Anyone know if *Iam64* is ok?

Alegrias1

People getting banned aren't suffering from a grudge. They've broken the rules of a public internet forum enough times, even when warned about it, that they can't be allowed to keep posting.

GN isn't a human right.

Not true, Alegrias

It has been known for someone could be banned for annoying another poster and not for breaking any known guidelines.

Others seem to do the same with impunity.

Oh sorry fanny I thought it was you. Its pretty difficult to get past the IP thing, it's not as if MN and GN havent seen lots of that kind of things. Also lots of posters have a fairly distinctive style.

It is to do with your IP address. However, some have managed to get around that.

Forget the three last words!

Apparently not Jane, it might be something to do with your IP address?
I didn't start the poster counting thread, but it was in relation to a thread that I did start.
Somewhere on the website GN claim that they have 300, 000 members which seemed a bit implausible and I queried it.
The poster counting thread got about 500 or 600 replies.
I can't remember who started it.
I think that

can't you just use a different email address?

Ann, You can't come back under a new name, unless you are extremely clever with IT.
They go by your physical address or something or other that I don't understand.

However, I don't think that it's beyond the realms of possibility that Ellan could get a reprieve.
Is anyone in touch with her?

Someone banned for life was given “a pardon” and is back posting regularly so it does happen.
As GN HQ seem to be MIA now it could be an idea to come back under a new name, it probably wouldn’t be noticed.
Is this called incitement?

I'm about 6 months new to Gransnet.
I can be opinionated but have enjoyed the banter, it was suggested to me by a friend who knew I was seeing no one but DH.
You give and you take, I have had to apologise to people and had some lovely private replies.
Go ahead say what you think and accept what is said back answer back if you feel like it.
We don't all agree with each other in the real world when we know each other it takes a long while to build a friendship where you can say what you like. I have one and some others that I would not be so open to.
Gransnet is anonymous so say what you really feel. It does help with frustrations and I think I am a bit more pleasant around the house.

Greeneyedgirl, you tend to meet people on the same threads and then get to know them gradually.
I have made some very good friends, both through meet ups and then eventually by PMs.

A few have my email address, (I trust them implicitly), just in case anything happens to me.

I think there was a thread to count posters at one stage dogsmother, but I cant remember the result, hundreds maybe? It might have been fanny who started that thread.

People getting banned aren't suffering from a grudge. They've broken the rules of a public internet forum enough times, even when warned about it, that they can't be allowed to keep posting.

GN isn't a human right.

I’m perplexed how posters apparently become so intimate with one another, unless they have local meets that is. I can hardly remember individual posters………apart from FannyCornforth who has been a real ray of light since she joined. Keep it up Fanny. I suppose having a very distinctive name helps too.

Calendargirl by appealing to the better nature of GNHQ hence few come back into the fold.

I do hope EV can return to GN. She needs to hear from us as much we would love to hear from her. We teach our children to try to understand the other person's point of view and to forgive others when they annoy or irritate us. Why would we hold a grudge for ever?

I wonder how many regular posters there actually are here on GN.
A daily dozen, a weekly 3 dozen and then perhaps monthly up to a hundred different opinions put forward on matters of the day?

How do you get to be ‘unbanned’?

Is it like a prison ‘life’ sentence, time reduced for good behaviour?

A lovely idea Bellanonna but some folk appear to have hearts of stone.

I wrote to GNHQ to see whether EV could be *unbanned”.

I really miss EV and her daily posts.

It's funny how invested we can become in another poster's life - I cannot help wondering how her cats are getting on particularly the old stray Tom who lived in a kennel in her garden.

I live in Tasmania and often find myself thinking about a woman on the other side of the earth!

Really hope she is alright and can post again soon,

It certainly was Galaxy

Her online behaviour was completely bizarre.

Chewbacca
Also, can you please stop posting things which might make others suspicious of me?
I'm finding it genuinely a bit upsetting now.
I'm very candid about myself on GN and I've certainly got nothing to hide.

Oh, and I did try to persuade Nell to avoid any potential dangerous situations, to no avail

Chewbacca NellG and I used to pm each other quite a bit.

Is that really so surprising?
Not everyone feels as negatively towards me as you seem to!

Nell told me that she was on a final warning and why.
It's not really that shocking as she was very combative on some threads, and towards one contributor in particular. She wasn't that bothered about being banned.
It would not surprise me if she came back under another name though.

Is that okay now?