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The Decline and Fall of GN?

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trisher Wed 28-Aug-19 10:07:42

There used to be on GN some very funny if sometimes a bit ascerbic posters. Most of them seem to have gone. In fact it seems that any controversial and slightly contentious post or thread is wiped by GNHQ. The future seems to be pleasant nice postings (which are fine if you need support) or playing games. It seems that GN like the rest of society only accepts boring old farts. If you comment please don't mention other threads or this will be deleted (That ruling suppresses any complaining doesn't it!!!)

trisher Wed 28-Aug-19 19:20:28

If there is such a disparity between what is acceptable on Mumsnet and what is on GN Is this age discrimination?

Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 19:18:01

wink (for Hawkeye)

notanan2 Wed 28-Aug-19 19:17:59

Im not sure there always is someone on duty!

Posts where childrens details have been identifiable in the past have had a lot of posters report before there was any gn response?

Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 19:17:22

I think Lara's a bit of a stickler. Cari's more likely to be a pushover.

Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 19:16:10

I wonder that.

Squiffy Wed 28-Aug-19 19:14:09

Does it depend upon who's on duty, do you think?

Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 19:12:43

Chewbacca grin

We could give it a try. (Pre-arranged of course) ?

notanan2 Wed 28-Aug-19 19:12:28

I dont think its so much a disparity between sites as a lack of consistancy, rhyme & reason on this one....

Chewbacca Wed 28-Aug-19 19:09:53

Well I can't think of any other reason for the disparity in what is acceptable on one site, but not the other petra. But that would be an odd thing, for a forum that's specifically aimed for older people, to be guilty of, wouldn't it? As I said upthread, I suspect that it's hoped that we only discuss how to knit shreddies and play nicely with each other.

GillT57 Wed 28-Aug-19 19:09:46

Me too maw. I am getting tired of being reported by pearl clutchers who faint then complain about my admittedly sometimes robust posts.

petra Wed 28-Aug-19 19:00:55

Chewbacca
So it's an age thing, isn't it?

notanan2 Wed 28-Aug-19 18:47:10

Reaching for the off button is fine if you dont like a thread.

Exactly!

There are threads I wouldnt go near with a bargepole.. I just dont comment on them and then they drop down the board. If you dont want to see it dont comment on it and if wont come up on "threads Im on" no need to make it not exist

I disagreed with the OP in question and said so: no big deal! I didnt melt like the wicked witch just because someone said something I disagreed with!

How do these people navigate every day life?

There was a Black Mirror episode about what would happen if you could block people in real life actually..

Chewbacca Wed 28-Aug-19 18:42:14

Just out of curiosity, I've had a look at what's going down on Mumsnet. The very first thread I opened had posters saying that the OP was: a snowflake; a prick; goady; an arsehole & humourless and petty.

Can you imagine that on GN? Ever? I'm not sure who would collapse in a heap with the vapours first!

Sara65 Wed 28-Aug-19 18:39:34

I didn’t read the thread in question, but from what I’m picking up, it does seem a bit of an over reaction, I find some posts funny, and some very clever and witty, obviously some heartbreakingly sad, I’ve come across a lot of people I think I would like in the real world, but quite a lot I would run a mile from. I guess it’s just about being selective. When I don’t like what I’m reading I have a break from it.

Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 18:34:28

You did Chewbacca. grin

eazybee Wed 28-Aug-19 18:28:58

It is just as Tariq Ali said, many years ago:
" I believe in freedom of speech, but there has to be a limit."

Callistemon Wed 28-Aug-19 18:24:19

annsixty I hope my comment on your thread was taken in the spirit in which it was intended!

Chewbacca Wed 28-Aug-19 18:23:09

Reaching for the off button is fine if you dont like a thread. It's when people reach for the report button so quickly that I get pissed off. Reporting a post that is clearly and obviously racist/ageist/sexist is fine, but the thread that was recently zapped wasn't any of those things. But I knew, as soon as I saw it, that it wouldn't go down well at HQ. think I actually asked at the time if OP had a hard hat with her. I must be psychic!

trisher Wed 28-Aug-19 18:20:45

*rosecarmel I could but it's not permitted- Threads about threads you know! grin
Just like Catch 22!!!!

notanan2 Wed 28-Aug-19 18:20:38

If anything my kids would love it and take the Mick if I told em that a GNer thought I was an inferior parent and I should be more french! grin

notanan2 Wed 28-Aug-19 18:18:54

Gransnet surely has to investigate any postings they're alerted to, so the fault lies IMO with the people doing the reporting.

Yet they are quicker off the mark with this sort of nonsense than they are with more seriously concerning reported threads!

Who was that thread harming? Seriously, NOBODY was going to be harmed by it! I didnt agree. My children are of the nationality said to be less behaved, but they wont by crying themselves to sleep because a GNer said that european parents do a better job than us FGS!

Sara65 Wed 28-Aug-19 18:16:48

I don’t approve of censorship, and I think we’ve gone too far down the road of political correctness.

But I do find some members are rude, lecturing, full of their own self importance, and apparently an expert on everything, they are the ones that make me reach for the off button.

Callistemon Wed 28-Aug-19 18:14:19

If it's racist to insinuate that some children are better behaved than others because of nationality (and it was not) why does GNHQ not delete whole threads where some posters accuse others of being 'little Englanders'? confused

I don't remember a statement of fact, merely an invitation to discuss a topic which most posters took in the spirit in which it was intended.

Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 18:04:18

I can. One, anyway. smile

rosecarmel Wed 28-Aug-19 17:43:00

Trisher, can you provide a few examples of what subjects aren't permitted?