Can I just warn any lurkers out there...........

Just hand me the gun, JO5.

Shoot me if I'm back on here for the rest of the afternoon.

The post I started last night said something like:

"What is the point, when someone who you think is not genuine, posts. And then someone answers said poster (giving them the benfit of the doubt, just in case), in putting comments like, 'trip-trap' and other troll indicating comments? (can't remember exact wording) But that's the gist of it.

And I would like to know what these super powers are that Gransnet possesses, that the rest of us certainly couldn't get our poor little heads round.

Maybe a poster resorts to using two names in desperation. If you get put down quite nastily, and then banned, under one name, it might be tempting to use another name just to try again to get a bit of sympathy and understanding.

(No! I haven't done it myself! )

jO5 Don't forget that GNHQ has access to more information about apparent new posters than any of us have. It has been mentioned before that they have ways (unknown to us) of finding out if someone is attempting to use two screen names and it seems likely that they have ways of knowing if a new poster is, in fact, someone who has posted before under a different name and been banned from the site.

I know it's nice to believe the best of everybody, but sometimes it is completely unrealistic.

Yay! A first class example of bad grammar - mine. Though on reflection, it made me chuckle.

I am not going to be kind to people who upset, possibly authentic, new posters.

Gransnet is getting ridiculous with the delete button.

Would have worn my ear muffs absent. Didn't relise how cold it is out there!

Well, I too have just come back from shopping, and I must say some of the posts here have left me

Her comment :
"Don't like other people being jibed at for no reason" really takes the biscuit, let alone the cake that someone suggested she needs!

She started a thread late last night, (that many of you will have missed, as it appears to have been deleted ) that was very far from being "funny" and especially removed from any definition I have known as being "kind at heart" .

Are your ears okay jO5? I hate that feeling of overheating and throbbing as the blood unfreezes. Maybe a woolly hat next time?

Ah, that's two instances of someone commenting on grammar merlot as the one I was referring to involved another poster.

Thanks for the cake Faye!

I thought it was mr S drainage too

Blimey! All this while I was out Xmas shopping.

Went on my bike. Hands freezing as did not take gloves. Ears glowing now th0ugh.

River's high!

When someone very rudely commented on something I'd written as not being gramatically correct, it was jingle who pointed out that it was GNet etiquette not to criticise another poster's grammar. Personally, I couldn't give a shit damn but it was nice of her to do so.

soop hope they sort out Mr soop's pipes - all of them!!!

Isn't it wonderful how so many different characters appear on here during the average day and, despite everyone's different foibles, we all look forward to seeing what each one has posted and to see where things lead

And, my mother would never have thought any thing good about me let alone written it, so I really envy those of you who had such mothers.

I think I have seen only one instance of a poster commenting on the grammar of another since I joined Gransnet and it was quietly pointed out to her that this is in breach of forum etiquette. My tendency to type in chords has provoked more than one poster to mock me for some very strange spellings – but I think we all know how easy it is to miss a typo until after the damn thing has been posted. Besides, I see it it is quite acceptable to joke about spelling mistakes made by someone who regularly – even frequently – posts in Pedants' Corner. It would be quite a different matter in the case of a poster who was a little unfamiliar with typing and/or expressing their thoughts.

I thought you meany mr soop's drainage . london; no one is going to judge you .

sel i've just googled prig and agree. most are very welcoming .but a do some times hold back in posting just incase am been judged x

Nowt to do with this post, but what the heck...mr soop has appointment for surgery to fix his hernia. The drainage needs attention. Mentioned in passing to our friend, without further ado, three strapping chaps have turned up and are dealing with the problem for the price of a wee dram. That's kindness for you. It's heartwarming stuff...

SEL like it .

..some of us are lying in the gutter etc etc....

And if all else fails, one can always lower one's standards

crimson my spelling & grammar are good enough for me, standards are another matter though

Sel; there aren't standards of spelling and grammar; if there were I wouldn't be here .