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quickchange / getreal / shinyone

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Thomcat · 06/06/2005 15:35

Dear mumsnet

Can you please do a check and see if quickchange / getreal and shinyone are all the same person and if so can you have a private word or perhaps look into barring them.

Things like this usually are water off a ducks back to me personally but she/he/it risks really, really causing serious pain to reqular mumsnetters and I think it might be a good idea to look into this.

Just an idea.

If this person is changing her name all the time just to say spiteful, nasty, things on mumsnet surely we want that stopped, right??
Anyway, nuff said, over to you to do what you think is best.

OP posts:
jessicasmummy · 06/06/2005 16:32

i was only putting Mrs FS out of her misery, not meaning to be rude.

Fio2 · 06/06/2005 16:31

oh i know I cant spell, i pondered over it for ages and thought WTF

MRSflamesparrow · 06/06/2005 16:31

Thankyou!

I kept writing it and they all looked wrong in the end... like when you look at the word marmalade for too long...

jessicasmummy · 06/06/2005 16:29

SENSATIONALISED

Enid · 06/06/2005 16:28

oh yes agree fio2

MRSflamesparrow · 06/06/2005 16:28

Ok... the word in bold looks weird, but I can't figue out what letter is wrong, and its bugging me.

For those lost, this thread is about people changing their names just to post bitchy comments, which to me is actually worse than trolling cos at least basic trolls don't normally know anyone.

Fio - It does bug me when that happens too, but I have only seen it a handful of times thankfully - it has normally been obvious trolling at work when things have kicked off that I have seen... although I don't seem to be on in the evenings when things tend to get the most nasty.

Fio2 · 06/06/2005 16:24

foot in mouth syndrome here but I really find it annoying how someone posts an opposite view to the majority and that opinion gets sensasionalised and blown all out of proportion by whoever eklse is on the thread

Tinker · 06/06/2005 16:24

I don't know what anyone is talking about

Original poster
Thomcat · 06/06/2005 16:24

At the end of the day it doesn't matter what was said just that it could be ONE person using name change facility to change name lots so she/he can say stupid nasty things and I think MN might want to look into that.

OP posts:
Blu · 06/06/2005 16:23

the getreal posts were deleted v quickly after they appeared.
With v good reason.

Enid · 06/06/2005 16:21

no couldnt find it and am trying not to get sucked in...

pixiefish · 06/06/2005 16:20

Marina- I only mentioned the 'floating' IP cos dh tells me that's what he's got (but he does have a sophis system- shame he wasn't more suave!!) and I didn't want anyone jumping on me and saying I was wrong for saying about IP's but i agree that a lot of people do have fixed IP's and I do think that certain ones 'could' be banned (as I'm sure some have been)

I do think that there should be more restriction on name changes though- in the evenings when HQ is quiet there's no one around to be able to identify name changng troublemakers

jessicasmummy · 06/06/2005 16:15

I have emailed MN HQ with my concerns, hopefulyl they will respond.

Marina · 06/06/2005 16:14

Enid, it's not just Titania's thread. A previous one, now deleted at least in part, clearly caused a lot of upset and misery at the weekend. you won't find the posts in question I don't think - I tried to in the interests of "informed moderating".

sparklymieow · 06/06/2005 16:13

I know people have referred to me as 'shinyone' and 'shinycat' but its not me........ I swear!

Fio2 · 06/06/2005 16:13

oh please stop having threads like these when i am trying to stay off mumsnet

essbee · 06/06/2005 16:12

Message withdrawn

Enid · 06/06/2005 16:12

well I am probably digging a hole for myself as I havent read getreal or shinyones posts (but off in a minute to do so) but I really didnt think the one on titanias was malicious (a bit dim maybe). it diddnt sound 'trollish', just a poster who found it upsetting and wanted to say so without being jumped on.

Toothache · 06/06/2005 16:12

Essbee - 3000 of those are mine!

Marina · 06/06/2005 16:12

uh huh. WILD! And hard to moderate at times.

essbee · 06/06/2005 16:11

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SoupDragon · 06/06/2005 16:10

Gwenick, it doesn't matter if the email addresses are completely different or differ by one letter only. They are different and you can register again.

And I'd bet that the persistant trolls have more email addresses than you can shake a stick at. I'm not a troll and I have about 8 I've used for one thing or another.

Marina · 06/06/2005 16:10

Is that so Gwenick - that's an additional complication then - for tracing malicious postings I mean

Marina · 06/06/2005 16:09

I agree JM. With over 5,000 messages posted in an average 24 hours a day neither Mods (who are volunteers) nor MN HQ, who are small in number and also might as well be volunteers can keep up with what goes on these days!

It is therefore very helpful if Mners who spot issues of concern do mail MNHQ direct

MRSflamesparrow · 06/06/2005 16:09

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