Hi everyone, we've posted about this before but for those who haven't yet seen it.
Firstly, thanks for drawing our attention to this. To be absolutely clear, this thread was highlighted by the DM with no discussion with us at HQ.
As many of you have rightly pointed out, this is a bit of grey area in terms of legality and DM would probably claim Fair Use.
The truth is that Gransnet is an open site. Anyone can access it for advice at any time of the day or night. For the most part this is a good thing and allows everyone to have immediate access to a wide variety of viewpoints and collective wisdom.
But yes, this is a public forum, and may come up in Google searches. If anyone is concerned we are more than happy to change your username for sensitive posts. Email us at contactus@ and we'll do that for you. We can change it back again afterwards if that's what you would like.
And to clarify re FB, there is simply a link on FB to the thread on Gransnet. The thread doesn't get moved onto FB or Twitter or any other platform. The thread, and any replies, remain where you started it.