to be peed off about the number of deleted threads?

[ProperLavs]

My thread choice is pretty random. I don't hang around particular boards, but loads of threads I have been on have been deleted for who knows what reasons. There have been 2 in 24 hours.
Clearly I need to hang out in gardeners' corner then there wouldn't be any issues...or would there?

Too many get deleted. Although in the the lady who was posting about her cat killing daughter I agreed with the deletion.

The cat one was awful.

There was a peculiar one in relationships, too.

I don't think enough threads get deleted.

I get the ones where things don't go the op's way and get deleted are annoying but Trolls and PBP need to go!
The fact people are noticing goes to show the massive amount or trolls on here!

Fucking troll fest on here at the moment.

What % of AIBU threads are either started by, or contributed to, by trolls?

I'd say around 60%

Sometimes I think certain threads should be left to stand. There was one yesterday deleted pretty much because the poster was clearly a miserable, nasty twunt. The "I'm a SAHM with household income of 83k, I'm pissed off my friends family have more foreign hols than us, they must be getting benefits thrown at them" one.

The thing is dozens and dozens of people disagreed with her horrible attitude (pretty much 100%) and she was rightly handed her arse but because the thread has been deleted all people will remember was the attitude of that poster and it will probably be remembered and cited as another example of a "benefit bashing" thread. In fact it was a thread that imo showed that most people don't hold those mean spirited views.

I like how we get a personal reply (or at least a mass email if it's a troll landslide) again.

The worst ones are the 'regular' trolls who take dislike to anyone with an opinion on a 'particular subject', who then go on to accuse the OP/other posters of saying thinks that clearly were not said, then hit the report button and 'puff' the thread as gone.

It's the PBP'S who are causing the most trouble

What's a pbp?

I find spotting trolls difficult as I have a very literal and trusting view of people and I can't understand the point of doing it. Yes it is annoying, so maybe I should be peed off at them.

Previously Banned Poster

I was posting on a childbirth one earlier that got deleted. It shouldn't have been in my view, the OP was put right on a few things which meant that really good advice was being given to others and all of a sudden it was gone. Annoying!

Many of them are previously banned posters who seem to amuse themselves by creating new profiles and posting shite.

Then we have the common or garden troll. Who just posts shite. Usually sick shite.

The ones that annoy me are the ones where the poster doesn't get the response they wished so have it deleted for privacy concerns. Where clearly there is no privacy risk.

Where there is a clear privacy risk fair enough, its right to delete. I've recommended it myself a couple of times to posters, but when it's just sour grapes because they don't like the responses. That's annoying.

Two really insidious threads I was on today where deleted. I didn't see how either ended but I'm glad that neither where real situations. I rarely get upset over posts but they left me feeling uneasy and I'm glad mumsnet deleted them.

Those of you off to the gardening threads, tread carefully; manure slinging, slugicide, and courgettes at dawn.

Yes I am worried that there might be potato slinging and death by oversized squash. Or 'was I right to trample my neighbour's raspberry canes because they have given me salmonella poisoning?'.

There is yet another "what happened to that thread" thread (the one about missing the Grammar school deadline.
That thread had (apparently) 30 pages. I contributed to another thread recently which went to 900+ posts then went poof! in a puff of smoke.

How long before MNers start thinking "why bother reading/posting/getting involved in any thread?"

OP I'm like you. I cannot tell if it's genuine or not! I pretty much take everything a face value, which probably doesn't help me. I've only posted here because threads I'm on nearly half have deletion messages. I'm a bit worried that by posting here this will end up being deleted!

So was the grammar school deadline one a troll one? if it was them I'm buggered. I can't tell.

I wondered where the grammar school deadline one had disappeared to!

Oh please not grammar school! I wanted to find the husband and beat him (joke)! Please tell me that wasn't a troll.

No, ProperLavs the grammar school deadline was deleted because of the amount of identifying detail on it.

Grammar school not a troll. Blame the Fucking Daily Mail for people worrying about their privacy. Think the OP of that thread was correct to delete it.

Nothing is owed to us as readers or posters. Contribute if you think helpful, but don't expect anything, really.

PBPs and trolls are both shit, because they are making people invest emotionally and publicly in scenarios that are not real ... but MIGHT be. And most MNers are generous people who want to help.

There is s lot of it around at the moment.

The OP of the grammar school one posted on this thread to explain www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3031699-To-wonder-where-the-thread-regarding-the-posters-dh-not-filling-out-the-grammar-school-application-for-their-son-has-gone-to