Hello
As KateMN said yesterday, we're really sorry this has upset so many of you.
The vast majority of threads on MN about bereavement are completely genuine as far as we can tell, and we'd hate people to feel that they can't respond to those.
Sadly/inexplicably, we do have a couple of extremely determined trolls who regularly re-register to do this. We do do everything we can do stop them in their tracks, but unfortunately it's not rocket science to change the necessary registration details and get another registration. If we could stop them before they got to this point, we would.
As lots of you have pointed out, if we put extraordinary barriers in their way, those same barriers would also affect the much greater number of completely genuine people joining up to get much-needed support.
Please, though - feel absolutely free to report any thread about bereavement as soon as you see one, and we'll very happily check it out. You don't even have to think it's suspicious - you could just say 'here's a new bereavement thread, could you please run a quick check on the OP?
As lots of you have said, we'd never tell the OP that their thread had been reported for this reason. And we certainly don't keep tabs on which posters are reporting which threads.
to everyone who answers these threads so generously and kindly. Almost always, you're giving much-needed succour to people in genuine need.