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?

Belle that's what I've been saying - more than half the time it's just a feeling that something doesn't sit right, there's nothing concrete to go on, it's just a sense of "this isn't right" - I didn't used to report but going on some email exchanges I've had with HQ over it, I do now.

Theres a fine line twixt hinting enough that I'd geddit and it would escape Helen's button-of-doom.

A gnats wing, in fact.

HINT!

hathor I've been in violent agreement with you on just about everything lately...

Me too Pinot.

that's true maybe we're a sockpuppet

Oh and TSC a wee pm would be lovely

I get that feeling of unease, but does that take into account that some folks are odd (but genuine?)

I did suspect. Sometimes you do read something that makes you go 'hmmmmmmm?' and that was one of those.

If PM's are a-flying, i'd be most appreciative...

I have had a very sheltered life. Not everyone is so lucky

So are you allowed to tell your MN friends to fuck off, you know, - in a friendly tone like?

Starlight - I'm pretty sure you do, we are being called cunts on a regular basis here....

If "Get a grip" is construed as a personal attack, I'm amazed that 95% of AIBU hasn't been deleted by now...

Yes, odd how cunt is less offensive than fuck off...

It's not that the guidelines have changed, but exactly what constitutes a personal attack isn't at all clear from the published version of the Talk Guidelines. In fact many things that don't seem overtly personal or attacky now appear to come under that banner. OK, probably an actual list of "what you must not say" might be counterproductive... (although I do enjoy the mental image of MNHQ thumbing through their top secret index "bilge... bitch... bog off... bollocks... yes, 'bog off' is on the list, hit the delete button". And it might give me some useful inspiration for phrases to use in RL )

I do recall plenty of use of "bog off" or similar being used (with or without aplomb) when I first joined up after DS was born seven years ago.

So if I posted "Fuck off you cunt" it would be deleted on the grounds of the "fuck off" and not the "you cunt"?

Sinical come sit, lovey

"We love aplomb but not with "fuck off" attached"

Oh that's not fair , I haven't used the "fuck the fuck off and when you get there fuck off some more" line yet. (Far too cowardly polite. I was girding my loins for it.....)

Tmesis that's a valid point.

To clarify my earlier points, I think that what constitutes a personal attack and "within the spirit of the site" has been tightened up in the past few months.

and I now expect Belle to come along and agree with me

thanks Pinot

Can MNHQ read pms?

Oh well you can all fuck the fuckity fuck off then, with your fuck between your fuck and your fuck on top of your fuck!

hathor that's not quite what I meant.... why don't you go sit with Pino and Sinical....

AFAIK

Which is why it's never a good idea to say "That Helen's a lush and drinks her own weight in gin every day" even in a pm