Sudden influx of new posters.

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New members!!!!

Not quite as exciting but a new member post in Vets is borderline Troll! :)
 
"Now I am absolutely certain that some people do lurk for quite sometime and then post for the first time when they need advice when they have an issue. Fair enough."

I have to admit to a fair amount of "lurkage" before making my first move! ;)

"Are we being treated to a bit of light entertainment for the long and boring winter months do you think, or is it all pure coincidence? :)"

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I'm definitely hoping for some entertainment too! :D (As long as it's harmless as I do get uncomfortable with nastiness, makes me want to hide behind my hands!)
 
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To be honest I do not notice, if I am on and see a post clearly saying 'Hi I am new' then I say hi and of course notice the arrival, otherwise i don't tend to notice, I think perhaps I am quite unobservant at times!
I remember the first weekend I joined this forum, I think I went nuts posting, I was so excited to have found a place to talk horses to my hearts content I expect I raised a few eyebrows but hey ho! I had no idea there were clear areas to talk about certain things on here and probably posted all over the place initially, so perhaps some, like me at the time, are genuinely happy to have found a place to talk about horses non stop :)
I do not know what posts you are referring to here really, if any in particular but just thought I would add my two penneth worth :)
 
MoggyinManolos said:
To be honest I do not notice, if I am on and see a post clearly saying 'Hi I am new' then I say hi and of course notice the arrival, otherwise i don't tend to notice, I think perhaps I am quite unobservant at times!
I remember the first weekend I joined this forum, I think I went nuts posting, I was so excited to have found a place to talk horses to my hearts content I expect I raised a few eyebrows but hey ho! I had no idea there were clear areas to talk about certain things on here and probably posted all over the place initially, so perhaps some, like me at the time, are genuinely happy to have found a place to talk about horses non stop :)
I do not know what posts you are referring to here really, if any in particular but just thought I would add my two penneth worth :)
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I'm a bit the same, I keep posting because none of you look at me with that glazed expression - well, you might be but I can't see so I just keep prattling on! On the downside though you can see from my post before this, I still haven't always got to grips with that thing where the person you're replying to is in a white box and my answer underneath in green, doh!! :)
 
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I'm new (think I was a November starter) but have lurked for ages waiting till I could move my horse to my new house so I felt qualified to post ;) My mum posts on here also and can vouch for me although she may say I'm a pain in the bum :p

Hello one and all :):)
 
Hi newbies! I'm fairly new myself.

But can I just ask a question. Is the term troll misused on HHO?
If I see a video on YouTube, and then look at the comments, you get crazy, racist, homaphobic, and abusave comments. To me these are trolls.

On HHO a new poster possibly making up a long elaborate but otherwise harmless story gets called a troll. To me they are a bored or lonely person with too much time on their hands. Or they are telling the truth but nobody believes them for whatever reason. To me they are not a troll.

Am I the one misunderstanding the term?

Oh and I love reading a good bun fight. Any I've missed recently?
 
minimilton said:
Hi newbies! I'm fairly new myself.

But can I just ask a question. Is the term troll misused on HHO?
If I see a video on YouTube, and then look at the comments, you get crazy, racist, homaphobic, and abusave comments. To me these are trolls.

On HHO a new poster possibly making up a long elaborate but otherwise harmless story gets called a troll. To me they are a bored or lonely person with too much time on their hands. Or they are telling the truth but nobody believes them for whatever reason. To me they are not a troll.

Am I the one misunderstanding the term?

Oh and I love reading a good bun fight. Any I've missed recently?
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I also thought trolls were people who posted really nasty comments on existing threads or posts but I am probably wrong, hey ho!

Oh, and there is a slight bun fighty one, fairly recent - the original post (ha! I think I have just worked out what "OP" stands for!) seemed quite incongruous really but it seems to have struck a raw nerve with some ;) too scared to say the title of the post in case I get lynched!
 
Baggage said:
I'm new (think I was a November starter) but have lurked for ages waiting till I could move my horse to my new house so I felt qualified to post ;) My mum posts on here also and can vouch for me although she may say I'm a pain in the bum :p

Hello one and all :):)
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Battytwoll said:
Oh, and there is a slight bun fighty one, fairly recent - the original post (ha! I think I have just worked out what "OP" stands for!) seemed quite incongruous really but it seems to have struck a raw nerve with some ;) too scared to say the title of the post in case I get lynched!
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Ah go on, give me a clue. Or do I have to go into EVERY thread?
 
MrsJingle said:
But to join and then suddenly and immediately, to all intents and purposes, present all and sundry with a complex and controversial story, that is often long and twisting, and manages to take on board all and any issue that might cause a bit of stropping about and door slamming by a lot of forum members?

Are we being treated to a bit of light entertainment for the long and boring winter months do you think, or is it all pure coincidence? :)
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Oh yay, fab, bring-it-on.

Lets have sommink a tad controversial to get all the hackles thoroughly up and roused, and then everyone will start either cat-fighting and/or picking everyone's eye's out, then the poor OP will retreat into their very fragile shell and weep copiously, publicly, and then some fluffy bunny on here will then toss then a box of cyber-tissues and say there-there.

Meanwhile the vultures will wait until some other prey raises their head above the parapet............

But if its blood-sports you want, then bring it on.
 
minimilton said:
Hi newbies! I'm fairly new myself.

But can I just ask a question. Is the term troll misused on HHO?
If I see a video on YouTube, and then look at the comments, you get crazy, racist, homaphobic, and abusave comments. To me these are trolls.

