new user names.....

victory

marywooyeah wrote: »

Yes, sadly ive seen this too.

I stopped using mse for a number of months after one person in particular started making fun of the fact my baby died and calling me a liar. I reported their posts but they are still a prolific poster so it seems no action was taken, although I am glad to see that there are a number of users who were regularly abusive or harsh in general have been PPRed.

That is awful. Painful for you, just awful a complete stranger has so much vitriol in them, awful.

coolcait

Because they're "regular users "in the sense that they're always posting on here. But rarely under the same name :rotfl:

The vast majority of those threads, IMO, are made-up nonsense.

The first giveaway is the opening line. The second giveaway is the subject matter. The third giveaway is the style.

There's often another poster or posters on the same thread who will help feed the thread. Often by launching a doughty and impassioned defence of the OP - particularly effective when no one else on the thread has actually criticised the OP .

Sometimes, they take an alternative tack of roundly critcising the OP. This works best when the thread already has it's blood up about the topic.

There were a couple of posters of this ilk recently who got PPRd PDQ.

In my experience, those who are genuinely 'regular posters' generally get a far easier ride when they post about a misdemeanour under their own names. Some pretty awful behaviour can get a"hon, that's so out of character, something must have happened to make you do it" type response, whereas a post by a newbie wouldn't.

Then there's the wholesale deletion of threads and posts at an OP's request, but that's another thread entirely. Probably to be deleted!

Person_one

victory wrote: »

That is awful. Painful for you, just awful a complete stranger has so much vitriol in them, awful.

Trust me, that's a very one sided account, missing a lot of important information.

This is the problem with trying to erase or rewrite the past, everybody has a different take on it so I think its better to leave it all up for everyone to see it and make up their own minds.

marywooyeah

peachyprice wrote: »

Also, if someone is going to post something rather controversial knowing it will end up in a bun fight, they may post under a different username in order to protect their usual one from repercussions.

I remember one regular poster who posted she'd done something awful, it's still thrown back in her face occasionally years after. I bet she wishes she'd made an AE.

Yes, it seems a shame that someone should havebto make a new username to avoid this. The "be nice to new moneysavers" should just be "be nice to all moneysavers"

victory wrote: »

That is awful. Painful for you, just awful a complete stranger has so much vitriol in them, awful.

Yes it was horrible I was in tears, they went as far to say things along the lines of "where was this hspital, the twilight zone?" And say that I was making up ridiculous lies. It was awful. I realised that if I stopped using the sites because of them then I would be allowing myself to be bullied off the site so I started coming back again. I see this same user now offering out all kinds of "aw poor you" posts and wondering how that same person could have been so nasty and accusatory towards me. I hope theyve turned over a new leaf.

kitrat

marywooyeah wrote: »

Yes, sadly ive seen this too.

I stopped using mse for a number of months after one person in particular started making fun of the fact my baby died and calling me a liar. I reported their posts but they are still a prolific poster so it seems no action was taken, although I am glad to see that there are a number of users who were regularly abusive or harsh in general have been PPRed.

That's awful. It is at least a minority of posters.

Person_one

kitrat wrote: »

That's awful. It is at least a minority of posters.

Here you go, make your own mind up.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4163579

melanzana

In the message board/forum world they are called "sock puppets".

Either to carry on the original persona uninhibited, and/or create devilish mayhem across a thread, to wind others up.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sock%20puppet

mellymoo74

Person_one wrote: »

Here you go, make your own mind up.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4163579

This is good evidence of why people might use a pseudonym. The I have read your previous threads post

coolcait

Moving on from the idea that many of the "I'm a regular user using a new name" threads are about as real as the average soap opera.

The other side of the coin is where someone firmly and genuinely believes in what they are saying - but it runs contrary to what does or should happen.

There's the possibility that a huge travesty of natural justice has taken place. There's also the possibility that you're dealing with a misunderstanding of monumental and tragic proportions.

But, I don't personally believe that such posts should go unquestioned. Or that it is wrong to explain the reasons behind the questioning.

Otherwise, it can lead to others getting misleading information about an issue which concerns them.

paulineb_2

A lot of the threads started under a new name are of the kind where someone is going through a crisis and perhaps doesnt want other people on the boards who know them as a regular user, to know.