Disappeared

^Whenever this subject comes up I am truly truly astonished at how the jingles fan club think her banning was one of the greatest miscarriages of justice of all times.

It's not that at all rigby, but about the fact that a question mark hangs over the reason for a permanent ban for a member who could be very acerbic at times but also very kind. Many posters are acerbic and just downright rude and personal but are allowed to continue to post.
So it is a question of what exactly are the criteria applied for a permanent ban to be imposed and whether anyone else could fall foul of that without realising.
I believe that another member was banned but the reasons for that were a lot more obvious.

Did people really chat to their friends to encourage them to come on to GN and people said 'I would have joined but for that Jinglbellsfrocks person'?

Who!!

I don't know anyone WNO wants to join GN as I never tell anyone I am on it or anything about it.
I prefer only anonymity as I may be talking about them.

Apparently a number of people were saying their friends wanted to join Gransnet, but they were afraid of jingl. So HQ had no option but to protect the site.

How extraordinary - a member is banned because non-members are afraid! Reminds me of Jings thread which was titled something like 'Would the silent majority speak the f*ck' up'.

It was alluding to how, as a results of a missive from GNHQ, we had to take their silent thoughts into account and how we mustn't upset them!

On the contrary, Ceesnan, several people came on to say that they were seriously considering leaving because they thought that jingle's ban was arbitrarily imposed.

Can we have a snowflake emoticon?

I would love to know if membership of GN swelled significantly after Jingl was booted off? If it didn't I would tend to think that as a salutary lesson it failed dramatically. Is anyone going to come onto this thread and say that the only reason they joined was because Jingl wasn't here to frighten them?

I posed for mine with a cup of tea but jingl insisted I do it again with a

Oh yes, I remember the photos. Is anyone else still having nightmares? Luckily the camera blew up when I attempted a selfie.

Thanks Notme
and

Its only an Internet forum for old women -its not real life.
Don't forget the old men too MargaretX!!

Notme thanks for update.

Are you talking about soops kitchen merlot, thank you are quite happy with our own company and leave the controversy, politics etc to other threads.
We can of course join them if we want.

I used to find her a bit annoying at times, but considering the sheer hatred that has been expressed on some of the politics threads since 2014, if not earlier, I would welcome some of her more acerbic comments now as light relief! I'd forgotten about Frank, NfkD, but yes, he could be fun too.

Me too...

Ditto!

(And I still miss Frank!)

Notme for you for keeping us informed and letting us know that she is okay.

Hmph!

Next time you are at a meeting of mixed ages and you will see you are one of the oldest. Saying you are 72 years young convinces nobody. When I was growing up I thought even 50 was old. and I don't think anything has changed.
Being called old is not an insult.

Yes she took some persuading but she did post an actual photo - she had white hair and did not look in the slightest bit scary! I still miss Jings - she was a breath of fresh air.

I love these conspiracy theories. Jing posted an actual (I think) photo of herself once, a few of us did. She looked a harmless enough lady.

Whether it is or not, the reporters will be frantically at it - thanks Riggers...

How come Notme knows so much - is it what I think?