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Good Morning Thursday 23rd April 2026
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Hello
We wanted to clear a few things up:
1) We don't allow troll hunting on the forums. If you are worried someone may not be genuine, please email us directly or report any concerning posts to us. We will deal with it. Making accusations on the forums is not helpful and could, if incorrect, lead to possibly vulnerable people feeling victimised. We will have to delete threads that accuse other users of being trolls.
2) PMs. We take a very dim view of this being abused. If you receive an unwanted or unkind PM please report it to us. We can take a look and deal with it. You are also able to block other users so that they are no longer able to PM you. Please use this. And apologies in advance if this does happen to you. It's not nice and not what Gransnet is about at all.
3) Despite what it feels like tonight 
we do not enjoy deleting threads. We have a handful of guidelines, all there with the purpose of making the threads better, and more welcoming for users. We are doing our best and rely on you to report things to us that seem concerning, so thank you for caring so much about the site and reporting anything that looks suspicious.
Thank you
GNHQ
Hi all, 
We can see that this thread has taken many twists and turns (Sooty and Sweep and all! 
), but we're just popping back on with a friendly reminder to please keep things civil.
There are a few posts here which are, however subtly, are targeted towards other users, which really isn't in the spirit of the site, and we don't think it's doing any good to keep going over things that have been resolved behind the scenes.
As you all know, trollhunting is against guidelines as it can cause upset to a genuine user, and so we do please ask you to contact us rather than posting on the threads. Rest assured, we do look into every enquiry we receive, and sometimes it can take time while we investigate, but if we have reason to believe that a user isn't real, we will take action.
Thanks for reading - and have lovely weekends all! 
kittylester - if a user is genuine, it can cause a great deal of pain to be told they aren't real on a public forum, which is why we don't allow it. We agree that it's not fair for people to post fake realities though, and don't allow 'trolls' on site so if you do have any suspicions please do email us at [email protected] or report their posts so we can take a look. 
Excellent suggestion Callistemon
As a fellow sauvignon fan, I will definitely pass this onto the tech team. 
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