Are Gransnetters just vicious online trolls?

So we retain our copyright?

madamecholet Thu 14-Jul-16 18:32:24
this post explains it Katek

Get well soon dj. ((gentle hug))

The owners of Gransnet/Mumsnet own the copyright.

I don't think dj will mind my posting that she's not too well at the moment, but she and her links will be back!

Perhaps we should be getting paid if our posts are being quoted in DM!! Who owns copyright to our words online? We could jointly sue DM for breach of copyright! I don't post on here to create copy for newspapers.

Our thoughts are us
Well, I've heard of 'you are what you eat' but not 'you are what you think'

Anyway, i just ate some blueberries but it doesn't mean I am a blueberry
goes away to think

I think I am tall, slim and beautiful.

Well, that was a daft post, obviously you are not.
I hope you're OK is what I meant

Thanks for the offer, Jalima. It takes too much energy at the moment to write the little I do write. I'm sure I'll remember how to do links eventually.
Are you OK djen?

Those "philosophers" would be deceiving people Bags.

I think a post and a poster are one and the same thing. You can't separate a person's thoughts from that person can you? Our thoughts are us.

Who has invented something?

Whaddya mean Elegran? Don't get that.

Jalima "GN are keeping their heads down" Keeping a dignified silence, more like, and avoiding a potential brawl.

I found that fatuous article highly amusing."Retired gentlefolk"? And I thought it was 2016 not 1916. As for the psychologist – well! What an absurd and meaningless generalisation about people from different parts of the country and abroad, different backgrounds and cultures, different educational history, different experiences, different lifestyles and, perhaps something he hadn't considered at all, different ages (decades apart in some cases).

Thanks for the offer, Jalima. It takes too much energy at the moment to write the little I do write. I'm sure I'll remember how to do links eventually.
Perhaps she needs more ideas from us. Perhaps she has run out of ideas and we should give her some more.

It is possible for a poster to completely invent a post, too, either to deceive or to amuse.

So, if you or anyone else 'attacks' my post, you are not attacking me. If you called me names, you would be attacking me. You can't call a post names that will hurt its feelings, though you could say it was rubbish if you thought it was. You wouldn't be saying the writer of the post was rubbish, only what they had written.

Post and poster are not one and the same.

Mumsy, if a post and a poster are one and the same, then when someone changes their mind about something have they changed in some fundamental way too? Or is the subject or idea they've changed their mind about a separate 'thing' from them that can be thought about or spoken about from different points of view?

Good philosophers try to look at more than one side of an issue and may present arguments in favour of opposing views, without saying which they prefer. They are not presenting themselves in their writings; they are presenting ideas.

I have tried to write this post politely. I could have written it rudely. I am not the post.

Have just read what the DM printed, and there is a comment from a psychologist about grandmas and their lives and getting older, blooming cheek.

Yes, she is probably enjoying all the publicity.

Just occurred to me that this article might be said to be unacceptable and follows the long tradition of abuse and condemnation of older women that has its origins and roots in a culture that condemned them as evil and as witches. That it is in fact us who are being bullied and reviled.

Yes, I'm surprised there hasn't been a post with a green background.

I think we should stop discussing this woman. It's not worth the effort and no doubt she's getting a good degree of satisfaction at being discussed - here, on her blog and on the DM comments.

GN are keeping their heads down