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Troll hunting, why it's not a good idea and why we deleted the Rarebird thread

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JustineMumsnet · 06/07/2010 18:02

Hi all,
We've just deleted the Rarebird thread as it had deteriorated into a bunfighting trollhunt. As we've said in previous posts we do think it's better to work on the assumption that posters are telling the truth and after a lot of digging we have found nothing to suggest that Rarebird is anything other than genuine.

Of course you can never be sure of any poster's real identity but we think it's better to err on the side of being occasionally taken in than on the side of being sceptical of genuine posters. If you take a different view (and we do understand that some folk do) then quite simply it's best not to get involved in threads such as these and we'd rather you did that than post suspicions on the thread. Mumsnet will be a worse place if folks routinely assume that any unusual post is a troll making it up.

Of course anyone who has genuine concerns please do tell us - we'll always take a look.

Many thanks,
Justine

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LeninGoooaaall · 07/07/2010 21:35

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Librashavinganotherbiscuit · 07/07/2010 20:57

I'm waiting for the Phantom Tollbooth to appear on DVD, now that was a good cartoon.

ChickensHaveNoEyebrows · 07/07/2010 20:52

Ice Age 2 is even better. Gotta love that squirrel.

BecauseImWorthIt · 07/07/2010 20:51

Noooooooooooooo - Monsters Inc is truly fab!

Mind you, I loved Ice Age too.

secunda · 07/07/2010 20:51

Madagascar is better

Librashavinganotherbiscuit · 07/07/2010 20:50

Ice Age is one of my fave things films ever, kicks things like Monsters Inc's butt.

LeninGoooaaall · 07/07/2010 19:19

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PixieOnaLeaf · 07/07/2010 18:40

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Mouseface · 07/07/2010 13:51

Oblomov

Oblomov · 07/07/2010 13:49

its o.k. mouseface, thanks, i've now got the gist.
less the meaty bits admittedly. best bits. but basics.
shame. shame. on of these days i will actually be PART of one of the best bits.

Mouseface · 07/07/2010 13:46

Oblomov

Sorry, it got pulled last night, quite early on too.

LeninGoooaaall · 07/07/2010 13:30

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Confuzled · 07/07/2010 13:19

"I really don't think that sympathy either way helps at all, it just encourages them."

Oh I don't advocate sympathy if people are inventing, and MN prove as much. I advocate a resounding silence. Feeding trolls =/= wise.

It is interesting, that perspective. I'd honestly never considered it - my assumption was that they had to be quite mad to do something like that. Hmm. Shall have a ponder.

daftpunk · 07/07/2010 13:11

Heelllloooooo SMA!

I haven't been around for a while....just passing through for a couple of days...

Hope you're good...

LeninGoooaaall · 07/07/2010 13:11

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sarah293 · 07/07/2010 13:08

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Oblomov · 07/07/2010 12:37

I miss all the best MN bits. Fuckety fuck. where am I when all the best bits happen ? off to go and look in the synopsis symmary, in chat, yes mouseface ?

Confuzled · 07/07/2010 12:36

I'm genuinely curious about that - my assumption is someone who would invent shit like this and elicit agonisingly personal info from others would have to be a total wingbat. I know you get silly AIBU trolls, and I totally agree on those being for the benefit of the troller (if we're in luck they make us laugh as well), but do you really think the emo insanity ones aren't deeply disturbed? I can't begin to imagine thinking it would be a laugh for a Saturday afternoon, inventing something horrendous and listening to other women opening up on their very real experiences. It'd be depressing as shit to anyone normal, surely? And the ones who seem to repeat perform, from what people say... if they're that desperate for attention surely there has got to be something pretty wrong?

bibbitybobbityhat · 07/07/2010 12:32

"I don't understand why we all think the kinds are people trolling are desperately in need of something for whatever reason. Some of them are just doing it for the sport, I wouldn't give it any more concern than that. We should be used to it now on here".

You said it Lenin. Couldn't agree more. I have been aware of this story rumbling on in the background and just skimmed through this thread today.

Nice to see its business as usual at Mnet .

daftpunk · 07/07/2010 12:29

Just want to quickly reply to flight...don't shout at me KM

Flight; I was not stirring re; mums who net, I was just saying that smaller sites will become more popular if this sort of thing doesn't stop.

sites like moldies/MWN..will only ever have a small number of posters....they are not a replacement for mumsnet...

KerryMumbles · 07/07/2010 12:14

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daftpunk · 07/07/2010 12:14

But that's the whole point...how do we know who's trolling and who isn't..? MNHQ have said you can never be 100% sure...so give people the benefit of the doubt...

KerryMumbles · 07/07/2010 12:13

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