General Chat

eRRolSheep Report 27 May 2015 16:42

Will GR still be going then?

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I very much doubt it!


GR staff have posted in response to questions from GlitterBaby and myself on FB that "they are currently assessing how to manage GR and the direction it should take."

Will GR still be going then?

If I ever got a sticky then I'd like it unstuck after a month thanks

Sorry if I misunderstood.

I think somebody did mention that they had raised the issue with GR but I shall check.

I didn't intend to point a finger at you Errol. Just saying that someone needs to raise it as a proper suggestion. Then GR will at least know how members feel about it.

Kense - it wasn't a proposal by me but an agreement with a proposal put forward by other members.

PatrickM - I think that is the general consensus of opinion.

My thoughts on this.

Fair enough have a sticky on the board they posted on most, after a preset time it gets unstuck. At which time it could be moved to a dedicated board if requested.

Either way the thread remains unless deleted my the OP or by GR so if in future anybody wishes to post can do so.

The Suggestions board should be used to propose a Memorial board. It is unlikely that GR staff will see ideas on the General Chat board especially ones that are made in the middle of a thread.

Nobody has suggested that threads are removed, merely not stickied for months on end.

A dedicated board (just like the obits page in a newspaper) would be ideal because people could choose whether to "dip in" or not.

Again, if people wish to remember others, then simply add to the thread and it will soon move back up to the top of the board - a pretty good indication in my book of how much people love and care for others.

It's sad that the deceased members have no opportunity to give their opinion on the matter.

"It had been suggested that maybe it would be more appropriate to have an obituaries/condolences board but I don't know what became of that excellent idea."

Errol has restated the b obvious. It is not a great idea for in mem. never forget etc etc to remain on the gen. board for months and even years. On a dedicated board they would always be there and new members would be able to see how inspiring / funny / helpful / witty our sadly lost members have been.

A lot of my Lowestoft ancestors' graves are under a road now. The headstones that could be saved were preserved, however, and stand at the side of the churchyard.

To add insult to injury 5xgt grandfather Robert donated the land to the church for "a burying ground".

Head Stones in cemeteries, for example, are an accepted method of recording & remembering the deceased buried there. That was the early form of a 'sticky' I suppose.

It would be unthinkable to put forward a suggestion for their removal - although the process has been carried out occasionally of clearing very ancient graveyards where no connected family exists, to make way for housing development. I know of one such instance.

'Rest In Peace' - indeed?

Just my opinion but I think all stickied threads, for whatever reason, shouldn't stay stickied for longer than a couple of months.

GR have a history of leaving their own stickied threads at the top for far too long.

I asked GR to unstick my thread a couple of months after a GR friend died because everyone had had chance to read the sad news and to post their respects. It's still around somewhere and if someone wanted to remember her they could bring it back to the top easily enough.

If all memorial threads had been left as stickies the whole front page would already be full of such threads, sadly.

I've just come back from holiday where there was very poor reception and found it difficult to scroll down GR's front page on my phone. So I could only see the stickied posts for most of the time. I can't be the only person to have this problem.

Exactly, AnninGlos

I don't want to see that happen. So will you all take care & keep as well as possible for many a long time.

I don't think Phyll meant to insinuate there was a current problem. She was just hoping that it wouldn't happen. Well that is how I read it anyway.

I think it is a lovely touch GR stickying threads,

i also think unless you're the original poster its up to gr to remove them,

we have lost a lot of valued members lately,

there is somtimes many threads on page 1 that dont interest me, i simply skip to page 2, i dont see the problem,

the obituary threads are left up till people stop adding
their is no limit on grieving
and is not wallowing its about loving and caring about people
whether they are here or not

Gr will decide when threads are un stickied :-D

I wouldn't want to see a separate thread as it would feel macabre to look especially to see if anyone had died that day

However I do think the threads can be unstickied after a while, once everyone who wishes to has added their thoughts, but that takes time. I will ask or Elaine's thread to be unstickied after three months, if it is still there and not being added to.

I just hope we won't lose any more friends from these boards for a lomg time. A lot of it is due to the fact that several of us are over 60! We will all have to try hard to stay well and watch out for one another.

Lizxx

this topic of how long obituary notices should remain was broached some weeks ago .............

Most people who posted agreed that there had seemed to be a limit in the past, and that it was a good idea

But the thread then turned very nasty, from those who objected to the idea that there should be a time limit on how long a thread should be stickied.

Errol is quite correct ............ there is no need to sticky a thread for long periods as it will remain near the top of the page anyway as long as someone posts on it.