Competitions? Where is there a 'troll hunting competition' please? I haven't seen anything like that.
The threads about the current spate of trolls seem lighthearted because people would rather laugh at the situation than get upset about it. It's a serious thing when it happens to hurt someone who naively believes the story...and naturally any kind hearted person who this has happened to would want to prevent others from being similarly hoodwinked into a vulnerable and very difficult position.
Please can we lay off - I see NO bad intentions from the person you seem to be discussing and indeed nothing not to like. Of course there are some who take the whole thing way too far and behave inappropriately, but these are few and far between and PM isn't one of them IMO. She's lovely
Definitely not smug
Definitely not obsessed
Just trying to do her bit.
Please leave her alone and check your facts before jumping to conclusions about someone very much valued and valuable on here...perhaps you oughtt o direct your scorn toward those without good intentions instead.
As a final thought, I was trying to teach ds about fibbing the other day. It was quite hard to explain to a little boy that a story is Ok, and great fun, but the people hearing it need to know it IS a story and if they don't, it's not fair and makes them mistrust you next time.
So why do people often defend trolling by saying it 'does no harm'? Surely it undermines the trust we put in each other in quite a major way. Fine if we know it's written for a laugh - but not if we don't.