Is it just me or AIBU to feel paranoid at recent number of troll posts? ^Thanks^ media press!

[bimbedybam]

Just don't know who and what to believe anymore on here.

You always get a build up of sob stories in the run up to Xmas. I wish that MN would put a complete ban on sending cash to people. There are a load of what I see as low level trolls. Slightly controversial stuff, similar themes. Creative story writing stuff.

I still like to think they are in a minority though

This doesn't give a newbie like me a whole lot of hope about NM's what with all this talk of trolls and then the posts I've been reading that have left me feeling like I've walked on to the set of 'mean girls'!

nah, don't worry. The good far outweighs the bad.

Most of us are ok really.

Tbh the troll hunting is just as damaging as the low level trolling.

So what if the poster might be a journo? So what if it's their first post? Just fuck off with all the "interesting first post op" and "op hasn't returned" (after a couple of bloody hours).

And bollocks to the old days being better. I wouldn't consider myself particularly long-standing, but I've been around for 8 years and believe me it was ever thus.

Back then newbies also got told off by some posters for not checking the archives before starting a thread, as if not asking a unique question was some heinous crime. Not seen that for a while so that's an improvement

I'm not.

JOKE

(that was @ greatwizard obv)

Oh MY GOD! "Yawn, we've already done this"

I swore I'd take a baseball bat to the next person to pull that shit.

puntastic

Breadkneadslove are you getting your n and m's mixed up?

Sad to hear that some kids get their "entertainment" by trolling sites such as "MUMSnet" in their holidays??

But faith restored somewhat here...

The trolls are the problem,not the troll hunters.

Both are. musmnet doesnt approve of either.

Tbh I can't believe some of the bollocks some posters fall for on MN.

If it really get to you like don't know who or what to believe,take a reality check
Mn is online discussion forum,not your pals.no one can corroborate its authenticity
I love blethering on mn,but overall trust nae fucker

I genuinely don't believe the rise in trolling during the Summer holidays is down to kids.

Kids are more interested in FB/Twitter/Digital Spy forums etc. I really can't see them taking in interest in what they'll no doubt see as a 'boring mums forum'.

I think the rise is down to adults having more time on their hands during the Summer hols because they take more time off work.

Also the lighter evenings probably means less interaction with their kids, who end up playing in the garden/street/being more active.

Anyone can make stuff up on the internet.

Who knows whether any of us are who we say we are.

And relationships gets trolled far more than AIBU.

Thegreatwizardetc WHY BOTHER POSTING THEN? Adding nothing to the conversation...

Are we newbies expected to check the archives before we post then?

I agree I don't reckon adolescents are thinking were can they get a rise,aye mumsnet!
Really why would adolescents want to be hanging with folk who argue the ins/oots of bf
Mn is probably a good rise for adult mixers,with key phrases and daily mail ticklist

Don't be so cynical usual

I was only just saying to George Clooney on my yacht in Sardinia, that no-one makes things up on the internet.

I don't think MN gets trolled my teenagers either.

Far more likely to be posters already on MN causing trouble.

By*

Bimbedybam, I think she's agreeing with me (I hope).

Have you been paid well for the eighteen month contract?

And no, no one should expect you to check the archives before you post, as it would render 99.9% of all posts obsolete, nothing new under the sun and all that.