can we do anything please to prevent unnecessary troll hunting?

Can we stop the threads about this for now? They're all going the same way and a coherent and sensible discussion cannot be had here. The personal attacks are upsetting.

And it's not about 'trollhunters' in isolation. It's part of a wider problem of trolling in general and the question of whether the people who could be tipped over the edge by any degree of skepticism, relying solely on a parenting forum in the first place.

Perhaps you'd like to start a dialogue with MNHQ about this.

The troll policy has been reiterated enough in the past few days. The general consensus has been report and hide. That's the official line and the right one in the vast majority of cases.

I think you're probably right Jezza.

Am worried that Mumsnet will go the way of other forums (sorry but I just can't use the word fora with a straight face) and implode because of this whole business.

Lets hope its bigger than that.

I honestly dont think there can be any sensible discussion on this.

Some of us tried but it becomes completely muddied and personal as people desperately try to save face.

I'll be hiding all these threads from now on as I see no point.

What good would L plates do?

The troll hunters don't care that someone has posted since 2007 with a history to prove it, they carry on regardless.

any random ripping apart of someone could potentially cause someone already in a bad place to go over the edge

including some of the threads yesterday.

think about it.

this just needs to be left alone.

So if you were a regukar then changed your name would you still get an L plate?

L plate icon for first week beside name.
If you got a L plate 'treat with caution'.
In what everway.
It seems to work elcewhere.

Goddess Coleen R yesterday on the AIBU TO LEAVE BABY WITH ALARM ON WHILE I POP OVER TO ROSE AND CROWN was 100% Norwegian and she loved being outed. we all played along of course