Really slow to respond to troll reporting!

I don't understand what I posted that was so wrong though?

I can imagine you don’t. I don’t always either. Sometimes it’s just really awful stuff.

I never troll hunt. I report. There's no hate speech button on the app so I'm going to report and in my report explain it's against equality act and hate speech. I'll also try to challenge on thread but sometimes I don't have the resilience to do so

Me too.

I think reporting something for being ableist or otherwise discriminatory is absolutely fair. There’s a ‘hate speech’ option.

It’s not troll hunting to say on a thread that the things someone is posted are discriminatory and unacceptable. They don’t have to be a ‘troll’ to have said something that isn’t ok.

Apologies @deliverooyoutoo i misunderstood your post

I got told I was a troll on 1 thread, soon got deleted and I've been here many years.

Where have I trolled online activities? There's a statement further down the thread that I am trolling online activities and I'm not. I report to mumsnet every time.

What I will do is change what I say in my report when something is ableist.

This. ^ I am sicking of seeing these offensive threads bashing the disabled.

Just to clear something up. I don't troll hunt. I report to mumsnet.

What I will be doing in future is where it is a troll that is promoting harassment against disabled people, by inciting hate or otherwise engendering an intolerant atmosphere by violating my dignity, or something that creates a hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment - I'll call it that in the report.

I think MNHQ have got some new moderators and I'm purely speculating here but I think that they're much younger and a lot more 'woke' in that, they seem to be focusing more on the politically incorrect than actual offensive posts & threads and outright trolls. Some have been very rude & abrupt in email exchanges, too.

It would also explain why they're not picking up as well on the clues left by the long term trolls who keep reappearing every now & then.

Just my opinion!

No. That’s why MN ask people to do that - rather than troll hunt.

but it’s not because of the equalities act.

No it's not that, it's a common trope on here that trolls are more common in the school holidays. It's not meant as any kind of insult, it is literal but no one ever has an explanation that makes sense.

You are taking the phrase far too literally. They are just taking the piss by calling them children.

That doesn't make sense either, who is so busy during school terms that they don't have any spare time for the internet? The only group that could maybe fit that might be teachers but no one thinks teachers spend their holidays trolling on here do they? That's just daft.

The water/Liz Truss/underground creatures/M&S troll(s) who have been mentioned on this thread are not school kids with time on their hands. They just aren’t. Maybe juvenile poo/bum/willy threads are, but not these particular ones.

It’s not about internet access, it’s about having time to kill.
Anyway, I’m off and won’t be returning.

Not angry at all I just really really don't understand the half term comment and I've never found an explanation of the thinking behind it. I thought you would be able to explain as you must think it's a thing

No obligation to explain of course I will continue to be baffled by what it's meant to mean. Teachers? School kids? Parents who have taken time off work? But why would any of those groups not have internet access at other time?

Wow, you seem very angry.
i personally have had a very nice day 🌞

Reporting trolls using the report function is NOT troll hunting.

Having a protected characteristic doesn’t mean you trolling online activities are protected under the equalities act. Or that anyone objecting to bad behaviour is ‘harassing you’ or discriminating against you.

we’ve all - every single one of us - got protected characteristics. That doesn’t mean we get to troll people on MN.

Troll hunting is disruptive to the site and possibly encourages rather than deters trolls. That’s why it’s not allowed. Nothing to do with protected characteristics.

Apart from the fact that it isn't half term everywhere can you explain who only has internet access and/or free time during school holidays. Are you suggesting that teachers are making stuff up or that there are multiple school age children whose pastime of choice is signimg up to websites not aimed at them and concocting involbed fantasies?

Has anyone ever actually met at a child who would do this? If you have I d suggest you get them checked for mental health issues

The school holiday thing is just so stupid, does no one think it through?

Disability bashing threads www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/4660676-disability-bashing-threads I've started a separate thread to discuss disabled bashing trolls.

@MNHQ can you not block the IP address of persistent trolls?