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Has anyone else noticed the one-liner trolls?

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fidel1ne · 06/01/2016 07:41

There's one on the nudist beach thread now and I've noticed them on several threads I've read in the last few days.

I think I remember one on the (since deleted) thread about different ways to assault Peter Connelly's mother and also on the super-glue on the toilet seat thread.

I'm going to have to retrace my steps to find them, I think.

What's it all in aid of?

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fidel1ne · 06/01/2016 11:46

But isn't odd to just say that Drop?

What about the one on the nudist beach thread?

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DropYourSword · 06/01/2016 11:46

Or someone making a admittedly pretty poor joke

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fidel1ne · 06/01/2016 11:45

Not so much the (brief) content Noeuf as the pointlessness of posting a tiny post consisting of nothing substantive and immediately disappearing again.

Posters addressed that person ('why?' etc) and got no response.

It was only after seeing about 20 similar posts scattered about culminating in nudebot that I began to wonder if they were even reportable.

But if this whinge eventually takes me to slow-cooker doner-kebab recipes and home-made ice-cream, I'll survive Smile

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DropYourSword · 06/01/2016 11:45

Really? Sometimes I give very long answers. Sometimes I would only write one line. Maybe it IS just someone appalled by a thread.

SouthWestmom · 06/01/2016 11:40

'I'm appalled by your thread'

You think that's a troll? Dear god we are becoming sensitive little flowers in here aren't we. What with that and the cries of GF for anyone disagreeing with accepted view on benefits, council houses, mothers in law etc I'm surprised we haven't turned into a haven of ticker tapes and emoticons...

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fidel1ne · 06/01/2016 11:31

Oh okay. Report then? Smile

(But FGS someone PM to explain the point of such lax trolling to me Grin )

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fidel1ne · 06/01/2016 11:29

Well not just curt - EXTREMELY curt.

This for example, from this thread;

[[http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2541561-To-To-be-appalled-at-all-the-royal-palaces?pg=2&messages=100

Has anyone else noticed the one-liner trolls?
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Atomik · 06/01/2016 11:25

fidel1ne

I went and not only did my vague idea of making ice cream come to pass into actual, delicious ice cream (and one "will make you blind probably" disaster ice cream ... but that was my fault) but I came away all drunk on the (non ice creamed) milk of human friendly, helpful, funny loveliness that the board is soaked in.

I'll thinking of setting up a permenent camp there. It will mean I have to learn how to cook. But I consider this a silver lining. Grin

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OliviaMumsnet · 06/01/2016 11:23

REPORT REPORT REPORT

hownottofuckup · 06/01/2016 11:22

The food board led me to the recipe for making doner kebab in the slow cooker. I will forever be grateful!

DropYourSword · 06/01/2016 11:22

I think I must have a different definition of troll TBH because it doesn't match with what raxacoricofallapatorious says

hownottofuckup · 06/01/2016 11:20

'Just post throw away curt messages and move on'

Umm, I think I might have been guilty of that before Blush

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fidel1ne · 06/01/2016 11:18

May I suggest an occasional brief trip to the food/recipes board as an antidote. They are lovely, and it restores one's faith in online community spirit.

Thanks Atomik, I am in a bit of a menu rut Grin

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HanSolo · 06/01/2016 11:16

Just report.
And pity them.

WatchedFrozenWayTooMuch · 06/01/2016 11:16

I am Confused about why anybody will bother to troll the baby names board. Or what they would even say.

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fidel1ne · 06/01/2016 11:16

There have always been one liner trolls. They don't have a favourite topic, don't argue, don't fabricate complex stories. Just post throwaway, slightly inflammatory curt messages and move on. Aibu is their most common hunting ground but they don't discriminate

Yes, that's it to a T. They've always been with us? Maybe my trolldar has just improved all of a sudden, then.

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fidel1ne · 06/01/2016 11:13

If spambots can do that, that makes sense, for the nudist one at least.

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Raxacoricofallapatorius · 06/01/2016 11:12

The baby names troll is lacking in wit, knows the hooks to use and gets a bite very quickly. Still not sure why though. It just seems easy. Maybe that's the draw.

Raxacoricofallapatorius · 06/01/2016 11:10

Maybe your trolldar is just better. There have always been one liner trolls. They don't have a favourite topic, don't argue, don't fabricate complex stories. Just post throwaway, slightly inflammatory curt messages and move on. Aibu is their most common hunting ground but they don't discriminate.

hownottofuckup · 06/01/2016 11:07

The baby names troll befuddles my mind. Why?? Just whhyyyy???

DropYourSword · 06/01/2016 11:07

Gaaaah. One line, not bloody online.

AllMyBestFriendsAreMetalheads · 06/01/2016 11:07

I thought the nudist beach one could be a bot of some sort rather than a troll.

DropYourSword · 06/01/2016 11:06

Why do you think online necessarily equals troll? I don't understand what was wrong with the nudist beach one??

Raxacoricofallapatorius · 06/01/2016 11:04

I've noticed the baby names troll is posting A LOT atm. Far more than usual.

Atomik · 06/01/2016 11:00

Haven't seen a nudist troll

But the ratio of posters who post a one line, superficial, spiteful response to just about anything an OP might be asking about ... has shot up to the point where they are setting the tone on far too many threads.

And the bugger is most stay just a hair away from going over the boundaries of TOS. So you can't even report them.

I don't think they are trolls. Unfortunately I think that is just how they see the world, how they communicate and what they think support/debate looks like. It's more likely a wave of incoming, perhaps attracted by the tweeting of certain threads.

May I suggest an occasional brief trip to the food/recipes board as an antidote. They are lovely, and it restores one's faith in online community spirit.