Was the stalker thread a troll?

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It just disappeared!

Trolldar pinging from the OP. Poor effort. Stalker in Rio?! Pathetic.

Ooh, was the stalker Bryan Ferry?

I can't believe it got as many replies as it did

The timescale was all off. Just saying that it's worth thinking about these things ...

Has it been deleted?

Why on earth go to all that effort? What peculiar trollery

Really? Well, i was taken in like a too-big skirt. Now i feel foolish.

Has it been deleted?

Yep. Missed most of it cos I was out all day, so don't know if it 'escalated' any further or if the non-Brazil IP address gave it away (of just the friendly wave across the Olympic stadium )

Yes - was deleted around 9am this morning.

Really? Well, i was taken in like a too-big skirt. Now i feel foolish.

Not being sarky, I promise I'm not, but did you not think it a bit implausible that he turned up in Brazil and waved politely to the OP across a sporting event?

People believed that pile of nonsense?

Ok

I quite like this thread.

MNHQ have clocked off for the weekend and we can actually talk about trolls for once while they sip slurp gin.

There is a reasonable discussion to be had about Trolls and why they manage to "push buttons" for users of this site. It won't give them any hints at all. They already know the tricks - it's the gullible who need to learn.

Don't know why I bothered though - this thread will have gone Pfft! before I can hit send.

What happened with the one where the OP'S friend emailed about her daughter being at her door?

I can put you all out of your misery [drum roll ] the thread was slightly suspect so it's been zapped

No other news than that it was a Troll.

*FlissMNHQ^, PLEASE can we have a real discussion about Trolls, even if that includes references to recent threads.

Maybe we even need something new on Site Stuff?

Only slightly? So it could be true then?

My friend once bumped into his first ever girlfriend at a weird foreign airport. It was a split second after I had said "wouldn't it be funny if we bumped into someone we knew". The airport was absolutely heaving too, so a huge coincidence.

I am very gullible I think. I believed it, even the getting up for a drink!

No, i didn't believe it spaceunicorn, i was bored on the bus reading this thread and quite liked my skirt analogy.

Don't trust everything you read on the internet

Anything you read on here could be real - or not. To me it doesn't matter how suspect things sound it could always be true. There's nothing as weird as people and real life. There's little that sites like this can do about trolls apart from obviously deleting threads when it becomes obvious. It's sad and pathetic and yes can be damaging. But - and I'm not saying it's here on this thread but I have seen it - it's also not nice to see people almost laughing at how gullible they think others can be, especially if they state they knew it was a troll all along.

To me it doesn't matter how suspect things sound it could always be true

Not always, no. Sometimes troll threads are so riddled with contradictions that they are very obviously fake.

FlissMumsnet what about the one about the email re the 12 yr old daughter? Was that suspect too?

Slightly suspect? I didn't know Mumsnet deleted threads unless they were sure

We just don't get high calibre trolls here any longer.

I saw this one in Trending , read the full thread title and didn't even click on the thread as it was clearly a bridge dweller.

This was the first post I just thought 'oh for gods sake, this is utter shite, I'm going to report this' seriously? We're in Brazil and there he is- hahahahah