HQ. Why has a thread I started been deleted?

Yeah, you said that about me earlier in the week too.

Did you think I'd not heard you?

Brings to mind a line from Hamlet "The lady doth protest too much. methinks" ?

I'm put in mind of the witch trials of the 17th Century.

I accuse you of witchcraft!

It wasn't me.

See, she denies it, but I know better, burn the witch.

Well I might not be Miss Marple but I think I've just worked out who the fastest finger on the report button belongs to. ? Anyone else solved the mystery ?

Cold

Alegrias1

I find accusing public figures of heinous crimes with no evidence, and rampant racism, sexism or xenophobia unpleasant. And possibly illegal...

Yes admitting to telling lies in Court documents to win a large settlement is illegal - Jeffrey Archer went to prison for doing just that. I wonder whether there will be and judicial consequences for MM now that she has admitted doing the same?

Just in case I wasn't clear.

I mean that people showing those things on GN need to be reported. Somebody telling me I'm a busybody, I can live with that.

I agree Alegrias1, I also find the trait of some on GN to demean and poke fun at male members of their family unnecessary and nasty, whilst referencing them with a D for Dear or Darling. I don’t know if it happens on MN, but if a man did it to female members of their family on here there would be uproar, but instead, others sympathise, ‘oh I’ve got one like that’.

Alegrias1

I find accusing public figures of heinous crimes with no evidence, and rampant racism, sexism or xenophobia unpleasant. And possibly illegal...

Yes admitting to telling lies in Court documents to win a large settlement is illegal - Jeffrey Archer went to prison for doing just that. I wonder whether there will be and judicial consequences for MM now that she has admitted doing the same?

Sorry yes lemongrove, I confused myself there

merlotgran

But we’re old Curlywhirly and our opinions are clearly not to be taken seriously.

We even have our own self appointed Mary Whitehouse to ensure things don’t get out of hand.

?

Galaxy

The idea that GN is more lightly moderated than MN is just not true. There are threads on here that wouldng last 30 seconds on MN, I am often astounded having come from MN as to what you can say on here.

You mean more heavily moderated surely?

I find accusing public figures of heinous crimes with no evidence, and rampant racism, sexism or xenophobia unpleasant. And possibly illegal...

I’m not in favour of reporting people. Ignoring them and their comments seems the best solution.
I find reporting and whistle blowing all very unpleasant.

grumppa

Is it just that politicians and the Royal Family accept that they are fair game and won’t sue, while Meghan will?

www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a32722321/kate-middleton-prince-william-suing-tatler-magazine-lies/

uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/royal-family-members-taking-legal-action-in-court-143059681.html

merlotgran

But we’re old Curlywhirly and our opinions are clearly not to be taken seriously.

We even have our own self appointed Mary Whitehouse to ensure things don’t get out of hand.

Who could you mean curlywurly? Come on, out with it. Speak the truth and shame the devil ? ?

(I've just been off polishing my (imaginary) pearls)

Thanks fanny, I remember Joanne Whalley, I read a lot of Dennis Potter back in the day and some of it was very good, but it's interesting looking back on some of it from a feminist perspective I suppose.

Galaxy right, a correction, but even more creepy in a way.
Joanne Whaley was the nurse in the Singing Detective, but based on Gina Bellman who was the ‘muse’ behind Black Eyes.
Whalley and Bellman are strikingly similar

Perhaps it's how many complaints they get about a post and if GN staff on at the time supports that view. I feel GN leans to the left.

There definitely seems to be double standards on Gransnet. Some well known people are shredded by posters but others? Double standards. Why?

Galaxy

To be fair I often wonder about Mary Whitehouse, I disliked her at the time but maybe if we had had more Mary Whitehouses we wouldnt have children growing up exposed to utterly awful images.

Off topic slightly, but would make an interesting thread. Why don’t you start a thread about it Galaxy.

Is it just that politicians and the Royal Family accept that they are fair game and won’t sue, while Meghan will?

I didnt know that fanny, she was right then. It's very interesting. I find the term pearl clutchers interesting as well, it often means older women who are trying to establish boundaries around behaviour.

sodapop

dragonfly46

I am astonished that HQ allow name-calling and ganging up on other posters to stand and yet delete a post, before it has got started, on a public figure!
Does it depend on who is on duty at the time?

Exactly dragonfly just how I feel.

I'll add to that
Recently I asked for a couple of posts of mine to be deleted because I thought they were too personal (family anecdotes).
Despite several pleas, GNHQ just ignored me, didn't even respond except for the automatic email, and the posts remained.

They own all our posts and only delete what suits them to delete.

Threads about MM are usually full of venom and vitriol - she does seem to bring out the worst in posters and it's much the same on Mumsnet, but the moderaters there seem to tolerate it more.

As many have said before, there's a rather patronising attitude towards Gransnet and what our delicate eyes can read. Some years back a thread here was deleted because it was gossipy about celebrities, meanwhile over on MN there was a very long thread on the sexual perversions, mistresses, dirty-doings about various living household names!

I think it's ageist.

Yes, I remember that.
And Dennis Potter was obsessed with that actual actress in real life.
Their relationship was based on Potter’s and hers.
I can’t remember her name, I’ll look it up, but he wrote Black Eyes about her too.

I remember her criticising the singing detective, which I watched at the time. They (including me probably) laughed at her. However looking at that programme now it was largely an old man perving over a young woman, it was about as progressive as Benny Hill.