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Space Invaders ..... You know the sort of person who crashes into a discussion like a bull elephant....

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mathanxiety · 14/10/2010 15:18

How does it make you feel when you're having a discussion with people you have something in common with, about something you have in common, like giving birth or birth trauma or breastfeeding, or being a mother or daughter or wife or sister, perhaps even being an abused wife or daughter or sister, and someone who does not share the experience, a man with strident opinions, shall we say, and maybe a friend or two he has invited along, plonks himself down among you and pontificates and scolds, and finally the discussion ends up revolving around accusations of man-hating, with advice and commiseration being wilfully misinterpreted as expressions of misandry?

Apologies, very long sentence there. But no apology for the contents.

HelenMumsnet · 14/10/2010 16:57

Hello.

As many of you have already said on this thread, we do ask you in our Talk Guidelines to report to us any concerns you have about a particular poster.

That way, we can have a good delve about to see what that poster has been up to - and then monitor what they get up to next.

If, going by your reports and our delvings, we think that the poster is continuing to post in a way that consistently breaks our Guidelines and/or in a way that does seem deliberately designed to disrupt a discussion ? rather than engage in it ? we tend to send them a polite but stern warning mail.

If our mail goes unheeded, our next step may well be to ban.

HelenMumsnet · 14/10/2010 17:24

lol at reebok

EvilAntsandMiasmas: no, we would count as "troublemakers" posters who continually fail to engage in discussions and/or who seem intent on disrupting threads.

And we welcome reports about anyone whose posts concern you - even if you're not sure whether they properly qualify as a troublemaker or not.

We look at every report that comes in and, although we don't always act immediately, they do help us build up a picture of posters who may (or may not) turn out to be Trouble with a capital T.

Watch this thread for updates

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