To think that posters who do this are creepy?

[malificent7]

Those who research your previous threads on mumsnet so that they can have ammunition to slag you off? Weird and stalkerish.

I just don't give enough of a shit to do it- I read a thread on MN, answer according to the information given and that's it. If someone is rude I ignore it or if it is particularly spiteful, racist, homophobic or disablist I report it. If the OP is a liar or embellishing their story then they get pointless advice that won't help -more fool them. If I think it is all bollocks, I just ignore the post and move on. If you genuinely remember a PP and bring it up then fair enough, but trawling through a posters history to pick them apart or embarrass them is weird and bullying. Especially if it is some random, unimportant post about a trivial matter.

Totally agree Op. I find it weird that people can even be bothered

Walk the fck away. I don't try to embarass people so I can say a big "gotcha". I mean how meaningless must your life actually be?
Additionally, when someone is asking for help and all you are trying to do is catch them out, it doesn't make it very inviting for them. Hardly a safe space. Is that really the ethos of MN*

Exactly.

paxillin

Like you hadn't looked everyone up already?

Kate, there's only room for one supreme menopausal old bag on MN and that's me.

No Battleax, right thread, thank you for checking.

I meant that I and other posters always change a few details, but I can't remember - or be bothered to check - what details I have changed previously. If you go through my posting history, you will find many things that don't add up.

Funnily enough, I have been called a troll not about my past posts, but because posters didn't' agree with me. When they run out of argument, they just call trolls.

I get name searching, but going through every single details is a bit sad.

Some people withdraw posts and then come back under the same name. Wonder why.

Yanbu. It's shitty and it usually gets called out tbf
It gives some posters a mini power trip. When they were at school they probably used to go running to the teacher telling tales.

mustnotlooktohave

I did it because I had cranks stalking me.

I have only done advanced searches on a couple of posters and then only because I found their opinions particularly helpful, level-headed and intelligent and so was interested in their takes on other threads/situations as well. Is that weird or stalkerish? I didn't think so at the time, but if it is I certainly won't do it again.

Problem is that some people have photographic memories, and don't even need AS!

And when posters have dramatic lives....
But still, OP, TAAT.

Not yet, @Pengggwn.

Why should I give my opinion/advice to somebody who's just made a situation up? Liars are wasting my time.

good grief.

By the time someone has expressed an opinion about a school on one thread, listed the ages of their children on another thread, and randomly scattered one or two other anecdotes and bits of personal information around mumsnet it's not hard for them to be identified. That's fine if nobody is looking, but why risk it? - anyone who is concerned about privacy should change their usernames much more often!

It doesn't take long to AS someone.
Its NOT ok if its used to embarrass someone because you don't agree with them.
Its not ok to take a bit of information gleaned from ASing and try and use it to discredit someone when its a minor detail or just a turn of phase. eg. people pouncing on someone because on one thread they say they live in London and on another they say they live in the South East.
Like that proves they are lying

The issue is not ASing, its what you do with the information you have (or think you have).

Lets be honest though. If someone is being a massive, aggressive racist troll they deserve to get ASed to buggery.
Serves them right.

I do it when I think the OP is a bit dodgy and it has proved my point on several occasions. I'm not in the least creepy, just don't want to accept bullshit at face value.

I happen to remember your name OP due to the bizzareness of some of your posts. No need to AS.

paxillin

Definitely detention.

Aint nobody got time for that stalkeresque creepyfuckerdom level of involvement in a thread.

I agree OP its weird and seems to be the posters who are narky. I had one poster on a recent thread openly tell me that she had searched my other posts, she was obviously trying to catch me out. I personally can't be bothered to do this myself, I think its a bit stalkerish.

Pengggwn. I didn't even AS you. Or argue. I will do now of course.

paxillin

Knock self out.

Ew

I search if I have good cause to. Mostly I stalk myself as I find people have a tendency to tell you what you’re thinking based on a thread they remember that you posting on that you as it turns out we’re not on. So basically I search to clarify that at least I know they are talking bollocks either about themselves or about me and then I move on and leave them to their fucknuggetry.

Completely agree with Trills and NotYoda.

I'm not a goldfish. I am a human, with a memory. Part of being human is that we interact with others, and with reality, by drawing up composite, complex pictures of reality that draw on the function of memory. The ability to do that is incredibly useful for survival and for development. That's why it has become more, not less, complex with evolution.

Why would you want to essentially de-evolve on the internet? I get that it might be an interesting social/psychological experiment but ... as a long-term way of interacting in life, or even on a forum? No.

Amoebas for Banning of Mumsnet Advanced Search Function!!!