The site is ruined until you deal with trolls.

The majority of threads I have seen trollhunting on turn out to be troll threads unfortunately. The trollhunters are more often correct than not.

sparkling I read socks in your first sentence and was all ready to defend myself then

Whenever i've reported people for troll hunting it has turned out that the op was a troll. It is pretty poor form though.

Well that's one of the problems with troll hunting, once one person starts it then others join in and the thread just gets derailed. It does make a weird kind of sense for a troll to do that

I think there's a fair few sockies around too. I wouldn't be surprised if trolls don't work alone. If a few get together sockying is easy.

Now that is something I've thought for a while, HD.

Don't know whether they're the same people who start troll threads, but I think some really enjoy the "poking the ants and watch them run".

I know. It is a bit head explodey.

But tbh, if I wanted to wind everyone up on here it's what I'd do. Go on a contentious or emotional threadnand start shouting troll.

Thankfully imdontbneed to resort to such drastic measures to annoy you all...

My natural charming nature and wise words is enough

Trolls are troll hunting now? That's just hurting my brain.

And as lovely as MNHQ are and like reports I'm not reporting

This troll hunter is a troll.

Because id look like a dick head*

*well even more so than normal

Personal observation: I think the new way for trolls to get their shits and giggles on Mnet is to troll hunt.

I don't believe THAT many genuine users would name change, or be very new, would post "troll" on posts. I just don't.

Use advance search on some of them, it's interesting.

And clever. Report them or call them out for troll hunting and it causes more disharmony and disarray. Can't report them for trolling by troll hunting either.

the reality is that it is impossible to actually be certain who is trolling and who isn't, however, there is a distinct gap in time between reporting threads and mn hq actually responding to them. Perhaps if mn hq were quicker off the mark people wouldn't feel the need to raise suspicion on the threads, and perhaps if the more emotive topics e.g. relationships, bereavement and health were more closely monitored threads would be dealt with before the point where someone voiced their suspicions.

It would also be helpful if people weren't so desperate to be heroes and in so doing continued to feed what are clearly obvious trolls. I'm not talking about general support/advice, but the clear over-investment that is present e.g. on the relationships board with people "checking in" on posters to make sure they're ok and then voicing their concerns when said poster hasn't been back to the thread. All very fraught and unnecessary, and encourages the attention seeking trolls to go and post there because they know they have plenty of live bate to work with.

Who paid it?!

Both trolls and troll hunting make it less likely people post about things that are weird. I bet most of us had a couple of experiences in our lives that would sound trollish if written down.

I really can't agree that trollhunting is worse than trolling. I wish there were neither, and that reports were acted on more quickly before people got the chance to start trollhunting on the thread.

Yes it's the troll hunters that are worse. And it is horrible when it happens to you because how can you prove yourself one way or the other?

And your thread never read like a troll thread to me at all. It would be a pretty pointless (and harmless) thing to troll about.

Zombie awaits the inevitable day when she is accused of being a troll.

Anchor I loved your thread, never for one second thought you were disingenuous.

I just wanted to say that, aside from thinking it's the Landlord, you shouldn't be alone at Christmas and I think you should go for the meal.

Also I've been reading your username incorrectly, I thought it was 'AnchorDeepDownBreath', and was puzzled, it makes more sense now I've stopped being thick!

You know you are not a troll Anchor.
Sadly I think more and more people are reading threads and subconsciously and consciously thinking "is it worth posting on that as its got troll signals?" And that must mean people whom could really assist or resolve genuine issues aren't posting.

I know there's always been trolls and maybe they are identified more now, making it feel like a more common problem. Or perhaps it is getting worse?

I had a thinly veiled comment about me being a troll and I think someone reported as MNHQ popped on the thread (with a comment about my 'issue' not about trolling). Thankfully I wasn't at a low ebb so it was "whatever" to me. But can understand why it upsets others.

Mumsnet is now a big enough site with, I deduce, much advertising revenue, to employ people 24/7 to deal with reports, trolls etc.

There have been some appalling trolls over this w/e on miscarriage threads etc that have not been taken down in time.

It's no use relying on a few night watch volunteers (wonderful though they are).

This place needs 24/7 proper monitoring or it will go right down the tubes.

Anchor fwiw I never thought you were a troll.

The thread that quoted yours has even more troll hunting on than yours. But it is really odd to troll hunt on a thread as old as yours is, if people were this suspicious, surely they would have reported it and HQ will have checked by now.

Yours is a fairly personal one, very unkind to throw about troll accusations.

So Anchor did you find out who paid yet?

Oh op I feel sorry for you. I remember your original tread and didn't know you'd been accused of being a troll, how rubbish.

Tbh there are posts where I think 'that's a bit far fetched' but they are entertaining and as I go on here to be entertained I don't really mind. The begging type ones are awful though.

Amen to that, our Sparklers.

Anchor