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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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MaryZ · 21/02/2012 19:33

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droves · 21/02/2012 19:55

Jess was a troll ?. Sad

I defended her .

I feel like I should appologise for that .

2ombie5layer · 21/02/2012 20:00

You dont need to apologise droves if anything you did the right thing as MN rules state we should not troll hunt.

everlong · 21/02/2012 20:06

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SinicalSanta · 21/02/2012 20:07

Pinot has graduated off the Bench - hurrah for Pinot!

I glimpsed the thread today and thought, poor woman, awful situation, still I guess she'll come round once she sees it in black and white, and do what she must.
No alarms for me. Still on baffle bench.

ahhhhhpushit · 21/02/2012 20:33

Well she wasnt strictly a troll was she. I appears her story was/is true, she just had made up her mind but didnt tell us this (for some unknown reason).

Would be interested to know what decision she had made......... Confused

Tmesis · 21/02/2012 20:48

No, ahhh(etc.), I think the point is that on one of the many sites where she posted the same story she had already wound up the drama by announcing that she'd had an abortion, before popping up on MN with her "I'm 11 weeks pregnant and being pushed into an abortion" story and the various dramatic tos and fros in it.

It could be that the first version, posted elsewhere, was actually true. But seems just as if not more likely that she was trolling the other board as well but got bored once she'd drawn her thread there to a dramatic conclusion so decided to run the same approach again here.

ahhhhhpushit · 21/02/2012 20:56

Oh I see Sad

Pinot · 21/02/2012 20:56

Steady on there SS, it's not proven by HQ so I'm still firmly on t'bench. I like it here anyways, s'prettier from the bench. And I can practice my teeth sucking here :)

SinicalSanta · 21/02/2012 21:01

awww, I wanted to take a photo of you throwing your cap in the air. Maybe caption it with a little update on your achievements since

Pinot · 21/02/2012 21:04

I'm-a-thinking you like-a the cheesy movies, mmm?! me too

BeerTricksP0tter · 21/02/2012 22:00

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Thumbwitch · 21/02/2012 22:08

burning brands and pitchforks, for sure!

Punchthosecalories · 21/02/2012 22:12

Yes I have since seen a thread on a different forum, I believe it could be the same one mentioned above about already having had an abortion along the lines of "they told me my child would be cremated and I could visit the memorial garden". I have a theory that she has had some kind of breakdown and that perhaps posting on "anonymous'' boards as if she still had a choice was part of an illness. Even if she did incorporate her first name and birth date in all of her posts. Perhaps I'm wrong and that she's going to carry her baby and that she was getting something out of leaving us in that position. Either way I believe she needed help of some kind and I hope she now finds it.

2ombie5layer · 21/02/2012 22:15

Were those numbers her date of birth? I never even realised.

Punchthosecalories · 21/02/2012 22:18

I assume so. It would make her the right age.

2ombie5layer · 21/02/2012 22:19

It would, I just assumed they were random numbers.

OMG she was born when I started secondary school. Now I feel old.

LeBOF · 21/02/2012 22:25

You know you are getting old when the trolls look young.

Portofino · 22/02/2012 06:22

I had left home and was working when she was born. Eeek!

HillyWallaby · 22/02/2012 06:45

It's at its most scary with policemen and teachers, I find. Blush

Thumbwitch · 22/02/2012 06:47

Doctors, for me, Hilly. Doctors who were born when I was doing A levels, that kind of thing. Upsetting.

HillyWallaby · 22/02/2012 07:07
Grin

we are the annoying middle aged ladies who go in a moan about our ailments and our menopause. Shock

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FriggFRIGG · 22/02/2012 07:59

Ah,yeah,her....I did think it sounded a bit....well....trollish,but I couldn't bring myself to report.

I wonder if the One I Think Is Gunna Blow, is the same one as is hinted at up thread,hmm open to PM's

I've only been here,like 2 years...

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