Dear Trolly Troll:

[McBenny]

Your ass is probably asleep since you were on here late fucking with people. Clearly you have nothing to do in your every day life but bring your BASIC BUSTED ASS to a message board to post offensive ass shit.

Suicide is nothing to joke about. I hope that if you do have suicidal thoughts you tell someone. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1(800) 273-8255.

If you were just posting that shit for your own personal kicks and giggles you are a fucking sick individual. I wish you:

a painful blackhead on your ear,
a hair bump on your cooch, or
one of those painful pimples on the inside of your nose that you can't get to
a fucking yeast infection under your boob

FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO DO WITH YOUR TIME!!!!  You will just be banned again and again. YOU ARE NOT A MOTHERFUCKING FACTOR. You are not affecting a motherfucking thing over here so move on.

FUCK YOU WITH A SICK DICK for your stupid racist comments.

[bunnyfungo]

::slow clap::

[icequeen]

There are many other things I would love to add to this list but I'll restrain myself. Fucking sick does not even begin to describe it.

[icaughtfire]

How do you know a user is banned? I'd be interested to know if one of our own got caught up in the ban.

[akraus2015]

What happened?? I have no idea what this is referring to....but it sounds awful and very not funny.

[akraus2015]

Mar 21, 2015 9:05:59 GMT -5 theophania said:

The quick story on what happened (which I'm gathering based on the titles and content of the posts reported in the archive since I wasn't online yet) is that multiple trolls showed up making seriously over the top and offensive posts using racial slurs, suicide jokes, etc that went so far over the line I don't even have words to fully describe it. It was bad and the threads were deleted and the users banned because much of it was also hurtful to members. There was no good reason to keep that crap around on the boards. Your mods here are awesome though and were on it very quickly thankfully.

HUGE thanks to estrellas, bunnyfungo, joy, and bibliothecary

Yuck. That is awful. I don't understand the need to mindlessly hurt random people for no reason with cruel comments.

[estrellas]

Mar 21, 2015 9:05:59 GMT -5 theophania said:

The quick story on what happened (which I'm gathering based on the titles and content of the posts reported in the archive since I wasn't online yet) is that multiple trolls showed up making seriously over the top and offensive posts using racial slurs, suicide jokes, etc that went so far over the line I don't even have words to fully describe it. It was bad and the threads were deleted and the users banned because much of it was also hurtful to members. There was no good reason to keep that crap around on the boards. Your mods here are awesome though and were on it very quickly thankfully.

HUGE thanks to estrellas, bunnyfungo, joy, and bibliothecary

Yeah. My board or not, I saw that shit and would not let it stand. There's a place for "this violates TOU or whatever but can stay", and absolutely offensive inappropriate comments that do *nothing* except hurt people. I found it absolutely abhorrent. 

I'm an overnight person for most of y'all (I live in Asia), so shit like that people try to pull overnight? Sorry, trolls. That's my daytime. You don't get a free pass to be an ass if it's 3:00am for you and you think everyone's asleep.

[URMySunshine77]

I think it was probably the same person. I saw the first posts but went to sleep before things escalated. estrellas, I'm glad that others were watching.

[♪♫choppinbroccoli♫♪]

This is the first major troll session since inception, then?

Shout out to W for being on top of it, too.

[pibblemom]

Mods, if you cared enough, you could run a trace route on the IP addresses and see where they originated from. If you cared that much.

[bibliothecary]

Mar 21, 2015 10:32:00 GMT -5 theophania said:

Also, weird to say "if you cared" seriously, am I the only one who thinks so?

I believe my husband can testify to the amount and variety of profanity that issued forth from me this morning. I give fucks. 

[wanderingheart]

Thanks mods for stepping in on a late Friday night. You guise are the best.

Also pibblemom , you've been here 1 day. You have no idea how much our mods care. #checkyourself

[pibblemom]

Mar 21, 2015 10:37:01 GMT -5 ****** said:

Mar 21, 2015 10:32:00 GMT -5 theophania said:

Also, weird to say "if you cared" seriously, am I the only one who thinks so?

nope. I thought the same thing! Then checked stats and user joined the day before the trolls sprang up. Hopefully, just a coincidence and not a troll WK. Time will tell.

No, I'm not a troll. Read my intro. I didn't mean if they cared about the trolls posts, I meant if they cared about the location or the possibility that they were all the same. It's very possible that now that they're banned the mods don't care where they came from. 

[helloerrbody]

Thank you admins and mods for all you do!!!! That shit was vile.

[pibblemom]

Mar 21, 2015 10:53:16 GMT -5 W said:

Mar 21, 2015 10:50:03 GMT -5 pibblemom said:

No, I'm not a troll. Read my intro. I didn't mean if they cared about the trolls posts, I meant if they cared about the location or the possibility that they were all the same. It's very possible that now that they're banned the mods don't care where they came from. 

Lurk more, talk less. I don't give a shit if you have an intro or not. There have been plenty of trolls that have had intros in the past.

