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A helpful definition of not troll hunting

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HoneyDragon · 13/06/2015 10:20

When the op states they are opening a second account (not name change, and actual account) because they are openly admitting that they are posting offensive, inflammatory and dubious statements that serve no actual merit for debate than this is by Mnets own guide lines trolling.

So when posters go. "Hang on op, that's against the rules which you should know if you are a poster. What you're doing is troll hunting op, which is not cricket". Is stating the fucking obvious.

It is not troll hunting. Not even a little bit.

Troll hunting ....can cause distress and bunfightiness

Stating the obvious is usually a victimless crime.

So putting troll hunting as a reason to delete a thread that was by a troll that admitted trollery in the opening post is daft. And is why posters, imo, give up reporting as it feels a bit futile. Thanks

IonaMumsnet · 13/06/2015 13:56

Hi there HoneyDragon. Sorry for any confusion.

We didn't feel the OP was trolling exactly, but as we don't allow people to start new accounts, we felt we needed to close that one regardless of her intentions, which we admit didn't seem that great!

There were, however, a number of posts on the thread along the lines of 'don't feed it', 'half term already' etc, which we felt were troll-hunting, and because that's also against our rules, we felt it was just another reason to delete really. We just wanted to give everyone as much info as possible on our decision as they'd taken the time to report.

As always, regardless of what's going on on a thread, we ask everyone to report rather than call troll on the boards. It's just a quicker and more effective way of sorting it out. When it's blatantly a troll, it only plays into their hands, and when it isn't, at best it gets us nowhere and at worst, someone genuine is upset by it.

And it's always safe to moan at us - it makes us feel alive! Wink

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