I’m not talking people who start an emotive thread which could be real and which might relate to something in the posters’ own lives, but posters who are very obviously trolls.
e.g. That troll who keeps posting about the queen being a lizard and alien life and conspiracies etc, people engage with them and keep the conversation going. If people just didn’t engage they would disappear even if MN hadn’t got round to deleting their threads yet.
Post yesterday from the OP who claimed she had been offered an executive position abroad and her dh was being an arsehole to not want to go. Even if the thread had started out as semi plausible, as it went on it became so blatantly obvious that it was a troll, in fact I suspect the OP wanted to be recognised as a troll, but people were still engaging with her as if the thread was real.
So why?