Find Ancestors

Well, I shall brazenly disregard GR's advice because it is more helpful to everyone to provide a cross-reference.

Just out of curiosity jax - had your post been reported or did this come out of the blue?

Oh dear and there was me trying to encourage more people to post to make the boards more interesting

Now now Maureen, you can stop that 'common sense' nonsense!!!


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Ignore a duplicate post :-S

The members cross ref to show the other thread so work is not duplicated. Going to end up with both threads getting reported

I got a warning from GR about mentioning problems on other sites

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/genealogy_chat/thread/1308625?page=0

In future if you see a duplicate post either ignore it or report it do NOT post the link to the previous thread

Email from GR this morning


Dear jax

You recently added a message board response using your Genes Reunited membership.

'looking for daughters
Message Board Response
So have you deleted the other thread?
No here it is http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/living_relatives/thread/1309858 '

It has been brought to our attention that the nature of this posting breaches the Message Board guidelines and terms and conditions of our website and the item has now been removed from Genes Reunited.

If you wish to report duplicate posts please send us request reviews with details of each post.


We thank you in anticipation of your co-operation and adherence to the terms of your Genes Reunited membership.


Kind Regards,


Genes Reunited Support Team

Never thought I'd say this to Gins - but "Well Done" !!

That's exactly the sort of constructive help I was referring to earlier.

Did the RR-er have the gumption to say what they'd done and why?

Aww...thank you :-)

Gins I too think that is a really good idea as so much info and time can be lost when the post just disappears from the screen. the boards are so boring when no one uses them much. The more people who join in the better

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Gins

That is a very nice thing to do for that new poster .

We can all do nice things like this....makes for a much friendlier Genes .

That can only bring new members to the boards.

Sue :-D

I was just about to report a thread, to protect the new members privacy. He had included his email and phone number

But, before I hit the RR button, I c/p his thread, without the contact details, so that his question(s) were still available to see

Anyway, someone beat me to RR button, but they hadnt c/p his request

Might be worth thinking about c/p before people hit the RR button, if its a question of privacy

HI Jude

Totally agree with you, I am not saying do not report the ones that do transgress

but do point it out to them first on the thread or by Pm itself what they are doing and why it is wrong and don't report the thread for silly things

Just going around reporting may make the reporter feel important for a while but really it serves no purpose.

A few of the posters have brought up about the way some helpers talk to new members when asking for help ...this has long been a pet hate of mine too.

My long running Thread Help us to Help you Three .... we ask that you be courteous and say please and thankyou when asking for help but I am sorry to say a few of the helpers are very rude at times ...it is so not necessary.

How can we expect good manners when we don;'t show it ourselves

I hope the reporters of threads are now better informed and new and old members can receive nice replies to their requests for help.

Suex :-D

Sue - it's just as easy to type in colon hyphen right-hand bracket which inserts (when submitted) smiley!

Good thread, good to know. I think it is still wise to point out to posters - especially new ones - when they "transgress" particularly when displaying email or telephone numbers :-)

Wendy .......

great!!!


glad I could help!





sylvia

Thank you Sylvia for the info on emotions. :-) i will now try it on this post. :-)

It worked I think, thanks again

** Edit** I can do it on the PC but not the iPad but I can't C & P on the iPad very well anyway

Wendy


The emoticons only appear at the end of a piece of typing.


You cannot type a piece, then go back and insert the emoticon at some point within that section.


If you do that, then you have to physically move the emoticon to where you want it ............ either by dragging, or by c&p'ing. C&p'ing is actually easiest to do.




sylvia

Sue,



thank you for posting this


It's good to have the GR policy in writing, and on the Boards!


I admit that I have RR'd a handful of posts over the years ............... for objectionable, racist or homophobic comments


never for posting in the wrong place, or for asking the wrong question, or for disagreeing with me in a discussion.


I think the reason for RR'ing should show on the post, and I think the poster should be told why a post has been removed, if that is the action taken


I'm not at all sure that the requester's name should be posted on the open thread, and possibly not even given to the poster ....................


there may well be people on here who may then start a vendetta against the requester.


GR should most definitely take action against those members who do multiple RR's without any reason ................ such as happened once again over last weekend.



sylvia

I Agree with everthing said. Its not up to us to police these boards or inforce the T&G , that for GR to do, and is one of the reason why we pay a subscriptions.

No One has the right to come on these boards to flame anybody or to be rude to anyone

The more that these boards are used by people new and old, the more we all can all learn. Often reading a thread often give a clue to others how to solve there problems when researching

We are all here for the same reason to research our family history and to seek help, so please be polite to everyone and we will all get along fine , curtisy cost us nothing, but will make lasting freindships

I have to agree with all the above, especially MCs comments.

( Dont tell her I said that ;-) )


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