... to be tired of the Goady Fuckers?

[MmeLindor]

Is it just me or has there been an increase in goady thread derailing in the last couple of weeks? It seems even the most innocuous of threads are being deliberately diverted by posters who only post offensive or ridiculous comments then refuse to back down.

Here's what I use MN for:

Fun
Support
Advice
Chat
Activism and feminism
Bloggers chat
Politics

Not to have arguments with Goady Fuckers who are sitting at home delighted to have got us all off topic.

A lot of threads I've been on in the past few days have been taken completely off topic or detailed. Have we been invaded MNHQ or is it the work of a couple of fuckwits individuals?

Who wants to join me in an Anti Goady Fucker Campaign?

I vote that when someone tries to derail a thread that we all ignore and do a mass report to MNHQ. They are fed up hearing from me in the past weeks.

Spb
Yep. Noticed that too. Horrible

Lol at Petite. They are all FUCKERS

I wanted to post on that thread, what with me being afraid of dogs off leads and having terrible neighbours who let their hound rampage through my front and back gardens, but I decided I would be told to 'get over it' and get some counselling and so I didn't.

Maybe I was being a sensitive flower there

There was a thread about education and Gove recently where a poster stated there was no excuse for bad behaviour and kids should be expelled - with no excuses. When she was asked about children with troubled home life - such as a child who'd recently lost a parent - she said that a bereavement wouldn't normally mean that a child would start to misbehave.

Of course people respond to that and the discussion of the education policies of the government got side-tracked.

But that just sounds like someone expressing their view, Mm, and the normal meandering of a thread. Frustrating if the convo isn't going in a direction you find interesting, but not wrongful. I was at a book group the other day where I was silently annoyed that people wouldn't stay on-topic but of course everyone has a different idea of what on-topic is, and not even the OP has a right to insist about that (though of course on very sensitive threads people are rightly -- almost always less meandering)

Definitely ignoring - those sorts hate to be ignored. That's why they post such utter bilge.

I have a problem with the Goady Fuckers because I seem to be unable to keep hold of my inner sarcastic bitch when they are around. I'm normally quite serene (no, really!) but I have to work hard to supress. When the Goady Fucker comes along it all goes out the window...

The Po piss me off too, and then there are the ones that spend most of their time telling MNHQ how to run their own site...that really gets my goat, it's just so bloody rude

There's been a lot of trolling on here for a couple of weeks. More recently some very obvious obnoxious stuff.

Report it and ignore them. Easy to say I know, but it does actually work - they are looking for a reaction.

I read that as anti Gordyness and I was a :(

I will join you though now I re-read!

I understand.
There is a differnce between
person A who disagrees with the OP or with another poster about how best to support the OP with her problem and
person B who is NOT being supportive or looking for an answer to the problem and is off topic

person A represents legitimate debate, person B represents goady fuckerness

is that the size of it?

I try to ignore goady fuckers.
I am not doing very well with that strategy today.

This (the horse riding example) is absolute textbook trolling.

Okay... I'll feed the GFs and play their games.

I got on my high horse as I read the title as goaty fuckers and thought it was about the Oxfam goat.

Norks / Floaty
It's not just going off topic -
That's part of life, and part of online fora

If I see someone do this then sometimes I do an advanced search - the person is often new or on a new name change, posts a lot over short period of time, often just one or two posts on each thread, and often offensive or derailing threads

That example - if I search and see that the poster is vehemently anti-horse riding and always bangs on about it - I shrug and leave it.

Same with pro vax / anti vax type posters - with an agenda and willing to derail any thread to have an argument about it.

Annoying but not GFs

Ignoring only helps if we all recognise this type of trolling.

Which is why I'm posting about it.

I've done exactly that today Mme, with someone who made my radar 'ping' and yes, she is an out and out GF that I am now going to have to try and ignore lest my Blood Pressure rises again...

Report to MNHQ LtEve. Or kick her sorry ass back to NYC

Some people just have nothing better to do than antagonise. Sad goady fuckers.

Poor old MNHQ. Lots of reports today simply stating "Goady Fucker"

(Ohhh "Message deleted because poster is a Goady Fucker" - now that I like!)

Actually, LaQueen the sky is white today? Cos there's clouds in it? Duh?