To think that the recent spate of troll posts and deliberately provocative posts are actually ruining mumsnet

[lucyellensmummyisnotmad]

I love AIBU, i love a good barney same as the next guy but really, i haven't a clue what is sodding real anymore. I love the fun trolls, especially if they are clever. But when it is about sensitive subjects or just insulting our intelligence - its getting a bit much and i wonder if MNHQ should be considering some sort of control?

what would you suggest?

I dont know...the internet is a strange creature..and opinions and ideas are also strange too...but they should be heard appreciated and disregarded at will...no fun in too much control

This sort of thing makes me so sad.

I rather like all the silliness, tbh. Its a welcome distraction from the real world which currently contains trying to sell a house, trying to find a job, watching one of the chickens go blind, and having DS suffer with tonsilitis.

I have just been accused of goading somebody. I wasn't. I was responding to what I thought was an outrageous comment by another poster. I was told to sod off. Trouble with trying to regulate these types of forums is that you strangle them into pale imitations of what they should be. Carry on as you would in real life. Try to ignore the idiots and listen to and learn from the good stuff.

I have just been accused of goading somebody. I wasn't. I was responding to what I thought was an outrageous comment by another poster. I was told to sod off. Trouble with trying to regulate these types of forums is that you strangle them into pale imitations of what they should be. Carry on as you would in real life. Try to ignore the idiots and listen to and learn from the good stuff.

ive been on here for a fortnight now, and some of it is just WTF material. I dont know if its real or not, but only being on here a short time, I already know who to avoid

It's bloody awful how much this stuff is getting to Hully. This in itself is a lesson to the lot of you.

I don't think MN is any more prone to trolls or provocative threads than it has been since I've been here - I've been on about 3 years now, and it just seems to come and go.

I wouldn't want to be on a moderated forum, so I think all you can do is decide whether to reply to a thread or not. If they're getting long and heated I tend to steer clear. Also if I think it might be a troll I usually just say something that sounds a bit "doubtful" about the situation, then leave it.

I am also sad SOH and Hully

There is one troll who is responsible for about a third of all the threads, I reckon

Won't somebody think of Hully?

Things have come to a sorry pass. Time was you

Ronald too.

Somebody has to pay. Sad times indeed.

ooh BOF, I had a right good old look through the archives the other day, and did you know that people were talking about "Steve" as far back as 2007.

tbh I think the thing that has ruined mumsnet is the ibu topic.

On the one hand it is a free-for-all where people seem to feel they have the right to say whatever they want purely because someone dared to post in ibu, and on the other hand some of the posts are so dull as to be pathetic. "Ibu to eat a biscuit/to think that the weather man is sexy/to have a crush on my neighbour's best friend's dog?"

Wrt trolls I think that encoutering them is just a hazzard of posting on the internet, and I think that actually there are a lot more fakes on here than we realize, you don't have to be posting outragiously or provocatively to not be who you say you are.

I think Steve was JudgeFlounce actually.

Same Steve as thehappyparent? or coincidence?

What about bringing back the stocks? MNHQ could organise virtual stocks with the trolls imprisoned and then we could pelt them with words like "eggs" "rotten tomatoes" "horrible dirty old nappies" etc?

who is steve?

also, mn hq are patently not interested in doing anything about trolls because the more outragious the postings are, the more people come to mn and the more money they make .

Even the more nasty trolls such as dizzymare are essentially free to keep posting here while those who question their validity are silenced.

Nah, they come waves. It will be over in a couple of weeks and we can get back to shrieking at each other like usual.

The same Steve, yes

maybe its me, because im sucked in by the fuckers all the time

But was dizzymare found out to be a troll?

I think at the moment, the majority of the outrageous posts are by one person cough WWC cough , and that person must be very bored. If you don't like a thread, you can always hide it. There's always plenty of other stuff going on