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To ask about trolls

453 replies

HairsprayBabe · 16/02/2017 15:05

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?!

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NavyandWhite · 17/02/2017 11:19

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Soubriquet · 17/02/2017 11:21

Oh yes HeadElf

Got quite a few people didn't she. Especially as she was a prolific poster! If she hadn't had used the same photo she wouldn't have slipped up and would still be posting now

GinIsIn · 17/02/2017 11:25

She was quite surprising as it was possible to track her back through her 2-3 previous usernames and discover she'd been trolling under each of those for at least 6 months at a time too....

OnHold · 17/02/2017 11:33

I'm not talking about her Grin This one trolls about everything under the sun. She's bonkers.

TheNiffler · 17/02/2017 11:33

WannaBe, did one of their incarnations die of kidney disease? I spotted that troll on here years ago, recognised the details about the child.

ElvishArchdruid · 17/02/2017 11:35

The problem is when someone genuine comes along which issues, people are apprehensive due to the twats that make stuff up.

If you want to fantasise why not post 'In your wildest dreams...' Or something along those lines.

I wish I was chatting bull shit about my DH woes. I could have crucified him yesterday. I was so high on reading through that awful Zebrugge thread, it was like he stuck a pin in my side. I believe in karma though.

Actually thinking about that do you think karma gets these people?

I can get young posters being over dramatic, as they even believe their own bull shit. The downside of coming from a big family and being the eldest. Yes love, yes love, you're 21 years old and get paid £3000 a week after tax, drinks are on you this Sunday then?

daisychain01 · 17/02/2017 11:40

How cathartic to have a thread where I can say what a fab deletion message HQ came up with yesterday!

It was the Greedy Guts dp's eating habits - took the OP out for a Valentines meal and shovels food down at break-neck speed, scrapping most of a 'share' - dish onto his plate. Posters were asking Why would you buy a share dish when you know he's a gannet?!

The OP was quickly outed as the Curry-troll....those troll-dars were on top form.

Thread deleted
Message from MNHQ: We've taken this thread out for a curry

Nice job HQ Star

Original poster
HairsprayBabe · 17/02/2017 11:51

Yes! I loved that too daisy

Almost as much as:

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Message from MNHQ: Because Maui

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ElvishArchdruid · 17/02/2017 11:53

Is it me or are there quite a few inheritance posts about at the moment involving siblings and houses? There was one last week, another couple have popped up...

Do you see running themes usually?

Notanotherpawpatrol · 17/02/2017 11:58

Yes there has been a load about inheritance and siblings, I posted on one sharing an expiearience and then saw another almost identical and there have been 3 or 4. Its weird Confused but now I'm left thinking, I wish I handnt bothered. I thought I was helping out he poster, letting her know that bat shit crazy is in every family and instead I'm left feeling someone somewhere was just laughing at me :(

PageStillNotFound404 · 17/02/2017 12:12

daisychain At the risk of coming over as inordinately bighearted, that was my suggestion just before the thread was pulled

I'm banging on about it because it's possibly my single greatest achievement Grin

PageStillNotFound404 · 17/02/2017 12:13

I should add, I wasn't the one who picked up on it being Curry Troll; I just made the suggestion after MNHQ posted to say it wasn't genuine and they'd be zapping the thread shortly. I have no trolldar!

PageStillNotFound404 · 17/02/2017 12:14

bigheaded

Fucking stupid piece of Apple crap Angry

daisychain01 · 17/02/2017 14:51

PageStillNotFound404. Please take a bow then, it absolutely made my day, it left a small puddle of weewee to clean up that I couldn't blame the dog for

daisychain01 · 17/02/2017 14:53

My trolldar is equally as blunt, I'm starting to get the hang of it only after many years on here!

daisychain01 · 17/02/2017 14:58

I think the inheritance ones are absolute troll-fodder, anything that hits a raw nerve is manna from under the bridge heaven. Oh the entitlement, the injustice etc!

merlynsam · 17/02/2017 15:16

gnushoes Thu 16-Feb-17 16:11:29

there was one poster that went off into 2 or 3 threads about how husband had gone off though they'd tried for a baby and she'd just found she was pregnant. Lots of detail about how he wanted half of everything in the house and was very keen to have the home-made chutney. She called him chutney something. Lots of detail about this and the pregnancy. Then all the threads disappeared - never could work out if it was troll deletion or something else. Anyone else remember that one??

Yes, I certainly do. That baby is neary 4 years old and a little character. The poster is a fabulous Mum with lots of help from her parents.

Certainly not a troll. Threads still going after all these years in the non-Googleable place Wink I won't give you her poster name as it wouldn't be fair for her to go to the safe haven of Mumsnet to have me 'out her'.

FireInTheHead · 17/02/2017 15:30

I'm apparently terrible at 'whack-a-troll', may have had posts deleted for perceived troll-hunting but I still privately hold by my conviction that many I see as trolls are actually trolls/trolling despite being long-standing members.
I don't mind the amusing ones, well-constructed and consistent fantasies can be vastly entertaining. I do mind the ones which are just plain irritating and frustratingly vague click ait calculated to have everyone begging for more info that is then drip fed at a tedious rate - one such sprang up today. And the ones with the obvious goady agenda - Is my friend racist/sexist/? or is this pc gone mad?.
I have fallen for a couple dealing with rape/physical abuse scenarios that were later deleted after many posters offered sympathy, advice and support. It pisses me off that real victims looking for support maybe won't find it because it's so easy to get cynical after getting bitten once or twice by a hoaxer.

Notanotherpawpatrol · 17/02/2017 16:45

Anything in relationships has me going Hmm it's really sad because I'm sure there are lots of genuine posters looking for advice :(

Andylion · 17/02/2017 22:54

I've never reported a suspected troll because I don't think I could ever be sure that the poster was a troll.

I do think that there are an awful lot of threads that sound as if they are written by the exact same person. The OP responds to many of the replies and has an ongoing exchange with posters. It's usually a relationship issue with a problem that seems to me to be so obviously a YANBU that I can't believe there are women who would put up with such shit from anyone much less a partner. But these OPs all sound very young and naive and I have no doubt that whatever they are posting could, sadly, be true.

AndNowItsSeven · 18/02/2017 23:33

Definitely the plimsole troll, am always annoyed when they get deleted.

UnbornMortificado · 19/02/2017 00:21

One of these days I'm going to post my 2015 story.

It has abuse, pregnancy, MH problems, child death, addiction, overdosing, SS involvement and a psychiatric hospital stay.

Sadly not one exaggeration or lie although I did have a hospital thread when my waters broke at 24 weeks and subsequently posted about Jack's death. That year was like a horror version of a soap opera.

I don't mind the joke ones, the child illness and death ones I find really upsetting.

JigglyTuff · 19/02/2017 00:25

The plimsoll troll posts all over the shop - I've seen them in other places too. That really is a strange fetish

Ilovetorrentialrain · 19/02/2017 00:35

I'm late to this thread and will go back and read all in a minute but have to say the lovely friend/sordid affair one is a favourite. The MNers who contributed to the spin off were brilliant. So funny.

I often get the sense some (not all) pubic hair removal ones are a bit odd. Surely that subject has been done to death and everyone knows the options available and yet they still crop up...

CatsBatsEars · 19/02/2017 01:03

The plimsol troll was on a diabetes forum I'm on recently Hmm