michaelc
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Post by michaelc on Jun 7, 2021 14:30:33 GMT
I occasionally go over there and sometimes ask a question but I've been doing a lot less of the latter in recent years.
I've noticed there are a handful of regulars on there with tens of thousands of posts who seem to like jumping on new posts with obvious/pointless/boring answers. I wouldn't mind if that was all but many of these IMO are highly condescending, often making assumptions about what OP's position is and not answering their question directly.
So whilst I was bored one day, I decided to point out a few of them. Whenever I did that, I'd get 3 or 4 replies from the same set of posters each with multiple likes from each other. In the background thye'd all hit the "report" button and I'd get a warning. I'm now on my second and final warning.
I'll not continue there but the last warning and deletion of my posts came in a post where the moderator had clearly seen reply I was complaining about which was really a pretty unfriendly reply. The OP asked a load of stuff starting his post with a "Hiya..." , was a perfectly reasonable question and within seconds he got a reply "No". The moderator thought that met their "unfriendly" test but me calling that out did not. I'd be interested to see what my fellow (and largely sensible) forumites think of it. I'l post up the thread is anyone cares to take a look.
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macq
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Post by macq on Jun 7, 2021 15:05:22 GMT
Yep when your off the naughty step  post the link - i tend to find the savings board a bit like you say on odd occasions and most answers on investing seem to involve VLS 60 most of the time and anyone not agreeing is wrong.I miss Bowlhead (think that was his name) who seems to have also been banned for some reason after thousands of replies! and there does seem to have been a lot of posts from newbies about what fund to invest in which i am sure are windups just to see the same people mention VLS or the like for the hundredth time that week.But yes the views can be strident at times and wallstreet from here would be right at home there (although the pension board seems calmer) |
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Post by james100 on Jun 7, 2021 16:06:16 GMT
I occasionally go over there and sometimes ask a question but I've been doing a lot less of the latter in recent years. I've noticed there are a handful of regulars on there with tens of thousands of posts who seem to like jumping on new posts with obvious/pointless/boring answers. I wouldn't mind if that was all but many of these IMO are highly condescending, often making assumptions about what OP's position is and not answering their question directly. So whilst I was bored one day, I decided to point out a few of them. Whenever I did that, I'd get 3 or 4 replies from the same set of posters each with multiple likes from each other. In the background thye'd all hit the "report" button and I'd get a warning. I'm now on my second and final warning. I'll not continue there but the last warning and deletion of my posts came in a post where the moderator had clearly seen reply I was complaining about which was really a pretty unfriendly reply. The OP asked a load of stuff starting his post with a "Hiya..." , was a perfectly reasonable question and within seconds he got a reply "No". The moderator thought that met their "unfriendly" test but me calling that out did not. I'd be interested to see what my fellow (and largely sensible) forumites think of it. I'l post up the thread is anyone cares to take a look. Yes post it! I used to post there ages ago. Some really helpful, kind and knowledgeable people, very generous with their advice but also some prolific ones who seem to see it as a power-based career proxy through which to fulfill their fetish for humiliating minions. Quite a few of them talk out of their backsides when it comes to e.g. tax. I've never had a row with anyone there though...I'm a passive aggressive drifter, me. Mods make or a break a place don't they. I was on a massive forum about 10 years ago (not UK based nor financially related) and there was a scandal with corrupt admin, evil top poster, sock puppeteering to whip up posting activity etc... ended badly and feuding continued across the interwebs for years. People are nuts anyway. Giving them anonymity and a wifi connection was never going to end well haha.
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iRobot
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Post by iRobot on Jun 7, 2021 16:33:06 GMT
People are nuts anyway. Giving them anonymity and a wifi connection was never going to end well haha.  would 'like' that at least twice if I could! FWIW, I was a regular on the UK's Motley Fool forum until they closed it. Used to be a real treasure trove of useful information from helpful posters and, for the most part, was the epitome of civilised debate. It did re-surface as The Lemon Fool (https://www.lemonfool.co.uk/) but my visits tailed off so can't comment on either of the above aspects.
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macq
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Post by macq on Jun 7, 2021 16:40:59 GMT
If there is a ruck between the forums over this do we go in mob handed or do the mods from each forum meet at dawn?  |
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Post by lara on Jun 7, 2021 16:48:40 GMT
We're very lucky here.
One of my first experiences on a forum, the reply to my question was "Google is your friend". Of course I had Googled first, that's how I came across the forum!
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Post by overthehill on Apr 7, 2024 20:36:42 GMT
I scan through the weekly email for stand out stuff but haven't read much for years. This is something I've not seen before and would appeal to people whose lives are dogged and dominated by call centres.
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Post by mogish on Apr 8, 2024 6:35:31 GMT
I've never logged into the forum but use mse for checking various deals and comparing savings rates and stuff.
Quite good although you Would have to be very careful to take on some of the tips. The effort to save a quid is not worth it to myself.
Used to used moneyfacts but can't be bothered trawling through the trash.
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Post by rscal on Apr 8, 2024 7:26:09 GMT
Whenever I go there to check whether there is a current account switcher off current there almost always seems to be one which I just come up. A strange kind of synchronicity like the one I experienced as a child of checking the DT weekend TV listings where they listed ITV regions and checking out 'Southern TV' which somehow was always showing 'Jason and the Argonauts' (and of course it wasn't on LWT, so I couldn't enjoy it!)
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Apr 8, 2024 9:55:35 GMT
I love it when a poster pops up a controversial OP then never responds
Having said that this place and the other I frequent most often are polite, so example correcting spellings will be done gently and mostly politely, on another I saw and read the OPs post and instead of answering 5 or 6 of the high ranked posters jumped in and criticised the OPs spelling and grammar.
IIRC correctly OP had money issues and there were comments like "ooh can't afford council tax, but can afford tramp stamps"
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Post by moonraker on Apr 8, 2024 10:45:51 GMT
I love it when a poster pops up a controversial OP then never responds Having said that this place and the other I frequent most often are polite, so example correcting spellings will be done gently and mostly politely, on another I saw and read the OPs post and instead of answering 5 or 6 of the high ranked posters jumped in and criticised the OPs spelling and grammar. IIRC correctly OP had money issues and there were comments like "ooh can't afford council tax, but can afford tramp stamps" I'm one of the regular contributors of advice to the KDP Community for self-publishers. We get non-respondees all the time, often when our own replies point out their ignorance and failure to look at links on the webpage or previous threads that have answered their question. And all too often the written English of a short post is so bad that one wonders how the authors were able to write a literate book. A recurring theme is on the lines of "Have had no sells of my book how do i promote it" - a question that has been asked and answered almost 4,000 times.
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Post by overthehill on Apr 9, 2024 20:15:05 GMT
3yr 4.15% savings bond with NS&I
It's amazing how much money people waste or give away to non-charitable causes or to companies who pay huge bonuses to management.
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post the link - i tend to find the savings board a bit like you say on odd occasions and most answers on investing seem to involve VLS 60 most of the time and anyone not agreeing is wrong.I miss Bowlhead (think that was his name) who seems to have also been banned for some reason after thousands of replies! and there does seem to have been a lot of posts from newbies about what fund to invest in which i am sure are windups just to see the same people mention VLS or the like for the hundredth time that week.But yes the views can be strident at times and wallstreet from here would be right at home there (although the pension board seems calmer)
would 'like' that at least twice if I could!
