trolls, attention seekers and other wierdos.

Just seen this thread - I'm Dottydot (or have been Dot1 in the past!) and I'm definitely NOT Dotty mum!!!

You know, I'm the one with the female dp and 2 ds's, been here forever - 6 years now??! - honest, I'm not a troll!!!

Fairly convincingly Ssshake Although the slight oddness of the phrasing I just put down to grief

just looked and dottymum is in dagenham, yet madame r, somewhere abroad? so how can they be the same person?
totally agree re a lot of people who have had genuine need have been helped, which is the whole point of this site

She posted that it was something that had happened in the past.

Agree, don't feel stupid. The JF thing was a good example of how things can very quickly unravel - one or two people had doubts throughout, but when they were finally voiced, lots and lots of people posted about how bad a 'witchhunt' it was, and how JF was a decent, well respected poster. But it only took a day for the whole charade to collapse.

What was most bizarre was that it was JF her/himself that posted 'doubts had been made about her authenticity' and that she was investigating them and would clear her name. Agree with Marina, the business about the death of the child was really wicked.

Someone was on here saying their dc had died and it wasn't true?

Mellowma, look at what WWB and eemie say though - the advice on those threads, thoughtfully given by people like you, will help other people facing a similar situation in real life.
Please don't feel stupid. I was taken in by JudgeFlounce because having lost a baby myself I really could not believe anyone, however troubled or wicked, would make up the death of a child. I was soooo wrong.
soapbox is right though, I think. People who engage in this sort of extended hoax usually do have underlying mental health issues and may not be able to help themselves.

Just read through this thread - didn't really catch the whole MR/fox thing, but have known a few people like this in real life, and they do fit that 'attention seeker' definition, and are very convincing!

Don't feel stupid - it's hard enough to spot a liar when you are face to face, take all the affairs that go undetected in RL.

It's going to be doubly different in virtual life, especially when someone is working with a personna that is not completely made up. This person used her RL name, her DCs real lkife names/ages etc etc etc. Hard to spot therefore!

no mellow.......and neither should you

her story seemed really plausible to me , when she was posting as dottymum, her description of feeling depressed was , to me, spot on. so i didn;lt want to ignore her...and lots of other people then got involved, and then became involved again when she became foxy/ reynard etc..... i didn;t know it was the same person until recently.....

i think the bottom line is, she needs help of some sort, which hopefully she will get now

just think mellow, would you rather be the person who cared or the person who didn't give a f**k?
I know which I'd rather be. You are not stupid for giving a shit

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a colleague's wife is in prison for the murder of her son, munchausens by proxy....so sad.

WWB makes a good point - one of the outstanding features of troll threads is the genuine concern shown by responders. The advice given is often excellent. Even if the OP is making it all up, someone who is genuinely in a similar situation could benefit.

There's also a range, which WWJD has described, from outright cynical con artists to genuine mnetters who characteristically dramatise everything in their lives (and yes, I do have someone in mind, but not any of the current posters ).

It's the same in RL isn't it? Some people can't just say they need a few days off work without a lurid tale of family tragedy. One of my colleagues is on her fourth or fifth dying grandmother ('she was the one who really brought me up after my mother abandoned us on Christmas Day....'). WWJD is just trying to think clearly about it, which surely does no harm. I don't read her first post as prescriptive.

God, I had absolutely no idea. Didn't smell a rat at all. Bless you all for helping her, anyway, and I do hope that the poster who is taking a break because of this comes back soon .

its was bosscat ppha nd were you in it soapy?

JF's reveal was in January too - we must have heightened powers of supersleuthing post Christmas or something

I have to say the detective work that has been done behind the scenes is almost as impressive as the JF outing! Perhaps even more satisfying as quite a lot of RL info about the woman concerned has been unearthed!

At least this one does appear to be female

However, let us not forget that as someone else said - might have been Jesus - attention seeking of this kind, is likely to be as a result of some kind of mental health issue or substance abuse - so perhaps whilst furious at the lies, maybe we shouldn't be too quick to condemn

Well I never pick up on these trolls but I'm not too bothered. Do you really think the majority of posters on here are ALWAYS truthful? I don't think so but then I lost my innocence on other forums I suppose...

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nothing worng wiht a little name changing ime