On HHO a new poster possibly making up a long elaborate but otherwise harmless story gets called a troll. To me they are a bored or lonely person with too much time on their hands. Or they are telling the truth but nobody believes them for whatever reason. To me they are not a troll.

Am I the one misunderstanding the term?

Oh and I love reading a good bun fight. Any I've missed recently?
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Have you read The wife's Donations on Facebook to buy a girl a horse-thread that I mentioned? http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/foru...3-Donations-on-Facebook-to-buy-a-girl-a-horse


On Wikipedia an Internet Troll is described as the following:

"In Internet slang, a troll is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a forum, chat room, or blog), either accidentally or with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion."

A description which I definitely think matches some of the internet trolls that I've read posts/replies by on HHO, but I've also read posts/replies where it to me sounds as if people misuse the term.


Personally, when I grew up, a lot of the children stories/fairy tales I was told involved "real" trolls, like these (photos found through Google image search)

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And I've had some troll dolls similar to this

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But I always wondered why the doll trolls didn't have any tails, when all the trolls in the fairy tales had them?
 
It's winter, most people are now banished to there homes with the cold weather and here is the perfect place for advice, chats and the odd bun fight so keeps you busy when the weather fails us all!

Tbh I didn't even notice there's so many members here I can't tell who's new and who's not.
 
I've had an account for years, but I still feel like a newbie! I do think HHO is a bit troll happy, a lot of accusations fly about without much basis. I'm a chronic lurker, but can't say that I have noticed anything untoward recently.
 
Really - you mean they're not "real" horsey Brits? TG for that ..... I was beginning to wonder if it was the water or global warming or something to do with drinking warm beer.
 
There was on troll last year who was particularly nasty, and who managed to take a lot of people in. Very clever tbh. But since then, I don't think it's been too bad ? The odd banned member pops up from time to time, haha !

What is nice it that there are new people here - when the forum changed format it was so dead for a while.:D
 
Tiddlypom said:
The OP was specifically alluding to some very long and complicated initial posts put up by brand new forum members, which have had me thinking 'hmmm' as well. But even if these are put up just to get a good discussion going, there's no harm in it, and it can get quite entertaining.
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are you incinuating me?
 
Buddy's mummy, I don't that you are one of the posters I was referring to. Perhaps you could post a link to a thread you have started which might fit the bill :D!

Anyhow, you have too many posts to your name. The type I've noticed pops up as a newbie starting a complicated thread, then disappears once the thread has run its course. I was taken in by the Gamble the abandoned foal thread and I confess that it has made me a bit cynical so I am probably looking out in case I get suckered again.

The long complicated thread started on the vet forum yesterday seems to have been pulled. I've no idea if the incidents referred to were real but real people and a vet practice were named in a very derogatory manner. I assumed the whole thing was fictional but other posters recognised the names and leapt to their defence. That sort of thread though is completely different to the harmless ones the OP was posting about.
 
Tiddlypom said:
Buddy's mummy, I don't that you are one of the posters I was referring to. Perhaps you could post a link to a thread you have started which might fit the bill :D!

Anyhow, you have too many posts to your name. The type I've noticed pops up as a newbie starting a complicated thread, then disappears once the thread has run its course. I was taken in by the Gamble the abandoned foal thread and I confess that it has made me a bit cynical so I am probably looking out in case I get suckered again.

The long complicated thread started on the vet forum yesterday seems to have been pulled. I've no idea if the incidents referred to were real but real people and a vet practice were named in a very derogatory manner. I assumed the whole thing was fictional but other posters recognised the names and leapt to their defence. That sort of thread though is completely different to the harmless ones the OP was posting about.
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ahh I see...:D
 
Tiddlypom said:
The OP was specifically alluding to some very long and complicated initial posts put up by brand new forum members, which have had me thinking 'hmmm' as well. But even if these are put up just to get a good discussion going, there's no harm in it, and it can get quite entertaining.
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buddy's mummy said:
are you insinuating me?
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If anyone else is thinking the same as buddy's mummy, to quote myself, quoting someone else:

FinnishLapphund said:
I also recall another thread, where someone basically said, that if unnamed person X is described as doing something wrong in a post, it is usually not the person referred to, who replies on the thread worrying about being X.
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Thank you FinnishLapphund!

To be absolutely clear, the 'new posters' I have referred to are NOT genuine newbies at all. They are existing members who decide to start a complicated and convoluted thread under a new username! They know which buttons to press and how to get everyone going!

As long as it is harmless, no one has any problem with that! A lot of good, and some less good opinions will be given, and anyway it can be entertaining just to stand back and watch!

Anyhow, who really knows how much on here is real and how much is make believe, anyway :)!
 
We've had some goodies in the past - real hard working trollers, but reading this post, I've obviously missed some new ones. Horrah - *troll hunting we shall go*

Seriously though, I've had nothing but helpful advice and plenty of laughs from this forum. Yes, it can get heated, but so can the best face to face discussions!

Welcome newbies, enjoy the ride lol
 
minimilton said:
Thank you FinnishLapphund for the description. Not too keen on the creepy pictures just before bedtime though:eek:
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As far as I can recall, I've never thought trolls were creepy to "see", and some of the troll stories was amongst my favourite bedtime stories. But trolls have been part of Swedish folklore at least since the time of vikings, so there is a lot of stories about them to choose from, maybe my mother just told me the best ones?
 
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