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[Marjoriew]

I've just had this posted at me on the TES website.

'Does anyone have any journal articles relating to statistics of adults who home school children as a means of covering up abuse..'

Is that on the forum?

Yeah, but it's a troll thread (Opinion->Premoderation as a sanction) - I just checked. I'm not going to respond.

The poster who aimed it at me has teamed up with Locarno from Parentscentre. He has posted as |Lucinda Carlisle on the home ed threads here and he is posting as Martin Blank on TES.
I have reported the post but it hasn't been removed yet.

Plucking up courage to ask a stupid question here - what's a troll?

According to the great god Wikipedia: someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.

thank you!

I can't believe (well I can, but sigh) that some of these trolls from parentscentre still have nothing better to do with their lives all these years later.

The thread has been removed and the poster banned.

It has nothing to do with me.

Parentscentre closed six years ago, didnt it?