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Dementors

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JemimaPuddleCat · 17/05/2020 19:21

Can you please, please ask the group of MNers that are using this term to stop coming onto CV related threads and throwing this word around? For whatever reason, they are being given carte blanche over their own series of threads which they use to mock and insult other MNers, but to continue throwing their tuppence into other threads in the Coronavirus topic screams of attention seeking.

I'm not sure why even using the term 'Dementor' to describe other posters is seen as okay, but if they'd not insert it into other conversations, this place would be a bit more pleasant at the moment.

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SummerHouse · 17/05/2020 20:32

I wish this place would be a bit more pleasant. I see the term dementor being aimed at the very unpleasant.

Mascotte · 17/05/2020 20:31

I would just suggest reporting any posts which you feel are inappropriate.

MH1111 · 17/05/2020 20:28

I like the dementor threads, it’s like an island of sanity in a sea of bonkers

Hobnobswantshernameback · 17/05/2020 20:25

Ah, have read some of the op's posts
Of the "stay the fuck at home" Ilk
Pot, kettle, black

MagdaS · 17/05/2020 20:25

Telling people they are 'deluded' at any sign of hope that things might be getting better is also making the site very unpleasant at the moment. Plenty of insulting going on all over the place where someone might be finding things a bit hard and not want to lock down until 2021. I don't think it's wrong to name it and call it out.

We are supportive and positive to all posters on our threads, and there are a range of views.

You don't have to read them.

PleasantVille · 17/05/2020 20:24

Unless censorship is introduced you can't expect anyone posting within the MN rules to be silenced because you don't like it.

Destroyedpeople · 17/05/2020 20:24

And I have been called a 'cunt' 'arsehole' etc for suggesting that the police don't in fact have the right to demand ID. Also that I should beat my son (my 'evil crotch spawn') around the head with a plank of wood for knowing this and pointing it out to an over officious officer....

I mean ok it was on fb not here but 'dementors' is an excellent name for these people. They aRe insane.

Hobnobswantshernameback · 17/05/2020 20:23

The mind boggles
I've read some utterly vile comments
Telling people they deserve to die of covid, that their child's mental health is unimportant and that anything short of self flagellation in a darkened room with a bowl of gruel is evil
I have seen people gleeful and scaremongering over thread after thread
Vile behaviour
And someone uses a name from a children's story book and they are the problem
Really?

Drivingdownthe101 · 17/05/2020 20:19

So it’s ok to call people murderers (a genuine, vile thing), but not ok to call them dementors (fictional beings from a children’s book)?

Hobnobswantshernameback · 17/05/2020 20:16

I have watched people be called murderers for going fucking shopping
I've seen people told to shut up when they are at breaking point with regards to their mental health "because people are dying "
I've seen people screech "stay the fuck at home" when people are talking about takin their child with a learning disability out for two walks a day
Yes they are fucking dementors
The threads are a blessed haven
I stay away from the coronavirus topic because it would make my blood boil
Try the same - stay away from our safe haven