Anti facebook groups etc

[Wonderfulspam]

Would it be too utterly fawning to say I’ve missed you General?

Hands off, he's my bird.

[The General]

Would it be too utterly fawning to say I’ve missed you General?

Not at all. I've missed you guys to a greater or lesser degree (there's gradations of 'missing' someone when conversing virtually). Even the 'other side', although I doubt the feeling is mutual.

[Rossb]

Here, only place I wum.

No other forums, didn't take a proper interest in the case until about 2012.
Came here & found countless idiots insisting Maddie was abducted, when there's simply no good reason to believe she ever was.

So you have found nothing better in over ten years but persist? Me youtube last may. Nutjobs commenting, next cmomm, again nut jobs, get blocked, four face books writing about another child, blocked including dopey liar debbie christie and liar jill havern. Their is a pattern of where questioning and free speech doesnt go a long way. No libel no lies just questions then booom. You are blocked. And then lied about to other members. Been here probably 1/10 of you and russell crowe the general but of course im venting on a specific thread in regards to nastiness 🤣 must take me tablets soon at age 31.

[Wonderfulspam]

So you have found nothing better in over ten years but persist? Me youtube last may. Nutjobs commenting, next cmomm, again nut jobs, get blocked, four face books writing about another child, blocked including dopey liar debbie christie and liar jill havern. Their is a pattern of where questioning and free speech doesnt go a long way. No libel no lies just questions then booom. You are blocked. And then lied about to other members. Been here probably 1/10 of you and russell crowe the general but of course im venting on a specific thread in regards to nastiness 🤣 must take me tablets soon at age 31.

I've just taken mine as it happens.
10mg olanzapine & 20mg Zoplicone.
If there's one thing I can't get enough of it's sedative drugs. Washed down with Calpol. So if you don't hear from me for a few hours, you'll know why.

[jassi]

I've just taken mine as it happens.
10mg olanzapine & 20mg Zoplicone.
If there's one thing I can't get enough of it's sedative drugs. Washed down with Calpol. So if you don't hear from me for a few hours, you'll know why.

Careful you don't overdose. 

[Wonderfulspam]

Careful you don't overdose. 

I wish, just got my electricity bill this morning. All that machine sanding & hoovering has made the house look lovely, but came at a price.
I'll have to cut back on crack cocaine
& prostitutes this week.

[The General]

So you have found nothing better in over ten years but persist? Me youtube last may. Nutjobs commenting, next cmomm, again nut jobs, get blocked, four face books writing about another child, blocked including dopey liar debbie christie and liar jill havern. Their is a pattern of where questioning and free speech doesnt go a long way. No libel no lies just questions then booom. You are blocked. And then lied about to other members. Been here probably 1/10 of you and russell crowe the general but of course im venting on a specific thread in regards to nastiness 🤣 must take me tablets soon at age 31.

I'll take maximus decimus meridius. It's a far cry from General Scheisskopf, I suppose.
I may even change my picture thingy to endorse your suggestion.

[Rossb]

I'll take maximus decimus meridius. It's a far cry from General Scheisskopf, I suppose.
I may even change my picture thingy to endorse your suggestion.

Good lad, did you find a chance general to take a look at the mental comments or not?

[The General]

Good lad, did you find a chance general to take a look at the mental comments or not?

I'll be honest, Ross, I don't have Facebook. I wouldn't know where to start.
I do know that the internet is full of anonymous, self-proclaimed experts, who have appointed themselves pre-eminent in everything from the correct texture and consistency of a black pudding, right through to the nuances of ECHR verdicts, despite having no specific training in either.

Edit: And I'm a bit disappointed to find that you've taken my title of 'Youngest Member of the Forum' by some distance. You do know that our oldest active member is 81 years older than you?

[Rossb]

I'll be honest, Ross, I don't have Facebook. I wouldn't know where to start.
I do know that the internet is full of anonymous, self-proclaimed experts, who have appointed themselves pre-eminent in everything from the correct texture and consistency of a black pudding, right through to the nuances of ECHR verdicts, despite having no specific training in either.

Edit: And I'm a bit disappointed to find that you've taken my title of 'Youngest Member of the Forum' by some distance. You do know that our oldest active member is 81 years older than you?

Lol, well you changed ur pic well done. Its an honour to be a young member who looked into this case as of last year, also mental to see on majority of other well a few forums of pure mentalness. Born and raised in newcastle i must be getting soft on all things unproven!

[sadie]

Why would I care about Madeleine?
Bit pointless really, she's dead after all.

She is alive  and well unless they have killed her off trying to conceive from her.

[The General]

Lol, well you changed ur pic well done. Its an honour to be a young member who looked into this case as of last year, also mental to see on majority of other well a few forums of pure mentalness. Born and raised in newcastle i must be getting soft on all things unproven!

I'm a relative newbie here too, and a fellow Northener (that's why I think the McCann's live in a mansion)
There's a couple of members here who knew Madie was abducted several months before she went missing.
Conversely, there's a few who believe VRD dogs converse in passable English and can discern the blood type of a dead mosquito's last human bite recipient. I'm sort of right-leaning, but not National Socialist.

[Eleanor]

I'll be honest, Ross, I don't have Facebook. I wouldn't know where to start.
I do know that the internet is full of anonymous, self-proclaimed experts, who have appointed themselves pre-eminent in everything from the correct texture and consistency of a black pudding, right through to the nuances of ECHR verdicts, despite having no specific training in either.

Edit: And I'm a bit disappointed to find that you've taken my title of 'Youngest Member of the Forum' by some distance. You do know that our oldest active member is 81 years older than you?

