GNHQ here - please read

This is going well isn't it!

So now we know to avoid the quote function (which I only just discovered, anyway) if we are quoting something controversial.
Thanks, lemongrove.
I don't like it anyway, as it quotes the whole post not just the bit you want to draw attention to.

It is interesting to compare the two types of moderation going on between the forums.

I think that there is no doubt that it is different.

I wonder what the different type of training is? Why the decision was made to be different. Are the moderators only employed on one forum or do they swap?

Of course they have to comply with the law, but that would be true if both sites.

Perhaps some grans are a bit flaky and complain a lot more than others, and to shut them up GNHQ take the easy option?

I’ve reported a few posts but only where I think they are breaking the law- largely race law.

We are fortunate to have free speech in the UK but it comes with great responsibility to not abuse it.

I used to be a frequent poster, but now only pop in occasionally, some threads are too easily taken over and then I stop reading.

GN Nanny is much stricter than MN Nanny, indeed.

trisher I agree with you but I dislike people being rude/unkind to a poster who is looking for help or advice, as sometimes happens.

Honestly? I've had 2 posts deleted recently ,one for something that was MY opinion and not aimed at anyone in particular .As far as I was concerned it wasn't "vitriol" as someone posted it was fact,with regard tothe OP I had posted on and the other was because I used a word that had been said to me BY a racist 40 years ago.
Maybe I inhabit a different world from the rest of you but if I found as many things offensive as some I'd just walk away from GN ,I've been called some awful things by the same few folk only once did I complain and it wasn't dealt with at all and you call young folk "snowflakes"!!

It seems prevalent in all social media for some people to think that it is ok to be rude to the point of being totally offensive to complete strangers. I always wonder if they were two people meeting in the street, would they do the same ?

I'm sure that Mumsnet is far worse.

Is this age discrimination?

It is ironic that this thread has resulted in one poster being denied a voice though however controversial. If she posts again, perhaps arbitration would be the grownup/ mature thing to do?

I do recall that at the height of the Brexit debate late last year there was a forum member who called for the start of a "Civil War" throughout Britain in a post. That statement was not deleted?

I thought that non-action brought GN to a very low point that will in all probability never be beaten?

lemon could you not reply to sort the situation out?

It will hopefully stop all the automatic pilot zapping then, which seem a tad peculiar.

GCHQ can’t act as arbiters but zapping is sometimes a heavy handed tool I think.

Kate54

Pedants’ corner can get a bit heated!

Sorry to hear that Lemongrove

Whitewave the deleted posts were all aimed at me.Every single one.

That must be it, WWMk"

twowolves I think GNHQ have been on a course?

P.S. I have not read any of the deleted posts on this thread as I only caught up with it about 15 minutes ago

I haven't been reading all the posts recently, but I'm puzzled as to why this has come up now when IMO the posts this time last year (Brexit) were far more tense and vitriolic.

I read the one that has just gone WWMk2 I'm still struggling to remember what was so offensive. I wish I'd taken more notice of it now!

ladymuck it's not just newcomers, the rationale behind the deletion of posts on GN is a deep dark secret. We did once have a debate about why it is acceptable to call people communists but call someone a fascist and the post gets deleted!

Blimey if I was ggteenth I would begin to feel got at!

Are the posts on automatic delete or are they really so terrible?

Sometimes I think that GNHQ also needs a bit of introspection and better judgement.

Well, the way this thread is going now for the second day could make it an early entry for many into the Argy Bargy bar as many forum members seek liquid solace from the thread. ?

So, get pouring Lemongrove it looks as if you are going to be Busy. ??

I had better shut up or I will finish up getting myself banned here. ??