Are you having a New Year break, GNHQ?

cornishpatsy

I do not really see the need for moderators, surely if you don't like a post or person just scroll past.

Ignore advertising posts and treat scam posts the same way you would scam emails or phone calls.

Members with dual identities could be picked up by GN via their IP address if they felt it necessary so do not need it reported.

An IP address does not mean that a person or member can be identified. Just Google "VPN" if anyone does not know what that is.

The coming about of VPNs has made it very difficult for sites to identify members or even former members returning.

Perhaps perversely, I have enjoyed my afternoon. Thank you all for contributing.

PosterX, your secret is safe!

Blooming autocorrect!!!!

retiredwell, I think I have worked out who you were but would you explain why you changed your name. Genuine question.

kittylester

*retiredwell*, I think I have worked out who you were but would you explain why you changed your name. Genuine question.

There was no other alternative. Genuine answer.

I could write a book on the whole story. Again genuine answer.

I think after this afternoon on this thread a new chapter will have to be written. ?

Perhaps Retiredwell has now retired but was working in a previous incarnation, even perhaps running a business? iyswim

Is there a particular reason you name changed Retiredwell?

Callistemon

Perhaps Retiredwell has now retired but was working in a previous incarnation, even perhaps running a business? iyswim

Ah, you are purely guessing there Callistemon and you will never know if you are/were right.

Just to say I have done nothing which many others on this forum have not carried out previous to me

Still if I suddenly disappear from the forum just look out for my reincarnation. ?

There was no other alternative. Genuine answer. I could write a book on the whole story. Again genuine answer. I think after this afternoon on this thread a new chapter will have to be written.

Oh stop being coy retiredwell.
We’re really not bothered. ?

Oh FFS. The puerile games. No need to guess further.
?

janeainsworth

^There was no other alternative. Genuine answer. I could write a book on the whole story. Again genuine answer. I think after this afternoon on this thread a new chapter will have to be written.^

Oh stop being coy retiredwell.
We’re really not bothered. ?

OK, Nuff said.

Still, I hope others have found this thread diversionary and interesting in these times of very black news.

Certainly, I began by disagreeing with the OP but I am glad you started it MaryDoll even if it drifted off topic "to a degree". ?

Masked singer comes to mind
or
What’s my line remember Isobel Barnet didn’t she do some ‘shopping without money’ and Gilbert Harding Eamon andrews or and the other lady what was her name she used to do Eurovision ? ?

I am basking in your compliment, Retiredwell, if that what it is.

If I may make a suggestion, before you disappear, try amending your posting style, or is that too much to expect? It would help to stop you being unmasked in the future.

Grannygravy, at present I don't have a clique, not sure how to start one! ?
What I do have are some special GN friends, there is a huge difference.

BlueBelle

Masked singer comes to mind
or
What’s my line remember Isobel Barnet didn’t she do some ‘shopping without money’ and Gilbert Harding Eamon andrews or and the other lady what was her name she used to do Eurovision ? ?

Katie Boyle

How inadequate can one person be.

I was jesting Marydoll ??

Marydoll

I am basking in your compliment, Retiredwell, if that what it is.

If I may make a suggestion, before you disappear, try amending your posting style, or is that too much to expect? It would help to stop you being unmasked in the future.

Grannygravy, at present I don't have a clique, not sure how to start one! ?
What I do have are some special GN friends, there is a huge difference.

Many thanks Marydoll, I will take all your advice on board. My remarks were made as a genuine compliment. This thread (your thread) is proof to all that disagreement can be had on this forum without it descending into verbal abuse which, to your credit, I know you never carry out.

Grannygravy, as was I. ?
Retiredwell .

Popping in from time to time to see what's going on is one thing, but reported posts (especially when members have reported their own posts with the aim of having them deleted) is another and should be dealt with ASAP!

This thread has descended into farce.

Desdemona

This thread has descended into farce.

Ooh get you Kenneth Tynan!

Thanks Lucca isn’t it annoying when names disappear out your brain well not just names words as well and the more you try the further it goes i somehow got Ruby Wax stuck in my head and couldn’t move her although I knew it was nothing to do with her grr brain fog

When I started this yesterday, some posters thought I was making a fuss about nothing. Eventually the reported posts were removed after twenty four hours, which was unacceptable.

Last night we had the vilest post I have ever seen on GN, which left a poster distraught and many of us thoroughly shocked. It was reported by numerous posters, but was still there for ages, with the perpetrator continuing to mock.
It took an email for action to be taken.

Overnight we have had three spam posts from a lady offering her services.

I think this reinforces the points I was making.i.e
1. Safeguarding: a poster living alone, having to deal with the consequences on her emotional and mental wellbeing of such a vile statement.
2. Knowing there is probably no-one monitoring, people take will advantage to get away with things.

I understand that a company may have staffing issues, due to staff illness and cost, but whatever the cost, despite it being a bank holiday, a forum like GN needs a moderator on duty, even if only checking in now and again from MN.

The only excuse would be technical issues, where there are problems with the system. However, it would be simple enough to post a message saying so.

I suppose technically, this is a thread about a thread (s) so I'm expecting it to be deleted.....eventually. I just wanted to say my piece.

Agreed Marydoll. If we had no moderation then all the posts spreading fake news from Covid deniers could do a lot of harm. I also do not want a forum filled with advertising, be it for products or “services”
I am glad I didn’t see the unpleasant posts you mention.

I am in two minds as whether that whole Covid related thread should be taken down Marydoll despite myself and others posting that there is no supporting evidence to the OP there are a lot of scared Grans still posting on it.

If a twenty four hour, three hundred and sixty five day a year fully moderated forum without advertising is the wish then that I believe would have to be financed by membership subscription.

That would be fair enough for me and doubtless many others, but it could well mean the exclusion on a cost basis of many who need the company of this forum the most?????