AIBU Trollhunting is ruining AIBU

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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.

If avoid the elder thing. Some of the 'elders' are the cuntyist of all! (Not me .)

It wouldn't be compulsory to post on that one topic. It could be avoided in the same way I avoid the sporner corner. (Some lovely posters on there, but I am too wimpy for their hobby!)

I always stick to one name, apart from once or twice when it has been sensitive enough that I don't want to be identified, no matter how unlikely that is.

However if I am a twat then I have no problem admitting it and apologizing. No one should hide behind a new persona just to be goady or support their personal agenda

I'm also quick to say when I've been a twat (which happens more often than I'd like .)

I'm being a twat as we speak. I'm getting my arse handed to me on a packed lunch thread for using the word "butthurt". That will teach me to quote ds1 without thinking

A packed lunch thread you say? Dare I ask how butthurt came into the conversation?

I said ds1 is 15 and still butthurt that the dinner lady confiscated his single square of chocolate from his lunchbox on his 6th birthday

MN: Butthurt??? are you twelve???

You don't need a clicky option. You just assign OPs posts a certain colour (I have OP in green, me in pink and MNHQ in blue - everyone else is white)

That works fine on a short thread, not so well on one that's 30 odd pages long. It discourages people from reading the thread (or at least the OP's updates) before posting, then we get another half a page of people saying RTFT, making it even longer and more tedious to wade through.

I'd love to be able to jump straight to OP's posts. I suppose the argument against it is that no-one will read contributions but the OP's and their own, bar doing a quick scan for responses to their own words of wisdom.

But that already happens anyway. With some threads it's really not necessary or interesting to read anything but the OP's posts.

I'd also really love a timed edit function. Pedants like me feel compelled to go back and repost to point out that we know we made a typo or autocorrect that looks like a spelling mistake as we really do know the difference between to and too or whatever, because some twat will always point it out if we don't. That makes threads longer than they need to be.

And sometimes I hit send then realise I have something of brilliance and huge importance to add, so end up making a double post. I'd prefer to be able to just edit the first one.

Re: namechanging. I'm a serial namechanger because I get bored easily, not because I'm trying to mislead anyone or hide anything (previous username was FurCoatFurKnickers).

I do try and remember to set my profile to show how long I've been here (since Jan 2015 on this account, de-regged my original account some years ago).

If MN think namechanging adds to trolling or 'isn't in the spirit of Mumsnet' then they could restrict posters to 2 names - one for their regular posting and the other for any sensitive matters.

Tournesolset, pedants who are twats about it usually get picked up on their posts and told to wind their necks in. We can all be pedantic about things sometimes but picking on people's spelling/grammar etc. is pathetic. Only inadequate and needy people do that in my view.

I’ve been here years and wouldn’t want an ‘elders’ section.
I like new people, new posters, things changing.
I don’t like everything - the idea that anyone would is daft. I get a bit irritated at the way any criticism gets treated. All the ‘well if you don’t like it why the fuck are you here’ is dull.
Loads of it is great and it’s often an interesting way to spend half an hour but things like the trolling do make it less enjoyable

@Bluedoglead

Well yes duck I saw that too but I also saw the posts saying that someone was banned for reporting the same person. Because that was against guidance. But if the same person is posting aggressively and you report them every time you do it then won’t you be banned?

I missed this yesterday - sorry Blue. Hmm - this is a myth that seems to have taken a verruca-like hold on MN's, erm.. foot.

No-one has ever been banned for over-reporting, whatever they might say. There has always been way more to it than that - for eg a couple have been warned multiple times and then banned for following their nemesis around the site and reporting them maliciously. Others had a massive history of goadiness, say, or of consistently breaking TGs.

So please don't worry that you'd ever be banned for reporting the same person several times - we'd definitely, definitely be in touch with you if we thought you were a wrong'un and you'd know about it well before it got to banning stage, honest!

I wouldn't like to see an 'Elder's Corner' but I do think it might be time MNHQ had another look at this idea as promised

I wouldn't like an 'Elders' corner either. I like the fact that there are no 'levels' on this site, all posters are the same however long they've been here.

I think an Elders corner or anything similar would stir up a hornets nest of trouble the like of which we haven't seen.

Please could you think up something brilliant (and effective) for the posters who namechange just to be goady. They're the lowest of the low in my opinion.

I doubt we have to worry about an elders corner. Not very inclusive is it? I for one wouldn't post there. Weird suggest OP I have to say.

Please could you think up something brilliant (and effective) for the posters who namechange just to be goady. They're the lowest of the low in my opinion.

Yes to this. It would be good to have your regular name and one that could be changed (and checked easier by MNHQ) if it was for something sensitive, as a pp said earlier.

It is NOT a bloody elders' corner. Anyone could post on a no-namechange topic from day 1. They just couldn't namechange to racisttwat1 to post and then be sweetaspie2 again next day.

paxillin, that was the OP's suggestion, yours was different. I think your sugestion of a no-name-change-topic would be workable - the OP's wouldn't. Unless I've misunderstood both of you?

My only suggestion for change is could there be different areas for the sites "elders" where entry was only allowed by time served e.g 5 years, 10 years? Then certain groups could keep in jokes and what not.

From the OP.

I'm a little slow on the uptake today, @LyingWitchInTheWardrobe . It's before noon, that's why.

Paxillin

hair of the dog?

I have no such excuse.

I'll stick to the coffee, thanks. Gin breath is frowned upon at work. Party poopers.

I think you know there are going to be in jokes when there are threads calling out to people to celebrate "when this were all fields"

It's tedious, rude and unwelcoming to new posters to derail threads with greetings to old friends, frantic snogging and in jokes. I think posters who do that should be made aware that it excludes people and promotes the idea that MN isn't welcoming to all.

I don't agree that posters acknowledging each other is terrible and excludes newcomers

If a group of posters totally overwhelm a thread then that's one thing but I think it's ridiculous that posters have to constantly act as if they don't recognise each other.

The sense of community is the thing that feeds support, friendships, things like the Chernobyl knitting projects. If MN isn't a community at all, if that's actively discouraged and dismissed as exclusionary then I think it loses something.

There has to be balance and I'd rather feel like I was in a pub recognising some people but not others while basking in a certain cammeraderie than feel like we are all just standing on a street corner shouting at anyone who passes.