The changing face of Gransnet?

There is only one word to describe how I feel about GN just now, disappointed.

Posters who have supported others and contributed so much have been hounded off or are living with threat of suspension hanging over them. It's definitely not the GN I joined.

Living under threats is not the way to go, nor is treating us like naughty children.

After all, none of us are exactly like Trump, are we.
(Or is he on GN? )

Never been suspended or banned. Don’t do political threads and usually just poodle along getting drunk in the Argy, eating cake in Soop’s kitchen and recently hooking up (no not literally Lemon) with a lovely bunch of gangsters in the lockdown gang. I was so upset that a certain long term and much loved member was banned by GNHQ that I wrote to them twice asking them to reconsider.
On both occasions in their reply to me the same phrase about not being in keeping with ‘the spirit of gransnet’ was used.
I’ve been on GN many years now and I find that over the last 6 months or more there has been a lot more slapped wrists and suspensions and deleted posts and threads than I have ever seen in the previous years.
Is it worth asking GNHQ if they have new members who are bring their own version of the rules to bear.
Why aren’t these new rules printed so we can see them.
Deleted threads and posts aren’t consistent.
I know some while ago there was a poster who got several posters into trouble but seemed to be allowed to say whatever she liked without being chastised in any way.
It seems that to many of us the current system doesn’t seem right or fair. Will GNHQ take note?
Charley you are one of the nicest people on GN. I can’t understand how you got into trouble. Please don’t get banned.

Doodle
Never been suspended or banned
After this thread we may find we've all been sent to the Gulag Archipelago in the morning.

I've read the book .....

Lucca I made a comment similar to your one asking Charleygirl what she had been up to, about our missing friend and it was deleted! Let’s be careful out there.

Marydoll

*Bluebelle*, all spontaneity has gone. I remember when posters used to have quickfire banter, however I now read and re-read before posting.

The Queen of quick-fire banter was banished a long time ago.

Oh what fun we used to have .....

It seems that to many of us the current system doesn’t seem right or fair. Will GNHQ take note?

Doodle, I doubt it very much. I too, like you, have tried in the past. To no avail.

I tried to support a member too and in a previous tussle with the troublemaker who disappeared a while ago. Got nowhere.

Callistemon at least I will be in good company

If we've been banished in the morning, shall we all meet under the clock on platform Nine and three-quarters at King's Cross - post-Covid?

Do you think the platform will be able to accommodate so many? ?

It's magical!

In the meantime, I'm off to pack my ear muffs and snowboots.

The "spirit of Gransnet" makes me think its becoming a club where everyone has the same ethos, lifestyle, ideals etc. Not the diversity of opinion and people I envisaged when I joined.

I suspect this thread will be deleted when gnhq spot it but can I make a plea that, before they do, they read all the comments and consider what we are saying.

X posted sodapop. I agree with you.

I have a very dry sense of humour but like Marydoll I re-read everything I write and on the whole, I prefer to stay in the kitchen- I get into less trouble there.

As I said yesterday this will be gone by midday, hopefully not me with it!

If MN is the same as GN then posts are drawn to the attention of GN, they dont sit watching the thread. So if there are more deletions then it is likely due to the members reporting more.

I got it let’s have a bet as to what time this thread gets pulled
I m going for 11 05 am Next ??

Kitty, I believe you are on a hiding to nothing there. It will certainly be deleted, but unfortuntately it's HQ's way or no way, so sadly, I don't think anything we say will make any difference.

My wretched phone won't do the laughing emoji BlueBelle!

I don't think that it will be deleted.

Charleygirl5

I have a very dry sense of humour but like Marydoll I re-read everything I write and on the whole, I prefer to stay in the kitchen- I get into less trouble there.

As I said yesterday this will be gone by midday, hopefully not me with it!

Me too. Having been roundly told off by a couple of posters for my opinion, I avoid some posts because of several posters; others I don't go to becaus I know it will be spiteful and unpleasant. Yep, kitchen is the place for me!

Come on folks I want to see who wins the guess the time comp
Major prizes 10 mins on the norty chair is first prize got to get you interested

FannyCornforth

I don't think that it will be deleted.

Sorry, forgot to add 'today, at any rate'.