General Chat

NanaSue
You are wrong, it is not "apt" at all, as you put it.
"Ganging up" is very suggestive of collusion or conspiracy.
And this is just not happening.
All GR members have their own individual view on what goes on on here .
If a lot of members all share the same view then that is not "ganging up", that is like mindedness .

Shame that one member saw fit to report a lady in her 80's, who uses a specially adapted computer to read and post on these boards, and obviously did not gave any thought to how that member would feel when she got reported for what was an innocent post.

I agree that ganging up is not a nice descripton but it is apt when it is obvious that a person is being picked on for whatever reason and other start slapping each other on the back.

There are also some situations where some members have been made to feel an outsider or an interloper. These boards can be a scary place

I always feel so sorry for such people on the end of the rope.

Some helpers are so cold, critical and pedantic to the point of ridiculousness it is so off putting and frightens people.

I takes nothing just be be nice - lets all give it a try please.

*agrees with Rose*

Well said Rose:)

Thank you Natasha and well said Rose!

Natasha has not specified any particular type of thread so please can we not speculate here. This is a general observation. Thank you.

Well said Rose .
The choice of the words "ganging up" was most inappropriate I thought.

Well said Rose. :-)

Thankyou Natasha

May I just note that this was first put on the genealogy board, and was only put here some time after, 'by request' I think? The circumstances of the reports which to a greater extent made Natasha's post necessary, were on the Genealogy chat board...not this one.

I also thank GR for upholding the reports on Genealogy chat , and one here, which were un-necessarily upsetting. That they dealt with the poster with evident tact is a credit to them, but consistency will be essential I think.

It is all very well suggesting people may be 'ganging up' but if those people have INDIVIDUALLY come to the same conclusion that a post is un-acceptable then it is NOT a 'gang' it is a consensus of opinion.

That said, hopefully people will continue to feel free to post, and to report if they have a genuine concern. :-D

WE ALL NEED TO THINK ABOUT WHAT WE POST....serious or not serious, even thinking to the extent of..."will this annoy some one to the extent of starting bad taste"...we all have opinions, but there is more than one person doing the goading and putting threads up that will get people's backs up!!

And some now sounds holier-than-thou!!!

jude

Agree totally with thinking long and hard before posting on serious threads, Jenxx :-)

But I do feel these fun threads need to be treated with more tolerance. They need to flow naturally and quickly to work. I am very slow at typing and probably a bit slow-witted as well and don't understand many of in jokes, so try to stay off them.

But they are definitely good to read, and usually get reported at some point for no obvious reason - other perhaps than jealousy that they are rattling up loads of fast responses, appearing at top of threads, and the Opening Poster may be disliked by someone with an old score to settle.

Hopefully these fun threads will now be allowed to entertain in their near-the-knuckle fashion without the phantom finger of censure.

And one poster said once he never needed to read a paper because we kept him up to date with all the important news and views from across the world. How disappointed will he be when he returns?

Thank you Natasha
hopefully now people will think twice about what they post,
and everyone should read what they have written before they press submit

Thank you Natasha, my personal thanks aswell to GR support staff.

IGP, Dizzi, JLH lets keep fingers crossed.

Scott - the Phantom RR'r is not one person.

I just want all the nastiness to stop so the boards can be enjoyable for everybody wart 'n all - slangs 'n all - bad spelling/grammar 'n all - postings on wrong boards 'n all

Are the times of post a bit haywire? Sure I posted this morning (10th). And Scozz posted about an hour ago :-S :-S

Thanks Natasha :-)

Hopefully The Phantom RR'r will take notice.

Financial members can post, report etc....... non-financial members cannot post; I believe they CAN report, this MUST be stopped. We're not here to give a small-mind person their jollies. Not much point in banning someone, if they can go to another computer and report posts.

:-D

Thank you Natasha, good to see someone taking a proper interest. Let us hope the boards now calm down and we all resort to being the adults we are supposed to be.

So pleased to see the Opening Post of this thread. I am sure nobody wants unpleasantness and good debates and good fun threads is what most of us enjoy.

Lovely to see a personal response from the Genes Team on here :-D

Good to see GR are taking steps to get back in the owner driving seat.

Nicely worded statement Natasha.

THANK YOU
GREEN ONE