Hello Everyone
Bloody hell. What a mess.
I didn't read the thread after I'd posted at around 5pm.
I'm so sorry that it's ended up with everyone falling out.
BlueBelle I'm very sorry that you have got so upset. It seems to have stemmed from my 'the drift' comment.
I'll explain why I said it.
You admitted that you hadn't read the troll posts.
Therefore I don't think that you do realise how vile and offensive they were; because even by troll standards they were exceptionally gross.
One would have had to have read them to understand that.
I still believe my comment to be true ie. you didn't realise the full level of grimness on multiple threads.
However, I do wish that I hadn't made the comment now, after seeing what happened on this thread following the comment.
Sodapop I hope that that has answered your question too.
I also want to clarify that this thread came about last week because I wanted to alert the readers that trolls had infiltrated the site.
It's all well and good saying 'just report', if we knew that that was a functional way to get shut of trolls. But unfortunately most of us know that it can take some time, hours if not actual days, over three days in the case of the Thai thread.
If you think that it's a thread about a thread, it's not intended to be. It's intended to be a thread about the site.
And even if it is a taat, I don't really care.
If you read most of my later comments, I hope that it is apparent that I am criticising the people who run / moderate / monitor / whatever Gransnet.
I still firmly stand by my argument that the site is left unmonitored for prolonged periods of time, hence the troll posts remaining in full sight for over four hours.