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!

man MN

The reason that you can sometimes tell a troll from a real situation is that writing decent fiction is really quite hard. Most trolls lack the intelligence or talent to make it sound like a true story. It just sounds "off". There are certain clues to why it looks off, but basically that's what it comes down to.

It also comes down to the old adage that a lie is harder to maintain than the truth. If you're telling the truth you don't have to remember anything. It takes a phenomenal memory to remember all the lies and keep your ducks in a row. Sooner or later the troll slips up.

There are a few about atm that read like pbp. It is frustrating but the thing is it is hard to keep people banned with the modern technology operates.

I have opened so many threads and just gone nope and closed it again.

*way

That poster repeatedly tells posters not to read anything into her not posting on a thread because it could just mean she is busy.

Luckily I consider myself capable of both

1. considering that as a possible explanation for her absence without having it pointed out to me, and
2. weighing it up against the length of the thread/other factors.

Smill - good for you.

< ahem >

Two of my fave posters. Stop iiiiiit. She's not wurrf it.

When you're already searching a thread for a sign that someone else thinks it's fishier than a fish market and nothing is forthcoming, you do tend to notice the absence of the regulars you might expect not to be afraid of saying something (or who might have chosen to avoid it altogether).

I didn't say I 'took into account' the fact that AF hadn't posted, I said I took into account the possible alternate explanations for her absence when deciding whether said absence was significant. Not quite the same thing. Apparently none of the tens of posters that actually swallowed that crap are incapable of thinking (correctly) for themselves as well then? Don't know why I'm getting it in the neck for the sheer fact of admitting to more or less consciously considering multiple factors before coming to conclusions.

Oh god, you're one of those. Never mind.

Oh fucking hell, we can't use moron now?!

I am disabled, FWIW.

My sister and I call each other moron with affection

No, one of those that chooses to claim that words still have the same meaning they were used for in the early 20th century, despite (presumably) racking up hundreds of everyday encounters with said words that would indicate that that is not the case.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moron_(psychology)]

[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/moron]

When it was deemed a technical psychological term and the field of psychology no longer uses it, on what grounds can you possibly suggest that anyone is using it in that sense anymore?

Oh good lord, lighten up.

People forget that language evolves, especially the professionally offended.

There is a reason the field of physiology and other hcps don't use it anymore

Yes, presumably because it came to be used as an insult and underwent pejoration, meaning they could no longer refer to people who actually were mentally retarded using it as it had the offensive connotation attached.

Just like loads of other words changed meaning over time in exactly the same way.

I was using it to mean stupid, struggling in the brain cell department, because of the fact that that is the quality shown by the people who weren't capable of noticing some glaring aspects of the thread.

Is it words previously used to denote individuals with a diagnosed low intelligence that you can't abide, or the whole concept of referring to the phenomenon of low intelligence? Is idiot OK? Stupid? Is it just that you empathise with psychologists having to come up with new terms when an occasional psychological term gets co-opted into everyday language and undergoes a semantic shift?

I've never spotted a feckin troll yet, must be cause I am all innocent and naive

< wanders off to skip through the daisies>