Contact the powers that be.

Flipping heck *jings' - you might be right but leave well alone please.

jings, if you hadn't told us that post was directed at you, I suspect that very few of would have known. I didn't.

I've had whole threads ignored . Bloodied but unbowed.

Jess!

I'm pretty sure the whole original complaint is directed at me and I find it sneaky and cowardly. If I am wrong in thinking that, it just goes to show what this forum can do to you and what an unhealthy place it can be to be.

I will get back to my Sunday now and leave you all to it.

I've been ignored too. Doesn't bother me, i might have been writing drivel, but I've also been sniped at and insulted and rubbished and every time it has been one or two particular posters. I'm just wondering how many posts by Jingle have been deleted and how many times the insult has been repeated in slightly different ways.

I think it's very sad that discussions on here cannot be conducted with courtesy and respect. Robust disagreement is fine but insults and slurs and loaded language are not.

I'm amazed that so much fuss is being made about this.

I don't remember any Threads of Outrage about a poster who was with us for several months last year (lovely flowery name) and whose sometimes extreme and vitriolic posts made jingl's seem positively tame.

??? flowery name?? Obviously by me at anyrate easily forgotten!

If she was that vitriolic it is just as well she is forgotten, Soutra

Ana- I thought personal comments were frowned on?

Precisely, Granny Twice. If anybody does have the slightest idea who is being referred to that is a very nasty comment indeed.

I'm really - are we allowed to make unpleasant personal comments or not?

Oh, so it's OK for some to talk about 'comments by a certain poster', but not others? I was merely saying that we've had far worse in the past - I expect my post will be deleted anyway. GrannyTwice, have we met before...?

I have tried to resist posting, but I have to say that I have noticed, over my time here, that sometimes a poster seems to get away with being consistently rude and hurtful, while another doesn't, though I think that bags has given a reasoned answer to this, in that some people are clever at disguising their vitriol.

There is a cycle, which goes like this; quite soon someone will completely let fly, then disappear, then will begged to return, which they will eventually do, then it will all begin again.

As for taking sides - I am not surprised by this overt partisanship, but so disappointed that it should be so openly displayed.

Have had enough for a while, I think.

Ana - the point I was trying to make ( sorry if it wasn't clear) is that I thought we weren't supposed to make personal comments and then you made a post that sounded as if it were. I really do want to understand the rules and this thread has confused me. I've posted a few times on GN Ana so you will have seen my name before- recently I've been on the MC thread and the Inherit one

Rarely "vitriol" on my part I can assure you. Will, however, put my hands up to indulging in a little bit of piss-taking now and again. Feel free to return it.

"As for taking sides - I am not surprised by this overt partisanship, but so disappointed that it should be so openly displayed." (Quoting Ariadne)

Haven't a clue what that means.

Gransnet is a bit like Formula 1 racing. You want it to be safe, you don't want anyone to get hurt but a little bit of excitement doesn't go amiss. When there's an 'incident' everyone perks ups and gives an opinion on what happened and why. Sometimes an argument breaks but it's only a matter of time before the circle of life on Gransnet returns to normal.

Well what's that down/up there then. If asking someone if they are.....

Oh never mind!

No rhyme nor reason to it.

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My Kindle Fire is now going on a quick trip via the sodding window.

An open or closed window?

[sigh]