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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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RoseWhiteTips · 31/01/2018 17:27

PerfumeIsAMessage

Oopsy, did you mean to namechange and then agree with RoseWhiteTips, er, RoseWhiteTips?

Er...nope. Clearly, you haven’t noticed the error in the first post. I try to correct errors at once. Hence your double dose of confusion. Lol

RoseWhiteTips · 31/01/2018 17:31

C8H10N4O2

Again, I am not 'Pandy'

Its probably just the unfortunate coincidence that your styles looked very similar and Pandorasxbox's name disappeared shortly before your current incarnation appeared with no overlap.

Oh god, you have been checking.🙄

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 31/01/2018 17:32

I'm sure you'd cope with a pedant picking up on the missing 'be', RoseWhiteTips. Why post your whole username in the new post? It does look somewhat odd.

JaneyEJones · 31/01/2018 17:36

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DixieNormas · 31/01/2018 17:37

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RoseWhiteTips · 31/01/2018 17:39

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe

I'm sure you'd cope with a pedant picking up on the missing 'be', RoseWhiteTips. Why post your whole username in the new post? It does look somewhat odd.

I meant to remove it🙄
Anyway being a bit pedantic myself, I approve of pedants’ work. HTH

SumThucker · 31/01/2018 17:39

Agreed Dixie.

Christinayangstwistedsista · 31/01/2018 17:40

Rose

c8 was checking for accuracy, surely you can relate?

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 31/01/2018 17:44

RoseWhiteTips, that makes absolutely NO sense. I can understand that you'd copy your post, including the mistake so that you could correct it - but why copy your username? Wouldn't the date/time gubbins be on there too if you'd posted it so hurriedly? Wouldn't you be more careful the second time around?

Not being a pedant myself I would let all that go but as you're a self-styled one, I thought I'd ask...

Fuckit2017 · 31/01/2018 17:45

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Coconutspongexo · 31/01/2018 17:46

To be fair I’ve checked when Pandora stopped posting before because the woman loved to get on my case regardless of what I posted and where , it was quite strange when she suddenly disappeared.

DixieNormas · 31/01/2018 17:46

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Christinayangstwistedsista · 31/01/2018 17:47

I think she moved to Reddit.....

Fuckit2017 · 31/01/2018 17:47

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Christinayangstwistedsista · 31/01/2018 17:48

She's over there, up voting, being a mod and everything

KateMumsnet · 31/01/2018 17:48

Peas and love.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 31/01/2018 17:48

That's what I'd do, Dixie otherwise it looks like a glitch of double posting. I doubt anybody would have noticed it anyway.

Christinayangstwistedsista · 31/01/2018 17:49

You do not want me to get my peas out, they tend to cause a very windy situation

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 31/01/2018 17:51

Peas! That is what I forgot today. :(

Could you not have posted that a bit earlier, KateMumsnet?

DixieNormas · 31/01/2018 17:52

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NameChangedToInsultPeople · 31/01/2018 17:53

Thanks to Greensleeves I have a new name

Christinayangstwistedsista · 31/01/2018 17:53

Lying
Are the peas for the hamster casserole?

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 31/01/2018 17:54

Amen to that. When I post like an arse I do it in this username, I don't change it to post Thanks then.

exLtEveDallas · 31/01/2018 17:55

I find it amusing (with a raised eyebrow) that posters give people grief for namechanging, and the same posters also give people grief for not namechanging.

They'll say that someone is 'cowardly' for namechanging and in the same fucking breath say a poster who doesn't name change 'thinks they are royalty'

Load of absolute (and irritating) bollocks.

It's not trollhunting that is ruining MN. It's not even the trollhunter hunters. It is 1) Trolls and 2) Disingenuous bullies who are themselves trolls. 3) Sycophantic pussies desperate to get 'in' with the big girls or make a name for themselves by being as obnoxious as possible.