Are you ever going to do anything about trolls?

[MaRyzerection]

Because it's really got fucking ridiculous.

You need to change your stance from "we have to prove it's trolling before we delete" to "we have to use common sense and realise this is ridiculous before we delete".

The site is becoming a parody of itself.

I'm getting to the stage that I no longer believe my own posts

No point in telling her sparklng, she doesn't know anyone. Though how she can know how many "gorndawgs" threads I start when she doesn't know me is baffling.

Hers posts are boringly repetitive, though. I think I will hide her, it will make these threads more readable.

slithy, nightwatch can manage immediate obvious trolls, it's harder for them to manage slow-burners. I think it needs a policy change for that.

Nope,I'm no biting.go poke someone else

Telling who Maryz?

Night all. x

Erection woman is Maryz

How do you hide individual posters?

I've missed all this tonight,could have done with the distraction.

No idea,don't recall the names so no need hide
I'll hae argy bargy wi anyone,no need hide

It was only for a couple of hours in the early morning. Then the Night Watch got to it and zapped all the baddies.

But it was so many threads in the space of ten minutes Milly

Yeah. I think if they get zapped quickish the whole enterprise will lose its attraction. Best not to engage with them though or they get their satisfaction.

You are probably right.

Night watch did really well tonight, it has to be said.

As did some super-fast people such as sparkling who were flagging them up.

Night Watch.

Blimey, just read the thread where sparkling got accused of being hairy handed. What a car crash! Off to look for something more soothing :)

I always miss the trolls

MaryZ who?

and who the fuck is scottishmummy ?

Jeez, so many names I don't recognise.

The trolls were not funny last night.
I think that until this heartbleed pub"I city dies down we need someone on duty from mnhq overnight. It does seem madness to leave the safety of the site to a group of very lovely volunteers when things are so challenging.

I also think that reporting to Nightwatch should not be a thread IYKWIM. Feel like the school snitch.

'The site is becoming a parody of itself.'

Yes, it's been distinctly 'off' in the last few days. And everything is in AIBU. Lots of uber-aggressive posters. Not pleasant at all.

But the site never really settled back post-PB, so this may be it.

My sole suggestions (trying to be helpful) is for people to post the threads/posts they want to see, and to use the topics more and AIBU less. I think the solution is at our fingertips.

Yes what Sparkling said ^^

I'm not usually here at night so I hadn't noticed that's how to report.

Agree sparkling and its an indication to the trolls that they are being successful in getting attention.

Yesterday's mn was a bit of a horror show all round. Not sure why it went quite so grim (not enough chocolate?)

At any given time I would bet my last £5 that half of the OPs are creative writers.

While it's just "hilarious" talk about penises and naked people in the street and dildos and other such puerile 14 yr old boy stuff, it's easy enough to ignore and rise above.

The fact that HQ nowadays seem to think that a) long standing MNers are not capable ipso facto of being trolls/fakes b) neither are new posters - rather puts the whole site in a difficult position.

MN is broken. And not in a technical way. And unless HQ start doing something about it, it's going to stay broken. It has become an absolute bloody car crash. It would be laughable if it weren't such a shame.

I think we can safely bet though that the likes of leading political parties and other hard hitters on the public stage are soon going to be giving it a very wide berth, probably while doing that twiddley finger thing at their temples.

I've noticed the Baby Names thing too.
Almost every Really Obvious Troll I've AS'd recently has a massive posting history but almost exclusively in Baby Names. I thought my trolldar was malfunctioning but it seems they're just putting a bit more effort in. Building up a posting history but still flying under the radar so to speak.

I agree that it's probably the Heartbleed publicity.

Who are all of you? Seriously, I recognise no one here and yet you are all annoying. Stop that. Or go away so new people I don't recognise can annoy me.
Come on. That's reasonable.