Feeding trolls and Christmas cheer

Rowreach said:
I have been absent-ish for the past couple of days, and appear to have completely missed the drama :D

The odd troll doesn't bother me, they can be quite entertaining, and there certainly aren't as many about these days on here. I prefer a troll to the type of regular poster who simply can't say anything nice about anything and generally exists to create sh!tstorms ...
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I’ve often wondered if those types have any friends In real life. How somebody can be so judgemental and miserable about everything. I don’t know. I like a debate where nobody insults anyone, but there don’t seem to be that many here.
 
I think you also have to remember that a lot of people who have strong views about everything on a forum, often do not have the same opinions in public/ face to face. It's very easy to sit and criticise and comment behind the keyboard 🤔😐

There is girl I know on another forum who is very outspoken, but have seen her in public and she seems very withdrawn x
 
I guess it’s the medic in me as I treat trolls as people with either borderline or narcissistic personality disorder. I therefore don’t engage with the slanging match in any way and only look at the facts not the emotions ... the devil in me likes to throw in a comment along the lines of “this is a bad idea to continue” just so the troll is aware that I know what they are doing - but tbh I love a good troll thread and see it as sport rather than hurtful (which doesn’t make me a particularly nice person but I am an honest one) - trolls are out to cause distress and get attention and I genuinely feel sorry for them - what kind of life must they lead if the best attention they can get is an argument on line...
 
There does seem to be a bit of a history with some trolls and I do find that very wrong (eg following posters from other forums and then causing havoc on the new forum).

However we have had reformed trolls too (Dunroamin for example) who were able to carry on posting under a new ID and became a 'normal' poster.
 
In real life I am a very easy going person, which people mistake for being a push over or not having an oppion, of which I have lots.
I am always interested in other people’s points of view, even if I do not agree with them, if you do not lift the stone you never know what’s underneath it. I have found the internet a wonderful place for discovering people oppinions behind the mask, which they would modify face to face.
I go on one forum where the troll who is the most contrary person ever is just being ignored, eventually they go away.
If you do not like someone/something, don’t keep reading it. In real life I just ignore them as well,smile and move on.
 
That thread had troll written all over it from page 1. I have no time for that kind of rubbish so did not get involved with the thread. Just gone back to it expecting a car crash with loads of people getting drawn in, but actually the overwhelming impression I got was to be really impressed with how polite, restrained, helpful, informative and non-reactive everyone was! Love HHO. x
 
KittenInTheTree said:
Meh. I just stick anyone too annoying on Ignore and leave them there. The new system means that you can't see their content when others quote it either.
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Me too. Happy to have a debate with people who hold genuine views that differ from mine but when people get personal, deliberately twist replies and use passive-aggressive nonsense then I just disengage. User ignore is a useful tool.
 
blitznbobs said:
I guess it’s the medic in me as I treat trolls as people with either borderline or narcissistic personality disorder. I therefore don’t engage with the slanging match in any way and only look at the facts not the emotions ... the devil in me likes to throw in a comment along the lines of “this is a bad idea to continue” just so the troll is aware that I know what they are doing - but tbh I love a good troll thread and see it as sport rather than hurtful (which doesn’t make me a particularly nice person but I am an honest one) - trolls are out to cause distress and get attention and I genuinely feel sorry for them - what kind of life must they lead if the best attention they can get is an argument on line...
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The bit about her sitting crying, on "that" thread, reminds me of the EUPD clients who ring us to say that they are on a motorway bridge, about to jump, when you can hear day time TV in the background!
 
Ambers Echo said:
Me too. Happy to have a debate with people who hold genuine views that differ from mine but when people get personal, deliberately twist replies and use passive-aggressive nonsense then I just disengage. User ignore is a useful tool.
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I've never used User Ignore in eleven years or whatever it is, because I prefer to see what everyone is up to :D I can still manage to "ignore" them if I want to.
 
FestiveG said:
The bit about her sitting crying, on "that" thread, reminds me of the EUPD clients who ring us to say that they are on a motorway bridge, about to jump, when you can hear day time TV in the background!
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I cannot for one moment accept that you are a trained responder to distressed EUPD clients and so blatantly display your total lack of knowledge and empathy about mental health and suicidal clients. I really hope you aren't the first point of call fro anyone who is suicidal! If I knew where you worked and in what capacity I would report you tomorrow and do my damnedest to have you fired. I just hope you never have someone who you care about unfortunate to come up against someone as ignorant and uncaring and dismissive as you blatantly boast when they are at their lowest ebb...regardless off the circumstances of their cry for help. >:(
 
MrsJingle said:
I cannot for one moment accept that you are a trained responder to distressed EUPD clients and so blatantly display your total lack of knowledge and empathy about mental health and suicidal clients. I really hope you aren't the first point of call fro anyone who is suicidal! If I knew where you worked and in what capacity I would report you tomorrow and do my damnedest to have you fired. I just hope you never have someone who you care about unfortunate to come up against someone as ignorant and uncaring and dismissive as you blatantly boast when they are at their lowest ebb...regardless off the circumstances of their cry for help. :mad:
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Your ignorance is astounding, as is your inability to read! People tend not to be suicidal, while sitting watching day time TV and claiming to be on a bridge, I suggest you go away and do some research on Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, it may give you some pointers on how o help that particular group of people.
 
