'Grey rocking'

[Aridane]

I have now seen this phrase used in a good number of threads.

I hadn't heard this expression before so googled it.

However is this something that is now in common use ?

Ditto 'sea lioning'

Ha ha - clearly a gripping thread!

What's sea lioning?

Sealioning apparently is a type of trolling or harassment which consists of pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or repeated questions, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity

I have only seen this term used on FWR - but then I hadn't heard of 'grey rocking' before despite it being across various threads in different parts of Mumsnet

What's grey rocking? Grannies head banging to Led Zeppelin?

@Flippingnorah 🤣🤣

Actually, next time a poster goes all super psychological and references grey rocking, I will think of grannies head banging

Glad it's not just me whose hasn't heard of these terms !

Gray Rock is primarily a way of encouraging a psychopath, a stalker or other emotionally unbalanced person, to lose interest in you. It differs from No Contact in that you don’t overtly try to avoid contact with these emotional vampires. Instead, you allow contact but only give boring, monotonous responses so that the parasite must go elsewhere for his supply of drama

Maybe Imhave been seeing it on MIL threads

Grey rock is something people burdened with narcissist/personality disordered relatives, you cut off their source of attention, drama, theatrics, don’t engage, give bland, short, neutral replies and no information, act like a rock. It’s fan-fucking-tastic for those of us stuck in the f. o. g. of sadly having abusers for parents/relatives.