The influence of Gransnet Daily

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There's some unkindness on this thread.

FannyCornforth

Please stop posting links
This is ridiculously solipsistic

I did not know that word so I looked it up.

www.lexico.com/definition/solipsistic

Oh!

I did not go looking for links. I was looking at threads that I am on and I noticed them. You questioned my integrity. I have defended myself. I was criticised for posting links to YouTube by someone who had previously thanked me for posting links to YouTube.

I do not know why you think I am exasperating people. I started a thread, people including me have posted.

Can you explain please exactly what you think has exasperated people please rather expecting me to work out what is supposedly wrong? It would help me as I do not want to annoy anyone.

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I’ve bumped The Machine Stops thread. I’m hiding this thread now, as it’s doing my head in!

Please stop posting links
This is ridiculously solipsistic

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Ok, fair dos.
To be honest, I haven’t even read the book yet, as I intended to do.
Perhaps you or Silverbridge, or indeed anyone else, would like to just comment on the thread.
Just so you know, I haven’t been involved in a book club/ group before.
Just feel free to chat away

I am pleased for you to lead. I think you wanted to do so.

I am simply pointing out that when you thought I had lost interest that that is not correct and I that I am simply waiting for the discussion to start on the day chosen by the person leading the discussion.

You asked me / told me to lead it!

toscalily

Silverbridge I think EP secretly enjoys winding GNetters up with long tedious posts with threads about threads and an endless stream of links on "whatever"and then pretends to get all huffy because as you so rightly say, we get exasperated.

You misjudge me.

The ridiculousness of the comments about me posting links to YouTube made by Silverbridge become apparent if one notices that in

www.gransnet.com/forums/books_book_club/1300959-Audio-Book-Group-The-Machine-Stops

Silverbridge thanks me for providing three links to YouTube.

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‘Where are ya!!!’

I liked it when she drank all that red wine and shouted at the Norwich fans

I get the daily email from GN and I do click on the links if it looks like something that may interest me. Some of you appear to think that makes me inferior. I don’t give a flying fig . #RebelGran

Silverbridge I think EP secretly enjoys winding GNetters up with long tedious posts with threads about threads and an endless stream of links on "whatever"and then pretends to get all huffy because as you so rightly say, we get exasperated.

I thought that you’d lost interest in the thread about The Machine Stops EP
I doubt very much that Silverbridge reported your French threads

MerylStreep

ElderlyPerson
I’ll put this gently.
Delia Smith started her career in the early 70s.
A good many of us on this site would have been young married women, running a home and cooking
We would have seen and heard Delia on the tv/ radio.
Do you seriously think that the women on this site have missed her spectacular rise in fame and not known how she has influenced us
I’ll stop there as I can feel the other MerylStreep coming out.

So I mentioned the Delia effect.

If you already knew of it then it was a good analogy to link from something new being discussed to something well-known as a good way to produce understanding.

Silverbridge

I am not picking on you, EP but I think you can see from the responses here that people are becoming exasperated. I'm respectfully asking that you rein it in a bit.

You have a history of this, taking a germ of an idea and going completely overboard with it. You did it a few weeks back with the French threads. You could have just started one thread with a simple title where people could have chatted in the language but you started another and another and another until it became a confusing mess and everyone walked away.

There is a line between posting a link to some useful and germane information and beating a drum for your own agenda.

You draw the comparion between others mentioning a TV show and what you do. They mention one show and people discuss it. You flood the boards with links to your preferred listening. Here's another link to ... Here's another link to ... Here's another link to ... As I said before, it's tantamount to spamming and using GN to promote another platform.

You questioned my integrity. I defended myself.

Was it you who reported the French threads and spoilt it all? The result that the two threads for Italian and the two threads for Slovenian never got started, so nobody got to enjoy them and learn.

The thread all in French and the thread where a discussion in English took place was very effective. There was a pair of threads for a specialist activity. A fifth thread was added after a request. I think it was great. But it was grumble and thud and it got spoilt and the two threads per language style had to be abandoned, so the alternative would be one all over the place thread rather than an elegantly structured ambience, so on the basis that one cannot run in treacle I gave up. Because of grumble and thud.

You seemed pleased with my ideas about the audio book group.

I suppose that that will be crashed out now due to grumble and thud.

ElderlyPerson
I’ll put this gently.
Delia Smith started her career in the early 70s.
A good many of us on this site would have been young married women, running a home and cooking
We would have seen and heard Delia on the tv/ radio.
Do you seriously think that the women on this site have missed her spectacular rise in fame and not known how she has influenced us
I’ll stop there as I can feel the other MerylStreep coming out.

I am not picking on you, EP but I think you can see from the responses here that people are becoming exasperated. I'm respectfully asking that you rein it in a bit.

You have a history of this, taking a germ of an idea and going completely overboard with it. You did it a few weeks back with the French threads. You could have just started one thread with a simple title where people could have chatted in the language but you started another and another and another until it became a confusing mess and everyone walked away.

There is a line between posting a link to some useful and germane information and beating a drum for your own agenda.

You draw the comparion between others mentioning a TV show and what you do. They mention one show and people discuss it. You flood the boards with links to your preferred listening. Here's another link to ... Here's another link to ... Here's another link to ... As I said before, it's tantamount to spamming and using GN to promote another platform.

It is an effect long known, widely known, and it seems to me to be structurally similar to the effect of a thread being named as the title thread in Gransnet Daily

I think MerylStreep might have been gently pointing out that we are more than perfectly aware of it - teaching granny to suck eggs? .

MerylStreep

ElderlyPerson
Did you really feel the need to inform us of the Delia effect, really?

Yes, I suppose I did.

It is an effect long known, widely known, and it seems to me to be structurally similar to the effect of a thread being named as the title thread in Gransnet Daily.

I have no problem over doing that. It seems to me to be a relevant thing to do.

welbeck

do you want a gong, EP ?

Thank you.