Thread Deleted ( Parts 1,2,3, and 4)

[AnneKipankitoo]

I saw that thread 4 was deleted with the message
about breaking Mumsnet guidelines.
The 3 previous threads were deleted too.

Which guidelines were broken?

lol I actually googled what PBP was on mumsnet and this came straight up - weirdly similar story! 👀

Oh I just assumed the first two went to 1000 posts .

Same here.

That poster stating the threads only got to 20 pages isn't actually being that helpful since my settings are 100 posts to a page which means I can only get to 10 pages maximum. Saying the post count would be better for everyone.

I though it was...

If you've ever watched that awful programme called Catfish, the OP will have similar traits to the type who put similar amounts of energy and time into Catfishing. They're societally rejected or lacking in some way, but find power, kicks and immense control holding court virtually. It's a mental illness. Basically the type who make the worst psycho exes.

I'd started to eventually suspect it was bullshit on thread 4. Sad bastards making shit up for clicks.

I haven’t fine tuned my bs radar enough on MN, still learning, but something just didn't sit right with the mil saying ‘Darling, in my day’. Her day being circa the 1980s but sounded more like she was from the 1880s. I was beginning to picture Maggie Smith. Also by the end of it his initial bad behaviour seemed tame to the absolute douchebag he was developing into, then adding an even worse character in the mix in the shape of the football manager, I mean even the most trusting person must have been getting doubts. I believed them to start with because it wouldn’t occur to me that someone would waste their time with fictional nonsense🤷‍♀️

I mean you couldn’t make it up, except apparently they did.

The football stuff was potentially comedy gold though. Surely there’s a sitcom waiting for this character who takes their footie so seriously and makes up stuff about drug tests and transfer windows

there was only so long op could hold the naive act really

What does PBP mean?

Previously Banned Poster.

I kept wanting to post ‘oh, come ON!’ but that sort of thing doesn’t go down well 😂

Over on the Tattle MN thread, they’d spotted it was bullshit early in the proceedings.

Were they actually married (hypothetically) as that wouldn’t even make sense. In fairytales the wedding is the happy ending. No one ever knows what happens after that, could be a shitshow.

I didn't ask MN for emotional support - that would be bonkers!

I said that people invest their time and offer emotional support - so when something then vanishes into thin air - a brief explanation from MNHQ on why - would be respectful of people's time.

So many of us called it out early on @MNHQ

I said on the second thread this just doesn't add up and you deleted my post.

The faux naivety over what the "little blue pills" that she found could possibly be 🤔🙄

Because troll hunting is against the rules.

As annoying as it is, we're not allowed to call them out publicly, even if others are getting sucked in.

@JohnKettleyIsAWeathermanAndSoIsMichaelFish the "oh little blue pills - what could these possibly be?" that's the point I realised this was all a load of rubbish too.

Oh what is that? I’ve not been there, dipped into Tattle Life a couple of times but it’s no more apparently.

I don't believe all the posters saying "Oh, I knew it!" Course you did!

Seemed perfectly legit to me - some guy acting an arse.

I believed it - and I thought I was generally cynical! To be honest the utter bullshit some men come out with -and women fall for - I didn't think it was that far fetched.
I thought people were being tight expecting her to do something immediately. It doesn't bother me - the advice was given in good faith so it is on them. I do feel pity for people who do that type of thing for whatever reason - I could understand it if they were making money out of it but how bad is your life if strangers offering advice on fictional events is how you get your kicks.

Really??? Staying with him because he hadn't actually been unfaithful. Sounded like a load of shit to me.

Really? By the same token then, how on earth would anybody be taken in by this absolute trashy nonsense? It doesn't take much to spot it, just depends where your tolerance is for bullshit/fantasy is. Some people like it so want it to be true, even on this thread - wanting updates as they'd only got thread number one...

Imagine, you're humiliated by something that your husband did/said. Would your first recourse be to go onto a chatboard and write reams of rubbish about it? I think not.

It's not about what he did, fictitious or not, it's what the OP did. The masses of posters who invest themselves in this are the reason why it carries on and there are more of the awful tripe sagas from attention-seeking saddos.

Oh no come on now.

Just because others didn't/couldn't spot it, doesn't mean some of us didn't.

In my nearly 14 years on MN I'd say the vast majority of threads that run into more than 2 are either total bollocks, or mostly bollocks to keep people interested.

But others haven't been on this forum as long or they're less cynical than me, but that doesn't mean all MNetters are the same.

I know that, but no not everyone does and some people were really taken in by it and put a lot of their energy into it. You only have to read this thread to see how many were surprised it was fake, some people online are unfortunately a lot more trusting. It's how people get taken in and scammed.

I quite like Tattle thread about MN, it's on point and clever.