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Original poster

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

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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?

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2shoes · 09/09/2011 16:27

could there also be some rule to shut the anti troll hunters up.
so someone shouts troll, proved wrong, then 10 posts about troll hunters being evil, thread ruined.

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BlameItOnTheBogey · 09/09/2011 16:19

No I guess I was thinking that repeated accusations which derail a thread and where warnings from mumsnet have been issued and ignored would lead to a strike.

But Hully, surely the people who shout troll are somehow attempting to police the site (albeit in a rather more vigilante kind of way)?

OK well it seems like I'm on my own with this thought so clearly not a runner. But god I wish there were some way to stop threads being destroyed.

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Hullygully · 09/09/2011 16:06

What a great idea!

You get first dibs at being police person

GypsyMoth · 09/09/2011 16:05

What do you call troll hunting?

A 'I see you are new to mumsnet'
Or
'interesting first post'
Or
A Hmm

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BlameItOnTheBogey · 09/09/2011 15:30

Arf at Mitch.

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MitchiestInge · 09/09/2011 15:18

there'll be no legal forms of hunting left at all soon

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BlameItOnTheBogey · 09/09/2011 15:12

At the moment all that seems to happen is that someone from mumsnet pops onto the thread and issues a polite reminder to please not troll hunt. Everyone ignores them and carries on.

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BlameItOnTheBogey · 09/09/2011 15:10

Yes Trillian you are probably right but can they tell us what it is then? For repeat offenders there doesn't appear to be any action. I guess it would be policed by people reporting trolls in much the same way as we are supposed to report suspicious threads.

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TrillianAstra · 09/09/2011 15:06

If people are breaking the rules, report them and MNHQ will sort them out. This is exactly what you would say to someone who was crying troll and it is what I am saying to you now.

They probably already do have a policy on troll-hunting you know.

GypsyMoth · 09/09/2011 15:05

How on earth could that be 'policed'?

ChristWhatNow · 09/09/2011 15:02

What's a strike? Crying troll at all or crying troll and being wrong?

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