to want people to put a bit of effort into trolling?

[PaulAnkaTheDog]

Stick to the story, make it believable and don't be a prat?

I know it's shitty to troll and I hate it but at least make it a decent attempt when you do so!

Anyone remember Pie & Bovril invasion? Good example of a group working together.

Oh dear. I thought the thread where the OP was upset that her sister was planning to give her niece the same name as her dead daughter seemed suspicious since she was giving away names and personal info, which is unusual on here, but I thought she might just be upset and not thinking clearly. Why would someone pretend their child died? What is wrong with some people?! So sick. Can't get my head around it.

I can't understand why that cheque thread ended up in Classics? Why? . It's even spawned a new thread which wasn't even started by the OP.

I got bored a couple pages into the cheque one. Did the op email the bride and receive a response? How did it fill an entire thread?!

Did the olive grove one turn out to be a troll? I thought at the time that it sounded fairly ridiculous (the one where someone couldn't claim benefits cos she'd inherited an olive grove, was that the gist?)

Don't know if the olive grove was a lie. She was certainly lying though. Jumped from single parent, online dating last month to her dh not being invited to a friend's wedding last night.

The olive grove thread still seems to be standing but that isn't necessarily a sign that it isn't made up. The poster however, seems to be married and looking for dates at lightning speed .

No, I don't think the bride responded. I didn't see the one about the Olive Grove. I usually hide the ones who mentions benefits, especially if it isn't relevant to the op's story. I think trolls drop it in there, to be goady.

She was certainly lying though. Jumped from single parent, online dating last month to her dh not being invited to a friend's wedding last night

You just can't get the calibre of troll nowadays, can you? All these Jonny-come-latelies who can't even be bothered to remember if they're married or not. Shoddy.

I thought the olive grove thing stank to high heaven, but then I wasn't sure if it was so outre as to actually be true.

Has her wedding thread been zapped?

Talking of benefits trolls, there was an absolutely bizarre one about a young single mother who went to tremendous lengths to do all sorts of worthy things without ever having to claim benefits. Claimed to make her own washing powder, grow food on an allotment, study full time, yet not need to use childcare.

The more some people questioned it, the more nonsensical it became, yet there were still people on here lapping it up.

m.huffpost.com/us/entry/wedding-gift_n_3535780.html

This is from 2013 - not the exact one but pretty damn close...

This is from 2013 - not the exact one but pretty damn close...

Interesting ...

I didn't comment on the cheque one as it seemed too implausible, but am I right that MN said the OP had been around for a while?

I don't know tbh, I read the OP and recognised the wording about the contribution not matching up to the wishes or some such nonsense. I only recognised it as someone had sent me the link after we'd discussed the appropriate amount to put in a card.

Of course there's nothing to say there's not two people running around moaning about cash gifts.

^Of course there's nothing to say there's not two people running around moaning about cash gifts.*

Or maybe the grabby bride is on her second marriage

I would love that to be the case Ruthy

... but am I right that MN said the OP had been around for a while

Unfortunately all that means is that the OP has been around for a while. . It's impossible for MNHQ to know that someone ISNT a troll.

I wouldn't know a troll if it came up and slapped me in the face.

I am so gullible.I think I always fall for these trolls. Hmmmm, note to self to be far less trusting in future.

Why do so many troll threads involve text messages and Facebook messages and posts. .

I think an awful lot of long term MNers who've been around for a while are trolls.

I can name 3 that I'd put money on right now as being fakesters.

It's all so bizarre. On another forum I used to use, there was a moderator no less, who claimed to be pregnant and miscarrying (midst bunfight) with a wonderful husband and wonderful ds1. Other people on the forum had visited her even. Turned out to be a single woman living with her mother, who when other people visited her, made the old girl go out for the afternoon.

No son, no husband, no miscarriage. And the weirdest thing of all to me, was that the woman who had been her online friend carried on being her friend saying "I liked her before and nothing's changed".

Unfortunately the original thread is closed to comments, but in case the etiquette advice proves useful I've posted the Huff Post link on the spin-off thread.

Oh I think I'm one of these gullible people which is weird as I'm not IRL. I just can't help but feel sorry for people! I read the cheque one and immediately thought something was amiss, fridge one is a goer I'm too invested in it now to care. I didn't see the dead baby and sister one bit how awful that people can think of these things!

Just because a poster has been around for a while doesn't render their posts legitimate. In fact I'd say that a poster that's been around for a while would make a very good troll as they've learned about the nuance and attitudes on various boards.

I'm on my second troll report of the day over on the feminism section. Sigh.

At least pubzilla hen do was moderately amusing.

Sometimes I do want to scream "check Snopes people, check Snopes!"