Managers Musings - site trolls and internet safety

Hello, darlings.

this is your nosy manager back for another issue of Managers’ Musings, and I’m going to tell you about yet another attempt to draw our members off-site, where the staff can’t take action to protect our members.

a member (almost always a new member in the last few hours) contacts a member, often it’s new members, but sometimes it’s ones who are well established on the site.

the first thing this new member (who, hereinafter will be referred to as “a troll”) is to send a private message to our members, asking for off-site chat, phone, email address, zoom, insta, skype, google chat, etc… this should be a HUGE tipoff… I don’t know about you, but I come to this site to be on this site, and not to be immediately whisked off to someplace else.

if you send a member your offsite contact information, there is NOTHING the staff of this site can do to help you.

if someone contacts you for this reason and it doesn’t seem right, please contact a staff member, or even better, a manager or myself immediately!

now, obviously, you’ve chatted with someone for years, you want to meet for coffee, etc, you may wish to share some such information between you… ensure that you do that in either a private chat or private message. Those are the ONLY secure and private ways of sending messages on this site. again, if this goes bad (it has for even me… once…) there is nothing this site and the staff can do for you.

Please, darlings, be internet safe!

BillieJay

Managing Ambassador