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What do you do when you think someone is taking the piss

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FabulousBakerGirl · 08/06/2009 17:29

apart from emailing MNHQ?

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ImNotJustineBut · 12/06/2009 20:37

You're welcome.

BitOfFun · 11/06/2009 23:38

Well, I'm happy now...

ImNotJustineBut · 11/06/2009 23:12

Big fat hairy bollocks. That's the end to it...

NationalFlight · 11/06/2009 20:38

LOL at BoF

Like, that would happen

BennyAndJoon · 11/06/2009 19:50

< lulu I see your typing hasn't gotten better>

GM - please take care.

MerlinsBeard · 11/06/2009 19:48
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FabulousBakerGirl · 11/06/2009 19:28

And if this person has posted for her own strange reasons she will be loving the drama of them all.

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Lulumama · 11/06/2009 19:25

i do agree with flight.

the whole spree of deletions actually makes teh whole issue worse i think

psychomum5 · 11/06/2009 19:24

would just be nice for them to say...

"this person is a regular, she wants some privacy, we are giving it to her."

that would be all we needed.

and then we can get back to CvQ

or not.....

BitOfFun · 11/06/2009 19:20

I would love it if just once Justine would come on a thread and say "Big fat hairy bollocks", and then that would be an end to it...

NationalFlight · 11/06/2009 19:17

I mean in the past, about someone else causing speculation.

NationalFlight · 11/06/2009 19:17

I'm sure they did say once that it was someone we 'knew'...maybe I am mistaken.

But the fact they have said there is no evidence to say she is not a troll, leads me to think she is not someone instantly recognisable.

Oh I hate this speculating, I wish I could just know. Better walk away I think.

TotalChaos · 11/06/2009 19:13

would be amazed if MNHQ would divulge whether SP is a regular poster, on other occasions where posters have posted concerning stuff HQ wouldn't say if the posters were posting under other names.

NationalFlight · 11/06/2009 19:09

But I don't think most people do...if they are as screwed up as CVQ was, they'd have a job posing as normal I think for any sustained length of time. It might be a sick way to operate but I do think it's a compulsion, iyswim, not necessarily something the poster has much control over, a bit like gambling or drinking.

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FabulousBakerGirl · 11/06/2009 19:06

But it wouldn't do if someone started off okay and then turned nasty/trolly etc.

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MerlinsBeard · 11/06/2009 18:59

If she is a reg ten she will know of CVQ.

NationalFlight · 11/06/2009 18:36

A bit like anonymous bidding on ebay. You can click on the bidder's ID and be told how many bids they have placed in certain categories, with certain sellers etc without it revealing who they are.

It helps people feel confident about the transparency of the process without giving away anything private. So if someone came along and said yes, this poster has posted in several different topics offering advice and asking about other stuff and so on, and joined in 2006, for instance, and has 342 posts, we would all say 'Oh, that's fine then, she was real, we can relax'.

Does that make sense? And if they said 'she joined last week and has no other posts to her name' we would all go 'Oh, right. Hmm.'

NationalFlight · 11/06/2009 18:32

We don't need to know who, exactly - obviously if a regular she might not want to be publicly announced, but knowing whether she is as she said a reg would help me feel I could believe it. iyswim

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FabulousBakerGirl · 11/06/2009 18:30

I think MNHQ need to think about how they deal with this. It doesn't seem that anything has been done or achieved and we still don't know who she is.

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NationalFlight · 11/06/2009 18:27

Gossipmonger, has she told you who she normally is?

NationalFlight · 11/06/2009 18:26

Exactly Reality. Exactly.

First line of OP:

'Regular but have namechanged'.

RealityIsMyOnlyDelusion · 11/06/2009 18:21

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NationalFlight · 11/06/2009 17:41

I've just got back and have been feeling really anxious about this - partly because I hate creating the perception that I might be having a go at HQ - which I certainly don't want to do, as I think they are a great bunch with a difficult job to do - but also at the seeming ability of some random, non regular poster (or is she actually a reg, as she stated? If so surely it would be obvious she isn't a troll??) to censor several threads not started by her, containing very little reference to her, and no actual attacks but much useful conversation and shared thoughts and feelings MAINLY about someone else.

That really makes me quite angry.

Lulumama · 11/06/2009 16:34

this deletion spree is ridicolous

MNHQ : what is going on>??>

are we not allowed to voice opinion or conjecture now? there was nothing against the spirit of MN on the threads AFAIK

GM, the bit for me that does not rign true was SP's husband being locked up within minutes of arrest as it were. how can people prove they are not a troll? be careful

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