Fucking Cunting Trolls

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In the past week, I have posted on threads about someone's 15 year old niece taking their own life and today somebody wanting to give their 4 year old son up for adoption. They both turned out to be trolls. I love Mumsnet, I really do and I have seen many situations where those in genuine need of support have been massively helped. I have PMed a Mumsnetter at 4am asking her to call me if she wanted to talk after she had been assaulted by her DP. She did and we subsequently met up.
I have had a huge amount of support myself from Mumsnet but I am getting really weary of it now.
I work in mental health and it's something I feel really passionate about which is why I was drawn to the threads I've mentioned.
I know that there isn't much anyone can do about it and I think MNHQ do their best as both these threads were taken down pretty quickly.
Just needed to rant

Ok right, sensitivity.
Thank you all
Don't think I'll be needing that 😀

I quite like sex topic, sometimes my eyebrows shoot off my forehead

Dances have a look at Reddit

I can think of two ongoing ones I am suspicious of. Just too much going on. Like if everyone said LTB why would you do yet another post of him being wicked to you? I NC weekly because I think people would think my DH is awful reading what I put on here. He isn't. I just write about him on here when I'm furious with him.

Reddit is just such a mess though and full of horrible threads .

I'm not over there because I can't work out how it works but from what I've read it's just frustrated posters annoyed about trolls,I've not seen anything nasty.

There are a lot of men in the Sex topic.

The first thing I thought was odd about the 15 year old suicide was, why the hell would an aunt go straight to Mumsnet and post about it? It would hardly be the first thing you do after receiving such devastating news. You wouldn't have the time or composure to do it. It was well odd. Alarm bells all over it.

Pandora appears to spend more time on Reddit than anyone else 😂

I don't think its someone who has something against HQ, I think it's someone who is genuinely sick, who posts for fun, or someone with munchausen by proxy syndrome, instead of reporting sickness to hospitals and doctors they spend their time making up sickness, illness and death. Where better to get attention from than a website with threads where people genuinely post about these things.

Wow that adoption one really got me. But the tone of it was extremely cold and detached. I did wonder if poster was a proper sociopath.

People are fucking weird and have too much time on their hands.

The Reddit sub is actually very interesting.

LineysRun it is

I namechange almost weekly. I've just given some advice to someone about a bathlift as I'm an OT.

Tomorrow when I post about my annoying children I really don't want it to be linked back to today's posts.

I've been around for years and remember CVQ and dizzymare, TDWP etc.

Nothing is new really.

I thought I recognised the OP from the adoption thread. There is a poster who has started various threads about just qualifying as a social worker, failing to find a job, problems with the area where she lives, wanting to give residency of her young son to her ex as she hates being a parent etc. I assumed it was the same poster.

The trolling is ridiculous now, at least half of the threads I've posted on in the past few days have then been deleted, and I don't even post that much!

The Reddit forum is good, I only lurk there but the posters are usually spot on. Most of the threads they raise an eyebrow at end up being deleted for trolling or as a pbp.

I have seen fake live suicide threads, fake Xmas pleading poverty threads, fake weaning threads, fake abusive husband threads, fake missing people threads...

Meanwhile there has been great advice on everything from pregnancy to divorce to skiing holiday recommendations. My advice Is that if it's affecting you after you've left the site then give it all a break for a while.

You name it, it's always been here.

Y do it.fun?nastiness?ill mental health?
Just think as there posts might help in the lovely replies someone actually going through it.as there situations are happening in rl.so maybe we're still doing good fr someone unable to post.

I had a serious stalking issue years ago. I can recognise my stalker by his spelling mistakes and how he has favourite words and phrases.

I also have friends and relatives that are on mumsnet. My ex's family go on sometimes. I recognise situations and believe a few people on here are people I know in real life.

I try to change details slightly so I'm not recognised. I mention private stuff anonymously on here about people I know in real life. I would feel weird mentioning them to others in real life.

I’m very new here and read the adoption thread which seemed legit to me. It is off-putting knowing there are fakers running amuck here. I find it odd that people’s lives are so empty/unexciting they have to invent drama.

I've been on MN a good while and I am RUBBISH at spotting the troll threads, the one today about the 4 yo did ring some alarms though, I have to admit. I got far too heavily involved in one a few years ago and was devastated to find out it was troll. On the other hand, I have three long threads on here about discovering my ex-h's affair and our divorce. It became a bit of an epic. I was accused several times of being a troll because it seemed so outlandish, however, those threads and the people on there literally saved my life. Many of them remain friends IRL, one wonderful lady in particular, actually came to court with me and I regard her as one of my dearest friends and I wouldn't have achieved the outcome I did without her. To that end, I try and take posts at face value, because it would be awful if people in the depths of despair couldn't get some support and advice. You can always report if you're unsure and MNHQ appear to be very much on the ball with it. It's such a shitty thing to do though, it really is.