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To think that posters who do this are creepy?

255 replies

malificent7 · 26/02/2018 17:48

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

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RoseWhiteTips · 26/02/2018 21:14

MrsMaxwell

I thought there was something in talk guidelines about bringing up previous threads?

Indeed. It is regarded as bad form on all sites such as this one.

WitchesHatRim · 26/02/2018 21:14

OP seems to have started a thread and disappeared....

RoseWhiteTips · 26/02/2018 21:16

Oh no!! Someone quick! Carry out an Advanced Search!

paxillin · 26/02/2018 21:17

OP seems to have started a thread and disappeared....

You could always AS to see if it's a habit Grin.

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 26/02/2018 21:18

It has its uses. Like when you remember a poster saying one thing on a thread but you're pretty sure you've seen something very different on another one.

Aka billy bullshitters.

Pannacott · 26/02/2018 21:18

I don't think it's creepy or weird at all. Do you think it's weird or creepy to remember what your friend said last week? Or where M&S is in Oxford? Or whether the kids' teacher is vegetarian? Or whether your client pays invoices promptly? Of course our knowledge about how things have gone in the past affects our actions in the present.

I guess it matters what you do with the info. Resignedly pointing out that someone has posted more or less the same thing repeatedly for the last 18 months, might actually lead to more helpful responses about why the OP is struggling to make a change that they are invested in.

Pointing out minor inconsistencies, or bringing up things that are irrelevant but shaming, is bitchy and nasty. It reflects badly on the poster doing so.

PigletWasPoohsFriend · 26/02/2018 21:22

You could always AS to see if it's a habit grin.

Grin
frasier · 26/02/2018 21:23

"Bad form" lol! This is a gossipy messageboard on the internet, not a thesis or dinner with the queen Grin

Tapandgo · 26/02/2018 21:24

Now I’m curious.
Where do you do an advanced search? Can’t see a button for it?

Lizardtheblizzard · 26/02/2018 21:25

WHAt does advanced search mean? Can you get to see all the name changes?

frasier · 26/02/2018 21:30

Tapandgo Look up, look up. If you're on a phone it's not on every page though, you'll have to go into the menu.

Lizardtheblizzard No, that's the Name Chane Search, at the bottom under "Popular Pages".

frasier · 26/02/2018 21:31

OK, I made the "Name Change Search" bit up Grin

RoseWhiteTips · 26/02/2018 21:32

God, now they’ll all be at it.

OutsideContextProblem · 26/02/2018 21:45

I’m not much of a trollhunter myself, but given that a lot of people on MN are trying to obtain money by fraud, get their sexual kicks under false pretences or upset well meaning people for dubious ends I don’t think reporting them is laughable Rose, I think it’s public spirited.

thecatfromjapan · 26/02/2018 21:46

That's the second 'made-up' thing I've seen you post today, Frasier. I have to say, I don't think you should have revealed either of them as wind-ups. In fat, I'm thinking of stealing both.

TrustNaeFuckerEver · 26/02/2018 21:47

God, now they’ll all be at it.

So what? It's a feature that Mumsnet have installed therefore they expect it to be used.

As said previously, it's not the search that's the issue it's how it's used. MNHQ can't police that, it's down to individual posters.

If you have nothing to worry about then ... you have nothing to worry about.

TheSistineMadeMeScream · 26/02/2018 21:48

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Tapandgo · 26/02/2018 21:50

frasier
Thank you. Now I’ve looked a person would need to have serious amount of time to wade through multiple and varied postings to find something interesting to comment on. Can’t see why a person would want to.

frasier · 26/02/2018 21:51

thecatfromjapan Grin

AccidentalBumming · 26/02/2018 21:55

I have hordes of names which I rotate randomly, does anybody fake do that?

Idontbelieveinthemoon · 26/02/2018 21:55

The one and only time I've ever done it was several months ago when a poster claimed something had happened to her child and the story didn't add up; I recognised her name and some details and couldn't get it out of my mind. I AS and was right, so just pm'd MNHQ with what I thought because it was an odd thread involving quite vulnerable children.

In any other situation I wouldn't think of it, because I don't think I care enough about most threads to go to those lengths.

pastabest · 26/02/2018 22:07

When I started on mumsnet many years and several name changes ago there was a lot of talk of spreadsheets keeping track of posters... I got the impression they were a bit like Santa's naughty and nice lists Grin

Thistlebelle · 26/02/2018 22:10

It is regarded as bad form on all sites such as this one.

It’s bad form to bring it on to the thread. It’s not bad form to AS.

MrsMaxwell · 26/02/2018 22:12

Yes bad form to bring it onto the thread - I don’t have an issue with anyone ASing me.

TrustNaeFuckerEver · 26/02/2018 22:20

When I started on mumsnet many years and several name changes ago there was a lot of talk of spreadsheets keeping track of posters... I got the impression they were a bit like Santa's naughty and nice lists

Exactly.

Seems like some posters forget about that in their 'when this was all fields' reminiscences. Much worse than a quick AS of someone you think might be a bit hairy handed.