All this recent thread deleting and trollery and troll hunting and stuff

Jux, we cannot have a poo smell coming from the computer, or MNetters all over the land would be sniffing toddlers' bottoms or eyeing the cat suspiciously, trying to work out who had defecated where!

If a thread is locked, another one will be started to discuss why the thread is locked, and to dissect the locked thread.

The only advantage is that it won't all have to be repeated.

Current 'method' has further problem. I had no idea there'd been a troll about until I saw all the threads asking where the thread had gone. If the thread had not been deleted then I would never have known.

(If, however, a poo-smell were wafting from my computer, then I would have hastened over and found it before it was gone )

but I don't think it does give a clear message - to anyone

We get return trolls (today was someone already banned previously.......)

We get the spin off threads after the thread is deleted.

That's why you get half the PM's and FB stuff and extra threads going on - people wondering what happened to the thread. If it's there, and locked - and the troll banned (possibly again...) it sets off page after page of speculation and people asking those that have saved it for copies of it etc etc.

If you leave it there - then there's no need to PM someone, or to have a lengthy rehash of i - it's there in black and white (and blue ).

This current system doesn't work because we have EXACTLY the same fall out every time a troll thread is deleted........."who, where, when, what happened"

And then, because of the seemingly irregular information from MNHQ about who/why they were banned etc (as mentioned in an earlier post on this thread)- more questions asked. IF there was a set amount of details MNHQ gave out and that was that. Then people would (eventually and on the whole) stop trying to find out more information as they'd know it wouldn't be forthing coming.

Because you know for example - I'm off to sleep shortly (I know early for me ) - but if I were to come back in the morning and find this thread had been deleted I would want to know why......and would probably ask......(and a whole new thread would be spawned

If MNHQ decided (for some bizarre reason ) tl lock this thread, and left an explanatio at the bottom such as "WE don't like being told how to run our website" ).

I'd think - oh ok, fair enough - there's my answer - hey presto no spawned thread.

Nope - I'm with you Jux. I love the idea of the joke being back on them.

They wouldn't be lost though, they'd be linked and rehashed and serve as a 'look, look troll wannabes, here's how not to do it' manual.

A troll's power is in posting, I like that their threads are deleted. Gives a very clear message.

Thread graveyard: tick.

Allow troll to continue posting - abso-bloody-lutely

but with the proviso that to all the rest of us their posts are a different colour (and carry a poo smell - note determination) while to them, their posts are whatever colour they always were. Thus allowing troll baiting to go on unabated for time immemorial (until thread is filled up or everyone gets bored, leaving troll asking anxiously "anyone?" "anyone there?" after desperately admitting that they've just eaten their baby or other such ludicrosity).

Or am I being par-tic-u-lar-ly mean?

Yes Chickens, it was your idea I think I 'voted' for. :)

thread graveyard!!
thread graveyard!!
thread graveyard!!

We need the trolls to be given avatars, a nice big picture of an under bridge dweller would do me

but showofhands - the current policy of deleting has that problem already - ESPECIALLY with the thread being rehashed on a new one.

IF the thread were left to stand - but locked, and with a note from MNHQ at the end of it to explain why it had been locked then there would be no need to start a thread saying

"OMG WHAT happened to that thread about poo"

and for someone else to come along and rehash the entire thing again. As the initial post wouldn't be there as they'd have read the thread and would know what had happened to it.

As they'd be locked they would be forever lost in the archives within days as no-one could ever bump them.

As it is thread gets started by a troll, it's deleted, at least one or 2 threads will pop up asking about it, the entire thread will be rehashed in full (for those that missed the ending) and it just goes on a cycle for days.

I would have appreciated a message to say you were deleting my thread and why before you pulled it. There were no insults on there, you could have deleted posts rather then the whole thread. I'm very disappointed in you.

And instead of deleting, put everything they've ever written in green ink or something (unless genuinely offensive or upsetting) so we can spot them a bit faster next time.

Yes, that would be fun, too! Either way, they'd presumably get bored pretty quickly.

there are quite a few of us who would prefer threads ot stand.

other than unacceptable personal insults (and I don't mean of the "you twat" variety), threads and posts should stand.

we should be able to see hwo the trolls are, and the wankers who post crappy rascist/sexist/disablist posts.

let the wankers be shouted down reasoned with, and let the posts stand.

otherwise all that happens is utter tripe can be posted (and oftenis), and then denied for ever after...

Horton, that's possibly the best anti troll spray I've ever heard of.

Except they'd know and then make up other names to reply to themselves.

Doubt a thread graveyard would work tbh. Not when what some trolls want is the pleasure of seeing their threads there in black and white. And while they were there in black and white, others would be started to respond to, refute, attack etc sentiments within the locked thread and the new thread would just take on the mantle of the locked thread.

I like that they delete. It gives the clear message of 'this will not be tolerated, there is no place for it here, beggar orf please'.

lol at wassailing Jux

and it was a bloody good idea chickens!