GNHQ here - please read

Not unless you actually identified that member Grandad1943 and no one on here is identified because we have user names so our personal details are not disclosed.

If you know that some people on the thread are people you've had issues with in the past ,scroll past .I avoid 3 people for that reason and probably a couple more who I'll avoid in future.

trisher, in regard to your post @17:05 today, the notification that a forum member has been banned or had their membership suspended is a personal notification between GNHQ and the forum member involved.

Therefore to release that data publicly without the consent of the member involved would be a breach of the Data Protection Act.

I am reading this thread and thinking it's just so strange and yes disbelief also.

Firstly - I agree with the original post (posted many lightyears pages ago!!) that people should try very hard to avoid personal attacks in their posts. Debate about facts or opinions is great, attacks at a personal level are not. Grownups like us should be able to tell the difference.

Second - I have come late to the thread so I didn't read the posts by Ggump, but they seem to have been virulent and repeated. Neither have I read whatever disagreement/spat the posters involved had previously been indulging in, and I don't want to know

Lastly, I thought that it has always been a point of etiquette on Gransnet NOT to carry a grudge onto a new thread. A new conversation should read as though it is newly minted, not a continuation of a previous set-to. If a poster is still smarting from one encounter, they should avoid replying to their opponent in another situation and drawing bystanders into the melee who are not even aware of old enmities. That isn't fair to the bystanders!

I've seen a few very lovely people leave which is such a shame really. Most of them had been through some horrific abuse in their lifetimes as well which made it even more tough to see them go. You have to have a thick skin in some areas of gransnet that's for sure.

I am reading this thread with increasing disbelief.

I can't see any indication that announcing someone is banned for a set period in any way discloses any collected or stored data or breeches the Data Protection Act. The suspension is adequate and relevant as there has been a breech of GN regulations and the action is more limited than a full suspension. So the only possible breech would be in the announcement which discloses no more information than that already known to posters ie. the miscreants chosen name.

This is all becoming tiresome now. For goodness sake we are all adults on here not wimpy kids.
Think whoever mentioned Stepford Wives was right, that's what we are being turned into.
apologies to any goats who may be reading this

seacliff Quote [ If they persist, remove them for a week or two, and announce it on the thread. Why can't you do that?] End Quote?

seacliff, I feel that releasing the information as you request would be a breach of the Data Protection Act.

It would in all probability infringe the section that states " collected and stored data is only to be used in a way that is adequate, relevant and limited to only what is necessary".

Perhaps GNHQ could consider seacliff's suggestion LaraGN.

GrannyGravy13

WhitewaveMk2 I have just gone back to when GGumpteenth had her first post deleted there were no contentious posts ahead of her deleted one.

I didn't see the deleted posts by GGUmpteenth but have just checked and no, there did not seem to be anything contentious going on or anything at all to warrant an attack on another poster.

Well no they ask that you report it to them so they can look at it. They dont want you troll hunting on a thread they want you to report.

So do they allow these nonsense posts to stand? Sounds ass about face to me!

Well yes but the problem is if I really was having an affair with my husbands brother and people were saying what a load of nonsense it might put off posters who are genuine. No one can actually know that I am not having an affair with him. I think that's why sites like GN dont allow troll hunting, but I may be wrong. Troll hunting is more of a problem on MN I think as they get lots of posts which are obviously nonsense.

I agree with your assessment of what happened AGAA4 - ‘There seemed to me to be an attack on what I thought was a fairly innocuous post by Lemongrove. I found it surprising on a post that was about not making personal attacks!

How it started wasn’t anything more sinister or petty than that, not sure I caught all the stuff that maybe followed on from it. Someone suggested something like comments should stand, with a highlighted ‘reprimand’ from GNHQ if necessary. This deleting of comments is unhelpful and leads to confusion and supposition. Deleting threads is also very unhelpful!

Just be pleasant and respectful to other posters, so what if they have differing views it doesn't mean they are a bad person and shouldn't be a reason to attack/hurl personal insults towards them.

Discuss the topics not the posters

That was to galaxy?

Isn’t that just opinion?

That’s fine Peardrop no worries? and I did think that may be the case.
Perhaps, in a strange kind of way though, this thread has highlighted the fact of the OP.... be a bit more pleasant to one another.

Troll hunting is when you imply a poster is a troll. Someone who is posting info just for a reaction. So if I posted that I was having a relationship with my husbands brother and was pregnant and could people advise, I would be a troll. If someone in response said that seems an unlikely story they would be troll hunting.

Peardrop50

Reinstate GGumpteenth please

add your name if you agree, thanks

I agree. Can't understand why this is such an issue.

This thread did deteriorate quite quickly. There seemed to me to be an attack on what I thought was a fairly innocuous post by Lemongrove.

I found it surprising on a post that was about not making personal attacks!

Please tell me what troll hunting means somebody as this is the reason given For one of the deleted posts.
So annoying the school fines thread being deleted as it is very topical and had interesting information from those in the know as well as arguments from both sides