To actually be happy that I was right about a troll

[MadSprocker]

Reported my first thread which was becoming more unbelievable, and was indeed a troll. Usually these things go over my head completely!

The motorbike one had a wife?
I love a good troll thread and I missed it!

What was the dark childbirth one about? A PM would be v helpful, please.

It would be good to come back and/or give some more information.

What was the thread, how did it make you feel, what were your suspicions, what was the process like etc.

Or are you a troll just watching everyone's responses?

Vegetable name person's other thread has been deleted while MNHQ "look into this poster."

Oh, was she "nan's stuffed dog" person??!

Yep.

I was a little saddened that I didn't get to see her appraisal of the lovely examples I found on Bad Taxidermy :o

Can I ask, was the husband sleeping with the OPs brother for real or did that go poof?

Oh god, pun not intended. ..sorry!

IHeart. Too funny

Gutted I missed the motorbike reveal, read the first few pages and got bored.

I reported a troll last week who had a few threads running with such elaborate stories. Quite surprised the regular troll hunters didn't have the troldars exploding it was so obvious.

Can I ask, was the husband sleeping with the OPs brother for real or did that go poof?

Got to be a troll surely but I didn't post on it so no idea if has vanished or not.

To be honest I'm a bit fed up with this place at the moment. Troll hunting is sort of fun, but not when every thread is a troll. It all feels a bit pointless.

I think that trolls often proliferate following a rash of "Mumsnet is so meaaaan" threads. While it's obviously a useful debate, it can sometimes create an environment where even the smallest hint of doubt in an OP's story is taken as evidence of collective nastiness and causes a pile on of outrage. This stops people pointing out obvious holes in a story and I think allows creative or superficially plausible trolls to reel people in.

There were a handful of very nice sounding, but frankly naive posters on a glaringly obvious troll thread recently. Too patronising to tell them that they are being too lovely, so I just keep quiet.

I think Iv worked out a troll atm and have reported to MNHQ but it's really really sick if they're not genuine what they're trolling about. Tbh I think I may stop believing all sob stories on MN - feeling that bitter taste currently

MN will turn me into a hardened biatch soon

Talking of Troll Kill stickers, can we get a booboo sticker if we are Wendied?

I didn't see the motorcycle one. There have been some really horrible trolls recently. It takes a pretty messed up person to come up with some of the stories :(

While we're discussing TAAT, was there a conclusion to the missing 14 year old daughter one from this morning?

I forgot to watch it before I went to work this morning.

I'm getting better at troll spotting.

I'm afraid I knew the gay man posting about his best friend dying of cancer was fake, because I couldn't imagine a gay man deciding to seek out Mumsnet, of all places, to share his story and seek advice. Plus the style it was written in...

It's always the high emotion/high drama threads that ring alarm bells, especially when they're written in a kind of flowery style with lots of detail, like a short story.

Oh, the vegetable is back (I couldn't find it earlier).
It's kind of obvious it's a humorous wind up.

Does anyone else think you'd actually get away with 'pepper' for a name? :)

Graham Coxon has a daughter called Pepper. Trufax.

Aren't there celebrity children called Pepper?

Or maybe I was thinking of Pippa (it means a barrel in my mother tongue ]?

Ah, I knew it related to Gwinnie.

It was the motorbike one. I posted on there that I was going to report it as I thought it was a troll thread. Nothing added up in terms of dates and reality. Prob got abuse after my comment, but I avoided MN until I got the email this morning saying it was deleted. I am not usually a troll hunter, but hated the thought of people investing in this story.