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bumpthedoor · 18/12/2014 13:33

The one about the husband on a course for work. Was it deleted or is it still there somewhere?

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MirrorMirror · 18/12/2014 14:32

That was one of the few times I've posted on a relationship thread and it turns out to be a trollAngryI did wonder how she managed to type quite a long post when looking out the window at him arriving home in the supposedly ow's carConfused

Hobby2014 · 18/12/2014 14:36

Oh I was so fooled! Glad nobody is actually going through that though.

Louboutin37 · 18/12/2014 14:37

Wow, kinda makes me not want to bother helping people anymore

bumpthedoor · 18/12/2014 14:40

Well there you are Mirror, you were having doubts, when that happens, report, don't post, and enjoy what usually turns out to be a very entertaining thread. If you're wrong, no harm done..

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Mammanat222 · 18/12/2014 14:44

Well it was either a madey uppy thread or the man (and indeed woman - the OP) in question were both as thick at 2 short planks.

The OP listed about every single cliché in the book in her opening post.

The fact that he suddenly started changing his underwear "everyday" was just a step too far for me!! Real men change their grundies daily right?

TheWildRumpyPumpus · 18/12/2014 14:46

The ones that annoy me are the ones that get other posters arguing amongst themselves, like the "should I take in my sisters' kids when she dies" troll post.

And all for nothing - some people have just got too much time on their hands.

YoullLikeItNotaLot · 18/12/2014 14:48

TheWild that one was outed very early on though - what a dozy idiot they were! Grin

LoisPuddingLane · 18/12/2014 15:00

Fair enough ChristmasKate, but if we had a list of how to spot them, would it not stop us wasting our time and energy and - in some cases - emotion on these sad folk?

PrivatePike · 18/12/2014 15:05

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dominogocatgo · 18/12/2014 15:16

Even if the OP is completely fabricated, sometimes the subsequent discussion does bring up valid opinions or perspectives that could be useful to other MNers in similar situations.

AmonRa1 · 18/12/2014 15:25

I have to admit it crossed my mind when they posted about seeing the OH get out of the OW’s car and talking?! I thought, well christ, it must be a pretty long convo if you’ve had time to log onto MN and type all of that and he’s, seemingly, still knee deep in convo?!

HappenstanceMarmite · 18/12/2014 15:38

Bugger. How can anyone know for certain that it is a troll though? Would be awful if someone was seeking real help and got dismissed because of (for example) their writing style.

Maybe I'm just being naïve wouldn't be the first time

WannaBe · 18/12/2014 15:38

am always a bit Hmm at posts which say "don't post how you spot them, you don't want to give them any ideas." do people really think that these trolls don't know what they're doing? or that suddenly they'll read "I spot them from the continuing drama," and then think "oh, I won't do that, never realised that." The workings of internet trolls are widely published all over the internet, they're really not going to learn something from here that they don't already know.

Personally I think that the vast majority of the serious threads on here are made up, and that 99.9% of relationship threads (I mean the "he's cheating/is violent/has lashed out at me in the heat of an argument/has smacked the kids etc ones are works of pure fiction, and that with a few exceptions, anything which goes into more than one thread is made up or imbelished at best.

The phone on top of the kitchen cupboard did it for me, if he was secretly texting he wouldn't hide his phone up there, and who the fuck looks on top of the kitchen cupboards for a phone....? Hmm

I have to say that I think the fact that we are pointing out the dramatic appearance of trolls means that they're getting more boring now and less likely to generate massive threads. A few years ago we had the cvq/dizzymare/fox trolls posting in the heat of the drama and posters falling over themselves to be there for them. Now the fact that people have pointed out that over dramatic threads are generally suspicious means that less of these threads are appearaing and that while "he's having an affair with his soulmate of five minutes" threads do generate some attention, on the whole people get bored of them after a few days if they're not outed as trolls.

12daysofpissedoff · 18/12/2014 15:47

Im suspicious about a thread in AIBU right now, tbh. The scenario is somewhat improbable. (The Xmas "do" related one).

Joysmum · 18/12/2014 16:36

Hopefully it'll have helped some lurkers before it was deleted Smile

LoisPuddingLane · 18/12/2014 19:28

At least any lurking guys will now know that they must change their pants daily.

Guilianna · 18/12/2014 22:09

lol lois

AskMeAnother · 18/12/2014 22:52

Personally I think that the vast majority of the serious threads on here are made up, and that 99.9% of relationship threads (I mean the "he's cheating/is violent/has lashed out at me in the heat of an argument/has smacked the kids etc ones are works of pure fiction, and that with a few exceptions, anything which goes into more than one thread is made up or imbelished at best
Isn't that in keeping with MN tradition? Didn't MN founders say they made up the posts at first? Maybe they still do...

elsabelle · 18/12/2014 23:10

Nooo, was that thread not real?? I was really enjoying reading and all the fab advice. Never saw that one coming...

WoodenGo · 18/12/2014 23:41

I don't agree with MNHQ that the information posted might be helpful to others. It's an anonymous forum, there is really no need to lurk in the hope someone will have the exact same (possibly far fetched) problem.
There is someone who posts a lot here, always starts the same way and despite being quite literate always makes the same two basic spelling errors.
I read theirs for entertainment value, watching them tie themselves into knots trying to make a ludicrous scenario sound in any way credible.

BlueBrightBlue · 19/12/2014 00:05

I was taken in.
How do we know it wasn't genuine?
I've spotted a few troll threads but I never for a moment thought this was.
I think there was some truth in this story.

Mom2K · 19/12/2014 03:28

I wasn't sure if it was real or not...but I couldn't help but think that I would have gone outside and confronted the lying scumbag the moment I saw him get out of OW's car rather than walking from the bus stop...which is where he should have been. I certainly wouldn't have hopped onto the computer in my fog of rage (which I think would have been a more realistic reaction).

bumpthedoor · 19/12/2014 09:06

Mom2K Exactly. Who on earth would post on MN when their DH is outside their house with another woman?

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Only1scoop · 19/12/2014 09:12

Wondered where it had gone. Blimey some people must get extremely bored....or lack attention in RL.

brokenhearted55a · 19/12/2014 09:34

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