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Please could you leave the Username when someone quotes a deleted message.

28 replies

FucksakeLavender · 16/10/2026 20:18

It makes it very hard for me to update my spreadsheet if there's multiple deleted messages on a thread.

Sad

And it's quite tautologious, which is never a good look.

Please could you leave the Username when someone quotes a deleted message.
OP posts:
DoubleBusy2026 · 16/10/2026 20:29

Spreadsheet?

TY78910 · 16/10/2026 20:37

Eh?

Isnt troll hunting against the guidelines? 😂

DuckDuckG00se · 16/10/2026 20:42

I can think of healthier uses of your time op!

FucksakeLavender · 16/10/2026 20:44

Had a spreadsheet since days of yore.

Not for trillhunting.

For baddie spotting.

OP posts:
Zov · 16/10/2026 20:48

It's not that hard to figure out, just scroll back a bit!

Zov · 16/10/2026 20:49

Also, spreadsheet.....? Confused

TheRosesAreInBloom · 16/10/2026 20:49

🤣

Blart · 16/10/2026 20:52

Where do I send the SAR?

habitati · 16/10/2026 20:53

Blart · 16/10/2026 20:52

Where do I send the SAR?

🤣😭

Getintheseayoufish · 16/10/2026 20:55

FucksakeLavender · 16/10/2026 20:44

Had a spreadsheet since days of yore.

Not for trillhunting.

For baddie spotting.

Edited

Wow. That's definitely something.

ThePerfectStormBird · 16/10/2026 20:58

Good lord.

itstoolateforsnacks · 16/10/2026 20:59

Oh wow! I love how you’re saying this as if it’s completely normal! I need to know a bit more about out this spreadsheet? How many names? How do you spot a baddie?

TY78910 · 16/10/2026 22:27

I am shooketh but also kind of admire your dedication to MN

BurnTheWholeThingDown · 16/10/2026 22:56

Spreadsheets are a proper blast from the past from when this here was all fields. That gave me a proper frisson of nostalgia.

Boreded · 16/10/2026 22:58

WHY!!! WHY MNHQ! Why did you take our laughing emoji from us…

FucksakeLavender · 16/10/2026 23:02

It's giving Santa as the whippersnappers say these days.

2 columns.

Mnaughty.

Mnice.

OP posts:
JaneJeffer · 16/10/2026 23:04

Once upon a time they used to leave the username!

JustWalnut · 16/10/2026 23:12

FucksakeLavender · 16/10/2026 23:02

It's giving Santa as the whippersnappers say these days.

2 columns.

Mnaughty.

Mnice.

Not DNaughty and DNice? Are you sure you've been here for years?

Completeme · 16/10/2026 23:14

FucksakeLavender · 16/10/2026 23:02

It's giving Santa as the whippersnappers say these days.

2 columns.

Mnaughty.

Mnice.

Why? Genuine question

as this is a really weird thing to do. I name change every week. As do many. So also pointless as well as weird

TofuTuesday · 16/10/2026 23:17

lol I saw the MN spreadsheet once - hope this is a continuation and not your own version

AuroraBloom · 16/10/2026 23:35

TofuTuesday · 16/10/2026 23:17

lol I saw the MN spreadsheet once - hope this is a continuation and not your own version

The MN spread sheet of old was quite something at the time.

Boreded · 16/10/2026 23:41

I don’t know why you need to see it on the reply though. Because the deleted comment does have the user name on it where it is deleted, why does it matter if you see which deleted comment is the one that was replied to?

Springtimeinsunshine · 16/10/2026 23:53

FucksakeLavender · 16/10/2026 20:44

Had a spreadsheet since days of yore.

Not for trillhunting.

For baddie spotting.

Edited

Pity. Thought I'd finally found a fellow trill hunter. Troll hunters are ten a penny and not as fun.

IrnBruAndDietCoke · 17/10/2026 01:18

Boreded · 16/10/2026 23:41

I don’t know why you need to see it on the reply though. Because the deleted comment does have the user name on it where it is deleted, why does it matter if you see which deleted comment is the one that was replied to?

Because sometimes things get deleted for reasons that don’t make the poster a baddie. So if no one is quoting/responding it’s possible the poster got caught out by something like using the wrong word (I’m thinking of the days when using “peak” on feminism could get you deleted, which happened to me once, there are similar things now). It is hard to follow threads when multiple people are deleted and multiple people quote one abhorrent post and you can guess it was something bad but you don’t know who said it.

Weeellokthen · 17/10/2026 01:32

Aye ok, Sheldon.