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Love your sheep Gwynne :-)

There have been orchestrated campaigns to get people banned for as long as I've been a member. I'm delighted that GR are finally looking at this and hope action is taken against the habitual RRs.

Ann, congratulations on your first deletion!

I love your final sentence. I am tempted to post that often.

Gwynne

Well people are watching because I have had an e mail not via Genes which accused me of accusing this person, which I wasn't, I was not actually accusing anyone but rather all those who used to flit in and out causing trouble. Of those who were banned, including those who in most people's opinion should not have been I didn't have a clue who had actually been the cause because there were so many causing mischief. And most of the time I'd be on holiday and come back and find people gone. (sob).

susan my post was just a reference to the fact I didn't think free members should be able to post because of the possibility of mischief making for bored minds.

And to the person who e mailed me it is not always all about you. I didn't even give you a thought.

Jonesey -- "Sounds to me just about as sensible as giving an alcoholic the key to the bar."

and in some cases I think the two sets are identical, hereabouts. :-)

Lol Ann

there must be a first....whatever did you say? lol

Looks as though this post has unsettled some people and are making them start to think who they person/people involved are.

I hope GR sort it out or give a response in some way!

:-)

Lol! Me subtle that's a new one!

I didn't think you were Ann but you were being ever so subtle so I couldn't be sure lol.

Thank you for clarifying x

No Muffy I wasn't pointing a finger at those people. I was talking 'to' the ones who caused those people to leave, the ones who caused trouble by consistently stirring it for 'fun'.

edit: I think this is the post that resulted in an e mail to me. See my post below.

Surely GR could only accept reports of abuse from the holders of free memberships via email to abuse@ and the RR be disabled unless you are logged in as a paying member

Sorry I wasnt pointing a finger at anyone in particular. I dont know who has been banned or not

All I know for sure is 'it is someone' and it's getting silly

We'll have nothing to read soon as they will all be under review!

Having been a paid member for a few years now, I'd totally forgotten that *free members* are able to read and report posts.

Seems to me that that should be changed........read by all means but not be able to report.

Quite how GR would be able to manage that I'm not sure, but it must be possible?

Mary

Well it does happen on both boards...and as you say it seems it's the help boards that it's spread to for now.

I'm sure no one was accusing my friends...I just wanted to make sure that the finger wasn't pointed in their direction just because some of them are banned x

Rest easy, Muffy, I didn't think anyone was pointing hints in that particular direction. ;-)

I think most people who spend most of their time on the help boards aren't familiar with those events (I know I'm not), and they/we are the ones who seem to be bearing the brunt of this particular campaign.

......Or maybe a not banned free member...No one knows.... so I don't think it's very fair to point the finger in any direction...

and no it wasn't me that rr'd it but most of the members of the site that left not so long ago left for this exact reason. Because the malicious reporting ended up getting good friends of ours banned...I know for a fact that it's not the ones that left doing it...or the friends of mine that have been banned.

x

Well this is real stupid behaviour. I saw your post Ann and there was nothing abusive at all in the content

So, come out come out who ever you are and reveal yourself....or maybe you cant if you are a 'banned' 'free member' of GR

I have done that Janey.

AnninGlos -- send an email to [email protected] giving the URL of the thread and requesting that the report be given the appropriate attention -- and if the post is deleted, asking why.

I just checked my email to make sure that was the correct email address ... and I have a reply to my request for an explanation yesterday.

My first post in this thread *was* deleted

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/genealogy_chat/thread/1270691

but it's back now!

The information that abusive reports put the reporters in jeopardy of having their memberships cancelled was repeated (in the email I just got) ... but now that it seems that non-paying members can simply keep registering for free, even if their free account is cancelled, I'm afraid this is a hollow threat maybe.

The solution seems to be to allow only paying members to post on *and report posts on* the message boards.

LOL sorry Ann. but I am sure this is the first time I have ever seen something you've said being reported ;-)

and given your reasonable and well mannered posts at all times... the rest of us don't stand a chance !

It is of course half term in some areas so maybe the children are bored.