to ask why several prominent members seem to have vanished?!?

Its very unsettling to think that someone would go to those lengths.
Its not even as if Phoenix is a right old cow!

Hell's teeth phoenix, it gets worse. I can see that some GNetters sometimes don't "hit it off", for various reasons but going to those lengths, to someone you don't actually know, is just plain barking mad. They must have put an awful lot of effort into creating their little mess and have ground their teeth ever since that their efforts were in vain. Success, as in your case, is the best sort of revenge!

Its a hell of an effort to go to, for someone you don't know from Adam, that's true.
None so queer as folk. The mind boggles!

Maybe!

I just find it somewhat sad that a grown woman would behave like that to someone she had never met, and who had posted on here about various awful jobs after being made redundant, then getting one that seemed to be working out well (BTW, 3 years in June, taking on more responsibility, now second in command what ever that means )

AND print it all off, and send it through the post at a cost of around £2.50 (can't remember exactly)! They must either have really hated me and wished me ill, (but again, why, as I've never met them?) or be somewhat deranged?

If it is the person that other members thought it might be, they even had the nerve to post sympathy messages on the thread about the whole thing.

Phoenix, what a truly awful thing to do!
Anyway, they didn't bring you down, you're still here.

That must annoy the spiteful sod all the more!

MissAdventure yes, a very horrible and spiteful thing, especially as I had some bad experiences job hunting after redundancy, plus mortgage to pay etc.

Why they did it? Just pure spite I suppose, although why they felt such venom against someone they had never met, I really don't know.

Who? Well, a couple of GN members PM'd me with a name, but hey ho, you can't prove it!

Anyway, bottom line is, I still have my job, am still here on GN (although not as much as in the past, and to quote Elton John "I'm still standing"!

That's a horrible thing to have happened phoenix, I'm stunned that anyone would do something like that. What a massive invasion of privacy and trust. I hope things weren't too difficult for you at your place of work and that whoever it was got their come uppance. Glad you stayed, anyway!

Did you find out who it was and why they did it, Phoenix?
What a horrible, spiteful thing to do!

*Username-changing

We don’t allow members to change their usernames because we want everyone to be able to trust the relationships they build up with others on Gransnet.*

A very good premise, but GNHQ very kindly went back through loads of my posts and changed my user name for me, after some "trusted member" saw fit to print off a post of mine and post it to my boss!

Anyway, it did cause a bit of confusion, in that my OP was in the new name, but responses referred to me in my "proper" name, so I thought, what the heck, I've been Phoenix since day one, and Phoenix I will remain!

Am I imagining they hinted they may set up a separate discussion group because they were irritated by the repeated circular discussions here.
Ah well, que sera
Many people avoided the political threads anyway so perhaps the views became less and less varied as more and more drifted away from them.

It was very distressing, wasn't it Iam64

See - I did it again. No it isn't a new form of tax lemon, it's confirmation that I shouldn't try and join in on Gransnet at the same time as watching the news. Which, by the way was so unsettling, in relation to Syria and possible responses to the chemical weapons attacks, I confess to having switched it off. I'll read the news in the morning, I find it's just too distressing before bed.

Is that a new form of tax Iam64

Baggs, I'm so pleased to have made you weep with laughter . Apologies for clumsy wording but I was watching something on tv at the same time, multi taxing in that way isn't a strength of mine.

I miss Ana and Anya too.

Perhaps they have all been beamed up to another planet ?

Sorry about Anya. I think we all enjoyed meeting her in Edinburgh last year. Oh dear. Hope she's OK.

But yes, I get that, iam. I had noticed that often the threads they posted on most seemed to turn into what I thought of as echo chambers. I guess that's what some people like.

Except I'm not really.

Sorry!

"irritated by the repeated circular discussions"

??????????????????

Why does it matter if someone leaves and comes back with a new name? Surely one trusts them just the same as any other unknown new poster: one reads their posts, chats, argues, blethers, gets to know them a bit, or not as the case may be....

What's the problem?

I'd noticed those three regular posters on the political threads aren't posting. Am I imagining they hinted they may set up a separate discussion group because they were irritated by the repeated circular discussions here.