The hiding and intimidation on forums- Is it a sexual thing?
I cant make sense of it, and I am very wary of responding to new posters, just in case.

Yes we get very few Trolls these days; Spam filter removes most; those that get through are removed by me or other board keepers before making it into Forums. A few on the Tipsheet forum (mainly Spam) - due, I think, to that link going onto marketing lists in the 90s. URLs tell us who is whom - the very occasional Proxy URL not removed by filters often betray themselves (they scream PROXY). Unlike other public Forums, you're safe here.

A couple of E Mails asking why on earth, when they know nobody reads them, Spam keeps going on. The answer is, I think, Spam (and often Trolls) are automatically generated and there are no real people behind them so nobody knows they get deleted before anyone can read them.

JK2006 wrote:
A couple of E Mails asking why on earth, when they know nobody reads them, Spam keeps going on. The answer is, I think, Spam (and often Trolls) are automatically generated and there are no real people behind them so nobody knows they get deleted before anyone can read them.

The reason I asked about it is because someone told me he gets a sexual kick out of tormenting women on twitter.
And then when I thought about it, I realised that this fits in with an awful lot of what I see.
It would explain why some go to the bother even when it is unread.

I dot know why the automatic stuff isn't targeted more effectively though.

Honey wrote:
[quote]JK2006 wrote:


The reason I asked about it is because someone told me he gets a sexual kick out of tormenting women on twitter.


The things some men have been driven to during lockdown, since sex was made illegal this year!

Personal experience - W?

Every time someone even slightly disagrees, I will imagine them doing something unspeakable beneath the desk.

Ms V Parsimonious wrote:
Personal experience - W?

Did you get off over me with that dig Ms V?