MrsGG

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What has happened to all the threads? I was following the story yesterday where she said she had had a baby girl...and this morning it has all gone....... was it all lies? troll? who knows?

EP but there have been situations that have gone on for weeks, even one where posters met the person in rl, gave her pictures of their children to put up on her fake modelling website, and it turned out she was none of the things she said she was. there was even suggestion that the pictures werebeing sold to paedophiles although that was never proved.

But then what if you are relatively new and want support, you'll be graded by how much of a newbie you are and support tailored? And someone who has been around for years may feel like even changing names they'd be identifiable due to the number of posts they have - so people could work out who they are.

This is the first time i've seen a very obvious troll here. It was obvious, right from the details of the first thread, just didn't ring true at all and was clearly building up. It wasn't a clever one at all. Those pictures were very obviously not hers - one looked very dated and old, the other was tracked down by hunker within about 2 minutes. And just the thought that someone could go into early labour on saturday night having sustained a 2 hour beating the day before, happen to remember her digital camera for when the ambulance came, be out 48 hours later and uploading pictures. I think it'd be a shame to all become very suspicious and demanding of proof based on a pretty shabby scam.

good points Boco but surely an easy way round it would just be to have "new" next to anyone who is posting for the first time. I am sure it is not technically difficult and I am certain that if someone is genuinely new, this will not affect in any way the level of support they may receive.

I reckoned there was some trolling afoot from her fist post TBH - too much seememd to be happening in a short space of time. Then the very swift return to MN in such traumatic circs IMO and overly optimistic outlook for the baby all added to my .

Someone in need of a life and also some help methinks.

am I the only one who searches for the posters name when there is a thread like that?
I certainly looked for MrsGG name when that first thread appeared, not that I was suspicious, but curious about her past on mumsnet.
So having "new" next to their name wouldn't really help, its easily searchable.

Pennies - someone did suggest that a simple could alert others to the poss that it might be a troll. and nothing else.

that's a completely, completely unworkable plan, captainmummy, because you always get a self-congratulatory pile-in of trollhunters going 'yes! i think so too' and then others quite rightly imo calling for the benefit of the doubt etc.

all you can do if you suspect a troll is

a. keep off the thread
b. post but in a calm, non feeding-frenzied manner
c. report it to MNHQ for them to take a look at.

as someone else has posted, however, the money thing does worry me. if mrsgg is mentally ill or a real life dv case testing the waters and going too far, fine, who cares really? but if other web users have heard that MNers are a generous bunch and are concocting stories to fleece people, that's more worrying.

fundamentally maybe it doesn't matter if people are trolling. I mean, the poster in question got lots of support, which she may or may not have deserved but which she may actually have needed, even if not directly related to the facts in her presentation. Plus, in the worst case, other potential posters have seen the type of support which is available to them plus there was probably lots of info within the thread which may have been proving to be useful for other people in similar situations.

having 'new' next to someone's name won't help.

how many times have you read a thread asking for help from a first-timer? all the time. they're not all trolls.

imo you have to give someone the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise. and that proof invariably turns up.

she didn't take my pics did she?? (worried)

i think that, from the outset, whoever mrsgg was, the intention was to scam money. if hunker had not posted the link to the other photo last night, there would have probably been a fundraising thread on here today.

sgk, no, the pics used were easily googled

No, they were from the internet, a Dutch baby I think. I saw them last night.

thank god!! I had visions of pics of Callum in SCBU being used to troll!

Oh god.

This was all a lie??

I can't beleive I actually defended her in a small way.

How utterly fucked up.

I can't believe that anyone would give money to someone they have only spoken to on the internet. I have lots of very good friends that I have met on the internet, but they are now friends in RL, not just in cyber-space, and some of them could get a fiver out of me if they needed it, but never someone on a board that I'd never met.

On the board I use there's a 'post count' for each person, it comes up next to their name on each post, it's good because you can see who's a regular, but equally 'newbies' get picked on something rotten and a lot of them end up leaving, which I think is sad.

Lollipop, I guess you were not about when Misdee's husband finally got his heart transplant last year. Mnetters raised enough money to send them on holiday. Mnetters are very geneous (sp?) and trusting, which Ithink is our downfall

postingatlast, i name change frequently as someone in my rl tries to read my posts which pisses me off.

i NEED the name change facility...

I even checked the dates, she made it so believeable.. The dates tallied and everything

don't think we should curb our generosity, just be a little more savvy and try to get some kind of proof first.

i followed her story and can't believe someone could lie like that when people spend time giving advice and trying to help.what a sad person she is.

Blimey ..... I replied briefly to her. I had my doubts, but took the view, as do many others, that it's better to deal with something at face value rather than push a genuine (but unbelievable-sounding) poster over the edge by criticising etc.

However, it does leave a very nasty taste in the mouth regardless.

I suppose the best way to look at it is that at least there isn't really a terribly premature baby, who did die as the result of violence, and there isn't really a pregnant woman who was beaten up for hours on end (or at least there is one less).

It's completely beyond me why people make up such lurid and upsetting stories ..... I just couldn't do it, even with anonymity etc ..... but then, as everyone has already said, you have to be disturbed and/or needing help of some sort to do this sort of thing.

I read her posts but didn't reply as it was too close to home for me ( not the beating up bit bit the prem baby ) as I lost my baby boy at 27 weeks in 2005 and was heartbreaking. I just can't get over how someone can make up a story as a sick joke and for what? money? I just hope to got whoever this mrsgg is that she/he gets help as it is evil