Thread pulling

[piskieinboots]

Has my thread been deleted? It would appear so and if so can I ask why I wasn't told what I did wrong before it was pulled?

It's odd that a thread should be pulled when so many people were pressing *LIKE* so I fail to see how I caused offence

The Mods do a good job here, (one that I would never want to do, although I do on a business forum) however, sometimes the power seems to go to some heads!

Hopefully this thread won't be pulled before I am given the respect of being told why it was pulled after a Mod 'had the last word' - that speaks very loud words to us all here.

Very sad really

[bearded bloke]

Not got a clue Piskie,I went to catch up & it went as I tried to open it ,I doubt that a single Mod made the decision to delete the thread,there may have been complaints from members or even Admin intervention.
TBH I am surprised you have posted this in the forums,IMHO it would have been better sorted in PM

[chris]

Most of the time it's pulled before it erupts into a big argument, but I must admit I didn't read the thread, so I'll go off and see if I can find it to find out what went off!

[veggiechicken]

I read it just before it was pulled. There were some unnecessary personal comments being made and it was becoming rather unpleasant.
I would hate this thread to turn out the same way.

[piskieinboots]

I didn't see any personal comments - I hope I didn't make any, pretty sure I didn't.

Anyway - whatever will be will be, all I wanted was to know what I did wrong

TBH I am surprised you have posted this in the forums,IMHO it would have been better sorted in PM

I tried but go no response, and I guess that works both ways, shouldn't I have received a PM from a Mod telling me where I over-stepped the mark?

It really isn't important in the scheme of things

[Seahorse]

As an ex mod here, I know it's not an easy job to decide what's ok and what isn't when things get heated. As this one was pulled rather than just locked, I can only assume someone (or various someones) went over the edge of what's acceptable.

I do think a note to you with a brief explanation would have been the appropriate action though Suzie.

[piskieinboots]

Thanks Seahorse, I agree with you that it can't be an easy job and that a quick note would have been respectful.

No worries, I shall let this one die a natural death now - albeit with a slightly sour taste in my mouth. Chocolate should sort that

[bearded bloke]

shouldn't I have received a PM from a Mod telling me where I over-stepped the mark?

Yes,IF it was a comment you made,but it may have been another member

But heyho,onwards & upwards

[Incy]

Piskie,
Having just had a look at it, there were some comments made last night (not by you) that really shouldn't/couldn't be left without either causing hurt or making certain individuals look rather unkind.
Believe me when I say that it really is better off closed.
You wouldn't have been told you did something wrong as it wasn't your post that prompted the closing.
BTW. I have no pm's from you so was unaware until this thread popped up. Please feel free to copy all the mods on pm's when there is a query like this as we are often on here at different times so it increases your chances of a prompt reply.

[piskieinboots]

Yes,IF it was a comment you made,but it may have been another member

Good point - well made

Piskie,
Having just had a look at it, there were some comments made last night (not by you) that really shouldn't/couldn't be left without either causing hurt or making certain individuals look rather unkind.
Believe me when I say that it really is better off closed.

Fair point, noted and filed

[Mikey]

I tried to open it when I came on but couldn't find it, I wondered what had happened.

Its a real shame that individual posts can't be pulled as there were some very valuable comments on the thread as to how to achieve different tasks when searching, all of which I will no doubt forget by next week.

Could we have as was suggested on the thread a page for how to do's, such as adding pics, searching, etc, and what all the buttons at the top do, cos I haven't the foggiest on most of them.

GO on tell me there already is one.

[piskieinboots]

Its a real shame that individual posts can't be pulled as there were some very valuable comments on the thread as to how to achieve different tasks when searching, all of which I will no doubt forget by next week.

I agree - I learnt bits on there that I didn't know, it would be good to have them back

[donnakebab]

I managed to save these snippets if it's any help.

FG on GYO (Farmer Gyles)
the site search is a bit naff .... i prefer to search through google - type something like this into google:
site:growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine "growing lettuce"

this will do an exact search for "growing lettuce" within growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine - i currently get 94 results for this search - they all have the words "growing lettuce" together

remove the quotes and i get 3930 results of posts that include those two words (and variations such as "grow", but the words are not necessarily together (ie, the words "lettuce" and "grow" can be in different places on the page)

there are loads more search options for google (and other search engines) - a valuable one is negating words and phrases by using the minus symbol - this can help narrow down results - so you might want to find information on growing lettuce which is not iceberg type - so your search could become:
site:growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine "growing lettuce" -iceberg
this gives me 91 results - not the best example, but it shows how to do things


BB on GYO (Bearded Bloke)
Easy peasy VC,hit reply with quote,right click (quote box) select all,then copy & then paste it into a PM which you send to yourself. Voily instant notepad

[veggiechicken]

And the clever way that I learnt yesterday to PM myself links to posts has been rubbished because the posts no longer exist! Unfortunately, one of those was how to do this linking
EDIT That's it DK, the 2nd one, thanks!

[donnakebab]

I too think it's a good idea that we have a thread for stuff like this. We could all add bits and pieces as we learn things.