Suffering from POST (or lack of) traumatic stress here.

What do I do now - where can I go.

I need my daily fix of news and humour.

I have been watching daily and contribution occasionally and never found the topic getting out of hand. It seemed to be very balanced with good and bad news being reported. But more importantly provided some information for those needing to know.

Thanks to all the moderators for all your efforts so far.

Hope everything gets sorted soon.

You may continue to post about Rise in this topic however....

Please can I ask that you take into account what Glynis has posted as guidelines for what isn't acceptable.

If the old topic is not suitable this one will be left and posts made under the above guidelines will be allowed to remain.

If you want to wait to see if the old topic comes back before carrying on then please feel free to have a wander around other areas of HT you may have missed...including chat and comp probs which not many of you post in.

Hope this helps

Van

To all Mods

Thanks for keeping us in touch with what is going on and I, no doubt, speak for everybody when I say you have our total support.

LL

Still reeling from the shock.... I'd like to thank Luci, Van, all Admin and Mods etc, for providing us forum members with such a helpful service for so long. I just hope that carries on, even if in a reduced manner (i.e. because we can't say what we think), though I sincerely hope it doesn't come to that.

Luci, Van etc - keep smiling

Fay

I suggest that the guidelines are adhered to that Glynis posted or this topic will probably end up being barred completely. I am just saying this as a new user just posted stuff that is clearly not allowed just now...they obviously have difficulties in obeying the rules. They have now had their post removed, but this is just adding to the work of the mods. You know who who are...keep it to yourself for everyones sakes please.

Hi,

Could anyone tell me where to find the guidelines (ie what can/can't be said) referred as the Glynis document.

Thanks

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Here we go:-

In the meantime we would be grateful if members would not:-

Mention any staff member of the company by name.

Do not make any defamatory comments against the company.

Do not post any email addresses or telephone numbers.

Stick to facts that you can support.

just logged on after a few days away and am surprised to find the forum removed. i cant understand why we cant make our views known , especially when they are facts and not speculation. thanks to luci, van and the other moderators for all they have done, and i hope things sort themselves out for the better

I should just like to add my thanks to Luci, Van and all Mods and Administrators for their help over the past months. I, like others on here, have you to thank for so much and we all wish you well. Apart from the practical help received, it is the humour on this site which has kept our spirits up. I fully understand your problems and do hope that things can be sorted out soon. I feel that any company may find it counter-productive to ban free speech.

In the meantime, I would suggest that people with specific queries might considering contacting those whose names appear on the 'roll call' sites. I am sure they would be pleased to offer any assistance they can.

Hope no cruisers object to my posting here - I was one of those who took up the Gallo free flight offer run by Rise, but as the thread in the Holiday Complaints section has been removed there's nowhere else to go... I too would like to express my support for the administators who I believe have done the utmost to ensure a fair and balanced forum. I am happy to stand by all my postings.

Frankly I'm a little bemused that legal action has been threatened as virtually all posts concerning this subject were innoculous (and remarkably good humoured) - seems a bit of a PR own goal. All the postings will have been cached on Google anyway so will be viewable for many months yet, whether they are restored to holidaytruths or not.

Good luck to everyone still waiting for their free cruise/flight/whatever!

Hi, Silver Arrow,

You asked about our legal position regarding the DE.

I can't see that there is much you can do, as the terms allow for trips to be taken up to (I think) December 2005. As requests are being dealt with they can easily say that there have been delays outwith their control, but that the Operator is doing its utmost best.

You might try to get compensation for incovenience, but that's different and unlikely.

I hope William, JennieL and her Mum are not affected by the snow and bad weather in the Med. Perhaps someone will tell them of the new address so that we can find out!

Do you know, I actually feel quite shaky and shocked!! Lots of others have mentioned it but I'll really miss my daily (sometimes hourly) fix!!

Good luck to Van, Luci and co in restoring my favourite site, and of course many thanks to them and all who've posted here giving me loads of help, info and very important giggles since June last year.

Juliet

As Van said, the topic(not the forum) may have been removed but for those of you who are missing the humour try the general chat forum- you could all meet up there.

As Van said, you can continue to post here provided you adhere to the guidelines Glynis has posted above.

luci

I'd like to add my support to the moderators as well. They've done a terrific job and we can only hope that the lawyers will find nothing libellous in the messages they have to troll through, and we can soon get back to normal again.

When I discovered that the thread had been removed, I was at a complete loss, and wondered where else I could turn to get the help and advice which has been shared on this forum. I haven't posted many times, but have been an avid reader of the messages for weeks now, and was delighted along with everyone else to hear that William was doing so well on his cruise (a bit of good PR which was censored along with the bad).

I eventually sent an e-mail to the lady at the newspaper (I'm deliberately not naming names, Luci and Van, just in case) who is named in the useful links section, expressing my disappointment in the shutting down of this section of the forum, and explaining my problem to her, as I had nowhere else to turn.

Not had a reply yet, but that was only yesterday.

I've still got my fingers crossed that free speech will win out in the end.

Sorry this is a long note, my mum always told me I went on too long!

Regards

Graham

PS All of you, keep up the good work.

I would like to thank you on behalf of all the admins and mods for the good wishes and messages of support.
luci

Seconded Luci! xx

Kath HT Admin

I would like to add my support to the moderators. Thank goodness I did not mention names/numbers in my recent postings. I had a feeling that it would not be politic to do so.

Maureen H