Eighty Three actually.  But I think that Sadie might be a bit older than me.

[Brietta]

Browsing turned up a reminder of research which is particularly relevant to this thread.
It was carried out by the Department of Psychology at the University of Huddersfield looking at trolls and the McCann case.
Remarkably the situation regarding trolling continues past the fifteenth anniversary.  It continues still despite the advent of a prime suspect better known as "a patsy" by sceptics.

I think there is a specific thread on the forum discussing this phenomenon; how interesting should the university decide carry out research into the intervening years to find out what the continuing motivation might be.



Aggressive comments about McCann motivate psychological study
The language used is often rude and ignorant

Lusa
30 April 2017

British academics who studied the activity of 'trolls' on social media were surprised by the activity surrounding the Madeleine McCann disappearance case and called for rules to combat insults.

When they decided to study the behaviour of these people who write unfavourable messages or comments on public discussion sites with the aim of destabilizing, a team of researchers from the Department of Psychology at the University of Huddersfield looked at the McCann case.

"They were the group considered most appropriate to start our investigation because of their history, because they had been active for many years, and also because of the volume of activity in which they are involved, which was 150 tweets per hour," John Synnott, one of the study's authors, told Lusa.

Titled "Trolling online: The case of Madeleine McCann", the study wanted to analyze the behaviors and strategies of a group of alleged 'trolls' on the social network Twitter referred to as an**-McCann due to continued attacks on parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, against those who support them, identified as p**-McCann.

The scientific paper was published in the June issue of the journal Computers in Human Behaviour, dedicated to the study of computers from a psychological perspective.

Together with Andria Coulias and Maria Ioannou, John Synnott studied a sample of 400 McCann-related tweets obtained from 37 accounts and containing a total of 7,600 words.

The conclusion they have reached is that the language used, often rude and ignorant, helped build an identity and cohesion of these trolls, who are relatively organized, feeding websites and forums about the case.

"They comment on stories that arise related to the case or confront other users, for example pro-group McCann, who promote a narrative against theirs," he explained.

The deputy director of the Master's degree in Investigative Psychology at the University of Huddersfield believes that this study can help to understand the abusive behaviour of these people and contribute to their combat.

One of the suggested measures is the end of the use of pseudonyms instead of true identity, since anonymity encourages many people to act in this way.

Until that happens, the McCann will continue to be the subject of internet attacks, even 10 years after their daughter's disappearance, believes the academic, who predicted: "With the impending 10-year anniversary of Madeline's disappearance, the level of online activity is likely to increase."


https://www.dn.pt/sociedade/maddie10-anos-comentarios-agressivos-sobre-mccann-motivam-estudo-psicologico-6256293.html

[The General]

Browsing turned up a reminder of research which is particularly relevant to this thread.
It was carried out by the Department of Psychology at the University of Huddersfield looking at trolls and the McCann case.
Remarkably the situation regarding trolling continues past the fifteenth anniversary.  It continues still despite the advent of a prime suspect better known as "a patsy" by sceptics.

I think there is a specific thread on the forum discussing this phenomenon; how interesting should the university decide carry out research into the intervening years to find out what the continuing motivation might be.



Aggressive comments about McCann motivate psychological study
The language used is often rude and ignorant

Lusa
30 April 2017

British academics who studied the activity of 'trolls' on social media were surprised by the activity surrounding the Madeleine McCann disappearance case and called for rules to combat insults.

When they decided to study the behaviour of these people who write unfavourable messages or comments on public discussion sites with the aim of destabilizing, a team of researchers from the Department of Psychology at the University of Huddersfield looked at the McCann case.

"They were the group considered most appropriate to start our investigation because of their history, because they had been active for many years, and also because of the volume of activity in which they are involved, which was 150 tweets per hour," John Synnott, one of the study's authors, told Lusa.

Titled "Trolling online: The case of Madeleine McCann", the study wanted to analyze the behaviors and strategies of a group of alleged 'trolls' on the social network Twitter referred to as an**-McCann due to continued attacks on parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, against those who support them, identified as p**-McCann.

The scientific paper was published in the June issue of the journal Computers in Human Behaviour, dedicated to the study of computers from a psychological perspective.

Together with Andria Coulias and Maria Ioannou, John Synnott studied a sample of 400 McCann-related tweets obtained from 37 accounts and containing a total of 7,600 words.

The conclusion they have reached is that the language used, often rude and ignorant, helped build an identity and cohesion of these trolls, who are relatively organized, feeding websites and forums about the case.

"They comment on stories that arise related to the case or confront other users, for example pro-group McCann, who promote a narrative against theirs," he explained.

The deputy director of the Master's degree in Investigative Psychology at the University of Huddersfield believes that this study can help to understand the abusive behaviour of these people and contribute to their combat.

One of the suggested measures is the end of the use of pseudonyms instead of true identity, since anonymity encourages many people to act in this way.

Until that happens, the McCann will continue to be the subject of internet attacks, even 10 years after their daughter's disappearance, believes the academic, who predicted: "With the impending 10-year anniversary of Madeline's disappearance, the level of online activity is likely to increase."


https://www.dn.pt/sociedade/maddie10-anos-comentarios-agressivos-sobre-mccann-motivam-estudo-psicologico-6256293.html

I don't think there's any mystery here. Every other week for the last 15 years there's a different story / book / article / podcast / mini-series / accusation / suspect / documentary / youtube account.

If the university conducted a study on an old man uploading videos of model trains, I'd venture they'd find a general rule of thumb of 25% of comments would be negative and 5% would be 'offensive'.
Add the fact that the Mccanns polarise opinion about 50 / 50 to begin with, then it's no great surprise.