Thread Deleted ( Parts 1,2,3, and 4)

True I was accused of lacking empathy for pointing this out.

I mentioned she'd had all the advice she could possibly need, but she kept on and on. Seemed to relish threads filling up and having to start a new one with so many followers.

"A woman is hurting, show some empathy"
That was me told!

I only glanced at the very first post, eye-rolled and closed it as I personally felt OP was overreacting - granted I didn't read that closely, before anyone comes at me.

Saw things had escalated to 4 threads and thought...must be all bullshit. Wish I'd had a chance to read it all now, sounds like it was enthralling. A footballer, aye?

It was absolute nonsense and that was clear from the outset. I have no idea why the first thread was allowed to stand, never mind 4 threads. I reported it and I imagine many others did too. People were troll hunting on the thread too but their posts were deleted.

The reason I thought it was nonsense was that around the time it was posted there were a couple of other threads about oversharing about sex life or saying inappropriate things to people's friends on a night out and those ended up getting pulled for not being a genuine poster. Troll threads like this tend to appear in clusters along a similar theme. People see that a particular topic gets hits and then make up their own bollocks along similar lines to get people frothing.

Oh...I feel like such a fool.

Massage parlour was also involved. OP moved in with her parents temporarily. In the meantime, the H's mother texted to say that he'd had to see the doc about MH issues.

Ditto!

That poster needs to look into writing for a living, their imagination knew no bounds.

This sounds familiar -www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2371110-To-ask-what-PBP-means?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

So why not state that in the deletion message?

The stories might not have added up because we are continually advised to change little details to prevent real world outing etc, so surely that doesn't mean the posters are breaking the guidelines by doing this.

Tbh, that particular deletion message shouldn't exist unless it states which particular guideline it breaks.

What’s a PBP? I was so invested in this and really hope the Op has the courage to leave him. Her last post sounded like she wasn’t going to and needed solid evidence, but there was so much evidence!

Feeling utter idiot for being taken in. Teach me to do something more productive with my time

Totally agree

I can’t believe anyone was buying it for one thread let alone 4

Attention. Gives them loads of it.

It was obviously made-up bollocks.

I only read parts of the first but the OP was giving regular updates. It boggles my mind that someone would spend that much time and energy making the whole thing up 🤯

I hope they let us know when the book comes out cos I want to know what happens at the end!

@B1indEye maybe the every day threads are mostly true (gardening, diy etc) but so much is exaggerated or rubbish.

Just look at s&b threads- all those people scathing about what others wear- do you honestly believe they're wearing what they pretend and looking so stylish or sat at home in their pjs wishing they were who they pretend to be? The teeny tiny people who don't eat any food who exclaim surprise if someone dares eat half a mars bar- do you genuinely believe all those folk are real?

Threads that go on for pages and pages with updates and quick developments are always rubbish.

Those threads were like the bowels after a vindaloo and 10 pints.

Probably better not to get too emotionally invested really in any story.

I always thought I was a pretty clued-up sort of middle-aged idiot. I'm clearly the exact opposite. I read all 4 threads and at no point did it occur to me that it wasn't genuine.

At the risk of emphasising my duff-ness, can anyone tell me why someone would put so much time, effort and mental energy into running a post about an entirely fake scenario? I mean, I just can't even begin to fathom out what someone would achieve by doing this?

I'm fairly new to MN in the grand scheme of things. I think I'm going back to Chat and Take a Break magazines!

I've reported a post on here to ask @MNHQ.

What? I'm not asking OP to update anything. I'm talking about the original threads and the fact that they were clearly made up. As I said, if your life was literally falling apart then why would you be focusing on writing a 4 thread saga for mumsnet

I don't feel a bit sorry for them, they're the reason those threads are created. I just wish I could blot them out of the viewing panel altogether without ever having posted on them.

I didn't open the 1-4 oversharing bollocks because the heading was enough to make me think the OP a creep.

Pretty much everything is genuine, there must be 100s and 100s of threads started everyday across all of the topics, of course most of them are real.

Do you think there's some kind of thread farm spending all day writing untrue posts?