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

80 replies

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?

OP posts:
Gronkle · 01/01/2023 03:01

We are mums and a lot of us are middle aged women, we are apparently fair game, sad bastards they are.

Comewithmefriday · 01/01/2023 02:54

Not sure it warrants this level of reaction. People have ripped the piss out of mumsnet since time immemorial.

dolor · 01/01/2023 02:54

Yeaaahh well the thing is, some folks on MN are guilty of doing the same since forever, so it's always going to go in circles.

Just disengage whenever you see it happening.

RoseslnTheHospital · 01/01/2023 02:51

How on earth could you possibly show that a user on a different site who is claiming to be behind a thread actually is? Anyone could say that, and it can't be verified unless you have access to both sites user details. Even if you did, it would rely on the user having used the same details to sign up for both and not be obscuring their IP.

When you post on a public site like MN, part of doing that is to understand that anything you write might be picked up by others and repeated. For nice uses or not so nice uses. That's how public posting works. Name change frequently if you don't want to become a recognised poster.

Panpastels · 01/01/2023 02:47

It's a public forum. Best not to take it too seriously.