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Unwelcome visitors - and recent "unpopular" threads

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HelenMumsnet · 09/02/2011 19:09

Hello

We thought you should know that we've had a few "visitors" lately who have, collectively, been hellbent on stirring up bunfights on the boards.

They're not your average hairy trucker/bored schoolboy/silly perve but a group from another (now defunct, it seems) forum.

They were behind the Unpopular Opinions thread - and a fair few other threads that have kicked off recently.

We're on the case.

But we would appreciate your help with "Hoovering" up any visitors our Ban button may have missed.

So do report any suspicions using the Report link, and we promise to check 'em out - though it make take us a while

Many thanks, MNHQ

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HelenMumsnet · 09/02/2011 19:51

@Ohjustshootmenow

im assuming Wine is needed all round?

Yes it surely is!

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HelenMumsnet · 09/02/2011 20:31

@bullet234

No.
It is not us.
BMC I mean.

Just to to be clear, it's not BMC (unless they are very very cunning)

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HelenMumsnet · 09/02/2011 20:37

@BecauseImWorthIt

Helen - you should be in the bunker. Why are you here?

I thought I'd told you all that there was no escaping back to Active Convos till it was safe.

I might have to tell Justine, you know. And you know how scarey she can be.

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HelenMumsnet · 12/02/2011 18:10

@BeerTricksPotter

I am sick and tired of reporting the same two arseholes, only to get "Thank you for the heads up, we will look at this poster".

Yep, look at them when they've annoyed so many posters that MN starts to fucking whiff a bit Angry

We've mailed you, BeerTricks

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HelenMumsnet · 12/02/2011 18:18

@whomovedmychocolate

MNHQ I think you're going to far with the deletions. It is absolutely sodding ridiculous to just blanket delete posts that actually aren't offensive but just question the poster. On this thread someone said 'I don't believe you' and it was deleted. This is ridiculous. It's not 'I don't believe you and therefore you are a bridge dwelling troll' in any case. And no it wasn't my post so I'm not taking umbrage at that, but at the heavy handed editing.

OTT and not for the first time either. :(

I'm really starting to feel this site is not for me anymore. :(

Link for those who didn't see the thread - well what's left of it.

Ok, hands up it was Mubarak me, wmmc.

We'd had a barrel-load of reports about that thread, saying that it was full of trollhunting. And it did read like that to us, tbh: a whole load of people posting "I don't believe you" to the OP, the clear implication being that she was not a genuine poster.

But we'd had a full-on week of trollishness and Hoovering to reckon with and, in the cold light of a Saturday evening (tautology alert) we do concede now that we may have gone in a bit on the heavy side.

On another note entirely, many thanks to all those who've reported their suspicions about various posters to us this week. It's all been most helpful.

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HelenMumsnet · 12/02/2011 18:20

@LeninGrad

Sure, but I'd like to know that if someone repeatedly flouts the rules they are warned about it. I'm sure they are, and I realise that every thread and situation is different, but the point it to proactively stop it.

Yes, they are, LeninGrad. But we can only warn them if people report their posts to us in the first place.

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