Given up believing any of these posts!

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This is happening far to often recently (troll posts like the 'mortified' one).

I dunno, I swear most of the time I see Mumsnet mentioned in the media is when it's shared on MN and it seems to be in the "Femail" or women's sections and in conjunction with women's causes I don't think many visit them sections online or women's campaigns, I may be wrong though

Whoops 'too' not 'to'

I view MN as 'light entertainment'. It entertains me to give my opinion, whether the thread is genuine or not.

Yes I was worried for the "mortified" poster until the emergency hospital visit which was all a bit much...

Yes fast I started to doubt it at that point.

It's been bad for a couple of months now, worse at the moment.

I imagine the trolls are both genders, but someone upthread asked about men posting here. There are at least two male dominated sites that are well known for periodically setting up a challenge to troll MN. So one of their members will make up a story and post it and then they all piss themselves laughing as MNers open up about their own experiences and so on.

I'd be interested to know how many new members registered around the day of the election. It's definitely been worse this week

I literally find myself thinking 'bullshit' to almost everything I read these days.

Fine to view as light entertainment but there are "real people" with RL problems on here. I've just posted on one. Not sensationalist just a sad situation of a person coming to terms with a split. Heartbreaking, in fact.

I think we need to be cautious about being too blasé about other people's lives. There but for the grace ... And all that.

Even if people are trolls, I find it bloody sad, isn't that a sign of MH issues?

usual just notice your comment. I have to say, that's definitely my gut response. If people doubt a poster is for real, click the 'Next' button right?

I don't know why trolls target parenting sites, I don't even know how to spot a troll I mean why would someone make up things of a sad nature!

Sometimes I find it a comfort to learn that it is a troll, like the poster who started out with a sick child who then turned out to have leucaemia and then it was deleted. Yesterday there was one where the poster said that her husband accused their four-year-old of having nearly killed her mother when she was born and constantly referrred to their one-year-old as stupid. I was SO glad to find out that that was a troll.

TanTanNubuk I think I know one of the sites you're referring to. Sad little keyboard misogynists, who think women are gold-diggers if they accept a glass of wine on a date. And I doubt these silly "men" have actually managed to pester a woman into a date without having to pay an hourly rate anyway.

I just can't tell when someone's a troll . I'm totally Rubbish at spotting it.

This is why I dont post. The support is brilliant on other threads, but I'm not sure I can hack people doubting what happened

I am a man but haven't started any troll threads, I come in peace!

If you think a thread maybe a troll but you aren't sure then just post a simple message like ''good luck OP'' or ''we are thinking about you OP''. Then just wait a while, see how the thread goes, try not to get to emotional (hard not to sometimes I know) once the thread has been going a while and the more the OP has posted seems genuine then perhaps post more yourself.

I know some people don't have support or friends in real life so turn to places like MN for support, but when it comes to life and death situations would many of us think of posting on MN? In the deepest, darkest times when it feels like something terrible is going to happen to a loved one then I think many of us would forget all about MN, they'd forget about paying bills, forget about eating and much more. Again I know people who would post in those circumstances and who would be genuine, but I think it's something to consider.

I think MN could do a few things, like not allowing new members to post in Sex (already in place for 30 days) but add AIBU and Relationships. Not just for 30 days but also until you have made a certain number of posts in other topics first.

Finally MN is an open forum, open to everyone to read whether they are a member or not. This type of forum is usually done to grow members. MN is massive now, I doubt there are many new members who found it by accident and had never of heard of it prior.

Therefore it could make it so only registered members can log in and see threads, nobody browsing the internet would be able to read without joining. That may stop people joining to take the piss after a thread they have read

Therefore it could make it so only registered members can log in and see threads, nobody browsing the internet would be able to read without joining.

That goes against the model of most social media, MNs popularity has come about because it's spontaneous and quick to access. Start putting restrictions on how people access MN and it would whither on the vine.

Not just for 30 days but also until you have made a certain number of posts in other topics first.

Trolls already do that, they build up a history because they know people do advanced searches to check out their credibility. They have it sussed.

That goes against the model of most social media, MNs popularity has come about because it's spontaneous and quick to access. Start putting restrictions on how people access MN and it would whither on the vine

MN was around before social media took off, although social media has definitely made the membership grow. I am not talking about restrictions on members, they would log in exactly the same as now, just as quickly. MN doesn't need to attract new traffic, it's membership is big enough. What I am suggesting is to stop it being totally open to view, just viewable by members only. The login process woud not change. New members would still join.

"MN doesn't need to attract new traffic, it's membership is big enough"

I suspect mumsnet would disagree there! As they make their money via advertising, research and being able to offer instant access to a massive body of opinion and purchasing power, they are highly unlikely to start putting barriers to entry in place. It doesn't fit with their grown up to grown up relationship with posters either, and their pride in being a non-moderated and not overly constrained.

I wonder if there are other ways of dealing with fakery and pbp's?

I know for a fact that several long running well subscribed threads were a total lie yet MN refused to believe it . After all it is their bread and butter.

Yes Asprilla real people would post in very bad situations. You should thank your lucky stars that this has never been you.

ooohh which ones TomHardy?