“Btw, just because a thread is deleted, does not automatically mean it was a troll. It's quite rare to have actual trolls on here.” oh get real. it really isn’t that rare.
We’ve had over the years:
a troll who made up that she had had a premature baby, she was outed when someone found that she’d liftedthe picture off the internet.
A poster who claimed to have lost premature twins, turns out she was posting this story all over the internet, including on baby loss forums, and her pictures too had been lifted from the internet.
Oliver’s army where a child was said to have cancer, OP was posting from the back of the ambulance,
A poster who was fleeing domestic violence in Japan, posters actually started a collection for her and arranged for somewhere for her to stay etc. It was discovered that she was a troll when her story about obtaining a visa didn’t add up, and when a poster contacted a member of her family.
Anyone who thinks that trolls are rare is incredibly naive.
There is a statistic that around 90% of deaths announced on Internet forums are fake. Poster creates a persona, invents a story, and then kills it off, I actually know someone who has done this on multiple occasions.
Many trolls are the same person who creates multiple personas across the internet.
I’m guessing those posters who so adamantly defend trolls and claim that they’re rare have probably had a bit of a creative writing streak themselves.