To be annoyed to learn a certain thread was not genuine.

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So the sports day thread where the child was victimised for being slow and adopted has been pulled and seems not to be genuine. Why would someone do that?

This thread is just reminding me more and more why I don't like troll-hunting. That's useful for me: I think a couple of times over the last month I've been a bit: "You're not for real!", so I'm appreciating the reminder of why it isn't a good thing to do.

The "troll-hunting" of one poster continued off-board and into RL - with RL consequences for the accused poster.

Personally, in that situation, I think calling it "troll-hunting" is too gentle: it was harassment.

Yes. I can think of three major threads where this has happened, all pretty recently too, where damage was done in this way. I totally agree with you thecat

I don't mind it when I see a hint in someone else's post that a thread might be a troll thread, it reminds me to think carefully about the tread. I know troll hunting is against the rules and I agree with that but the occasional Wow, What an amazing thing to have happened type of post can be helpful.

This type of 'just about ok' troll hunting happens all the time.

As I am quite new to the board
How do the regulators decide someone is a troll?
I have been accused by members a few times with what I have posted. Is it because I am new?

.... It's definitely not because you are new. I change my user name extremely frequently so am always 'new'. I've yet to be accused of being a troll

I don' think there is any way of being sure that someone is a sock puppet either. I've known that accusation be wrong, and yet the poster was banned.

Me too, DickD

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Nocti, I saw some in the week, v lovely they were too

There must be a significant influx of hairy handers at the moment as even I have noticed and my troll-dar is spectacularly shite.

The anorexic party one was a troll? I commented on that, didn't realise, or realise it had been zapped.

Didn't the OP on the anorexia party thread say that she had suffered from uterine cancer, causing infertility, and that was why her DD was adopted? I can remember that being the moment I started to doubt that the OP was genuine ... something about uterine cancer being quite recent, and the adoption process (from what I understand) taking a bloody long time, especially when for some of that time the OP was struggling with anorexia. It just seemed very far fetched - much like the the unfolding drama!

I might be remembering incorrectly, though. My memory is terrible these days

Oh I see! I think i stopped reading the thread (short attention span) before further details about adoption etc were introduced.

Maybe it is the way I put things in a particular thread, I could have expressed myself better.
The twins thread OMG and she actually met up with people. Do you think some people actually make something up in their heads and after a while actually believe it is happening to them.
The mind boggles

I thought the anorexic thread was real. There was a woman who was caught trolling when she said her baby had died at a particular hospital. Someone wanted to send flowers before the op's baby died and the hospital had no record of the baby. Then the woman was outed and she was a student and said she did it for attention. I think I read about it in a magazine.

Oops, wrong thread

I remember that too madrigals. Have you named yourself after Anna madrigal?

One of my TIO has been deleted, presumably for being a goady fucker.