Troll hunting

You are all a self congratulation bunch revelling in your success in outing trolls
How many of your suspicions have been groundless?
You don’t brag or even mention them, do you?
The trouble with your actions and comments placed on the threads of genuine posters is that you deter sensible people of a more sensitive nature from posting, which in turn you class as another success.
If you don’t like a thread then move onto the next.

2 days ago, I posted a reply calling his bluff to a gent trawling for a vulnerable older woman, with an ?attractive? photo and then reported it.

I did this because once before I reported a reply like this and because I posted that I had done so, I had a PM from the person owning the post telling he was genuine (politely). GN HQ removed the message so I wasn't convinced. The next one might not be so polite, hence my strategy descibed above.

But, cari, in the meantime, people can be taken in!! Exactly Kitty!

Those, who are taken in, often divulge their own, very personal experiences, in an attempt to make the OP feel that they are not alone in what they're going through, which must open old wounds. That must be very emotional and upsetting for some of them. Unnecessarily!

Agree oldbatty, I honestly can't see the harm in being honest if any poster has concerns about a thread as long as the honesty isn't rude or demeaning which is as bad in my view as posting a 'story' to get reactions.

If someone is unkind and daft enough to post something untrue,there is no harm I'm giving a quick heads up to other people.it avoids them feeling foolish.

But, cari, in the meantime, people can be taken in!!

I had a severe reprimand which frankly brought me this close to leaving the building.
I agree, on the one hand we are told GNHQ can’t be monitoring everything and we should report suspicious posts. But that can take a while and the response is often a heavy handed deletion of an entire thread, whether appropriate or not.
Granny’s gut instinct is invariably the right one!