Ok Cari

Just a quick couple of questions.

If a person is a member of both GN & MN and she/he is unfortunately banned from eg GN,
he/she automatically banned from MN (or visa versa)?

Or would this just happen if the member was using same email account &/or user name on GN & MN?

Cherry no only banned on one the one site, jingle has never been banned on Mumsnet and is still member but posts very similar posts to GN which makes you wonder about HQ doesnt it!

If you don't like the thread then don't read it. You don't seem to realise, DaphneBroon, just how highly regarded Jingle is, and because of this some of us are not prepared to shrug our shoulders and accept an (in our opinion) unfair, high handed attitude by GNHQ

Flippin' 'eck that has to take the biscuit for patronising.
I have been aware of Jingl in her various guises for the 6 1/2 years that I have been a member of GN but I never realised she was some sort of royalty, "she who must be obeyed"!!
I can think of other members who are/were "highly regarded" by me at any rate and I can't imagine many people dissenting -
Grannyactivist, Soop, Elegran, the late and much missed Greatnan ( God alone knows what she would have made of this stramash) Thatbags, Mcem, Absent, MiceElf, Annodomini, Penstemmon, Galen, Rosesarered, Ana (although we have been known to disagree!!) JaneAinsworth, Kittylester, Tegan and a whole host of others too numerous to mention (at the risk of offending those I may not have named) who dispense wisdom, kindness and humour usually in equal measure. They rarely resort to expletives and I am not necessarily aware of their ever being deleted .
Let's not bring personalities or "highly regarded" into this, as a previous post said we are all "just another poster" that is to say EQUAL without favouritism or victimisation and can and should be able to expect the same consequences should we breach GN guidelines.

Excellent idea, trisher.

Also glass's post. That's what baffles me as well, glass. Why is something that is okay on Mumsnet not okay on Gransnet?

Unless that isn't it.

I guess we'll never really know but one can't help wondering just what on earth Jings said to those at HQ if that apparent different treatment is not the case.

So they can hardly complain when we speculate.

They would too in our position.

Dearie Me ! what a mess , of course we are all equal here ?Some have been posting since Adam was a lad , some fairly new , but we all have a chance to put our points across without belligerence , sometimes some overstep the mark , sometimes some bite the tongue and stop posting but it does seem daft to ban an adult woman because she over emphasises her point , by the way I have never read the Guidelines

DaphneBroon 6 1/2 years?
Sorry I have missed your reinvention so I am unsure of your original user name.

bags yes we are left to speculate!

I didn't see the offending post of jingle's that was apparently deleted. I believe it was in relation to a thread about Aleppo. According to some people's accounts, she expressed some forthright views and there is some disagreement as to whether her comments merited deletion.

Given her outrage about the very serious subject of Aleppo, it might be thought surprising that the very next day she started this thread and, with an air of amusement, reminded Gransnet of its warning to ban her, ending with the very provocative "Time to click".

Obviously those on here who are furious about this supposed ban see themselves as some sort of crusading freedom fighters. We don't know the nature of the communications that passed between jingle and Gransnet and it seems unfair that Gransnet is being judged for its actions when we have no idea of the exchanges that passed between Gransnet and jingle because Gransnet feels it would be wrong to break confidentiality by disclosing them.

I'm not 'furious'. And I'm not at all sure it was the Aleppo thread deletion that was the final straw. As I've said before, no one expects GNHQ to disclose what went on between them and jingl.

Perhaps some of us just wanted to voice our opinions.

DaphneB, how have you managed 6 1/2 years?

I joined GN. (I thought) when it started and DGS1was born, oh is that 5 1/2 years? Never could count backwards!!

2011

I don't see myself as a crusading freedom fighter but I do have a strong sense of fair play.

Certainly old enough to remember nanadogsbody, anagram, bagitha, mishap, wotsamashedupjingle, greatnan. Among others

That's nearly a username for each year.

This thread was started two hours after the Aleppo post.

merlot you and me too.

DaphneBroon just been informed of your initial username

We don't know everything that happened between GN and Jingle, or that it was anything to do with the Aleppo thread that caused her to disappear - though I still think that some of the responses to her original post on that thread were very unfair. GN won't and can't comment on this thread about individual cases.

What is true is that she was pretty fed-up before that with the posters who jumped on everything she said.

The thing is, we're not mumsnet and the people who created this forum obviously didn't want that. We're also not an internet girls school (which some posters never tire of comparing us to), or a forum for senile geriatrics. We are what we are, but I fear that the place has become so toxic I'm beginning to doubt if it will exist for much longer. I dread to think what any new member must think when they join. I really don't like this place much these days (and, before anyone points it out, yes, I don't have to log on). But gransnet has been very good to me at times when life hasn't been too good, and I do hope it can continue to do the same people that are having problems and need a bit of support.

I agree, Elegran, and to be honest I can't see her coming back if it's going to be on a 'last chance' basis.

Must be pretty depressing having a metaphorical Sword of Damocles hanging over you all the time...

Hear hear Tegan.

Elegran, you are trying to avoid the obvious. Read the Aleppo thread.

jingl was nice to a lot of us, but that does not mean that she should do what she repeatedly did.

She of course[gransnet allowing] could come back on, but she doesnt want to.

I think that jingl must actually be thinking, what the heck?
As she has told thatbags or whoever that she doesnt want to come back.

What has this to do with anything?? Seems entirely irrelevant to the thread. However, as you know merlot you have to take a new username if you leave and rejoin. The members I quote presumably did the same? They will recognise themslves.
And I have not had a "new username " for each year -so I fail to get your drift.
I joined GN as gracesmum which also led to some confusion withgracesgran - your point being? Or just establishing the bona fides of seniority "entitling only the great and the good to voice an opinion."??

Obieone the time this thread was started isn't relevant. jingl didn't disappear that very day!

You seem determined to put your own spin on events and it's not helpful at all.