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AIBU Trollhunting is ruining AIBU

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Trueheart1 · 26/01/2018 22:47

I understand troll hunting if the OP is giving dangerous advice. However, increasingly every single poster is being grilled by troll hunters about every aspect of their post. It makes a thread hard to follow and really boring to read.

I don't understand why the troll hunters do it, there is an easy to use report button. I have read several threads in the last week where the OP was subjected to constant snide comments about the veracity of their post. I think if these troll hunters persist then people won't want to post at all.

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JaneyEJones · 29/01/2018 09:00

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Rufustherenegadereindeer1 · 29/01/2018 09:16

That's exactly who i am talking about janey Grin

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 29/01/2018 09:38

I think wakemeup fancies his/herself as a 'critical thinker' and has just popped on to make that clear and chide the rest of us for posting here. Still, they did say 'toodle pip' and hopefully that means 'Goodbye forever'.

You'd have to be pretty dumb to waste your time reading/posting on a chatboard that you have no time/liking for.

Rufustherenegadereindeer1 · 29/01/2018 09:42

Well ive got ad blocker

So ha fucking ha what

Rufustherenegadereindeer1 · 29/01/2018 09:42
Blush
Rufustherenegadereindeer1 · 29/01/2018 09:43

Or wake even

Grin

Ahhh they all blend into one

wakemeupbefore · 29/01/2018 09:43

Dear Lying..., I would never be so conceited as to think of myself as a critical thinker; there were several MNs though, who gave one hours of pleasure through their witty, clever and thoughtful musings.

Smile

Are you lost, perchance?

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 29/01/2018 09:46

Well, as they're no longer here in your opinion, why are you? Does 'toodle pip' mean something different in your language?

Sparklingbrook · 29/01/2018 09:46

Do you say 'toodle pip' in RL wakemeupbefore? Grin Very quaint.

I have adblocker too.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 29/01/2018 09:47

Actually, please don't trouble to reply, I'm not interested in the slightest.

Rufustherenegadereindeer1 · 29/01/2018 09:48

sparkling

My machine was just so slow without it

And ive no patience

Rufustherenegadereindeer1 · 29/01/2018 09:49

I do say toodles sometimes

No idea why

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Sparklingbrook · 29/01/2018 09:50

According to mine I am blocking 11 ads on this page now Rufus.

I know it's not in the spirit to use adblocker because no ads no MN but they are so annoying. Sad Plus they aren't really tailored to people with teenagers.

JaneyEJones · 29/01/2018 09:51

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wakemeupbefore · 29/01/2018 09:53

Janey, Janey, Janey..... you sweeet wee thing you.
Try not get so excited, it's just a public forum for all and sundry, live and let live and all that!

Pip Pip

Grin
paxillin · 29/01/2018 09:54

We've always had tedious dingdongs about exactly who spoils MN though.

paxillin · 29/01/2018 09:58

Rule-breakers, rule-enforcers, huns, the not-so-brights and not-so-funnies have always been among the chief suspects for spoiling MN, too.

Sparklingbrook · 29/01/2018 10:01

I think all groups and even individuals have been accused of spoiling MN at some point. Grin We need a list of who is allowed to say what ideally.

PiffIeandWiffle · 29/01/2018 10:10

AIBU is a steaming pile of shite inhabited by nasty bastards and the hysterical.

Well Said, I'd just add "and those that like to watch their warped antics with fascination" as that's the category I'd put myself in....

bummymummythefirst · 29/01/2018 12:14

Let's be honest. Pretty much everyone bar me and a couple of others ruin mumnset. polishes halo

CotswoldStrife · 29/01/2018 12:41

I can see a thread in AIBU now that I think is goady/untrue. OP hasn't been back and it's had a lot of posters. So there you go, the troll hunters haven't stopped that one unfortunately

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 29/01/2018 13:09

Cotswold, if people just silently reported them and didn't post, they'd go. Not instantly maybe, but they would eventually. Posters need and crave and audience. If they don't have that they don't post.

I've seen threads where there are whopping holes because troll-hunters have been deleted - where the poster wasn't a troll. That must make a poster feel pretty shit actually. No troll-hunter ever calls back to say "Sorry about that, I was wrong"., do they?

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 29/01/2018 13:11

*an audience

Fuckit2017 · 29/01/2018 13:23

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