Is it really impossible to leave Gransnet offcially?

^Oops GGmk3???
Post in haste, repent at leisure? ???^

Really? This is the level of your intellect? Nice person - not.

Nice person - yes ??

But it was funny though (and quite a good bon mot )
GSOH bypass?

If you delete your account, I read the rules to say that everything is deleted. Since this thread was originated by Jura2, the fact that it is still here would suggest to me that the Jura2 has not deleted her account.

Sometimes, we can all get a little too involved in certain threads and posting can become addictive. If it happens, it is sensible to just walk away for a few days or weeks and clear your head. I have heard people say the same about Facebook and Twitter, particularly when insults are thrown around. To quote Gamble-aware, when the fun stops, stop!

No MawB. I may not share yours but don't assume yours is the only one. I try not to be reduced to the squalor of laughing at others expense.

I was more concerned about Jura.

You may have missed it but I did point out that your posts are not deleted as the publisher Gransnet, owns them.

Deleting your Gransnet Account
You can delete your account by going to My Gransnet. Your Gransnet posts won’t be deleted, but there will no longer be any personal information associated with them.

Above to Cunco.

squalor of laughing at others expense
Really?

Il ne faut pas exagérer, quand même

I think sleazy underworld is rather overstating the case. As has already been said, why can't people just ignore threads which they don't like and move on to something which they find more to their taste. Simples.

GracesGranMK3 Thanks for correcting me. ? I thought everything was scrubbed.

I think the rest of my post stands. When the fun stops, stop - or at least pause for a while.

Not correcting Cunco and I'm sorry if it came over that way. Just sharing knowledge.

GracesGranMK3 You came over perfectly reasonably; and I needed correcting. When I looked up the rules last night, I failed to scroll down the page and so missed the crucial bit. We live and learn, not least to scroll down the page!

Yours was good information and I am grateful to you for pointing it out.

I took Jura’s post to be slightly tongue in cheek as in she can’t cope anymore with the tone of some threads but is addicted to looking at them. I don’t think it’s a flounce. I also think the “if you don’t like what we’re saying get off the thread” attitude is wrong we should be able to stand up for what we believe surely?

I agree Lucca - well said.

Yes we should stand up for what we believe but some have to
critcise posters because they stand up for what they believe.

So do tell me how you would disagree with people who are tearing others to shreds for the fun of it, using lies and fictions, Annie?

It's a cultural thing I suppose but it is certainly not an opinion as in "I like green dresses/don't like green dresses"; it sets out to destroy someone's reputation. It is basically bullies stealing the truth.

I cannot admire someone who does that and feel tainted by being associated with it as a GN member.

How do you disagree with someone who enjoys destroying others? It is about the person not the comment in the end.

Cunco no, your online persona and all your posts live on for ever until the end of days.

Frightening, isn't it!!

It was me that said I don't like green dresses . Sincere apologies if I offended anyone.

jura always cops for it here. She is not one of the clique and sometimes ( sorry) can be a bit foot in mouth maybe??
As for standing up for what you believe, yes admirable. I believe in fair play, I believe GN could be an interesting place but the thread on Meghan truly was " something else" Poised over the keyboard ready to pounce any time, absolutely vile .

Which clique would that be Greymar?

Gransnet is no different from the "real world" in having people in it who are there for the sole purpose of disagreeing with others and attacking for the sake of it, careless of whether they use facts or fiction to do so.

Do you also feel tainted by being in the real world, GracesGranMK3 ? There is no way of leaving that , except by entering a closed religious order, or by dying. You just have to get on with real life, perhaps calling on Reinhold Nburg's prayer as backup " God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference. "

If you cancel your GN membership, you leave behind the backbiting of a minority of members, but you also leave behind the support and sistership of the majority. That is your choice. If you are tempted to return, it is because in absence you appreciate what you took for granted. previously.

I think cliques are in the eye of the beholder

Greymar you posted on the Megan thread, critcised posters
who criticised Megan, critcism is critcism regardless of whom
is being criticised

But Gransnet is an interesting place, Greymar, there is no "could be".

Like real life, which has bits that are unfair, cruel, and tragic - but you would never say that, "The world could be an interesting place.

I know no one, in the real world, who would go on trying it destroy the reputation of someone hour after hour like that Elegran and I feel sorry for you if you do. Most of us, in the real world, having seen a 'friend' finds it offensive draw back a little on the rhetoric or change the subject, we don't hammer on hour after hour getting to a greater and greater extreme.

This is nothing like the real world, sadly. I think I had always hoped it would be. Far more use is made of it as an echo chamber for the many who just need approval from others whatever level of degradation their own behaviour has to reach to achieve that.

Annie, that is one hell of comment. Think I will go and lie down .