You are a disgrace and do NOT assume you know what knowledge I might have on any area of mental health and your assumption that because someone might telephone you (God help them!) when they are feeling suicidal and you can hear a television or whatever in the background means any claim they are making about their thoughts and fears, even if they do exaggerate their circumstances does not invalidate them does it?? - I hope you lose your job very rapidly and if i could I would ensure this was the case, great pity I cant for sure
 
MrsJingle said:
You are a disgrace and do NOT assume you know what knowledge I might have on any area of mental health and your assumption that because someone might telephone you (God help them!) when they are feeling suicidal and you can hear a television or whatever in the background means any claim they are making about their thoughts and fears, even if they do exaggerate their circumstances does not invalidate them does it?? - I hope you lose your job very rapidly and if i could I would ensure this was the case, great pity I cant for sure
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Crack on dear :)
 
I'm not sure it's possible to claim moral high-ground, whilst simultaneously expressing a vindictive desire to get a person fired from their job for a fairly reasonable comment on t'internet...

But hey, with the trolls we're getting these days, apparently anything's possible :rolleyes:
 
Just a Festive Troll in the Dungeon said:
I'm not sure it's possible to claim moral high-ground, whilst simultaneously expressing a vindictive desire to get a person fired from their job for a fairly reasonable comment on t'internet...

But hey, with the trolls we're getting these days, apparently anything's possible :rolleyes:
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Omg
THIS.
 
MrsJingle said:
You are a disgrace and do NOT assume you know what knowledge I might have on any area of mental health and your assumption that because someone might telephone you (God help them!) when they are feeling suicidal and you can hear a television or whatever in the background means any claim they are making about their thoughts and fears, even if they do exaggerate their circumstances does not invalidate them does it?? - I hope you lose your job very rapidly and if i could I would ensure this was the case, great pity I cant for sure
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If you had read the post properly, you would have seen that FestiveG said the person making the call stated (s)he was on a bridge about to commit suicide, yet there was a tv playing in the background. That is not a ‘cry for help.’ That is not somebody on a bridge about to jump is it?
I for one think it’s a very good job we have professionals who have the skills to identify somebody in genuine crisis, as opposed to somebody eliciting care (aka attention seeking).
 
Ambers Echo said:
Completely random u-turn on this thread but I am currently recruiting a DBT therapist to work with adolescents in Skelmersdale.... if you are DBT trained and looking for a job, pm me!

Ok back to the thread.....
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It would be utterly hilarious if FG got a new job through this thread, given the "suspect poster" who desires to get her fired from her current position...
 
Ambers Echo said:
Completely random u-turn on this thread but I am currently recruiting a DBT therapist to work with adolescents in Skelmersdale.... if you are DBT trained and looking for a job, pm me!

Ok back to the thread.....
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Noooooooo. Now you will be reported for advertising :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Too many trolls about for that!
 
Snitch said:
If you had read the post properly, you would have seen that FestiveG said the person making the call stated (s)he was on a bridge about to commit suicide, yet there was a tv playing in the background. That is not a ‘cry for help.’ That is not somebody on a bridge about to jump is it?
I for one think it’s a very good job we have professionals who have the skills to identify somebody in genuine crisis, as opposed to somebody eliciting care (aka attention seeking).
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And if you read the post properly and had even a tiny bit of inquiring intelligence and insight into people with 3rd rate degrees in a subject area they obviously have no empathy with or real interest in, because frankly the majority of them are too dull and slow witted to study for a degree in a more challenging area, you would see that post for exactly what it is - an unacceptable and cruel and sneering dig at people with mental health problems and depression ...and a cry for help should ALWAYS be taken seriously, no matter how attention seeking that person's behaviour might seem.

If you knew even a slight amount about the subject matter you would be aware that a huge percentage of people in mental health distress who do commit suicide very often have a lengthy history of 'crys for help'...... I imagine in a lot of cases those crys for help unfortunately fall into the lap of the poster who is happy to openly state her attitude to her job and her clients and obviously has no concern for her part in dismissing them as time wasters and leaving them to her fate.

Amber's Echo for someone who really didnt want to get involved in this thread...your advertising your services and needs of assistance and supporting this person who brings the serious work in mental health into huge question and ridicule actually astounds me - even for you I thought you had more professional integrity than that - silly me to afford you with more respect than you obviously warrant.

I will leave you all to in now, work away with your oh so amusing jibes and clever comments - I sleep well at night - I hope a good few of you on here this past couple of days do too - but unlikely I would think if you have even a small conscience.
 
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