I am on Gransnet avoiding....

The others are all lovely kind protectors of the whole human race.

We never did get a finger-down-throat emoticon, did we?!

Goodness still here - what's up HQ?

Guess I was just a newcomer and not very welcome!

Well.............you do need to be able to stand a bit of heat.

Especially from that bluebell!

Oh you're welcome Gigi, please stay around and ignore those who seem to have forgotten the conventions of civilised discourse.

The problem is unique to that particular poster.

She means J08 not me (I hope). Some types of comments might be more expected on posts which engender strong feelings but I felt, and still feel, that the sick bucket comment was not merited on this particular thread

Giginanna, welcome to Gransnet. Please stick around

Quite right Bluebell. Quite disgraceful.

It wasn't. Bluebell

JO8 are you still in fighting mood after the Steve Jones thread? He's gone now, you can relax.

Welcome Giginanna. J08; I'm apalled and disgusted by your comments to a new poster. What right do you have to speak to someone like that who has just joined?

Try telling HQ - they didn't want to know but quickly deleted two of my posts criticising JO8's comments.

The forum guidelines require those who post to be as courteous here as they would be face to face. It seems to me that courtesy was sadly lacking and the guidelines have been transgressed by Jo numbers.

Two Have I missed another one?!

Yes JO8 you did and I can't tell you how sorry I am ( that you missed them both)

Don't worry. I can imagine.

Why didn't HQ delete the comment then MicElf I wonder?

JO8 - do you EVER apologise?

Why should she when she alone seems to have a special dispensation from HQ to be rude to people?

Don't insult me! I have loads of posts deleted!

Sometimes, when there is a very naughty girl in lessons, the teachers allow more leeway to her than to others from whom they expect more.

The analogy may not be completely accurate, but it fits the dynamic.

MiceElf, you said:

"The forum guidelines require those who post to be as courteous here as they would be face to face. It seems to me that courtesy was sadly lacking and the guidelines have been transgressed by Jo numbers"

Why did GNHQ then see fit to delete two of bluebell's posts? And not J08's? Surely it would seem that bluebell's posts transgressed the guidelines?

My view is that the 'sick bucket' comment was lacking in courtesy. And that's at its lowest level.

Tell me, do you think that comment was courteous?

Why did they delete the posts which Bluebell made? I have no idea. I don't moderate this forum. But HQ are not infallible.