Are Mumsnet rules just for the little people?

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"Troll cries make MNers look silly. If you think the person is not real, you don't have to post - nobody has a gun at your head! If you suspect the person is false and trying to hurt, or get money, tell MNHQ! How terrible if genuine people - people in trouble, people at the end of their tether - come here as their last hope for some help and advice, are savaged and go off again, feeling terrible and that they don't have anywhere left to turn to?"

www.mumsnet.com/info/netiquette

There is a very real problem on Mumsnet that there are a small group of posters who wilfully ignore this "rule" as and when it suits them. I think the problem is now institutionalised in MN as being the norm and acceptable.

These people just make stuff up about people they've never met. Once they do this other people pile in believing the bullshit, and then acting on it. The troll-hunters also don't seem to stop and think how their assumptions might affect - or even damage the rest of the site. Lets summarise their position: " I am OUTRAGED and APPALLED by something that may or may not have happened but can't be proved, because although I say it did, I won't provide any evidence"

Sometimes this place is more like a bear pit rather than a community of support and OBJECTIVE thinking and response.

They have their bit of fun and when their target gives up - off course they do having been hounded unmercifully - the Hunter claim that proves they were a troll. Disagree with the unters and sooner rather than later they will accuse you of being a man (their ultimate insult) or a troll. A suggestion that you should leave the site usually follows.

The "silent majority" don't put up with this. They just leave...

If you start encouraging troll hunting on bereavement threads, it will be a very unsafe place for newbies who have been bereaved.

We always welcome new bereaved Mums to our thread with open arms. Every now and then I feel suspicion about them....that is the only way I can describe it. BUT until someone is proved to be false I would always give them help and a listening ear.

Maryz your posts are 'spot on.'

Usualsuspect - are you suggesting I am a sock puppet?

No not you ,SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius

And a conspiracy to troll hunt doesn't?

Maryz - please indentify exactly where and when I said "it is perfectly acceptable to make up stories to try out ideas for novels." Or indeed anything similar.

Maryz "(the OP) knows so much about it". Knows so much about what? The fact that people ignore the Mumsnet rules or that the Troll hunters haven't yet answered the very simple questions I've asked. Which?

Thank-you usualsuspect - your post came right after mine, so I was Worrying.

Maryz please indentify exactly where and when I made the comments your claim I made re bereaved parents.

Exact quote and the time of the message would be fine. No editing though!

wannaBe Sun 12-Feb-12 16:20:37

I read somewhere on the internet recently that a study was done into internet usage, and that of all deaths announced on the internet i.e. websites and chat forums etc, only 10% were found to be genuine. So the implication was that the majority of dramatic situations posted online are in fact fictitious.

Oh how I wish I was a troll....how I wish that all four of my precious sons were coming round to my house tonight for something to eat. Would even like to be doing their washing and ironing.....tidying their rooms...lending them money.

Maryz - Even when you quote me people can see that what I wrote and what you claimed I wrote ARE NOT THE SAME!

I never said or implied that the bereaved parents groups was looked at for flash fiction. It was, as you are well aware, the relationships section. Yet again you just seem to make stuff up.

But nobody did - except in the mind of the troll hunters -