Some people on here are ridiculously gullible

Exactly - the people who post on MN about how posting on MN means you can only care about that thing! Just total lack of critical thinking

Just clocked OP's username.
Dagless would sort this out or my arse is grass!

pointing out that some stories are so obviously fake it’s laughable.

You do realise you're not 'pointing this out' if everybody already knows full well this is the case, though?

It's the fact you seem to believe people don't know this because you believe what they respond is in earnest. That's what people are now 'pointing out' to you.

not sure why you care?

But even if a post is fake, at what point does 'benefit of the doubt' have to leave the room? Okay, so maybe a troll is having a laugh at all the gullible people posting on their thread but, apart from that, what harm is being done?

And if one vulnerable person is helped, does it matter how many troll posts there are?

There's an MN Trolls Reddit sub which might interest you. Trollhunt to your heart's content there. If you think a post here isn't genuine, report and move on.

Did she not also move continents (from Middle East back to here)? Or was that another one whose whole life changed beyond recognition in a matter of hours? Suspected husband of something one evening; was leaving the country the next afternoon!😀

Sometimes valuable information and discussions happen on these threads. And the incredulous posters can be quite entertaining.

Some people on here are ridiculously gullible

Your title was condescending and lacks self-awareness with the reference to ‘some people on here’. The irony is, you believe people are posting ‘in earnest’ when they might just be playing along. Why believe everything you read?!

That's a rather scathing generalisation. I comment on threads if I have something to say about the subject raised. I couldn't care less if the situation is true, or simply a story to get people talking. It's a discussion forum not a support service. Any support given to a real person on a genuine issue is a bonus, but I'm here for the exchange of views and don't mind what sparks them. If I'm not interested in the subject I move along.

The UK is guillable which explains Daily Mail circulation numbers.

This is exactly how I see it.

It's the discussion of the issue I am drawn to. Not the original story that prompted it- I dont care if thats real or not.

OMG, yes. I think it was a different one but I remember that too.
Didn't she drive to pick her stuff up from the marital home, load the car, drive the car, do live MN updates (whilst driving said car) go to the airport and arrive back in the UK on a long haul.flight all in the space of about three hours?

While multiple posters didn't even try to hide the fact they were treating it like an episode of Eastenders. Then IIRC civil war broke out in the thread over who was rooting for the OP and supporting them more.

I’m sure there are tons of fake threads but I wouldn’t know which ones necessarily are fake. Hopefully most of the ones about truly awful men that women put up with. Though I know a lot of intelligent women in real life who have stayed with abusive cheaters, so not really unbelievable.

Hopefully all the “I make 6 figures and send all my kids to private school but income tax is soooo unfair” are false, but I do know people who are genuinely that oblivious and selfish so also not unbelievable.

At the moment most things in real life are less believable than mumsnet (eg. Trump being president of the US, educated people genuinely unsure if men can change sex through the power of imagination and blusher, etc..) so it’s difficult to tell anymore.

Typical man thinking a woman centred forum is just there to provide him with entertainment.
After all women aren't important enough to be taken seriously are they?

A nice little drama with themselves in the middle of it. Attention.

You can never really know what's true and what's made up. Some things that seem too incredible are probably true, and probably a lot of meh threads are completely fabricated.

Obviously some of it is bollocks. As are some of the replies. But the wider discussion can be interesting. And honestly I am fascinated by a few of the posters on here. Some of them are so belligerent, deluded and out of touch. I often scan through a thread and see a username pop up and find myself wondering what their lives are like, if they have any friends etc. Or if they hide the darkness in their souls in real life.

It's a chat forum for entertainment.

Yes it can have a serious side and sometimes the support given to posters in genuine difficult situations is really wonderful to see.

However, a lot is for entertainment and a bit of gossip. I don't like the obviously ridiculous posters but I do quite enjoy a group gossip and a bit of opinion sharing.

I knew this comment would make someone come frotthing to the comments section.

Perhaps it would come as a shock to you that I do also engage earnestly with many of the threads on here - it's reactionary people like you that make for the entertainment though.

How am I to take posts seriously when they're titled "Can I afford DC 3 when I only have 5k left over after paying bills & mortgage"?

This is a really well-put answer. That's exactly what it is like.

If I'm honest, I think if you factor in the reverses or the threads posted to scratch an itch about a friend who annoys them etc, very few are what they profess to be.

I post brief comments as sometimes truth is stranger than fiction and real ot not i would say the same

But I dont get this intense long dramatic replies from epopl3 who take on whatever op as their own, and of course when they usually dramatically take the biased op side

That's what it comes down to.

@SkipperTheEyeChild agree ! are you referring to a recent thread? i was thinking that one late last night( hint...glass bottle) was fiction

Tbf, there are plenty of women saying the same and thats exactly what Mumsnet Classics is for!