Contact the powers that be.

I read it and I understood it. At least I think I did. Your conclusion was along the lines of "oh, what the heck!" wasn't it?

Wasn't it?

but did you understand it, it sounded very confusing after I posted it and re-read it!

I read it rose!

Well, re-reading my post I will not be surprised if no-one bothers to read it.

thatbags 17.31.17:

I was going to say much the same thing, wondering if people had read my posts as occasionally no-one seemed to be aware of what I said in their subsequent posts. I think also that sometimes I had not made myself very clear if someone responds in a way which makes me think they have misinterpreted what I said. Or perhaps they are just not interested, or my post wasn't very interesting! It doesn't worry me.

It is very interesting to see lots of different points of view.

However, it is online and in fact it is out there for all the world to see!

[sigh]

An open or closed window?

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

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

Oh never mind!

No rhyme nor reason to it.

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.

"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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Ana- I thought personal comments were frowned on?

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

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

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.

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.