babyposer

Yes I know but apparently many Brits in the EU and EU citizens in the UK are about to ask a new passport to remain in the country and so I believe maybe the government would like to end dual nationality as well!

Front national in France also wants the end of dual nationalities because of terrorism and so on.

Pulaski

There's no accounting for ignorance.
Which has nothing to do with Britain leaving the EU.

Novocastrian

Or she could get one of these ones for nowt...

Tweedpipe

Or one of these.

Rumour has it that they actually pay £80 for those people who want one....

babyposer

cheeky monkey!

balding_potter

I wasn't being resentful - only vaguely humorous. Apparently the one they call 'Bev' didn't think so, and deleted my post. I wonder if 'Bev' bothered to actually understand my post at all?

Oh well. The world turns.

babyposer

We are not allowed to be funny when people can get offended, I also got some pm from Bevs.. Well you're only supposed to give straight facts.
It's a bit unfair though because other people made some off thread comments.

balding_potter

I'm not sure I care too much for Bev's perceptions of who might be offended by what. It would seem somewhat unpredictable, and possibly guided by dyspepsia. I did look for the 'delete my profile' button, but there isn't one.

Perhaps if the one they call Bev happens across this post, she will oblige, and prod the secret red button which undoubtedly exists on some executive control panel only she has access to. Oh the power, the power!

balding_potter

On looking further, I discover that in the 'Privacy Policy' of Internetbrands.com (who parent British Expats), I should have both the ability to deactivate my account, and the ability to delete it:

* - You may deactivate your profile at any time by visiting the preferences page for your profile.
* - You may close your account at any time by logging onto the site on which you are registered and navigating to your account.

Neither of these are available to me. Why is that?

Apologies for hijacking this thread, BTW.

babyposer

Send a private message to Bevs.

balding_potter

I've sent a message to the forum adminstrator (who (s)he?) - we'll see what transpires.

InVinoVeritas

balding_potter, if you just stop posting on BE it will have the same result because even if your account is deleted, all of your posts will remain in order that old threads remain complete (I was going to say intelligible but that may be asking too much!)

jsbach

I have to say that the French forum has changed over the last few years - and changed for the worse in my opinion. Acerbic comments from mods are surely not a good way to encourage members to remain and newbies to join.
I started an extensive thread some years back which exemplified the best of the forum. Advice was good and plentiful but so was supportive comment (and occasional digression). If it's true that mods now only want factual exchanges, the humanity of this community is lessened.

EuroTrash

+1

InVinoVeritas

I think you have a misconception as to what the function of a moderator is.

First and foremost a mod is also a member, probably was for some years before he/she became a mod, continues to be so while moderating and will likely remain so after giving up that duty.

A mod is not responsible for promoting BE, members do that by posting interesting information (as was the case in the thread you mentioned) which then gets referenced by Google and the like, which may ultimately bring new members into the community.

What a mod is responsible for is applying the site rules on the forums he/she moderates - most of this work goes unnoticed by members but some mods spend much of their time simply removing stuff which break the rules (mainly spam by new members). When they are noticed is if they moderate older members who overstep the mark. No one likes such a situation but it happens sometimes.

For my part I don't, and can't, moderate the French forum but I can as a simple member be ascerbic, if I so choose. If a member has a spat with another and wants to take away his ball and bat, then that's fine. It's actually better than having a long running feud between certain members, something which has happened in the past.

Personally, I like the French forum. Members have a profound knowledge, are very open and don't take themselves too seriously, which is great for a forum. Maybe like good wine, there have been some memorable vintages but I'm sure there are even better to come!