Welcome to someone new to the forum

Good idea. Thanks for pointing that out.

Welcome miuccia!

I agree. I too have appreciated miuccia’s thoughtful and informative comments.

nancy8, thank you for reminding us to be welcoming to all who post here. I do feel miuccia has become a valued member of the Forum community, even though we hadn’t formally acknowledged it.

I feel the same way about Stuart, whose screen name escapes me at the moment, but who has been particularly helpful to those of us with questions about public transportation in England.

Edit to add: Stuart's screen name is isn31c.

You are correct nancy8, welcome to those new members we give their time and knowledge. It is much appreciated.

Good idea, Nancy, and Benvenuto Miuccia!

Yes Nancy thank you for pointing this out! And agree miuccia’s answers have been very helpful so thank you miuccia for being here!

Nice post, nancys8. I too have been expressed by miuccia’s kind and helpful contributions, and intended to say so. So I will say it now—-Complimenti! Your posts are very helpful.

Tonight I was dismayed to see that miuccia's posts appear to have vanished from several threads, because I too valued his/her contributions to the Italy forum.

It appears that miuccia's account and all associated posts have been deleted.

While in some cases helpful and quite detailed, there were other responses which appeared to be a bit too strongly opinionated, if not argumentative. The last straw may have been a discussion regarding getting hiking equipment from sporting goods stores in mountainous areas - miuccia suggested that the OP wouldn't find any, as I recall.

Yeah, it's too bad. I do not mind people being opinionated if I can learn something from them. I've been working mostly peacefully for 20 years with an obnoxiously opinionated colleague who actually does know a lot.

On a different topic than hiking equipment, I sent miuccia a private message asking her not to argue with a reply I posted, but to just move on to the next post, in keeping with the spirit of the forum. She did not respond and a week or so later she was gone.

miuccia attacked me personally out of the blue on one of her first threads. Then sent me a nasty gram PM which I forwarded to the moderators. Seems she didn't like anyone posting info that didn't agree with hers. Anyway the post was deleted, I stayed away from her. Last post I saw she took a dig at the moderators- shortly afterwards she was gone.

There was another "new" poster a few weeks ago whose answers had a very similar style and tone to miuccia- I have no inside knowledge but suspect it was miuccia signed up with a different screen name. That poster and all her posts are also gone now.
It's too bad- she seemed to have a wealth of knowledge about Italy and would have been an asset to the forum if she could have stayed within the spirit of the forum.

Thank you for the additional context.

Oh, I remember that post saying that folks were risking their lives in the Florence heat and should abandon their reservations and go to the nearest beach to stay cool.

Hmm.
I did wonder…..

Miuccia (from the Boot) was the one who, in more than one post, said to be writing from Italy, which I highly doubt, since all her posts were between 5am and 10pm Pacific Time (2pm to 7am in Italy) and in particular in the afternoon/early evening here in California (middle of the night in Italy). So unless she was an insomniac she was probably living in the US, probably on the East Coast or the Midwest (Eastern Time or Central Time) and pretending to be in Italy. I checked the times of all her numerous daily replies since she antagonized and challenged my posts in several instances, writing very opinionated (and often inaccurate) statements about Italy and Italians. I never replied explicitly to her or her posts, instead, at most I replied generally correcting her statements when she gave information that was so incorrect to be misleading to other travelers. I think she might have been banned after someone complained and her account deleted (including all previous posts) because I don’t think it is possible to delete our own accounts and make all the previous posts disappear. I think she came back under a different pseudonym that now I don’t see anymore. Some people have nothing better to do than to pretend to appear what they are not. Sometime I do the same. When people ask me where my foreign accent is from, I tell them I’m actually from Soul Leik, Ootah.