Gransnet in 2024 - have your say!

I was on an AF and Pacemaker site some years back. Many comments and questions daily. One could simply touch the comment you wanted to respond to, and hey presto, it appeared, with a reply box.
Some messages got 20/30 replies, all on a string, others, non… SO easy 🤯😛

I would most definitely recommend that ALL ORIGINAL POSTERS SHOULD HAVE ALL THEIR SUBSEQUENT COMMENTS HIGHLIGHTED!

DanniRae

Callistemon21

Please, please could you remove the annoying adverts and videos - they are so old and we're bored now!!

The same makeovers, the cakes must be stale by now, we are fed up seeing the swimming picture on the home page. Time for something Christmassy, not a summery photo.

Please update the site.

We are feeling neglected, forgotten, like second-class citizens.

Thank you 🙂

This!!

Oh, please!!!

No no no to a name change.
I would like the competitions to come back please.

Chestnut

Just to add, it would be soooo helpful if the poster had their country next to their name. People often talk if if we know where they are, but they could be in Australia, Canada, USA or Europe. It is often relevant to their comment and therefore confusing to not know where they are.

Just to mention this again. There have been a few threads lately which have caused some confusion because the country of the poster is not known. Please can we have UK, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, USA, France, Australia etc. next to the username because it would be really helpful. 🙏

Are Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland not still in the UK, Chestnut? Perhaps you meant England instead of UK.

Actually, I don't think that would help. We get to know some posters and where they are from, and you can often tell an American by the spelling.

Wheniwasyourage

Are Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland not still in the UK, Chestnut? Perhaps you meant England instead of UK.

Actually, I don't think that would help. We get to know some posters and where they are from, and you can often tell an American by the spelling.

I meant England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, plus all the others. Not everyone is familiar with people's locations. New or infrequent posters won't know and I certainly don't know where everyone lives. We get to know some posters and where they are from sounds very cliquey, don't you want anyone new to join in?

And yes, it would help because I've been seeing threads where people have been wondering where the OP lives because it is relevant to the issue.

Why cliquey? If you see posts from the same people over time you get an idea of their political views, or whether they live alone or where they come from just by reading what they say. That hardly means there is a clique - just that some of us have been on GN since 2011 and some of us look at the threads more often than others.

You can't avoid getting to know the posters who post often and have been posting for years. If you read articles in a newspaper or magazine by the same writer every week for years, it is impossible to pretend that you are not aware of their politics, opinions, and taste in breakfast cereals.

On Gransnet that doesn't stop you reading posts by new members who have just joined and are posting their first views on topics of the day. What they say may be a different take on the subject, or it may be something that has been said before.

Agreeing with a poster more than once in a blue moon doesn't make the two of you into a clique - it just means that you agree. We don't HAVE to disagree with everyone - for one thing there aren't enough different opinions in existence for every poster (thousands of them) to have a unique one.

Thank you Elegran. As often before, you have said what I was meaning, but said it much better and explained more fully!

Elegran and I are not a clique!!

Wheniwasyourage

Why cliquey? If you see posts from the same people over time you get an idea of their political views, or whether they live alone or where they come from just by reading what they say. That hardly means there is a clique - just that some of us have been on GN since 2011 and some of us look at the threads more often than others.

I never said anyone was a clique. I said that the words you used sounded cliquey. But the forum is open to anyone in the world and I often see lots of usernames I don't recognise. So many people who probably have no idea where in the world anyone else is and therefore it would be nice to have their country shown.

I hope no one is holding their breath for another blue/GNHQ posting on this thread. Look out for a new thread of this ilk about the same time next year.

Oh, and nothing changed on the site until then either. At least, not for the better.

Definitely NO to OPs being able to close a thread they'd started.

It could end up with threads being closed on a whim - I think I'd probably not bother to comment if that were to be ruled in. It is the way threads develop and meander that make it interesting.

If the OP no longer wishes to be part of the topic she could announce the fact that she's not responding further - an option to do just that at a later stage at the beginning of the topic would be a better alternative.

I can imagine that there might be too many "COMMENTS ARE NO LONGER ALLOWED ON THIS THREAD" if the original poster were allowed to close it. I belonged to a group on FB where this happened frequently. In the end, people just stopped posting, fewer posts meant fewer people bothering with the group and it just fizzled out into the archives.

Come on blueys, show us your ( whatever you want to think of !)

Can we have an AIBU voting button?

Siope

Can we have an AIBU voting button?

Good idea.

nanna8 Do you mean 'true colours" ?

I’d like to put in a plea for consistency and consideration when it comes to posts being deleted by HQ.

It very much seems as though persistent complainers get others’ posts deleted because they express views that contradict their own, and that because HQ are alerted to the post, not the thread, they are dealt with out of context. When new readers see the deletions it can look as though the complaining poster is the victim, when that is absolutely not the case.

I understand that mods can be busy, that these are judgement calls, and that threads are seen in isolation, but it would be good to have a more transparent policy please.

Support for Doodledogs comment at 07.43 on 19.12.23
HQ respond to reports by looking at an individual comment. There seems to be no attempt to consider context, the persistent complainer, or the various posts leading up to a complaint and request for deletion.
I endorse what Doodledog says

Yes to Doodledog’s post at 7.43 today 19.12.23.

I think explaining how someone has transgressed the guidelines to have a post deleted would be helpful. For example 'you made a personal attack on another poster, that is unacceptable' or 'you used swearwords that are unacceptable on GN' etc. The guidelines are very non-specific so being told you've somehow violated them, without it being spelled out isn't helpful. I don't mean in the actual thread but in a message to the poster.

I agree Rosie. I’ve seen posts that seem to me to breach guidelines stand because no one reported them. Occasionally a flurry of deletions occurs with none of the deleted posters given a reason.

Sometimes posts just seem to disappear with no explanation,too. I assume they must have been reported. Who knows ? I guess, who cares? It is a little odd,though.

Why do certain topics never reach the Active list? Probably been mentioned already.

I posted on an old tv thread about ‘Vigil’s’ return, as I saw no point in starting a new one. Only received one comment from BlueBelle, and she must have picked it up from ‘last hour’ or ‘last day’.

Have stuck another comment on this morning, no, not on Active.

Often seems to happen with tv forum, why? It’s often the most looked at one.

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