To think that school kids don't actually troll Mumnet?

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I see this comment all the time, "oh you can tell half term has started" when a silly thread has been started.

But AIBU to think that teenagers are very unlikely to even know about mumsnet, never mind taking the time to post on it to wind up some women?

Or am I being naive?

I think it's meant to be a joke. Basically telling the OP they are behaving like a child

I doubt if mumsnet is the first port of call when a child decides to troll online.

I have known of 15yr old boys deliberately posting goady and inflammatory posts on various forums before. They boasted about it in chat rooms that I used to be in for an online game. No idea if they targeted Mumsnet but they did enjoy trying to ruin forums aimed for children's games.

I’ve been here since I was 13, but I don’t troll so 🤷‍♀️

Mumsnet threads come up very easily in Google search results, so it's perfectly possible teenagers will find trolling opportunities that way. I don't think it happens that much, but there are definitely threads now and again that are clearly started by kids - they just get taken down quickly.

Actually, I think it does, although probably not nearly as often as some people think. It's kind of like the equivalent of making prank phonecalls back in the day.

I always thought that meant that the person posting was a teacher. Never occurred to me that it was a child!

I agree, this would be a weird forum for teenagers to troll. Why would they care about winding up a bunch of mums? There are forums more aligned with their interests to go wind up. I think the trolling here is done by older people.

Same reason they'd phone up adults and say something silly to wind them up back in the day! Trolling really is a hobby for some people. Can't understand it myself, but there you go.

Isn’t winding up mothers the modus operandi of teenagers?

I have seen it happen but not often (probably because threads about parking etc aren’t interesting to them).

If they are not obviously being goady then they will be hard to spot - a thirteen year old will have about the same level of writing and comprehension as a large chunk of the population on Mumsnet.

Wasn't Jeffrey a late teen?

Not actually school kids usually. There are those who seem like they haven’t matured that come from Twitter and such with very ‘right and wrong’ (to their minds) views. There is a known PBP here who claims to be a teenager, sometimes posts from the POV of a very unreasonable parent. They are very likely ND but not sure if they’re just reliving a bad childhood through MN rather than actually are a teen.