Notice to newcomers re trolls.

Sarahx

I feel a bump coming on.......Ooh there we go! :j

pania

thanks all for keeping this bumped. perhaps we'll have a few nice troll free months now!!!

Numpty_Monkey

Sarahx wrote: »

I feel a bump coming on.......Ooh there we go! :j

hope you enjoyed your bump:rotfl: :T :A

bank_of_slate

Unfortunately they look more like this!

rog2

pania wrote: »

Over the last few weeks we have had a number of "troll" attacks on the boards.

What is a Troll? A troll is a person that posts deliberately provocative, nasty or hurtful comments on threads. They may be a person with no previous connection to the board or someone that has created a pseudonym to get their point made.

The person we had this morning was particularly vile and nasty and please believe me is an extreme rarity here.

Wow, pania - I don't know how I missed this thread.

Thank you, so much, for so eloquently expressing the thoughts of the majority of poster on DFW, and indeed throughout the 'MSE family'.

I had been thinking, just the other day, how nice it was that the 'T Rolls' had appeared to have left us in relative peace for the last couple of months. Indeed the last activity by my own 'personal stalker' was back in January, and I was thinking of starting a thread just to thank the moderators for making this whole site a better place by excluding these vitriolic saddos.

Then, as if from the blue, my peace has been shattered over the last two days. I did not see the particularily nasty remarks of the 'troll' that you reported (moderators get up earlier than me) but have seen at least two 'newbie' threads trashed by the 'cutting' and abusive comments of at least one of the aforementioned parasites. Fortunately that has been dealt with, both by the reasoned response of a couple of the more experienced members of this forum, and by the swift reactions of the moderators.

Unfortunately, though, it does look as if we may have 'lost' one of the 'newbie' posters, whose case tragically involved debt after the death of his father.

I don't know what 'drives' someone to take up the cudgel of a Troll - I'm sure that sexual inadequacy may play a large part, but we must not, also, forget that some of these 'internet marauderers' are deliberately placed here by the very institutions whose behaviour caused most of us to come here in the first place. As this forum grows, both in numbers and in knowledge, it begins to pose a real threat to the 'Easy Living' that has, so far and with little resistance, been made out of the exploitation of debt.

I agree, wholeheartedly, that this thread should be made into a 'sticky', or at least be made compulsory reading for any 'newbie'.

A 'Troll Warning' could, also be included in the 'header'.

Once again, pania, thank you for starting this thread, and, as one poster once put it:

May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the crotches of all 'Trolls'
And may their arms be too short to scratch

bank_of_slate

Very well said Rog!
...Linda xx

boredofbeingathome

Oh Rog, that was so eloquently put. In combination with linda's picture, i now have a few images in my head..... but very funny.

I do hope the other Newbie comes back, or is indeed just lurking and getting the advice he or she needs.

boredofbeingathome

The other little bit I wanted to add, was that I hope people will no longer set up threads, with the view of trying to gain knowledge in order to exploit others..... with links to their own nefarious websites.
I feel that these kind of people are also in the Troll category, and i am pleased to see that the moderators on the board have begun to act against threads such as these.

bank_of_slate

All trolls will be promptly bathed as thus:
...Linda xx

boredofbeingathome

bank_of_slate wrote: »

All trolls will be promptly bathed as thus:
...Linda xx

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