How do MNHQ know if it's a troll??

[kirsten123]

Are they blimming psychic or summat?
Do they phone you up to check?

The thing about ip addresses concerns me. DH posts here at times, not often but he does have a different account to me, so there are "multiple accounts" from this ip address. So if i namechanged for a "dramatic" post, i'm worried i would lose my Beyond account. And I'm quite attached to this account. Hmm... Guess nothing is infallible though.

I also live very close to not one but two bridges. And am quite hairy

Maybe me and dh need to skype hq so they can see there really are two of us using the same pc...?

I was wondering about the ex/friend one too. It was quite helpful to me tbh.

As an aside, does anyone else warn their dc about the "Hairy Handed" when teaching them about Internet safety?

The thing about ip addresses concerns me. DH posts here at times, not often but he does have a different account to me, so there are "multiple accounts" from this ip address.

Your posting history should make it clear that you are likely to be a couple rather than a troll with a split personality.

does anyone else warn their dc about the "Hairy Handed" when teaching them about Internet safety?

Of course. The fact that people may not be who they say they are is the heart of internet safety isn't it?

does anyone else warn their dc about the "Hairy Handed" when teaching them about Internet safety?

Indeed, it could be a dog with very good keyboard skills.

We also make sure DS doesnt pin his life and existence around the internet, at his age he needs to make friends in the RW, getting out there, not spending hours in his room staring at an inanimate screen whether the message gets thru is another matter (sigh)

OK, I've often wondered about this. I've only ever had one account here, with one e-mail address, so presumably MNHQ can see my entire posting history from the last X years, although I name change every few months. They should be able to see from my IP address that I'm posting from a European country outside the UK. But I also subscribe to a dynamic IP address service (a VPN) which can make it look like I'm posting in the UK - each time I log on there it assigns me a different UK IP. So if I made up a new e-mail account and then regged only using the UK IP address, how would MNHQ possibly know that I'm the same person as the Archfarchnad login .

From what Aga is saying, they can also see that I use eg Explorer and Windows 8 or Safari and an iPhone, is that right? But that's more of an indication of a possible double reg than a clear smoking gun, no?

I meant literally.

As in I use the term "hairy handed".

I tell DD to PROVE her friends are not truckers called Dave. (Apologies to lorry drivers)

Why was the "I want to have an affair with the nanny thread" nuked?

"We had a few doubts about the OP, so we're removing the thread whilst we take a closer look into things."

That was the deletion message.

Yeah Doughnut thanks - I saw that as I'd posted on the thread earlier.

But wondered if there had been posting actually on the thread that lead to that which I'd missed? It's kind of annoying if you've taken time to give advice and then you never know whether the OP even saw it or registered what you'd written.

I have suspicions about a poster (not going to say who or why, as with many trollers, if it is true and I make out it isn't then I'm a horrible person denying support to someone going through an awful time), I raised my concerns to mnhq (factual things I know because of my job that don't fit in with things posted) and I was advised to question the poster about the things she said that I doubt are true on the thread. Now for one thing I don't want to be thought a bastard and for another I don't want to be a troll hunter so I'm not willing to do that. So the poster is still posting things I don't believe (though of course practice in wherever this poster is could be very different to practice everywhere I've worked) and still getting support for their emotive situation...

Why was the "I want to have an affair with the nanny thread" nuked?

I might not be the sharpest tool in the box when it comes to spotting fake threads, but that one was smelling of bullshite from five miles off.

When you posted that great long reply selfloathing and the OP replied 'that is the kind of reply I like to see' ... the stench got even stronger.

When you posted that great long reply selfloathing and the OP replied 'that is the kind of reply I like to see' ... the stench got even stronger.

Ah - thanks Fontanella - I had logged off so hadn't seen that or anything that followed.

It is annoying though when you write something and never get to see whether the OP saw it, responded or took it on board.

(LOL @ "great long reply" btw)

*Fontella

(Dr freud I fear)