Goady fuckers on threads...

[Lambrini]

Aibu to think there's always one?

Constructive criticism, great, advice, brilliant, strong opinions, also great for getting a new perspective on situations.... But, goady fuckers, a different kettle of fish entirely, example...

Op - DD's rabbit died last week, she's very sad.

I'm not sure whether to get another rabbit when she's ready or perhaps a Guinea pig instead?

Goader - It sounds to me like you're not particularly good at looking after animals. In fact I'd say you probably shouldn't be allowed to have pets. I feel sorry for your DD.

I can't picture what that would look like very

do not google image goady fucker for picture inspiration

This should be the goady fucker smiley...

Quite worringly, that chap looks like Nigel Farage on Dover Cliffs looking out towards Calais ...

I asked for a passive aggressive smiley emoticon on Site Stuff once. Someone suggested a head tilt smiley which I thought would work quite well. :)

Troll hunters

Yes, I KNOW that the actual trolls are worse, blah blah. But I hate troll hunting.

I once started a thread. Someone decided I was a troll. Not because the information didn't add up but essentially because my view didn't correlate with theirs.

And did they report and leave the thread? Oh no. Twenty fucking pages of troll hunting.

I was aggrieved!

Oh thanks PurpleD.

In our house DH likes to pretend our 2 girls are working animals with vegetable recycling and grass cutting duties.
However it doesn't stop him scouring the edges of footpaths for dandelions.

I do sometimes worry that his parenting technique is inconsistent.

Did you report Pink?

I like the idea of passive aggressive smile. I see this slot...

alot

Peyia I didn't bother.

Unfortunately, in my experience Mumsnet may delete the post but the person doing the troll hunting won't get a warning or a ban so they just carry right on doing it.

I've seen

Post troll hunting - deleted
MNHQ - usually Olivia saying AHEM
another post troll hunting.

The troll hunters don't give a shit and why should they?

I sound far too bitter about this but it's happened to me on sensitive threads so I am, well, sensitive about it!

When I've reported troll hunting the Mnhq email has said they will have s word with the poster. Not having been deleted for troll hunting I don't know what that actually entails.

Understandable that you'd be sensitive about it pink. I do think it's worth reporting though. Even if they don't get banned at the time, if they have a history of it then they might be banned in the future.

I don't like troll hunting on threads either. I report if I have suspicions. I think people are on high alert for trolls at the moment - too many people have been caught out and hurt by trying to help people who turn out not to be genuine.

Me neither PurpleDaisies. I've been told that they are looking into certain posters before but I worry that just involves looking at posting history and if they've been around a while then they aren't considered to be troll.

Actually MNHQ are often hotter to deal with troll hunters than trolls - simply because often they can't really prove someone is trolling/a troll, whereas it's obvious when someone is troll hunting.

But if you don't bother reporting troll hunting, the chances are such posts won't get deleted because MNHQ won't know about them.

I think they are really good at deleting troll hunters-whenever I've reported those posts they've been deleted.

Sorry, my last post wasn't very clear - you were talking about reporting troll hunters and MNHQ having a word with them and I was talking about MNHQ investigating trolls and perhaps ruling it out as a possibility because the person has been around for a while.

Yes, but what does a deleted post do? I don't think the troll hunters care their post was deleted, they just carry right on.

I do report posts or threads I think might not be genuine, definitely.

pink that happened to me, too. I posted the world's most innocuous question - about how to go about finding the details from my marriage (I'd lost my marriage certificate. Still lost, in fact) and the thread turned into a troll hunt!

I've never got over it, really. I would never post a real request on mn again, and I pity people who do.

I had some lovely p.m.s from helpful posters but ... The thread itself was an avalanche of weirdness!

Having been on the receiving end, I get why mn don't like troll-hunting.

On the other hand, the emotional vampires are so, so grim.

JUST IGNORE THEM

you are an adult - just move on1

Oh, I agree with that, cat but I don't think people realise how horrible it is being on the receiving end of troll hunting. Especially when it's done in the 'clever' form of snide comments rather than out and out 'op is trolling' though I had some of that, too

Troll hunting is forensically picking apart the OP's thread and dropping massive hints that the OP is inventing the story, right? Like "which is it, OP, is it blue or pink? You said blue. Now you're saying pink." Subtext: you can't keep your facts consistent so you're inventing this. Is that troll hunting?

You don't sound bitter to me Pink but I agree with Bumbley in regards to people reporting so that there is a history for MN to take action.

I reported one thread and never got a response once, not even a fuck off you're paranoid. Maybe they don't have the man power but it won't stop me contacting them again.

OK, I think the posts that appeared while I was writing and posting have answered my own question!

It depends on context MrsSteptoe

I had:
Poster A - 'well why didn't you do this OP?'
Poster B - 'op is a troll'
Me - 'no, I'm not, I didn't do that because I didn't know I had to.'
Poster A - 'oh FFs a troll and I just gave helpful advice, I won't ever bother in the future.'
Posters C D and E all comfort poster A.

Why poster b was believed and not me I will never know. Anyone would think some people like a drama.

But there are some posters who seem to do little other than troll hunt and yet they are still here, still troll hunting. That's what puts me off reporting really as like I say individual posts may be deleted but there's nothing really actually done, if you see what I mean.

Anyway, sorry. Taken the thread off course. It's a bugbear of mine. I agree with op though, the 'how dare you give your five year old a chocolate button/have a momentary lapse of concentration at work/forget to feed the cat once in twenty years of having her' are really annoying!

DrAmandaBentley
I remember the post about the boy's haircut and the poster who thought it was (inexplicably) an invented story because she couldn't find a website for a backstreet barber. Nutter. But I'd hate to see those posts disappear. They are comedy gold (when they're not horribly insensitive).

Can we have a deerstalker emoticon to respond to posters that are appearing for the prosecution? Can we? Can we?

pink Yes. It was horrible. And it wasn't even something I was very psychologically fragile about. I can't imagine what that would be like.