What is with all these word game threads ?

Farnorth, thank you for that mobile site tip! I'd failed to find the arrow, too.

Go down to the very bottom of a GN page and you should see either 'desktop site' or 'mobile site', which means you can change to that version.
If you click on 'mobile site', or are on it already, you should see the 'v' at the top right of the thread.
This works for me on my hudl and laptop anyway, but don't know about iPad.

I just noticed that Mumsnet has an option on each thread to 'hide this thread' - another useful feature that MN gets but GN can manage without, apparently.

I’m on an iPad and I can’t see an inverted v anywhere.

I like the games threads, they help me unwind in the evenings. I don't get involved in the politics and news threads and find that when I do post anywhere, I'm generally ignored. Nonetheless I continue because I feel quite welcome and at home on Gn.

I tried counting how many of us post on the games threads, but lost count at 70, so a fair number who enjoy them.
It's a simple pleasure, which isn't doing anyone harm. They are not nasty or aggressive and a bit of light relief.
I enjoy the friendly banter.

If you don't like the thread/ game or whatever then don't read it.
It's not clogging up anything.

As previous posters have said I do think many are now reluctant to post anything that may end up in Facebook and the like. I was caught with this ( my own fault, I should have realised it could happen) Its nice to have Contact with others and in games are that Contact I don't have a problem.

If you don't want to start at the beginning of a long conversation and work through all the way to the most recent, you can flip or customise the thread to display the last page first, or to show them as you want.

Thank you FarNorth for your advice. I have removed all the games from my list and active GransNet is much better!

I also do not like them so I also do not open them. My personal feeling is that 2-3 maybe okay but they appear to have taken over now.

Shouldn't all your comments be in alphabetical order???

Flora please scroll back to Farnorth's advice. I did. It really does work.

I find them just a nuisance could they not be on a different thread ? I never look at them and they take up so much space.

The local sites were stopped recently Grammaretto so there's not much on there. They decided to just incorporate everything here .

That is what I meant, they are a relatively new development on Gransnet. I was interested to know how others feel about them, they obviously have a following as they are so popular and go on forever!

I don't participate in the Games threads, and I know some people really enjoy them, but there are just so many, now, and seem to be increasing daily.(I always start by clicking on Active).I can't remember there being any Games when GN first started.

Shows how thick I am, I never even noticed there was a dedicated Games section, lol! And I`ve never clicked on Active either, I just go to the things that might interest me.

Don’t go to the games threads if you don’t want to be part of them! ?
I pop in now and again and find them quite enjoyable. Threads I don’t like, I don’t go to. Simples!

A lot of them just want posts in alphabetical order, on a title that's in the topic. But when people get the order wrong, or posts cross, it looks confusing.
Most that I've seen do say in the first post what's going on.

All the games threads I have seen seem to assume you know how they are played. They might be fun, but who can tell without instructions :-)

I took farnorth 's advice and it works beautifully. As each new game appears I hide it.
Game-free zone!

Thanks for bringing this up. It is reassuring to know I'm not the only one who feels like this. I like doing crosswords in real life and I play scrabble online but I have never opened a game thread. I have never played Bingo either. Do people still do that?

I am new to gransnet but I'm already beginning to think it isn't for me.
There are some fascinating and absorbing threads but it takes hours to read through as there are hundreds of replies. I have sure learned things though but don't feel I have interacted yet. It's a bit like walking into a very crowded room.

Glad to hear bikergran, that it was a support for you.

Are the local threads private? Do you have to join? I glanced at my local thread hoping it might be smaller but it looks too scanty with, in the past month, one deleted advertisement and a question on local information which I would think very easy to google or visit the library but maybe it was someone reaching out!

I think games are one of those things that once you get into them they become addictive..I don't bother opening them so ive no idea if conversations go on in there or just the game play.

I think GN has changed so much now over the yrs lots of posters have dissapeared, I for one am now very guarded as to what I put on her, its a shame as now people who really wanted to pour their heart out and seek advice and help are now restrained in a way.

I am one of those that gnetters helped me when I was bereaved..they were all so supporting.

I still pop in and post odd things and still like my little fix of GN

It’s not a problem, but there were about 15 of them in the active list and if you aren’t interested in them that’s quite a high %. If there were 15 different threads about knitting in the active list you might find it tedious scrolling through them, it easy to hide them so your active list has more of the chats and discussions or whatever it is you are interested in. If you are happy with them that’s fine.

Well, I dont like knitting or politics or come to that quite a few other subjects, so I don't bother to look at those threads! I find 'Games' relaxing and some of them keep the old grey matter active. Bearing in mind there's a plethora of threads to choose from what's the problem.?