Bunbury’s Public Service Announcement 2

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The useful Bunbury Guide to Spotting Community Disruptors is constantly evolving.

The best research and advice is not to engage with community disruptors and trolls. As ever, if you suspect troll activity, report it to MNHQ.

This is a continuation of the first Public Service Announcement thread:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3321127-public-service-announcement

If and when you see threads plopped into FWR, especially a curious repeat of well worn topics, maybe check for poster history before engaging.

There are a number of posts/posters/threads that are reproduced on Twitter or Facebook to foment controversy using screen shots & flagging to either MNHQ to have threads or posters deleted. Sometimes, it’s used to approach commissioning editors with ideas for articles. It’s a tiresome tactic that we’ve had several community disruptor posters who themselves post the comments that they then highlight elsewhere as purported evidence of racism, religious intolerance, anti-men sentiments, or transphobia.

Some helpful links in following posts.

(also have asked for HQ to delete my initial post above)

2b if it's any consolation, I'm always very suspicious. It's not just you.

I agree efforts to close the site will fail, it’s more access to the app I’m thinking of - I access MN via my phone so there is some self interest here

You can access via your phone, but without the app.

You're right to keep your suspicious radar on high alert, 2B

Like I said, who knows?

You can access the mobile version of the site from a mobile phone browser. It's much better than the app. The mobile version of the site is very well constructed.

@2BthatUnnoticed I didn't even know there was a mobile app! My old phone is probably incompatible anyway. Apps also take up more storage space on the phone. Using a mobile browser also means that I can Bookmark messages or threads "off site" on a web-based Bookmarking service (I use Pinboard.in).

The mobile version of the site is so good I normally switch to the mobile version when I'm using my laptop - one of the first "user tips" I spotted when I started lurking

You can access the mobile version of the site from a mobile phone browser. It's much better than the app. The mobile version of the site is very well constructed.

^This

Ah thanks all - I hadn’t realised! I might switch to accessing that way now, as a precaution.

The sad thing is, the TRAs don’t realise (or don’t care?) that many MNetters don’t even visit FWR, they just come for advice about kids or whatever.. they would suffer if the site was closed too - not just the (relatively small?) no. of us on this board.

The sad thing is, the TRAs don’t realise (or don’t care?) that many MNetters don’t even visit FWR, they just come for advice about kids or whatever.. they would suffer if the site was closed too

Yes, but they are mostly just women, so don't matter.

There is an interesting thread about what teenage girls wear by someone for whom it is their first and only post.

When I started reading forums I assumed it was etiquette to read , then add to existing threads, and only after that to start a thread.

There’s a Spiked thread been revived that needs to be grey rocked to sleep.

Bugger, sorry, didn’t spot it was a zombie

Bump

FFS

This is the the Feminist Chat board. Not the bloody Come Here and Narc board.

The assumption by that AMA poster that the women here are either uneducated or hateful is beneath contempt

I wonder if Germaine Bunbury ever considered the idea of whether a cross dresser would pose as a trans widow and infiltrate a support thread?

That poster is definitely recruiting for something Tinsel. Maybe as you are wise enough to see through it all DM them find out more to see what they really are up to.

Ah yes. Sticking out and sore thumbs come to mind. Shout out if you need a hand at any point, Tinsel.

💪

I've reported so we'll see.

Just had a look at that thread, hmmm. Having dreams about being a woman. Oh well, that proves it then. 🙄

Dreams mean nothing, unless I can expect Timothy Olyphant’s wife to respect my identity as someone who can get off with him as per my dream the other night.

Well done everyone on the rebuttals.

They randomly asked if we'd thought of having affairs a few days ago, which made my spidey senses tingle as it sounded like either wank fodder or an attempt to trap us into painting ourselves as the bad guys.

They're changing their tune now.

Tinsel - you rock.