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Damn! My "swingeing" comment about swingeing (sic) has consequently disappeared into the aether.

I was wondering who had gone too far. Very mysterious!

Missed it again I miss all the fun

Keep up at the back!

Funny folk at HQ.

I saw the thread and to me it was not offensive, however must confess not to reading the OPs initial post re the article, there was a bit of nudity, nothing untoward in my opinion.

I didn't see any nudity!

Mention of, not depiction.

Nudism, that's all.

We've had far worse threads which haven't been deleted.

Gosh. Was that all? Very disappointing.

It could have been a new post from an opportunist who fancied his/her chances on Gransnet

Sorry everyone it was me.

I don't report posts because I think a poster has been nasty or upset someone. I think it's better for those sort of posts to remain, so that everyone can judge for themselves whether a poster has been nasty or not, and so the membership can hold someone to account, if they think nastiness has occurred.

But Gransnet is free to use.

It is not free to run.

So if I think someone has tried to evade paying for something they should have paid for, or if they are trying to sneak an advert in that they should have paid for, or if, occasionally, a message contains a link that might contain a virus, then I report the post.

In the thread that you are referring to, the poster claimed he was doing research. He should have put it in the media/research forum and paid £30.

Personally I thought he was bullsh*tting and was hoping to elicit a few saucy replies. IMHO that's also a good reason to delete a thread.

He never said he was doing research. Just mentioned some research done by some woman in America. It just felt like a trigger topic.

I thought he did say he was doing research for some reason or another. He just quoted from some woman's article or blog - Elegran investigated!

Caretaker had posted twice before, one about barbeques and then a thread entitled 'What attracted you to your parter?'. Obviously our responses weren't as detailed as he'd have liked!

Jane 10 In his second post, the OP said this:
'My posting is a research project posted in the hope that aduilts on this site will give their honest views on the subject of what is called "swinging"' (sic)

Call me cynical, but the 'research project' did not have the ring of truth about it.

I didn't take his posts seriously at all. As I said I just thought he was wanting to trigger a potentially salacious thread. That's what got me thinking about a recently departed poster.

Hmmmphh trust me to miss a cheeky thread. Typical .

Does this mean that we can now be fairly certain that those at GNHQ are definitely NOT swingers?

It wasn't cheeky, gillybob, just treated as a serious subject. But I'm quite glad it's gone because the subject was upsetting for me, I'd rather forget.
Thanks for explaining, JA.

He did say he or she was doing research.

I queried it as in I asked whether that was allowed on gransnet without paying a fee.
I cant remember who it was who replied, it could have been Elegran but not sure, and she said that no, the fee didnt need to be paid [or something like that]. I cant remember the reason she gave. Something about the research wasnt proper research, just asking a bunch of grans and granpas without doing a proper study. Sorry to be vague, I cant quite remember exactly.

A couple of us queried whether it was really "research" or just someone raising the subject to talk about it. Anyone can SAY that they are doing research, and ask personal questions. A serious researcher wouldn't be asking vague questions on a chat site, anyway.