Forum etiquette.

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jing, can I call you im for short?

Greenmoss, you could be overthinking this one.

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Well, I hope it stays onwards and upwards . I've not looked at this particular thread since Saturday evening - however, I've read down through it all today, and realised that the 'troll phrase' - not song, came from me. I went back through all the threads and found my own comment in the midst of other comments and replies which were made about issues to do with bullying, not making new posters welcome, etc.
My comment was made on 2nd April on the thread 'Badly-behaved Children'.
I apologise if I have caused anyone to feel upset through any ensuing arguments to do with my particular comment. However, I feel that the argument/discussion itself didn't only have to do with my comment.

Accepted. Thank you. Onwards and upwards.

I seem to have made the classic error of taking a comment the wrong way - you just seemed to be slightly defensive. Apologies if I have taken a remark out of context.

Not a sore point at all - just stating a fact. Why should it be a sore point?

Oh dear! Obviously a sore point! Perhaps I should have pmd GN

I send pm's to anyone I want about anything I want - I don't think we have to justify them - they are there to be used.

Josie, thank you too.

glammanana I fully understand why you should do that, and appreciate you taking the time to respond to my comment. I just don't understand why people feel the need to pm about a query as to what has been said previously in a thread.

nannym just a quick note pm's I have pm'd people with information re personal medical stuff which is a bit to private to put on line if they are having similar problems and also I pm glass alot re school PTA and fundraising ideas which we share.

And I'm sure they do!!!!

Of course one can always just send a pm without mentioning it on the open forum!

nannym - I think you are finding something sinister where it doesn't exist. It could be that they just don't want to bore everyone by repeating on a thread what somebody has missed.

petallus - you do realise it's for St George's Day, don't you?

He's cuddly, not threatening.

bags! It wasn't a tearful sniff! It was a put-out one.

Geraldine very helpfully made clear GN's netiquette policy, but made no mention of the pm. It just seems to me that if someone tells another person that they will pm them in reply to a query as to what has gone on, as opposed to just answering normally, then they are (possibly inadvertently) indicating that what they will say is less than complimentary. Could be wrong and am quite happy to be corrected.

I wonder what the new emoticon signifies. Maybe that at the time of writing we are breathing fire?

Always associated dragons with Wales...

That was a masterly intervention Geraldine. Thanks!

I DID ask some time ago after the shamrock appeared if the rest of us could have a leek, a rose and a thistle - silence came the stern reply! Perhaps they could be permanent so we could use them to indicate our origins

There are tissues in that box over there -->