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Why won’t MNet take seriously other sites trolling here?

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Welllookiehere · 01/01/2023 02:39

Tattle users are openly bragging about trolling this site, including confessing to being behind one long standing, very identifiable thread on here. When reported MN say they don’t look at other sites. Meanwhile photographs are taken from another thread on here daily for ridicule over there, whilst the people on the thread here keep posting unaware their images are being used to poke fun at.

Mumsnet has become sport for Tattle users to troll. Surely it’s in the interest of this to look at other sites and protect the users here? There will always be trolls as long as there is an internet, but when someone on another site is actively telling you they are behind things surely you have a duty to take that seriously?

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WinnieFosterReads · 12/02/2023 00:31

I agree OP. MN could mod the obvious Tattle threads on here better. In the past, they'd delete them. Now they are letting threads run that are obviously from Tattle.
Trolls from there would get bored in the past because their threads here never ran that long. It seems like MN has just given up on trying to deal with any of the trolls. They're making the site unusable.

HashtagShitShop · 09/02/2023 10:10

Welllookiehere · 01/01/2023 03:02

Surely it warrants looking into, not just a blanket ‘we don’t look at other sites’. Especially when the People involved in the threads seem to post at the same times on both sites. It’s a game to get threads into the Mail and into Classics. It’s not always been like this. I’ve been here many many years and although trolls have always been present they haven’t been a competitive sport.

I do namechange frequently, but frankly i find it deeply uncomfortable to come across a photo of a mnetter who’s sharing on a thread on a not especially busy board, where they are ridiculing everything she is wearing and everything around her. Yes, it’s up to those posters to decide what to share, but I feel it does bear repeating that there are folk out there who live to put down others and that’s where there images may end up.

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But there genuinley is nothing they can do. They're not allowed to share info of other people private information (here and other sites) amongst them unless there is a police warrant.

You're posting on a public site that's free to join and browse. Taking posts from here and posting them elsewhere is very similar to other websites, SM, newspapers/tv sharing peoples tweets, public Facebook posts or sharing a video from YouTube that someone else has posted.

GonnaGetGoingReturns · 09/02/2023 10:03

ExhaustedFlamingo · 01/01/2023 04:35

I saw you had a comment deleted on a very longstanding thread series last night @Welllookiehere but I came along too late to see what it originally said. I gather it was calling someone out for BS.

I've never looked at Tattle but I might go on over to see for myself what's being said about MN on there.

I was briefly a member of Tattle (nothing to do with MN to do with celebs).

If I did see any MNers or ex MNers on there I think some did have fair points to make about why they’d left MN and had absconded to Tattle.

I don’t think it’s big and clever to have two accounts and make up a story eg on one site but I’d guess this is happening across a few forums and sites and MN can’t police them all.

hothands · 09/02/2023 09:57

I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the dressing room on LW 🤣 If this is true, a certain co presenter of hers has around 80 threads on Tattle.

Timelles · 09/02/2023 09:34

hothands · 09/02/2023 08:24

Interesting...

Thank you, I always wondered who 'Helen' was. It was speculated that she was actually an influencer at one time.

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There's a few comments under this article which also seem to back it up

limegoss.com/inside-tattle-life/

hothands · 09/02/2023 08:24

Timelles · 09/02/2023 08:14

@hothands I heard it from someone who works in media, apparently it's an open secret but I don't move in those circles, I've read it elsewhere as well though. I'm sure it'll be confirmed or squashed in due course though.

Interesting...

Thank you, I always wondered who 'Helen' was. It was speculated that she was actually an influencer at one time.

Timelles · 09/02/2023 08:14

@hothands I heard it from someone who works in media, apparently it's an open secret but I don't move in those circles, I've read it elsewhere as well though. I'm sure it'll be confirmed or squashed in due course though.

hothands · 08/02/2023 17:37

"Helen" ( or CM from loose women is allegedly the founder of tattle)

Is that true?! Where did you find that out?

Timelles · 08/02/2023 14:16

@FaceLikeASlappedArse1985 people don't go on tattle for advice? Since when? There's a whole section called "Advice" and @aveltmp Go take a look at the thread they have on tattle with the title "mumsnet".... I don't think that's "less trolly" to take the piss out of people posting their outfits on here. "Helen" ( or CM from loose women is allegedly the founder of tattle) IS terrified of being exposed, if they were so proud of what they have created why would they be so fiercely private about their identity? a quick google shows you exactly the founders of other forums are.

