Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Site stuff

Join our Innovation Panel to try new features early and help make Mumsnet better.

Original poster

Can we have a 'three strikes and you're out' policy for troll hunters?

86 replies

BlameItOnTheBogey · 09/09/2011 15:00

I'm so fed up of seeing threads being derailed by people crying troll. The mumsnet rules on this are clear; don't engage and report the thread if you are suspicious. But this never seems to happen. I'm sure that a lot of times people are right. But a lot of time, the troll-hunters are wrong too. I'd rather see a few people duped on a fake thread than see genuine posters put off asking for help when they most need it because a handful of people are convinced that they aren't telling the truth.

But there doesn't seem to be any real sanction for troll-hunters. How about a three-strikes-and-you're-out kind of thing. Not permanently but maybe account blocked for 24 hours or something. Anyone else agree?

OP posts:
kerrymumbles · 11/09/2011 00:07

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

BecauseImWorthIt · 11/09/2011 00:07

"This is only an internet forum and the sort of saddo that reports posts needs to get a life."

Really, Tyr?

GetOrfMoiSamsungFridgeFreezer · 11/09/2011 00:06

I wish I hadn't mentioned the bastarding pineapples Grin

It's a good job I am not pregnant isn't it? I haven'[t a clue.

Perhaps I imagined the whole pineapple thread Confused

kerrymumbles · 11/09/2011 00:04

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

GetOrfMoiSamsungFridgeFreezer · 11/09/2011 00:04

NOOOOO

Fucking hell don't start that rumour Grin

I was pregnant in the dark ages it seems. And I DIDN'T use pineapple to bring on labour.

LeBOF · 11/09/2011 00:03

Three men who were lost in the forest were captured by cannibals. The cannibal king told the prisoners that they could live if they pass a trial. The first step of the trial was to go to the forest and get ten pieces of the same kind of fruit. So all three men went separate ways to gather fruits.

The first one came back and said to the king, "I brought ten apples." The king then explained the trial to him. "You have to shove the fruits up your ass without any expression on your face or you'll be eaten." The first apple went in... but on the second one he winced out in pain, so he was killed.

The second one arrived and showed the king ten berries. When the king explained the trial to him he thought to himself that this should be easy. 1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8... and on the ninth berry he burst out in laughter and was killed.

The first guy and the second guy met in heaven. The first one asked, "Why did you laugh? You almost got away with it!" The second one replied, "I couldn't help it, I saw the third guy coming with pineapples.

Pagwatch · 11/09/2011 00:03

You can get rings in a tin
Hths

Maryz · 11/09/2011 00:02

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

kerrymumbles · 11/09/2011 00:01

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

GetOrfMoiSamsungFridgeFreezer · 11/09/2011 00:00

Actually perhaps I am not confused at ALL.

Perhaps pineapple pessaries are the new thing in childbirth.

Can someone who has given birth recently confirm?

LeBOF · 10/09/2011 23:58

So what are you supposed to do? Confused

GetOrfMoiSamsungFridgeFreezer · 10/09/2011 23:56

I got very confused once on a MN thread re how to bring on labour. Someone mentioned that pineapple has some enzyme in it that ripens the cervix, I thought that they meant you had to put the pineapple in you, like a pineapple stick tampon.

scottishmummy · 10/09/2011 23:56

wouldn't cut it on feminist topics they shout troll all the time.if i fancy getting called troll,derailer, asked if im drunk i mosey over there.they love good accusation of troll

seriously,imo troll hunters are worse than trolls.inflated sense of self and attempts to revveal or prove some spurious point.

kerrymumbles · 10/09/2011 23:54

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Lougle · 10/09/2011 23:52

"The mumsnet rules on this are clear; don't engage and report the thread if you are suspicious. But this never seems to happen."

I suggest to you, that the fact that suspicions being reported means they are not known about on the board. Which is why it 'never seems to happen' to you.

For all you know, for every one 'troll-hunter' you see, 100 MNers could have followed procedure and privately reported.

I drop MNHQ a line once in a while...I never post on here that I have done so, because that is the whole point of reporting it off board.

LeBOF · 10/09/2011 23:52

I'm saying the 16th.

GetOrfMoiSamsungFridgeFreezer · 10/09/2011 23:51

Does the winner get to name the baby?

GetOrfMoiSamsungFridgeFreezer · 10/09/2011 23:51

I'll have sept 28th.

I will send you a vindaloo and some pineapple on the 27th.

bibbitybobbityhat · 10/09/2011 23:49

I spose I'd better have the 29th.

kerrymumbles · 10/09/2011 23:48

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

bibbitybobbityhat · 10/09/2011 23:48

If your dc3 is 10 days late and his due date is the 19th then he will have the very same birthday as moi y'know Reality (yes, I am still here, hanging by a thread) Grin.

Maryz · 10/09/2011 23:47

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

RealityVonCrapp · 10/09/2011 23:47

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

kerrymumbles · 10/09/2011 23:45

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

RealityVonCrapp · 10/09/2011 23:36

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Swipe left for the next trending thread