Notice to newcomers re trolls.

yellowmonkey

DON79

attacks imminent I fear!

yellowmonkey

Yeah been browsing and I fear the same

ym

DON79

:rotfl: i decided to try kill one with kindness on the "help" thread......seems to have worked.....:rotfl:

skylight

blind-as-a-bat wrote: »

I wonder what it must be like to be perfect

I'll tell you what its like Baab.

Its just perfect!

Mr_E_3

Can anyone point me in the direction of an example "troll" post ... just to get an idea of who/what?

Cheers...

DON79

they usually get deleted quite quickly mr E so they are not on here long enough, but you get some crackers! (or crackpots! ) who like to poke fun at peoples situations or just criticise their expenditure or the amount of debts or just be generally nasty. they just like to try stir up trouble.

Mr_E_3

Without mentioning names/posts, I saw what I assumed was a very "underhand" post yesterday. The person that sent the post looked to be a long term member of the forum. Given that I'm a newby to the forum, I sat back and waited to see what peoples responses would be. The person it was directed at took it in his stead .. good for them.

I had a look at the "underhand" posters previous posts and got the impression that they were somewhat "arrogant", he made mention of ignoring/dissing any posts from "newbies" ...

If I encountered a similar post, what is the etiquette on the forum ... what should one do?

fermi

blind-as-a-bat wrote: »

Yes i get the feeling we are being watched too:rolleyes:

Are we? Where?

RAS

If you thinka post is really out of order, then ignore it but click the little red triangel in the lower left corner of the post. That pulls up a e-mail messge to [EMAIL="abuse@moneysavingexpert.com"]abuse@moneysavingexpert.com[/EMAIL].

DFWers and the other forums here are known elsewhere on MSE as huggies or huggers and I am afraid a number of OPs, particularly those on other forum, are frank/vitriolic in their comments to newbies or those in a mess.

The best thing for the newbie is to get off line for a while until a post is pulled from the thread. You can support them by Pm if necessary.