mn hq, can we have an explanation - jess - and maybe re other trolls in future?

[wannaBe]

I am aware that you can't divulge the means by which you determine whether or not a poster is genuine, predominantly because if you make that common knowledge then posters will know how to avoid being detected in the future.

but jess (long ongoing eleven weeks abortion threads) threads have now been deleted for being a troll, and I was wondering if, given it's the site users who usually report these things, we could perhaps have a bit more by way of explanation?

e.g. when sassysusan was banned, mn hq confirmed that she had previously posted as washwithcare, and users were able to identify.

There has been some speculation that jess was dizzymare, and I wondered whether this was the case?

Also, these threads have been ongoing for over a month now. How is it that it takes quite this long to determine that someone isn't actually all they seem?

What hathor said.

So my "Helen mumsnet drinks her own weight in gin everyday" that's ok, because it's true

Joking aside, thank you, I get it.

My way around it is to post "In the past at this point I might have posted a fuck off, but obviously that would be a personal attack and against the talk guidelines so I won't"

Oh and I agree with Belle

Poor Helen

This is a bit of a hijack, but does MNHQ have confidentiality clauses wrt to posters and their details. For example, if someone gives out personal information in PMs. Or also where you've name changed.

I didn't even open the thread after I saw the title.

Could somebody send me a PM please? I have my suspicions

Any room for me on that bench? Although I did at the jess thread. The use of a sadface smiley on such an emotive thread title just didn't sit right.

I have such a love/hate relationship with these trollhunty threads. On the one hand I find them fascinating in a salacious-MN-gossip kind of way. But on the other they make me feel a bit out of the loop and when people make allusions to posters they suspect might be trolls I always feel slightly worried that they mean me. Which is just silly and paranoid and probably more than a bit self-absorbed

'ello darlin

I have to off-out now so please don't combust please and thanks

now I'm worried in case you all think I'm the troll.

budges up for MissPenteuth

The bench is getting full. Think we need two. :)

I was deleted yesterday (my first deletion, waheyy!) for calling someone an arsehole.

She was an arsehole, though. Probably still is.

It was the title that made me think it was a bit iffy, so I avoided it.

I suppose if I'd bothered to read it and found people were really being sucked in I would have realised and reported it. [Unhelpful].

I'm so glad that it's all been deleted.

It was one of the things that made me take a break from MN. I posted early on, but it did become obvious that the OP wasn't actually taking advice and was just seeking attention. I started to get upset at all the posters sharing their stories, offering genuine help and emotionally investing in her.

I tried to do the MN thing of benefit of the doubt and accepting that troll threads can result in good advice being given to lurkers, but the whole thing became like emotional vampirism.

Me too corn Even though Ive been on MN since 09 Ive only been posting regularly since around christmas time under this name so I am aware that maybe people dont know me.

I don't usually spot trolls at all. But with the Jess thread, aside from the dramatic changes when interest was waning, she seemed to make a big thing about gathering 'followers' and making sure she had another thread to send them to.

She also reminded me of those people a couple of years ago(?) that were going to let the public vote on whether she kept her pregnancy or had a TOP. it included updates about baby kicking etc. Turned out they were from a pro-life group IIRC

while I am sure that mn hq have the ability to read pm's if they need to, I highly doubt they do so on a regular basis, simplyo n the basis that they don't have enough time to keep up with threads let alone users' personal correspondence.

Think about it. there are over half a million regitered users on mn, how much time do you think it would take to read through pm's.

now, whoever is sending them out, I'll have one too please.

shabba oh you're not as saintly as me - I've never been "forbidden" yet

@MardyBra

I know. How do you think I should phrase that on my CV, Mardy?

You can give me an eighty-five per cent penetration any time, TSC.