To ask about trolls

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NOT a TAAT - just inspired by a certain one

Tell us about your fave MN troll

I liked the woman who had a dead husband who hand painted the childrens bedrooms, and now she was remarried she wanted all of her stepchildren to sleep in one room so that her children from her first marriage wouldn't have to give up their bedrooms even for one night!

Surely IANBU to ask what your favorite troll on MN has been?!

Thanks Elder - it prompted me to search for my thread. Just had a read.

Naze I don't believe the wanking monkey was a troll. I saw one doing it in Folly Farm West Wales, I have photos.

There was one in relationships that was really disturbing. It was hard to tell whether she was mentally quite unwell or a really creepy troll. She could hear her husband being wanked off/sucked off in the middle of the night in the next room.

It's so disturbing that someone wants a child to be poorly.

Oh yeah. I remember that one.Cloppy. Right weird that was.

There was a really creepy cannabil type one too.

Everyone was like WTF?

Conifer Bob fairly recently was quite funny until she over shot and it became a bit tedious.

Onhold what happened?

Apologies to Chutney poster then. I really liked her style, both of posting and resilience - it's normally only the trolls who ARE that good! Hope all is well for her and her child who must be 2 or 3 by now.

Someone posted asking if she should let her boyfriend eat some of her skin.

I'm glad I missed that. I watched a documentary on that subject, had insomnia for weeks.

'Sick child' trolls are the worst. I was on a wedding forum a few years ago that was completely duped by a poster who claimed to be pregnant with a baby with trisomy 18. She posted very frequently with updates, and then her 'husband' posted from her account to say she'd had the baby. People were completely taken in, until she posted some pictures which an astute forum member pointed out were not of a baby with trisomy 18 and were clearly taken in the 90s. I assume now that it was a teenage girl making up a story for attention, but at the time a lot of people felt really betrayed as they had offered support and advice.

Oh yes I forgot about 3x dwarf con 😂
That was a weird thing to make up

Wasn't there a troll around who had several premature babies, all with significant medical problems. Got a bit incredible in the end

Mama featured in her username iirc

Troys, you know we'll need to see those photos, don't you? 😂

That's who I was talking about upthread midnight

She was MultipleMama

And that balloon slayer is why I always take time to read your thoughtful posts. Sorry if thread has moved on.

I used to be involved in a now folded parenting board, and we had loads of trolls. As a moderator, I wasn't allowed to pull them up on it, but I remember blowing big style when one posted on the pregnancy board saying she'd had a prem birth and suffering domestic violence and all the other boardies were really upset and involved.

Sadly I did know a real life sudden child death through that board as well. And I know a family who's child fainted on the Monday and was receiving chemo by the Friday. Neither of them did live threads though. That's the difference.

ImnotPadget on the flip side, I get a bit exasperated when I read a thread in which a probably-genuine OP talks about a significant life event unfolding, posters give her advice/support then, if she doesn't reappear with an update within a few hours, start asking "where has the OP gone?" when IRL they would be tied up dealing with it or not have an update yet. In some ways it's hardly surprising that Drama Trolls make up speeded-up versions of events - because there's a proportion of posters who almost seem to demand it!

page or the Ines who post . When someone's life is falling apart. If life is that bad you wouldn't be posting updates to MN every 2 minutes full of drama

Trolls are usually quite easy to spot

I don't have a favourite MN troll - but I used to love Moila on digispy. I was gutted when she got banned. As trolls go she was harmless and had an excellent turn of phrase. She had several fan threads too forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1185393

And earlier than that - Candy/Candygirl from the old Heatworld forum. She once went so far as to track down a forum users husband on SM, and phoned him at work to shout about his 'awful wife'. I loved her

Gatorade You've reminded me of TerryM22 from the Strictly forums on D. Spy. He always posted about a dozen threads a day with long alliterative titles, such as "Will Ravishing Rachel Riley Rumba Her Way To The Glitter Ball With Perky Pasha Kovalev?", had an implacable hatred of Brendan Cole but thought Anton du Beke could Do No Wrong.

The Strictly boards were a lot duller last year without him, TBH.

I'm not sure whether or not they're people who have been through similar experiences. I'm more inclined to think that they're people who crave acceptance. And let's face it, on a forum such as MN there are posters who are better known than others and thus the illusion is created that they are hugely popular/accepted/sought after iyswim.

So if you make up a story about an abusive relationship/a MH issue/a serious illness then you are likely to not only get attention, but sympathy and people asking after you as well. Especially if you have an articulate writing style and can come across as really lovely/likeable.

In the case of the troll from the other forum I was talking about, she has to have not only the acceptance but the grief of people who miss her when she's gone. Except that once she's gone her memory is short lived because she's never met any of these people in RL so she creates a new persona to fill the void left behind by the departure of the previous one.

I've seen first hand the damage she's done though to people who are themselves emotionally vulnerable, often isolated, and who have become invested, in one instance even forming an online romantic attachment and making plans to meet up in RL until she unexpectedly died. I have no sympathy for her at all, because her actions are completely calculated. She may have issues but she knows bloody well what she's doing.

Nobodysbabynow it was over in a couple of seconds. Seeing the dirty begger licking his jizzy fingers was fascinating . My niece, 4 at the time told everyone about the monkey eating his willy