Lengthy 'cut and paste' - acceptable or not?

That is a shame indeed. Not sure who you mean - however, I am pretty sure she did not leave because I asked GN for clarification on lengthy 'cut and paste' posts.

It would be helpful for GN to make a decision on copy/cut/paste. GN should make a clear decision about whether they are allowed, and put a maximum length.

Jura I earlier asked Lara why is cut & paste a problem but she didn't reply, so I'll ask you, as you started the thread and I'm genuinely perplexed, as to why a decision indeed a clear decision had to be made.

There's loads of rubbish on GN - what's so different about a bit of cut & paste? !! You didn't mention anything about the content so I assume it wasn't offensive/racist/personal in any way.

This is the poster Jura2

Great welcome to GN she has since said she is leaving.
Iamnotarobot Fri 17-Aug-18 16:57:25
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.

It's awful. What on earth has got into them at HQ?

They'd better not come back and pat us on the head with the offer of

Riverwalk, I asked because

a/ I felt it was detrimental to discussion and debate recently

b/ I did not feel it was up to me or any poster to decide, but for GN.

Simple enough. Now I do not know why GN sent that message to Iamnotarobot- at all. And you can't blame me for it either, at all.

MB, where did you see that post from Iamnotarobot?

It was on her thread about introductions

Tank you BlueBelle. BTW where is the introduction thread?

Thank you, sorry.

I think it was just unfortunate timing that the cut and paste thing came into force as iamnotarobot joined us.
The message from HQ sounded a bit harsh to a newcomer.
Correct me if it was something different.

That gnhq message sounds harsh to anyone, new or not.
I've not been on GN today so don't know what's happened.

I have sometimes copy & pasted a lot of text because of a paywall. Indeed, at least once, it's been because someone asked what the text was as the link gave them nothing.

My tablet doesn't do italics, so I use "quote marks" if necessary.
Mumsnet uses bold for quotes and usually doesn't bold usernames. I quite like that way of doing it.

"As a new poster it is worth introducing yourself in a more personal way"

I didn't introduce myself at all and I don't see why anyone should, unless they want to.

FarNorth you can use these ^^^ to italicise - just don't leave any ^ spaces ^!

testing

I'm astonished! It's actually worked.
Couldn't get it to do it before.

Thank you Jalima

trying

as said, my keyboard does not have square brackets

^ah, thanks, it works.^

But will just try and do as before and keep away. The accusations made here since I simply asked GN for clarification have been mind-boggling- and truly resembling a bile covered witch-hunt. How can I be responsible for just asking for clarification? It says an awful lot more about certain posters than about me, for sure. Sad indeed.

Just make sure not to leave a gap which I have done on more than one occasion

^ like this ^!

Goodness me, jura, I must have missed the accusations and the bile covered witch-hunt.

Surely GNHQ will delete such personal attacks, let's hope so.

Message deleted by Gransnet. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

Apologies to HQ if this is not acceptable but I think it needed to be said.

Bridgeit you weren’t the only one to have those thoughts, or mention it to HQ.

Ahh,thanks so much for posting, janeainsworth,