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Don't want to completely hi-jack the 'Christmas in four words' thread so I've started this one. Feel free to shoot me down. I don't do flouncing. 
Some time ago, the 'What does Gransnet mean to you?'thread developed into a 'Bring back jingl' campaign. Despite this, it has become clear that we are not entitled to an explanation as to why she is still shackled to the naughty step
We inhabit a goldfish bowl which must be respectable to the outside world looking in on an ageing cyber community. Old people are only expected to be curmudgeonly in books and TV nonsense. Manufactured threads about growing old disgracefully are perfectly acceptable so long as they fit the approved template which has been set by people who are NOT as old as we are.
All well and good until a situation causes a ding-dong. We must be ever mindful that Gransnet is a business relying on advertising revenue. Swearing is tolerated on Mumsnet because it's acceptable in the young and feisty whereas the 'one foot in the grave' club have to leave all that behind and remember our opinions don't really count any more.
The political threads are argumentative because that's politics. You can't put a straight jacket on a well informed if opiniated point of view which is as it should be. Folk who hide behind the sofa when all hell breaks loose should know better than to get caught in the cross-fire.
So....We're allowed to moan about Brexit, complain about our aches and pains and chat about telly dramas/adverts/music. We willingly offer support to complete strangers even though it often comes back to bite us. I'm not the only one who can spot a set-up. Above all, we must remain bland!
There were two members who railed against this. One is sadly no longer with us and the other has been kicked into touch for being too outspoken. Unsurprisingly, they rarely saw eye to eye but that's LIFE!
I'm off to put the joint in the oven. I might even start a thread about it. 
Only joking!
Candlefran
Thank you for pointing out my typo CF - I love the irony of you protesting that I was denying you free speech, as it were, when that's exactly what you were doing to trisher 
None are 'favoured' on this site and I see no reason why CF should be banned Jalima 
Surely correcting other pisters' spelling is not allowed I'd it?!
That was with a btw
Would there be an Announcement every Monday morning? 'The posters under warning this week are xxx and yyyy. Please be as kind and supportive as you can to them during this difficult time'?
I was getting squiffy-eyed trying to read the first one Candlefran
So if someone is under 'warning' would it be possible to share this with other members of GN ?(with that member's permission of course). This might result in a support network who will try to help the poster and encourage them not to enter into discussions where they are being baited. thinking about this one and I'm not sure.
Do you think it could start a trend of GN becoming more a series of threads about members' disputes and personality clashes instead of disputes and clashes on threads about more objective topics?
Perhaps you could enlighten us as to what form of mentoring/ counselling/ support JBF might have responded to?
janea None whatsoever, she would have done her own thing anyway!
References to cake seem to have dried up too, ana . I suspect zero sense of humour in some quarters.
Cari, please tel that it wasn't people on here who were complaining about the alcohol post/s...
Jingl knew exactly what she was doing - she baited HQ and dared them to ban her, which they did. I don't think anyone, least of all jingl herself can grumble at that! I am sure she is loving being one of the subjects of this thread!
I find gransnet interesting and at times helpful - I have learned a huge amount about a wide variety of things - we have posters who initiate debate on areas of their interests and thus expand mine, for which I am grateful. We have science links from one poster, political ones from another and it opens my eyes to new ideas. I am all for that.
If someone wants to use the site for some sort of provocation and attention-seeking, then everyone else has the option to ignore this, unless it sabotages a useful and interesting thread just for the hell of it, in which case it is a bit of a pain. Better to just leave the thread for a while and wait for it all to die down.
Cyber-bullying is a well known phenomenon and it is for that reason that I think there should be good manners in the debates, as I do not want to go down that route. Polite does not mean bland. We have got so used to the abysmal quality of politicians' debating style - I think we do better than that.
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