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So who were they then? Recently deleted troll thread.

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Pipbin · 23/11/2015 22:24

There is a thread which has just been deleted where the OP admitted to being a troll and soon after the thread was zapped.

However the poster had a long back history of posts.
What I want to know, and I think it is important for us all to know, is whether this person had a long running posting history but got bored and then decided to 'come out' as a troll. Or if they had hacked into an existing account.
If they had built up this long posting history why did they bother?
If they hacked an account we need to know.

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Pipbin · 26/11/2015 21:12

Well thank you for explaining that it wasn't a hack.

I just don't understand the completely ordinary posting history up to then.

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GruntledOne · 26/11/2015 15:10

There's one who keeps coming back under different names when she gets banned but who also posts quite normal comments on other threads. The trouble is that it is those comments that out her, a fact she doesn't seem to twig.

reni2 · 26/11/2015 15:07

Or have a troll emoticon only HQ can use that automatically goes on every post an outed troll ever made, incl under different names Grin

ThenLaterWhenItGotDark · 26/11/2015 15:04

There's a rather ironic one coming up on A/s where she accuses someone of having joined the site just to start a goady thread. Maybe if she'd have done the same she wouldn't have had to jump up and down going "hello! hello! troll here!"

What a saddo.

I think that troll's posts should stay, but HQ should put big flashing lights on them saying "this was a saddo troll" and we could all point and laugh.

Maryz · 26/11/2015 14:59

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MaisieDotes · 26/11/2015 14:56

usual Shock

Was purdiepie outed as a troll? She was on my antenatal thread.

reni2 · 26/11/2015 14:42

Is a poster like that allowed to continue posting or does this earn them a ban?

PrivatePike · 26/11/2015 14:31

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NorksAreMessy · 26/11/2015 13:43

but...but...but....

all her previous posts, mostly completely innocuous, are still there . Is that standard? This is all MAD, MAD I tell you!

(I am strangely over-invested in this)

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BeccaMumsnet · 26/11/2015 12:27

Hi all - apologies for the delayed response. Just to assure you all that this wasn't a hacked account but was a bog-standard troll. We're afraid we're not entirely sure about their more unusual tactics.

UnderTheGreenwoodTree · 23/11/2015 23:29

Oops missed the middle pages of the thread - see that TrollyMcTroll has already been mentioned Blush

PrivatePike · 23/11/2015 23:24

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UnderTheGreenwoodTree · 23/11/2015 23:24

That is funny - nobody noticed she was a troll so she admitted it. Ultimate trolling (fail).

The other one tonight was the woman whose DH beat up her son for sending naked pics to girls Hmm

Total trollery - but people seemed sucked in. The Mosque/drugs/armed robbery references raised a flag for me - and the 9 dc. Gah - don't think anything's actually real on here anymore.

reni2 · 23/11/2015 23:20

But now what, do all her threads get deleted?

Quiero · 23/11/2015 23:17

It sounds like quite hard work being a dull troll. I can see why you might come on as a one off and post something outrageous but to bother to build up a dullard posting history and then post about tatty reading books? Confused

There's a certain skill to that, it has to be said.

SagaNorensLeatherTrousers · 23/11/2015 23:16

Surely HQ checked her history to verify she was indeed a PBP.

MissFitt68 · 23/11/2015 23:16

I'll say it... Nobody else will mention her name so here goes....

FattyNinjaOwl · 23/11/2015 23:15

I saw that when it had about three posts, thought it was dull as fuck and left without posting!
Argh! Wish I had posted now.

Leelu6 · 23/11/2015 23:14

Was laffymeal the troll who confessed?

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Pipbin · 23/11/2015 23:09

Yup, she said she was a troll.

So who were they then? Recently deleted troll thread.
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usual · 23/11/2015 23:07

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Pipbin · 23/11/2015 23:04

I think that she might have been real but a lot of people were picking her up on aspects of her post and saying things like 'thank fuck you aren't a teacher near me' and claiming to be a troll was just a way to get out of it.

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usual · 23/11/2015 23:03

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ExasperatedAlmostAlways · 23/11/2015 23:02

Just looked and she was boring., can't see any trolly or dodgy posts even in relationships.

SagaNorensLeatherTrousers · 23/11/2015 22:58

Must completely go against a troll's instincts to stay under the radar and dull.