Troll hunting deletion???

[paxillin]

"Message from MNHQ: We had an awful lot of reports on this thread, and an awful lot of troll hunting. As it did sound a tiny bit goady, we felt it was probably best deleted."

I think some more choice words for that OP could have been found? Other than pervs and bereavement trolls, I can't think of much that is less in the spirit!

Also does that mean the OP was real and is a mnetter who now returns to her lovely usual username to advise anybody on anything ?

Which thread was it?

Which thread?

It wasnt 'troll hunting' It was actually in good spirit before she became gone too far nasty. Not a 'tiny bit goady' at all in the end was she? Hence the reaction.

Yes, it was very "not in the spirit".

Hunting seems a bit proactive a word to use here. It was more like MNer hunting.

This

pax that only shows the deletion message, not what it used to be.

Black sheep cousin.

Can anyone remember the username?

New username to protect her lovely everyday MN image.

Bloody missed it, have been totally distracted by a thread about Fry's Turkish delight

This is a TAAT

It is in site stuff, the place to ask about other threads without instant deletion.

Ooh, I fancy fry's Turkish delight now...

Yes that was a very strange thread. Maybe the OP can't be definitively proven to be a troll, hence the vague deletion message?
Agree with you on the Turkish delight rage. It is a weakness of mine.

It was a great story and we could have written the ending

Evening, Pax, and others. To be honest, at the moment, we don't know for sure whether the OP was definitely genuine or not. But we were getting an awful lot of reports coming in so we felt it was best we contact the OP off the boards.

We wouldn't always take a thread down while we do that but the combination of the thread sounding a bit goady (whether true or not) and the number of troll-hunting posts we would otherwise be deleting anyway, meant we felt there was little point leaving it up while we talked to the OP and tried to find out what was what. That's all we meant in the deletion message really.

Sorry we can't tell you more than that right now. We just don't always have all the answers we're afraid, but hope that explains our thinking on the deletion message anyway.

It was written like a Novel but I'm guessing she had a unremarkable posting history without suspicion and MNHQ Can't prove it's a troll

Thank you for clarifying, @HebeMumsnet. I appreciate you can't share information about another poster on a public forum.

I hope very much it was just a troll. A long standing mumsnetter posting under a namechange and returning tomorrow to advise would be much worse.

I'm sure lots of mnetters on the very supportive stately homes threads would have recognised elements of their tormentors.