It's pissing me off. There is one in particular that I am predicting the next move and telling mnhq what's going to happen next - and each time I am right so far.

It's very predictable bollocks [sigh]

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MrsCakesPremonition · 21/04/2014 01:09

They all seem very aware of what one another are posting too - quite the clique.
Or maybe a NCing troll.

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Sparklingbrook · 21/04/2014 01:09

It's a tag team of crapness MrsC

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D0oinMeCleanin · 21/04/2014 01:09

Maybe it's time to bring in a "cooling off period" between joining and being able to start your own thread? Even if it's just during school holidays.

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MrsCakesPremonition · 21/04/2014 01:10

Passing the turd on to the next man?

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Sparklingbrook · 21/04/2014 01:11

Exactly MrsC.

Maybe time to stop all the namechanging. Or do something about it anyway. 'I have namechanged for this' is getting tedious.

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MaRyzerection · 21/04/2014 01:12

That would be sensible, Dooin. But ...

Don't we have to think of the poor posters whose arms have fallen off so they can't call the police, and anyway their ex's are policemen who would stop any help and meanwhile a tornado had taken the roof of their house and all their belongings have been stolen (except their pc which is their access to paypal, of course) and their children are naked and starving?

I mean, those people need our help, donchano?

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themockingjay · 21/04/2014 01:13

I reported a troll thread a few weeks back that I knew for a fact was a troll thread and mumsnet emailed me to state they weren't deleting it as it had a high volume of posters on the thread.

I do wonder if they don't delete popular troll threads to boost their site visitors.

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RhondaJean · 21/04/2014 01:13

Maryz I have missed this thread as I have got tied up in feminist rumblings, pointers gratefully appreciated.

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Coconutty · 21/04/2014 01:14

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MaRyzerection · 21/04/2014 01:15

Most of the ones I was watching have gone now.

I can't link to the others, because that would be troll-hunting, which is obviously a terrible thing to do because of all these poor (namechanging) posters to whom terrible things are happening.

I will end up being followed around by haterz again [bitter]

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MaRyzerection · 21/04/2014 01:16

themockingjay, how could you possible suggest such a thing Shock. How cynical of you to think such a thing might happen ShockShock

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scottishmummy · 21/04/2014 01:17

Oh my quite the mistress of hyperbole are you.site a parody of itself?oh have a fag

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MaRyzerection · 21/04/2014 01:18

Trouble is, coconutty, that if you look at most of them now they aren't complete newbies.

They are using baby names to build up a posting history. And sometimes other boards Angry

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SheherazadeSchadenfreude · 21/04/2014 01:18

Couldn't agree more. I've given up reporting as you just always get the same wet response. Even when you give factual information to back it up - eg "my entire family was killed in a car crash in New Zealand last week." Evidence on t'interweb says, no fatal car crashes in NZ that week. "Oh but we have no evidence that the poster isn't genuine." I've just given you the evidence that it's a lie you dozy cow.

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slithytove · 21/04/2014 01:19

Or they could add something like a little star in different colours next to our names depending on how many posts we have, which we keep even with a nc so you can tell it's not a new member. Lots of options.

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MaRyzerection · 21/04/2014 01:19

Oh, here we go.

Here's the wonderness that is the scottish person.

Let's not bother about the content of the thread, let's just attack the op (while simultaneously pretending to have never seen her before).

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themockingjay · 21/04/2014 01:20

Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin i am fairly new to mumsnet but Not a troll...

are they known for doing that? The funny thing is I didn't know what mumsnet was until soneone was showing off about the troll thread on Facebook I had a nosy... reported troll thread and then got bloody Addicted to the site... how rude!

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