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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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CoteDAzur · 30/01/2018 21:55

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RoseWhiteTips · 30/01/2018 21:55

Do my list, pleeeeease...

SumThucker · 30/01/2018 21:55

As long as it didn't take from 4:47am to 21:31, probably.

Trueheart1 · 30/01/2018 21:55

Cote IRL

AIBU Trollhunting is ruining AIBU
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LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 30/01/2018 21:56

It's subjective though isn't it? Some days I post a lot, others not at all. That list is anywhere from 3-8 posts in an hour. Perhaps they double or triple that on another day. So what?

It feels like ganging-up to me.

RoseWhiteTips · 30/01/2018 21:57

IRL!? 😂

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 30/01/2018 21:57

I like numbers too, they serve me very well. I wouldn't waste them on that.

JaneyEJones · 30/01/2018 21:58

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RoseWhiteTips · 30/01/2018 22:00

Lovely truthful numberz

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JaneyEJones · 30/01/2018 22:02

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paxillin · 30/01/2018 22:13

Do you have a list for all, Cote?

OOOOOOOOOOO · 30/01/2018 22:35

I name change all the time but never 'hide behind' a name change. I just do it to maintain my anonymity. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I think it should be impossible to name change within a thread. It would stop any sock puppetry including accidental sock puppetry.

I like name changing otherwise.

Rufustherenegadereindeer1 · 30/01/2018 23:18

I missed all that Sad

ChristmasTablecloth · 30/01/2018 23:31

Oh great another thread bound to go now.

Rufustherenegadereindeer1 · 30/01/2018 23:36

So was there a list of posters who are on here loads?

Im on here loads

Was i in the top 10??

My mum would be so proud,...if she wasnt dead

Rufustherenegadereindeer1 · 30/01/2018 23:37

Im going to bed

No one delete the thread while im gone

ToucheEcat · 31/01/2018 05:36

Ah Cote, it must be so great being the dahling of the Reddit peanut gallery, you must be soooooooo proud.

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hobnobsaremyfavourite · 31/01/2018 07:21

Well I took a long break from here
Came back hoping I would enjoy it like before
Vile grandstanding nasty bitching isn’t something I am ever going to be part of or watch
Think I’m done
If this is the level of what’s considered PARD these days count me out

ChristmasTablecloth · 31/01/2018 07:36

The adoration for our resident maths expert in the place that shall not be mentioned makes for rather cringey reading.

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 31/01/2018 07:39

What's with the list? It states how often someone posts?

Is that IT?

JaneyEJones · 31/01/2018 07:48

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GreatDuckCookery6211 · 31/01/2018 08:04

What's wrong with posting a lot? Hardly worth being sneery about!

GerdaLovesLili · 31/01/2018 08:05

Didn't we have almost exactly the same thread on here only about a month ago, started by PandorasXBox?

Yes, where is Pandy?

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 31/01/2018 08:06

It's all a bit pathetic really. This was a thread about what's spoiling Mumsnet and proud troll-hunters came on to derail it. How unutterably sad to AS check and then post it, waiting for approval like a toddler that's managed their first poo. Who cares how often anybody posts? It was ganging up on a poster who wasn't even posting. How that warrants pom-poms I don't know but it's embarrassing.

Some of us are mentioned - again - this morning. There are a few posters that I recognise and like on MNTrolls but the rest of them seem incapable of independent thought and yes, the fawning is embarrassing.

One chatboard would cease to function without the other - and it's not Mumsnet, that's for sure. All that space to talk about anything... and all they can manage is Mumsnet and ripping posters here to shreds. So much for the laudable troll-hunting mantra of the 'protecting posters'. What a joke that was!

Anyway I don't want to give them anymore airtime here, they're leaving greasy smudges on the windows.

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