Is this behaviour appropriate.

Tuliptree

I’ve only just found out that the react button on MN is only seen by the person whose post is being reacted to.

Yes, which is a shame really.
If you hit it you can see who has responded.
The laughing emoji was removed as apparently
it was being used negatively, also a shame imo.

I have only just realised that anything I post doesn’t
show up pink to everyone else -

sigh

Length of service does not confer seniority on here. Questioning people about how long they have been members, apart from being rather rude, suggests that newcomers’ posts carry less weight than those of old hands, which is not the case. It is bound to be offputting

Hear, hear

Tuliptree

Posting on unrelated threads was discussed as a tactic on the disappearing members thread and then implemented by some of Allira’s supporters from that thread. I fail to see how this will help their cause - in fact, maybe the opposite.

"Allira's supporters" is a mite misleading I think.
Most of us have read many of Allira's threads, they were not in a clique as far I was ever able to note. If you read through the posts from all the gransnetters on the other thread, it's a who's who of regular posters - of many shades of political outlook.

The disappearing members thread is a gransnet campaign thread, as most of the things we pontificate about on here we are powerless to change, but it feels like we should have some power to change this. The "cause" such as it is is to get Allira some clarification about the process behind her banning and anything they could do to be allowed to return.

I can't see that a side reference to the disappearing members situation when posting, mainly on topic, on another thread is going to break any of the overt guidelines. It's annoying, but as long as the thread isn't "taken over" its just same old, same old threads meandering isn't it?

Thanks for the reply Annie. If you stick to the original thread things will settle down and be fine.
I honestly believe going on other threads and disrupting the flow does Allira no favours.

Took me a while too Grandmaofone, about the pink.
It does make it easier to rejoin a post where you left off.

Now there's the other thing that happens.
While I was typing, slowly, my comment about Granmaofone's point, other posts popped up, which I didn't see, until later, but to someone else looking at the Thread, it could appear that I was ignoring them.
Perhaps, on a busy, robust Thread, that is how some great posts are missed

Yes, I missed Annie’s post for the same reason.

LauraNorderr

Although not guilty of mentioning Allira on the posts about the Henry Nowak tragedy, I am guilty of wondering about her opinion on light hearted threads.
I am not part of any clique, I do not know Allira personally but I do see injustice when a thoroughly decent poster can be targeted by at least one rude and aggressive poster and then banned. This is why I have agreed with others to spill out the matter on to lighter threads so that others are aware of this unfairness.
Posters who are now telling the rest of us, some doing so in quite a rude manner, what and where we should post are guilty of policing the threads, one of the charges unfairly made against Allira.
I do not consider it childish to protest against injustice by whatever means are open to us.

Same here 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

NotSpaghetti

Grandmaofone not only are the recipes old - the photos are often NOT of the thing being cooked...

It drives me bonkers - but when I wrote to them (@gransnet) about it they didn't seem to care - so we still get a mushroom pie with no mushrooms, a cheesy pea something with no peas and a blackberry something with no blackberries in the photo (say).

As we are deemed short sighted and not meant to notice ha ha

she says, going to have another proper look

Doodledog

Yes, I missed Annie’s post for the same reason.

Me too

Valdali 👍🏻

Grandmaofone

Tuliptree

I’ve only just found out that the react button on MN is only seen by the person whose post is being reacted to.

Yes, which is a shame really.
If you hit it you can see who has responded.
The laughing emoji was removed as apparently
it was being used negatively, also a shame imo.

I have only just realised that anything I post doesn’t
show up pink to everyone else -

sigh

It took me a while to realise about the pink part too[think mine is green?]

Glad the laughing emoji was removed.

I dont have a react button. At least I dont think I do
I am on a very old computer.

Tuliptree

Delila

“Tuliptree are you a fairly new poster or a returned poster? Just wondering?”

What is the relevance of that question Oreo?

Indeed.That’s why I ignored it.

The relevance is that a new or new ish poster wouldn’t know that Allira was well thought of and many of us on here think her ban was very unfair indeed.

petra

Flippin2

I'm relatively new too,I don't post a lot but I do read things that interest me,there is a definite clique on the site ,reminds me of the mums at the school gates,if you don't fit you're not in and yes I noticed the comments on the Henry Nowak thread and agree they're not necessary and should remain on the appropriate page

What you call a clique happens on all SM sites that have been operating for many years.
Myself and many of this clique have “known” each other for the best part of 15 years.
We know each other not just through GN but through meet ups in real life. Just this last Saturday I was out with a member.

I don't need to know who Flippin2 met on Saturday, to hear and understand her.

As a newbie, her stated POV has exactly the same value to this thread as anybody else's.

LauraNorderr, I don't consider it childish to protest either, but it's the way it's being done that is unreasonable. It's a bit like Just Stop Oil or whoever gluing themselves to motorways - their cause is just, and they have a right to protest, but not to stop other people going about their business unimpeded.

Maremia

Took me a while too Grandmaofone, about the pink.
It does make it easier to rejoin a post where you left off.

yes!
I have also learned to ‘bookmark’ on what I guessed
would be a long thread
I’m so modern ha ha

Do you know how to remove a bookmark, anyone. I have set them accidentally before, and on long threads it's annoying to always be sent back to the bookmarked post.

But Oreo whether A was well thought of or not and whether or not I knew that was completely and utterly irrelevant to the subject of this thread.

But not irrelevant to my asking if you were new.
Now…is it not time to move on?

Oreo

But not irrelevant to my asking if you were new.
Now…is it not time to move on?

Absolutely irrelevant.

And I’ll decide when to move on thank you

Maremia

Now there's the other thing that happens.
While I was typing, slowly, my comment about Granmaofone's point, other posts popped up, which I didn't see, until later, but to someone else looking at the Thread, it could appear that I was ignoring them.
Perhaps, on a busy, robust Thread, that is how some great posts are missed

Yes there’s often as many as five other posts, sometimes making our own comment redundant.😁

For posters who feel upset that their comments aren’t liked or disliked, come to that, it doesn’t mean they’re ignored.They are being read by everyone just the same.😃

I often find I’ve cross posted with others so there might be five other posts between my response to a comment so I’m redundant. 🌞

Doodledog I'm invariably in agreement with you but not, sadly,on this matter. I'm left feeling that we are being kettled in to the one thread about our missing friend. All the easier for GN mods to forget my dear.