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The trouble is, all this must have increased the workload of support tenfold!!

Oh I obviously hit a nerve there then. anyone on the boards report my post about free members and trouble makers/people with a warped sense of humour? What fun they are having!

Jonesy :-D :-D :-D

Not sure if anyone's mentioned this but GR have always told off those who are over eagerly reporting others - I remember someone being suspended for reporting the same person repeatedly years ago. What they can't - I suppose - do much about is several people getting together in these sad little vendettas because obviously there's a variety of reporters.

I see Annie's post has been requested for review so I expect mine will be too but here goes:

Do I understand things correctly? Anyone can become a free member of Genes Reunited without making any commitment or monetary payment merely by registering on the site. That then entitles them to do everything that a standard member can do with the exception of posting on the message boards.

Oh what joy, oh what fun! Come all you Tom, Dick or Harriet's. Got nothing better to do, then why not have a bit of sport. Log on and cause a bit of mayhem. Report a few posts simply for the fun of it. Get banned or have already been banned, no problem, simply register again using a different email address and away you go.

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

To my mind it is wrong to allow 'free' members the facility of using the report abuse button. There are several ex paying members who will have grudges against people on here and who will take great delight in causing a bit of mayhem because in their petty little minds they will find it funny. I suppose, as we did when they were on the boards, we will have to learn to rise above it.

I think you knew what I meant!

There is no such animal as a non-member.....!

There are four categories of membership available for the Genes Reunited Service:

(A) Free Membership;
(B) Standard Membership; or
(C) Gold Membership (only available as a renewal option for existing Gold members); or
(D) Platinum Membership

Hang on there a cotton pickin minute....none members can report posts?

That has to be the most stoopid thing I heard this week

If a none member wants to report a post then they should have to email GR with the details

Hmmmm.....note to self. Email GR and ask what this is all about ;-)

Dianne...someones taken your P ;-)

Hi to you Amazing Grace

I have to agree with you that there should be a list of the only reasons why a thread can be whooshed.

To have someone's thread whooshed for mentioning the name of *aul *earson is inane, considering the millions of them there must be in the world. I myself know 3 of them!!!

Reasons for whooshing a thread should be much more s*ecific.

Dianne xx

I didn't add to this thread out of *ersonal argument but in the vein of the thread about vindictive RR submitters, to show how *iglet's *al was one of those vindictive ones.

I did write a very lengthy ex*lanation but I ty*ed the wrong key and it vanished before I could add it to this thread.

The name of the murdered child was *aul *earson, which is obviously the name of his/her relative, because the name of the murderer, Richard Blenkey was never ever mentioned by anyone in my thread.

*lease google either of these names and you will find out the whole story if you wish.

* is substituted for the missing letter on my keyboard, so I ho*e you can understand the text.

Dianne xx

GR didn't want to know.

As usual.

Dianne

I think you need to take this up with GR itself, this thread is about the vindictive removal of threads and posts where there is nothing at all that could possibly upset anyone.

Please do as Janey suggests ............... send an email to [email protected]



sylvia

Hi Janey, no the last bit is in fact part of the whole post Piglets Pal put on the first page of this thread.

Well if nothing else your thread proves the effect on people when threads are removed for unknown reasons.

I've only reported teh same thread twice in fact because it had not been pulled and had degenerated into name calling which I thought was only going to get worse and served no purpose whatsoever.

Maybe when you report abuse, GR should ask you to select from a number of pre selected reasons why a thread should be reviewed. Maybe GR could then state that the original poster will be advised (if the thread is pulled) why it has been actioned accordingly.

At least then they would know and could take some further action?

What do you think?

Well, well, another private quarrel ...

I have no idea what this is about, but maybe if you object to something said here ... you could ........ request review of the post ..........

If you believe a post is wrongly deleted, you should communicate with abuse@genesreunited, as several of us have done. This thread is not about that situation.

If the EDIT at the end is yours, you're fighting a losing battle. The real name shows up *unless* the person has elected otherwise.

Janey Canuck is not my real name.

Sorry to all of you but I had to take issue with the following entry. The thread she refers to was one of mine regarding my nehew who was murdered. Chris Simson had it removed because the MURDERED CHILD had the same name as her relative, NOT THE MURDERER, a fact she well knows. Therefore folks were unable to join in the etition on another site to kee the murderer in jail. You can imagine how angry I was, and still am. May God forgive her because I can't.

Thank you for allowing me to intrude on this thread, and I would just like to say that I have never requested review on any threads in my life.

Sorry again, but you can guess which letter does not work at the moment on my keyboard.



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PigletsPal Report as Abuse 5 Jun 2011 12:03
I am astounded that someone is so vindictive, I know I have in the past reported a posting for review due to the nature of the original post and the 'naming' of an 'alleged' criminal, who incidentally had the same name as a relative of mine (not the same person).

Now when I reported this, I had to state my reason for reporting the thread, so surely you must still have to do so. And as we all know if you click on my thread name 'Piglets Pal' you can find my real name Chris Simpson (and yes I have given my real name here).

Has the system changed for reporting/requesting a review of a thread?

EDIT: If I click on someones name to PM them then in my sent messages their 'real' name shows up not their thread 'nickname'

it does not seem right that non-paying members can report posts


I know that non-paying members can read ALL threads and posts

.............. I sometimes forget to check whther I have been logged out, and go straight to threads, can read them all .................. it is only when I want to respond that I realise I'm not logged in!



IF GR are keeping track of names of people who RR a lot, hopefully they will also be keeping track of non-members




However, it does mean that we can probably get a better idea of who is doing the RR ........... ;-)

I just checked by using the .za portal for an old free account I have where I started a tree (I have a habit of opening accounts all over the net on things, then forgetting about them, forgetting my username and/or password ...).

I could have reported a post if I'd wanted to, so yes, non-paying members might be the source of some of the problems.

I think, as a paying member, I want some assurance that I'm going to be protected from that particular bit of abuse.

If you don't pay to use the discussion boards, you don't get to interfere in the proceedings there, I think. Really.

Wouldn't make a blind bit of difference to all the rrs of late , if non-paying members could NOT do so....

Not actually deleted -- hidden pending review, more. It can still disrupt the proceedings on a thread for hours. Which is undoubtedly what it is mean to do in some cases.

Of course, one also looks bad if one's post in a thread has been reported for review and sits there looking like that til next day, even if there was nothing at all wrong with it. That's why last week I went back and posted exactly the same thing as had been reported, in several threads (having left the tabs open with the post before it was reported) ... and the reposts wereen't reported. ;) Those posts were then all restored.

There are sixes of one and half-dozens of others for any way it's handled.

I do think, though, that non-paying members could perfectly well be asked to email abuse@ and not given the option of a request-review, if they felt personally aggrieved by something on a board, e.g. a privacy violation.

I can't imagine when this would actually happen, let alone happen in real time. (I can imagine someone running across something on the boards that had been posted some time before, say on a google search, as we keep saying, and then asking that it be removed.)