Lurk moar.

I lurked for over a year on TD, about a week here. I figured it was safe. Again, I didn't insinuate the mods don't care about the content, clearly they do. perhaps I should've said for shits & giggles if they wanted to blah blah blah. The "care" part of my post was obviously misinterpreted. 

[bunnyfungo]

I don't think pibblewhoever meant any harm by what she said. I think it was just oddly worded. That being said, I side-eye anyone that says they lurked TD for a year but didn't know how to find us until yesterday.

[TheEleventhHour]

I missed it all (though it sounds like a good thing that I did as I'm enraged just reading the synopsis) but THANK YOU again to all the mods and everyone who helped get it under control. People can suck so badly.

[britterrss]

Mar 21, 2015 11:49:38 GMT -5 TheEleventhHour said:

I missed it all (though it sounds like a good thing that I did as I'm enraged just reading the synopsis) but THANK YOU again to all the mods and everyone who helped get it under control. People can suck so badly.

Same. I missed it. But I'm so thankful y'all took care of it. Wouldn't have helped me today to wake up to that. Thanks for all that y'all do.

[nuggetrn]

Thank you!!! I am glad everything got deleted. I was at work last night so I unfortunately saw everything. The whole thing was disgusting and I cannot even believe that people would find that sort of thing to be funny.

Thanks mods for being awesome!

[Sparkly]

Mar 21, 2015 10:53:16 GMT -5 W said:

Mar 21, 2015 10:50:03 GMT -5 pibblemom said:

No, I'm not a troll. Read my intro. I didn't mean if they cared about the trolls posts, I meant if they cared about the location or the possibility that they were all the same. It's very possible that now that they're banned the mods don't care where they came from. 

Lurk more, talk less. I don't give a shit if you have an intro or not. There have been plenty of trolls that have had intros in the past.

Lurk moar.

I believe on her intro ghostmonkey promised to smack her with a stick if she said anything dumb so....

[ghostmonkey]

Mar 21, 2015 13:28:51 GMT -5 Sparkly said:

Mar 21, 2015 10:53:16 GMT -5 W said:

Lurk more, talk less. I don't give a shit if you have an intro or not. There have been plenty of trolls that have had intros in the past.

Lurk moar.

I believe on her intro ghostmonkey promised to smack her with a stick if she said anything dumb so....

I leave to lift and pick up shit in the yard for a few hours and everything goes to hell.

[ellewills618]

What was said here last night was abhorrent and I'm glad more people weren't able to read the foul things that were posted. Big thanks to the mods and everyone who worked to take care of those spewing hatred. That kind of trash doesn't liven up the board, it just tears down the community that is being/has been built here.

[venyia]

Big thank you to the mods who were all over shutting down that shit. mischief had a good run trolling the trolls, but they did need to be stopped. It is really good to know that some lines will not be tolerated to be crossed, period. I know how gross the threads felt to me, and I can only imagine how awful they were for others in much more sensitive situations to read. So, again, thank you.

[triplea598]

I don't usually go here since we aren't TFAS until, at the very least, after DS turns 2 (September). But I happened to be awake, was on the drinking thread in Parenting, and heard about the trolls. I'm sorry you all had to deal with that.
I tried paging an admin, but I know most of the mods were asleep. I'm sorry if I intruding or anything.

[joy]

Mar 22, 2015 0:42:36 GMT -5 @littleliverpill said:

FTR I saw all that abhorrent shit but wasn't sure what to do about it seeing that mods had already been paged (but were likely sleeping).

Is there a designated nighttime mod (global or otherwise) who should be notified in extreme situations like this?

bunnyfungo joy theophania

estrellas lives in India and was on it before we woke up.

[joy]

Mar 22, 2015 8:34:29 GMT -5 @littleliverpill said:

Mar 22, 2015 8:17:32 GMT -5 joy said:

estrellas lives in India and was on it before we woke up.

Is estrellas a mod? (I'm mobile.) if something like this happens again, should she be the one to be notified?

She is!

I also started banning as soon as I woke up but was hesitant to delete threads without another mod seeing things. theophania gave a good game plan on how to handle this stuff in the future.

[estrellas]

Mar 22, 2015 8:34:29 GMT -5 @littleliverpill said:

Mar 22, 2015 8:17:32 GMT -5 joy said:

estrellas lives in India and was on it before we woke up.

Is estrellas a mod? (I'm mobile.) if something like this happens again, should she be the one to be notified?

I am a mod, yeah, but not a designated nighttime one or anything - it's just that I'm GMT+5:30, which means US EST + 10:30 right now, I think.


I'll see the flagged things (I think it's a setting where all mods see reported stuff?), so just report and the more clear/explicit the reporting, the more I can action. It's particularly a case of not wanting to step on other-mod toes, but I think if you guys think it's major enough you want it actioned on immediately - tag me like this and it'll pop in my inbox. Even if I'm not on the site, I keep my gmail open and have it set to e-mail me when I get tagged, so I'll handle it as soon as I can.