Invited to contribute by GN then stopped in one's tracks?

As far as I'm aware, once a thread has been started, the op has no control over it at all.

Can you explain a bit more?

Yes kitty - the interesting thread about parents wanting to go on holiday without their child and assuming the GP would look after her. The OP asked for contributions to cease.
I can't seem to find it at all now.

IN some circumstances GNHQ will terminate a thread at the request of the OP, but it is rare.

Yes its disappeared. Most odd.

What G&T said. It is very rare!

I'm disappointed that I was encouraged to contribute to a topic, invested time in it only for it to be wiped away by the very team who asked me to offer my ideas. There was nothing at all unkind in what anyone said, infact it was all sound discussion.

How very very bizarre- just gone- never seen that before either?

Perhaps the OP asked HQ to delete it because it revealed too much about the family?

I don't take these emails as personal invitations! They're just advertising for the site.

Lillie, how did you invest time in the thread if it wasn't there?

I asked for a thread I'd started to be removed once. It wasn't because there was anything contentious among the posts, but I'd posted in haste, without paying attention to the content, it just poured out of me in a fit of pique. Only later did I realise that there was so much to identify me - and others - which could have caused untold problems within my family.

What is your hourly rate for investing your time in a thread, Lillie? Sounds as if we humble Gransnetters can't afford you!

Wasn't it suggested to OP on that thread that she should ask for a post to be deleted as it named her grandson?? Maybe she just asked for whole thread to be deleted.

I think one of the GNetters on the thread did advise the Op to ask to have thread removed as they had revealed a bit about themselves that might be recognizable

X post with katek

Thank you katek/Cherrytree for your explanations of how deleted posts may occur in sensitive situations. I understand.
Ha ha, grumppa, I doubt whether you could afford me - but luckily I have a healthy six figure salary "because I'm worth it!"

"last weekI broke up from school"

"But luckily I have healthy six figure salary"

An overpaid head of a college perhaps

Katek Cherrytree That was me I suggested that the OP may like to request that the GS's name be removed because it was an unusual name, so easily identifiable. I never expected the whole thread to go!!

Independent sector!

The name was removed but the rest of the thread was still there, because the fact that the name had gone was mentioned. The thread must have vanished later, unless it is just that it has slipped off the lists somehow.

Well welcome to gransnet. I find it very interesting to read various views. The referendum threads were lively!

Minimouse your advice was correct.
Much better that an OP and family are protected from any fall out.

Lille welcome.
why not start a thread that interests you

unless it is just that it has slipped off the lists somehow.
No it didn't do that. I just woke up my iMac (was using my laptop) and I was signed into GN, open on the very thread we're talking about here. It was all there to see (including Lillie's carefully crafted post ). When I refreshed the page it disappeared leaving a message at the top saying 'thread deleted'