The Decline and Fall of GN?

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

(for Hawkeye)

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?

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

I wonder that.

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

Chewbacca

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

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

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.

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

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

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..

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!

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.

You did Chewbacca.

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

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

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!

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

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!

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!

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.

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'?

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.

I can. One, anyway.

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