Who's been called a troll at some point?

[JacksonPollocks]

Just wondering as many people I see claim to have been, is it that widespread?

Hello Stripeybump and thanks! I know what you mean about the "pang" of wanting to belong. I always search and see what my favourite posters are saying (after I've done "active", "in the news" and AIBU!) When you think of the different personality types you meet in everyday life and then realise what a complete stew Mumsnet must represent, I think it makes a complete mockery of when people try to both sell and buy into the Mumsnet "massive".

I also tend to post late at night and people might assume that I am pissed but actually I am intoxicated by the silence and free time when everyone else is in bed! (OK, sometimes I AM pissed as well! but not tonight just a little emotional after watching JK Rowling on WDYTYA )

I was never called a troll outright, but one poster decided, that because I tried to stay neutral on an outing thread, that I must also be a troll because I wasn't immediately condemning her. This one poster implied on that thread words to that effect and I told them to go boil their head that they were most definitely mistaken and to politely move on.
I found it rather funny to tell you the truth- use neutral language and it gets interpreted as being supportive of the wrongdoer.

ooo, was she good, cartblanche? That show has uncovered some very interesting stories, I do like it.

Nutty! Someone called you a troll? That's just Wrong.

oh yes, I was called a troll by a bunch of newbies, but to be honest I don't blame them: It is not often that someone posts ranting about a coworker who leaves the OP's keyboard plastered in a mixture of saliva and crisps and who is so bloody sensitive that the boss asks all employers to put an emoticon on a whiteboard at the beginning of the day (EVERY SINGLE FN DAY) so the darn woman didn't think that whatever mood you arrived in was because you didn't like her.

Both my boss and that woman deserved to be slapped.

Fortunately, it was not long before someone came to the rescue (In Mumsnet I mean, I continued to endure my keyboard and whiteboard until I left the job.

I thought she was very good. She was in bits a lot of the time a la Patsy Kensit but then so was I! I was thinking that a lot of time you research your family history in search of heroes or people of merit (or is that just me?). I had just spent half an hour reading The Half Blood Prince to my son and then watched the programme and I just felt this extreme awe for her. I thought she was lovely and wondered what it must be like for her 18 year old daughter - what a hard act to follow!

I'll have to look out for it over here - is it the latest series? might take a year or two to get here (Australia) if it is!

Yes it's the brand new series here. Can you not get seeing it any sooner via any of the new fangled methods (I-Player/Satellite/friends with recorders?)

I could if I could be bothered to subscribe to one of these sites that gives you a UK IP address, then I could access i-player and the like, but it's so rare I'd bother that the expense isn't worth it to me. So I'll just wait :)

I just wanted to pop back to say I'm glad that there are other posters who feel, like I that we should, at least if compelled to post, give the OP the benefit of the doubt witting the post.

I have said this before, a few days ago on another thread, that the reason MN does soar to greatness at times is because posters are willing to take a risk in believing the OP. This does not, however, meant that you shouldn't be careful with the information your reveal or support you offer, but that would be sensible in any interaction anywhere, whether on-line or in RL.

It also strikes me, that for every 'sign' of trollery there is at least one well known poster who has posted in the same manner, you know, late at night or as the events unfold, while in hospital, in the car, using a stilted style, failed to update 'on time' etc, etc and that these examples are enough for me to see that they aren't irrefutable proof.

There are over 800 000 users of MN and it is entirely possible that one has just never come across the particular poster before OR that it is a newbie. So what? Is that person's distress or need any less valid because they aren't part of your possé?

Beautiful, interesting and thought provoking post by Fellatio.

I've posted recently about an emotional upheaval I'm having and I'm now wondering if I should have done it under a namechange.

I think too much.

Why is this thread in "Other Subjects" now? I thought we were in Chat?

Morning Pinot I noticed that yesterday that it had changed topics

Trés strange! I've never seen this topic before!

Nor me

Perhaps MNHQ didn't think it warranted 'Classics' but still thought it worth preserving for longer than 90 days?

i have a bit of a habit of shortening words. i was out shopping with my daughters and some old girl walked right in front of us, wheeling a big shopping trolley, i said loudly, "girls, mind the troll", if looks could kill....
so, although i've never been called a troll, i have (accidently) CALLED someone a troll!

Strange move of topic

carteblanche I completely relate to that long post of yours, and I haven't got a clue whether you have outed yourslef or not, but i'm just relieved there is someone else wordier than me.

I really need the anonymity and separation from MN and RL, but I really like being 'known' on here. But every day I am aware that the more I share on here the close I get to outing myself. In fact I've been giving away so much specifi info lately that I'd be a mazed if someone hasn't spotted me, assuming I know anyone who actually posts on MN at all. (apart from Alouiseg, but we only knew one another very, very vaguely in RL anyway, so we have actually bonded through MN, which is different.)

I'm quite neurotic about outing myself on here for all the reasons you said.
In a way though, the fear of that is a good thing. It makes me a little bit more careful about what I say, and I think twice before I bitch about people I know, or over-share my worries!

For example, if I had a problem in my marriage (I don't, but anyway...) then I would not volunteer that to RL friends, or ask for advice, because for all that I can be quite loud and over-talkative I'm actually quite private and self-contained. So in the early days I might have used MN as an agony aunt but of course now I wouldn't because you know me too well and it would make me feel vulnerable. Or people would put stuff on their spreadsheets in the 'Loser' column.

FellatioNelson I've never quite gone for "concise"

Please fully define a TROLL...
Is it someone who waits in the shadows then jumps out flings arrows at other people on here and is nasty simply for the sake of it?

Maybe we could christen them as "poison archers" Piano?

Me, ages ago. Because I dared to have a different opinion. They then started discussing whether or not anyone had ever seen me on other threads etc.

Amusing now but at the time I was very tempted to ask if they were sorry that the Thought Police weren't recruiting.

Me, ages ago. Because I dared to have a different opinion. They then started discussing whether or not anyone had ever seen me on other threads etc.

Amusing now but at the time I was very tempted to ask if they were sorry that the Thought Police weren't recruiting.