The message from GN was
You can not copy and paste large chunks of text from one website to another. We will delete any of your posts that do.Weve suspended your account until we hear from you that you understand.
As a new poster it is worth introducing yourself in a more personal way
So that’s what I’ve done
I am horrified at this high handed and frankly discriminatory pronouncement from GNHQ!
You don’t suspend a new member’s account because the goalposts havebjust been moved!
I think Jura2 has a lot to answer for in her disingenuous enquiry/complaint to GNHQ regarding cutting and pasting as it has opened a whole can of very unpleasant worms. There are posters who under whatever circumstances like to cut and paste whole extracts from elsewhere- many of us have done so. You can’t always post a link, sometimes they don’t work, some may be extracts from long documents, and sometimes paywalls make it impossible.
So the “rules” have changed have they?
On whose say-so?
Nobody else has been ordered to “introduce themselves” in fact since profiles are no longer offered we may know next to nothing about members going back years.
Frankly I am gobsmacked and in your shoes Iamnotarobot I might have been tempted to suggest an alternative two word course of action.
I do wonder if the choice of username, which is presumably tongue in cheek has just been taken too literally and if you had called yourself Fluffykittenlover you might have been spared the least welcoming welcome ever. Some people really need to get a life and that includes dictating how posts should be composed. If you don’t like it, don’t read it. Picky or what?
This is not the Gransnet I signed up to however many years ago.
Oh Jingl where are you when we need you?
I never knew cutting and pasting was against the rules until today!!
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