Do trolls admit to being trolls?

[Galaxygirl93]

Im genuinely intrigued about what happens when a thread is deleted my Mnhq for being a troll! Many a time I've tried to revisit a thread to see what the latest is/any updates for it to have been taken down due to being a troll! Do they admit to being a troll? Is there a post from them declaring all? The most recent tonight being a thread by someone who was messaged as her daughters name was the same as someone elses- why would someone make that up?!

Oh, and I've poppes this on AIBU as it seems the most busy with trolls :-)

Erm

No they don't declare themselves

MN check various things behind the scenes and can normally tell if they are a PBP or delete for starting troll like inflammatory threads.

As far as I am aware no troll usually admits they are a troll. People just suspect the story is far fetched and silently report it to mnhq. After many reports and a check behind the scenes it gets deleted.

Ah I see, I thought I was always too slow and missing some dramatic big reveal

Some of them clearly ramp up their trollery bollocks to ridiculous levels which surely must be their way of wanting to be exposed. I think they must be agog at how long people engage with them.

Others get alerted to naysayers and pull the plug by declaring outing concerns. I think this lot are the crap fiction writers testing their prose.

I've occasionally seen it on other forums.

they get a buzz out of winding people up.

Admitting to trolling has the effect they like.

Worse on sites that have a weak policy to expelling them.