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reported...why?

Neither was offensive, both subjects may have had some 'sensitive' subects mentioned therein, 'crime and eating disorders' but surely discussion of those topics cannot be considered as against t & cs? I honestly think that is taking things too far, whoever reported could you not have put your opinion and asked the OPs to rephrase perhaps?

You're referring to the two of mine (one here, one on Genealogy Chat) -- or is someone else being ... er, bullied ... too?


-- Oh, oops, "crime", no, that wasn't me.

Unless you consider Michelle Obama's dress sense or Kate Middleton's body weight to be crimes! against nature? ;)

No only yours here Janey and Fairy's first post on this board has been RRd too...

We were promised that dossiers are now being kept on review requesters.

Unfounded abuse reports will be regarded as rule-breaking too, I hope we know.

I do not understand why the first post be removed and yet subsequent postings are left. Seems very strange. If one objects to the first post then surely the replies would be objectionable also?

I posted twice on Fairy's thread.

That's a shame, our daughter has ******** so I would have been interested to have read that thread. Perhaps there needs to be a list of forbidden topics.

Hello Edward, I hope your daughter and family are getting good support.

I think any topic should be open for discussion, as long as it is done fairly and sensitively and without being offensive, otherwise we go back to the past when things were kept hidden and never talked about,

I have to admit I was being facetious and judgmental about both women in the deleted thread. ;)

I think the effects that the actions and appearance of a public person like Middleton might have on vulnerable girls and young women is a subject well worth discussion, though.

I too hope your daughter is getting good care, Edward, and certainly didn't mean to make light of such situations in what I said. Their seriousness is the very reason I find stick-thin celebrities so problematic.

My Aussie thread - running now for nearly 2 years - had the first post reviewed just recently. Perhaps someone thought I was being selective or elitist or even rascist - I don't know. GR did reinstate it but I changed the title of the thread and the opening post just in case some petty person decided they didn't like the tone of it :S

Sue

These things are really unbelievable and quite unacceptable.

I do want assurances that the site management are dealing appropriately with the makers of illegitimate requests for review.

I request review of posts that contain inappropriate personal details about third parties (on the normal board, Find Ancestors, I always ask first that the poster, be it the thread starter or a "helper", remove the material).

Whoever has decided it is their job to be the board censor -- discussions can now be completely disrupted by simply clicking that link, because if the post in question is the opening post, the thread then makes no sense -- I'd like you to introduce yourself/selves.

The censorship in question is plainly not of speech or even of ideas, it is of *persons*. In my case, anyhow. ;)

(I do think the thread I originally enquired about was deleted by the thread starter themself, for reasons I don't know since I didn't see the thread after I posted it. And I guess an explanation won't be forthcoming. I view that as private censorship, as well, anyhow.)

I THINK THE ABUSE LINK IS IN THE WRONG PLACE
COULD EASY BE ACTIVATD BY MISTAKE


BUT I DINNA DO IT ..'ONNEST

I'm going to try an experiment.

I'm going to post this and then click "report as abuse" but NOT submit the report, just backpage to the thread and reload.

I'm thinking the process is not completed until you choose the reason and submit the report ...

I think I know who reported my first post on the Aussie thread - it came too soon after an unpleasant message elsewhere. If I'm right then it was pure spite but full marks to GR for reinstating it - with an apology I might add.

Sue

And I'm right. The above post is still here.

So -- and I'd wondered about that as well -- no.

Accidentally clicking "report as abuse" doesn't result in a report being submitted and the post content being temporarily deleted and replaced by the message about "requested for review" (and that garbled English hurts my teeth every time I see it).

Indeed, SueMaid.

But -- just one more example of the arbitrariness and inconsistency in the decisions.


In my case I have no doubt that it's the same person who was busy reporting my posts in a thread on Genealogy Chat ... or a close acquaintance ...

OK JUST AN IDEA

no it isn't possible ( nor was it before ) to rr by mistake, previously I pressed that rr too many times myself instead of edit lol, it is not as easy to make that mistake now because of the positioning, but I did test to make sure when it changed.

It's an Alice in wonderland world sometimes.

I have had threads whooshed - some tips ones - and no one could understand how they went confused emoticon.

I had thought of that too, Dizzi but as Janey said - you have two goes at it.

Sue

I returned after an extended vacation some time ago and went hunting for a thread of mine on the TTF board.

Genuine thread about some grx3 grparents of mine. In which I'd got some excellent help. Somebody found my Wiltshire-born grx3 grf, who I knew had died in the workhouse in Wiltshire, remarrying in Scotland!

So anyhow, I went looking for it ... and it was gone.

A paranoid person would think that the glitch gods and goddesses were out to get them.

A rational person knows it isn't the deities of glitch who are.