Why has the Spanish cleaner thread been hidden?!

[TastesLikeFlavourlessFizz]

Please don’t tell me this was a troll. We were all so invested!

Plus, why WOULD it be a troll? It didn’t seem troll-flavoured.

OR has the cleaner asked for it to be removed?

It seems to have been marked as ‘hidden’ for a long time without any confirmation of it being removed…

Maybe the l cleaner was actually Hilaria Baldwin. She has form for that, hasn't she?

It did seem like a classic troll post trying to keep people invested.

I was watching and waiting on that thread to, a little bit of harmless fun unlike the recent other trolls on here recently which Mumsnet haven’t been so quick to sort out..

My fave retort was that the OP mistook something she said for Spanish one day and then the cleaner was to awkward to correct her..

That hypothetical scenario really tickled me.

Was it Hilaria Baldwin?

@LilyMumsnet what does 'concerns about a poster' mean please?

Hmm... I'm a cleaner and lived abroad for 10 years (not Spain though) and sometimes revert back to broken English when speaking to certain people. I've also got face blindness so will never recognise someone if I run into them in a random place. The thread was obviously about me 😁

It means that we're not quite sure someone is posting with good intentions - so we have a closer look!

my ending would be that the cleaner turned up and whilst cleaning the bathroom the OP heard loud splashing and on opening the door found the cleaner had transformed into a sea serpent and was contaminating the water ….. !

😂

That's I was thinking as I remember Renee Zellweger working undercover at a London publishing agency whilst prepping for Bridget Jones.
No one had a clue who she was.

Thats the thing with famous people in real life, they don't look like themselves well the self that they we see on TV/Film/Magazines etc.

But what do you look for? What makes you worry enough the poster isn't genuine to hide it?

When asked this in the past MNHQ used to say ‘TSSDNCOP’ (The Secret Service does not comment on procedure’) meaning they don’t want to say what they look for etc as it’ll make it easier to troll this place.

A Spanish cleaner in the U.K.?

Definitely a fictional story. They were thinking a Latina in the States.

Can't HQ just move the thread to a special section for made up stories when they get suspicious? That way we can still be entertained but know not to believe it too much.... I'm with @TastesLikeFlavourlessFizz , it was quite an entertaining thread (other posters' comments as much as the original post).

I need to know what happened!

At end of day, it was harmless fun even if made up. Shame it got deleted.

Wasn't there a bit on the DMC series called AIBU where her new friend had been mistaken for a cleaner...

Oh no. Hang on. She thought the friend lived in a house but she was actually just the cleaner. So actually not the same thing at all. Never mind.

I think if troll posts are allowed to stay up then it just opens the floodgates for all sorts of nonsense, and means the trolls are winning. MNHQ can't say 'well some trolls are ok, where does it end?

My mum and her sister look very very alike, different dress sense but same hair and build and features. They haven't spoken to each other in a long time over a fall out.
They often get mistaken for one another and my mums very nice and chatty with the people who stop her to say hello and explains they must have mistaken her for her sister ( over the course of the last 20 years its happened numerous times), but my auntie is apparently rude and huffy wth people, a few have commented to my mum that they'd seen her in such a such place and she'd blanked them or rolled her eyes etc..when my mum hadn't been those places so we realised it was her sister.

That's a really good idea and if they do so allow for shameless troll hunting and rigorous examination of why it might be one. If the OP sticks around and gives as good as it gets then it can make for fun threads.

My interpretation of a troll is someone who posts things for a reaction in a negative way. This story was just harmless fun, I don't see how that is trolling.