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

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wannaBe · 20/02/2012 13:40

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?

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shabbadabbadingdong · 20/02/2012 19:27

Personally think, Wannabe, there are many.

Portofino · 20/02/2012 19:27

Yes - someone did - it caused her loads of shit. CVQ used a lot of info that she'd shared with her.

Northernlurker · 20/02/2012 19:28

Well there's the poster with many children inc twins who disappeared in a poof of smoke one day. Apparently outed in Rl - but that was odd because she had shared a hell of a lot of identifying info for someone worried about that.....

everlong · 20/02/2012 19:29

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Kayzr · 20/02/2012 19:29

There was a big one just before Xmas one year too. I remember sending money, a present for her DC and a big box of chocolates to them.

It wasn't JJ last year but a few years ago. I just can't think of their name on here.

Northernlurker · 20/02/2012 19:30

Thewiltedrose?

StarlightDicKenzie · 20/02/2012 19:31

Weren't the Mouldies all trolls? Wink

LeBOF · 20/02/2012 19:32

I believe SassySusan is real too. She's not particularly nice though, even to people trying to be sympathetic to her. I guess that bereavement doesn't only touch affable types.

Who was IzzyRuby?

Kayzr · 20/02/2012 19:32

Yeah that was it Northern. I felt like a complete twat after that.

MamaMaiasaura · 20/02/2012 19:32

Kay - was it beginning with L? Wonder if L still lurks

MamaMaiasaura · 20/02/2012 19:33

X posts with northern

MamaMaiasaura · 20/02/2012 19:35

I remember one who had twins and then went water ski ing. She was awful and I got so much stick calling troll

wannaBe · 20/02/2012 19:38

thewiltedrose still comes back from time to time doesn't she?

bof izzyruby inhabited the child modelling threads. she had a website for childmodelling mums, claiming to offer advice on the right agencies to go to etc. She met up with lots of the posters from here in rl, she did picture of the week on her website and such and so a lot of posters sent her pictures of their kids. Then she was banned because after having slagged of aa modelling agency on here the agency came on and said she'd never used them and they'd never taken on her child. But lots of the posters still defended her - some were even moderators on her own website.

Then it all went very quiet, and then one day misdee posted a link to an article in the times, about how it was suspected she had set up the website and befriended other mums to encourage them to send her pictures of their children, which she then sold to paedophiles to be doctored for their hideous means. Shock Sad iirc the police couldn't find enough to charge her at the time, and by then she'd fled to Brazille.

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notveryinventive · 20/02/2012 19:45

Shock at izzyruby

deemented · 20/02/2012 19:50

Absolutely,Everlong, absofuckinglutely.

I still like the 'There Are Other Life Lines' quote, and i've used it on occasion. Am quite tempted now, tbh.

everlong · 20/02/2012 20:00

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ArtexMonkey · 20/02/2012 20:10

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OracleInaCoracle · 20/02/2012 20:12

What artex said!

Pinot · 20/02/2012 20:13

Aww dee that's a real shame that it stops you postly as freely as before, but I understand why.

Great thread, very interesting and useful. Thanks HQ for letting it stand.

HQ are open about the fact they can read PM's, but they can only deal with what they find, so the onus is on the individual. Agree a better term would be DM/Direct Message. That's a wise idea.

I feel like I've learnt loads about this today, I've gone from feeling stupid and gullible to feeling ready to challenge

Pinot · 20/02/2012 20:15

I'm still on the Dense Bench?, but now with perhaps just the one butt cheek

everlong · 20/02/2012 20:17

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deemented · 20/02/2012 20:17

I now have images of sweaty buttcheeks.

Thanks for that, Pinot

BeerTricksP0tter · 20/02/2012 20:25

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LeBOF · 20/02/2012 20:28

ROFL GrinGrinGrin