Trolls

[Throwingshade]

I know there was a thread about this just a couple of weeks, but just want to remind us all to think before investing time and emotion - and most importantly personal information and experiences - on threads in Relationships. Especially if it's something triggering for you.

This board is being infiltrated by trolls at the moment.

If the OP is over egged, if the OP is too 'bad' to be true, if it reads like a soap opera with convenient updates every couple of hours to keep people entertained, then it's likely not true!

Then there are the trolls who think it's funny to goad and upset people who are upset about a particular issue..hmm let me say people struggling with children with SN.

Seriously vile.

Oh I'm glad others have said that - totally don't believe the 'reverse'!

Tbh I actually thought Blue might be having mental health issues and be delusional, thinking they knew several posters in real life so I left that alone.

SO MANY TROLLS

Yep Fanjo seen that (and you defending valiantly) for YEARS

It's never the situation or the content of a troll's post that alerts me.

Most of us are old enough to know that truth is stranger than fiction.

We all know real people who have been victims of affairs, we know (or know of) people who have cheated with spouse's friends, family etc, we have heard of all manner of bad behaviour, cheating, lying. We know of terrible tragedy and bereavement and hardship.

So it's not that.

It's always the style - it's the over egging, the stilted language, the ridiculously quickly unfolding drama, the hammy dialogue etc etc. It just springs out immediately.

A long time ago someone came up with a sentence to alert posters to the strong possibility that the OP was a troll but it didn't really take off. The problem with making it widely known is it could be used maliciously.

Going, pretty well anything can be used maliciously, but it's a good idea though. I wonder how it could be made to work.

PMs are a great thing

well some are..not the pervy ones I have received. nice ones welcome and troll warning ones :)

This is the thing. The more trolls there are, the more people feel entitled to say it on the thread to warn people. Esp if HQ are dithering or haven't seen reports.

And what's wrong with 'welcome to Mumsnet' or Anyfucker not being on the thread

Ive read this thread with interest. Ive never been on the relationships board but it is interesting in relation to the rest of the site. I remember years ago being trolled on another site. It was a support site for a health condition I suffer from and I had honestly never been exposed to the concept of trolls let alone engaged with one. I am still hurt over it. I was totally ashamed of myself for posting in what I thought was a supportive fashion giving out details of my symptoms in sympathy. It was horrible and still makes my skin crawl to think there was someone out their getting a kick out of it.
Thank you for this discussion it's really enlightening.
Btw, blue14 totally narked me off on another thread in chat, glad she's been vanquished... Do they go into those storage things you have to stamp on that the ghostbusters use?

Nothing to do with me. I was posting on the "how do I help my wife after my affair" thread that got zapped

MN will now zap posts like "Welcome to Mumsnet" or "Interesting first post". I wouldn't dream of suggesting anyone comes up with an alternative.

But surely trolls feed trolls too? I´m thinking of the Victoria Station Poo Troll again Yes I still have to LMFAO at that one as described up thread....

I don´t for one minute think that a poster requested her sister to go to the station with a change of clothes for somebody who was supposedly incontinent and who´s first thought was to post for help on MN! I mean come on!

I reckon there´s an increase in trolling on MN and it´s become quite a sport among the Troll community. I think they´re breeding too. Trolls are recruiting more trolls and it´s now become like a game. Us Vs Them.

A Troll Apocolypse?? But I definately think the name of the game for some trolls is to see who can keep the thread going the longest and get the most responses before getting zapped. That´s why troll posters help along the troll OP as they work together towards one common goal.

So many people with soo much time to waste I think I think it´s fucked up but they just see it as an interactive game and possibly a competition within their community. An entertaining way to pass the time. Saddos, tragic really.

Surely those threads will also have some sock puppets.

I definately think the name of the game for some trolls is to see who can keep the thread going the longest and get the most responses before getting zapped. That´s why troll posters help along the troll OP as they work together towards one common goal.

Surely, other trolls would be the first to call troll to win the game.

Mary - I was kidding about AF being on the thread. It was a joke because so many others have said that. I like AF but I am not a slave to her opinions

In my more paranoid cynical moments, I sometimes wonder if Relationships in particular is targeted because the majority of wonderful posters here have a common ethos: helping other women to become stronger.

Then I take off my tinfoil hat and think "Nah, they're just bored saddos... probably. Right?"

Lweji No the game is to keep the thread going as long as poss. Other trolls jump onboard to help with that, like the so-called lady who sent her sis to the stn to look for a troll who´d shit themselves. All fabrication and far-fetched as fuck. It turns it into an interactive Choose Your Own Adventure game!

I agree these threads that end up on page 5 cos no-one´s commented on them for days then someone hunts it down and posts ¨Are you OK?¨ to bump the thread are irritating.

Possibly the most irritating, in my opinion, is when the OP checked out days ago but the thread is always near the top of page 1 cos it has deteriorated into some juvenile, mud-slinging bitchfest with posters squabbling about who said what blah blah....I mean, talk about Handbags at Dawn !

Some discussions are really interesting, though. Even if the OP was a troll.

Where are these troll sites, though? Can we troll them?

I´m a bit gutted someone said the Sex board is full of male trolls. I was intending posting a thread on there.......May have to take my chances anyway

Does anyone else think this thread could well go poof just like all the others that are usually started after an incident like the ones described?

My troll-dar is usually quite off and like mentioned above I think sometimes an interesting discussion can come about due to a troll thread or good advice also. But having said that, I do find myself getting unreasonably fucked off when a thread I've contributed personal experience to goes poof because it was a troll. Especially on emotive topics. I couldn't give a rats arse about trolly private vs state school trolls but things about EA or abusive or illness is just not on.

MoominPie22 Having looked at the Sex board it's actually quite tame. I recall when the board was first published many posters worried that it would become a home of sorts for trolls but it actually hasn't.

anyway I need to stop procrastinating and get back to finishing my essay

Carbon I reckon this thread should be OK to run as it´s not a thread about a thread and it´s doing no harm Tho it´s bound to get infiltrated by trolls at some stage....