does ti matter if thre are trolls? cos i dont think so

There are some fun trolls. Rosemary Woodhouse (?) is one of my most favourite, with her darling sweetheart and next doors noisy lovemaking.

I still wonder if some of LisaLisa's mnore hillarious threads have been inspired genious trolling. (not accusing!!! but the entertainment value has been enormous!)

Trolls that jest with death, abuse, molestation etc makes my blood boil. People take things seriously, and get upset as it touches raw nerves, as somebody else said.

Oh, and I too thought Mozhe was a troll, till I met a mumsnetter who knows her RL.

I know. . I had it all planned out as well. Livening up retirement with sexy role play. Alien Abduction Fridays, the lot.

And nobody bit.

This seems like a good lighthearted troll thread so can someone please please please tell me the Lavenderrr tale? No one ever talks about it. Or is it so bad that it now goes unmentioned by general unspoken agreement.
I kind of agree - this is meant to be an anonymous forum - it shouldn't really matter if a post is true or not - it's a bit ;like those problem pages you get in teenage mags, half of them are made up, but the advice is there for anyone in a similar situation. The problem I suppose is that this is more long term, people do get emotionally involved, conned into sharing their story where maybe they wouldn't have, send money or even take advice on important matters from someone they think they trust.

hecate, it does takes skill to be a good troll doesn't it?

Maybe we need a different name for the funny type 'trolls' - Greeny's hamster was hilarious (and tasty!) and people who come on telling lies?

DdG your initial translation was my first thought tbh (I'm a nurse) - then I thought that no one would be getting upset about a bit of D&V! As always, I worked it out myself once I had pressed send.

I once made a trolling attempt. did you know that?

I was WrinklyLurve, posting about my noisy bonking neighbours.

I was utterly utterly crap at it!

Thanks. That joke fell flat then.

Depends.

Sometimes it's fun, just playing.
Sometimes it's done to annoy, and then it's fun to trade insults.
But sometimes it's done to scam or to hurt, and that's not nice at all, especially when people are left feeling vulnerable, exposed or foolish.
But I also think that sometimes things can be OTT and people can get - I don't quite know how to put it - high on the drama of it.
But such is the nature of the internet.

often the trolling touches a nerve:

domestic violence

suicidal thoughts/ depression

prem birth

all things that will touch a nerve and pull at the heartstrings

more chance of getting money and help off people, isn;t there?

i would still prefer to think that the perpertrators of such trolling are ill/unstable rather than perfectly stable and laughing their heads off at the posters helping and offering sympathy

SOrry DDG just saw the lower part of your post...

Just worked it out from Lulu's post - dv domestic violence.

D&V is different DumbledoresGirl but thanks

hun xx

dv = diarrhoea and vomiting.

Oh and domestic violence.

lol at cod's summary

I have never understood why trolls upset people so much.

I am gobsmacked that people offer money to complete strangers.

Sorry to be thick what is dv/prem birth (the dv bit I mean)

huge difference between trolls who stir up stuff about saucepans or weddings, and ones who post about domestic violence or abuse or prem birth... all of which are things that a number of Mnetters have endured... and give their time and invest emotional energy into the thread. becasue it is not always beyond the realms of possibility that someone is bieng beaten so badly they go into prem labour...

the saddest thing about those sort of troll threads is that they hurt people who have endured it for real, and stop people posting advice in the future for fear of it turning out to be a troll again..

I love trolls. At least it's funny sometimes.

Flier I miss most of the hoohas on here. Don't worry about it

Sometimes you read a great thread and as you look back there are loads of messages deleted by mnet. Am I the only one to WISH I had been there and seen what the poster had put that was so awful!

think the funny ones are amusing. the pirate sex one (that hasnt been mentioned for a while)/the sex with the milk farmer one/the baby at the wedding of last week.

But the serious ones play on peoples' emotions and dv/premature birth are two very emotive subjects, so to combine that into one thread was bound to leave emotions running high.

But i do think that people that send presents/offer money to strangers over the internet are barking.