Florissant · 28/01/2023 12:47

You get an ad blocker message only if you are not a member. And, yes, you can swear except not in thread titles.

hothands · 28/01/2023 09:06

PennyToffee · 27/01/2023 22:50

I've just had a nose on Tattle.Apart from the annoying disable your adblocker thing the 'bleeping' thing that replaces swearing is enough to put me off.

What do you mean? You can swear on Tattle if you want.

PennyToffee · 27/01/2023 22:50

I've just had a nose on Tattle.Apart from the annoying disable your adblocker thing the 'bleeping' thing that replaces swearing is enough to put me off.

aveltmp · 25/01/2023 09:03

Someone is bitter that they were banned, and you have to do a lot to get banned from the other site from what I can tell. I can't imagine why someone thats clearly so lovley and amicable could be shown the door😉
Your post is nonsensical. Tattle has been mentioned for years in the media and sites like here. Terrified of being exposed 😆. It's way less trolly than other sites as you see when people are new & people can't name change.

gamerchick · 25/01/2023 06:30

Board wars Grin

FaceLikeASlappedArse1985 · 24/01/2023 23:17

FaceLikeASlappedArse1985 · 24/01/2023 23:16

You’re actually hilarious. People don’t go on tattle for advice they go to discuss the hideous behaviour of influencers which they do pretty well 🤦🏼‍♀️

also the owner is ‘Helen’ who you’d not seen act as a mod

FaceLikeASlappedArse1985 · 24/01/2023 23:16

You’re actually hilarious. People don’t go on tattle for advice they go to discuss the hideous behaviour of influencers which they do pretty well 🤦🏼‍♀️

Timelles · 24/01/2023 20:38

Tattle is VILE, CLIQUEY and the mods are inconsistent. They are terrified of being exposed because they know how toxic the site is. Mods constantly degrade and demean users. Their "support" section is basically a place to humiliate new users...interestingly they don't allow users to change their username (because they love the infighting and doxxing of their own users in the threads, they love any kind of drama, I suspect one mod in particular is the owner of the site) They only introduced this "referral" after tattle was mentioned on here. The site has become a massive troll site with users constantly re-signing up after they get banned from criticizing mods...Yes - you get banned from tattle if you criticise a mod who has, in fact; broken their own rules (but rules don't apply to the mods). I'm looking at you oohthedrama 👀

Anyway I've found much more useful information on mumsnet that I ever did on tattle, so I signed up and I'm off for a look around, maybe see some of you soon!

vera99 · 02/01/2023 06:41

dolor · 02/01/2023 05:11

Ohhhh it looks like writing the subname gets your stuff hidden.

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MN has auto censor bots that hide sites from 'dodgy' urls....

dolor · 02/01/2023 05:11

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Ohhhh it looks like writing the subname gets your stuff hidden.

dolor · 02/01/2023 05:10

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vera99 · 02/01/2023 04:23

This thread is now on Reddit which is how I knew it existed. It seems if you make a thread about trolls it acts as a troll magnet 🧲

Kedece2410 · 02/01/2023 04:16

That would then give the Posters to those threads the choice whether to share further or not and to possibly request their posts/images removal

You can't seriously think MN would remove posts at someone's request just because the thread had been picked up by another outlet. Threads highlighted on the DM etc bring traffic to MN. As a business that's what they want.

TimeToFlyNow · 02/01/2023 04:10

gamerchick · 01/01/2023 10:12

Isn't that a bit pathetic though? Like on SM posting stuff just for as many likes as possible and whatnot? It shows them up more than anything as being a bit crap at life if that's what it's reduced them to doing for sport.

You can't let yourself get het up.

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Exactly what I was thinking, pretty pathetic really

Fifi00 · 02/01/2023 03:52

Nope tattle life points out that MN goes on about things nobody cares about in real life. The class obsession thing , competitive undereating now competitive coldness. I don't like bits of tattle I find they go more in on women than men which as a feminist I don't like but they do call out bullshit.

BadNomad · 02/01/2023 03:37

I actually think it's worse that you brought back potentially hurtful comments, from a completely unrelated site, to here, where the people who are the subjects of those comments are.

It's like going up to your colleague and saying, "Hey, people you don't know, in a building you don't work in, think you are a dirty tramp. Isn't that awful? Just thought you should know. Well, bye!"