Can I ask about trolls?

[LadyMountbatten]

Not all "ooh they must be flayed alive " I find them highly entertaining most if the time.
I want to ask how you know they are. Are they mostly men or women? Are they site users having a laugh?

Obv some are pervs but others who post rather tragic stories is it just for attention? Or novelists trying out a new story?!

Do you get repeat offenders?
Tell all

ummm

you won't get any answers because otherwise it'll be a lesson in how to Troll MN successfully

Sorry

Interesting questions.
I'd always assumed it was just the same IP addresses of previous offenders coming up, with no way of knowing who/what was at the end of that IP address.

But someone somewhere must have researched what sort of people are more likely to be trolls - whether they're more likely to be male, 40 and living in Leeds or whatever.

I imagine MNHQ in a shadowy green lit room, with one of those see through screens and all the trolls inside leg measurements on it

and Olivia. in black like ANne robinson

TSSDNCOP

I agree with Tee

@LadyMountbatten

Are they mostly men or women? Are they site users having a laugh?

Obv some are pervs but others who post rather tragic stories is it just for attention? Or novelists trying out a new story?!

Do you get repeat offenders?
Tell all

All of the above. And more like you wouldn't believe

But the others who have posted are right: we prefer not to give out too many details, partly because that might only give 'em ideas on how to dodge detection better in future and partly because we'd rather not give 'em the oxygen of publicity, iyswim...

can we get an actor in to say their words?

i dont uderstand what all those letters mean

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The Secret Service Does Not Comment On Procedure. It's from The West Wing.

I quite like some of 'em. Nobe of it's real anyway. Thought the OW's baby one was quite interesting, actually, though amused at the DP's 8 kids.

Sorry, "none".

would have made a great ITV drama I thought.

It was the kids that made me lose sympathy

LadyM you should have gone on that thread to slag off her spelling in retrospect

Have you ever reported any to the police?

ANY troll who cant spell. NO MATTER how tragic the story appears.

You see on that thread I was kind. This is what went wrong

Yes lady, don't bloody bother being kind again for a while, try it again in 2016.

Anair I said you lacked empathy on that thread at first, you were bloody right!

TypeAndWank and Extended are the same person, and they are a man. I'm pretty sure I know who it is in real life too.

It just shows i spend too much time here. But i always give the benefit of doute cos it might be real!

How do you know that, BOF?

BOF Its PA ain't it?

OOOOH BOF you have an idea who it is in RL?

Well, it's predicated on it being the same pompous twat who once linked an ebook on here, but if it was (and I do know his writing style, so it's certainly possible), then he's an Oxfordshire-based middle-aged divorcee who fancies himself as a writer and does a bit of am-dram.