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Board Title Change & Note from Martin

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  • MSE_Martin
    MSE_Martin Posts: 8,272 Money Saving Expert
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    chucky wrote: »
    not a great name for the board.

    what will happen to this board when the country is longer in a Recession - will it be renamed?

    thanks by the way.


    Yes and (while Im not promissing) I guess it'll be called "House Prices & the Economy" ;)
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  • drbeat
    drbeat Posts: 627 Forumite
    redux wrote: »
    I don't think there's any need for this attempt to claim a victory.

    No victory claimed, our posts haven't been moved back yet!

    P.S. you could just walk away now, but for some unknown reason you're still poking at the hornets nest?? Why?
  • setmefree2
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  • Generali
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    redux wrote: »
    I don't think there's any need for this attempt to claim a victory.

    What Martin added to the first post was the caution that people who can't behave will have their posting privileges removed

    What's revisionist?

    The original post was changed wholesale. For a start it appeared to be hastily put together as the syntax was all over the place.
  • rchddap1
    rchddap1 Posts: 5,926 Forumite
    Sanity at last. It was a logical change and expected it. Board guides can't pre-empt changes and so had no choice but to suffer the onslaught. Let this be an end to the nastiness.

    And I don't see why anyone can't edit posts if they feel its necessary. Be they martin or anyone else. That's why the functionality is there.
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  • TDS_2
    TDS_2 Posts: 261 Forumite
    dervish wrote: »
    I think most people have you on ignore... :rolleyes:

    And we're back to normal...
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  • MSE_Martin
    MSE_Martin Posts: 8,272 Money Saving Expert
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    On the point of backing down or not. I really prefer we dont go down that road.

    Frankly I hadnt seen any of this until this morning. I liked the suggestion of widening the board remit and did it; the fact that it also provided a solution for some of the unpleasantness was an added bonus.

    As for recriminations; why on earth would I want those. I want a smooth running board that people enjoy, learn from, and helps them. And my board guides and teh MSE team tend to do a great job at it; sometimes we hit understandable friction and then my job is to see whether there is an innate problem that i can solve or its just normal human interaction issues!

    martin
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  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    Let this be an end to the nastiness

    Some hope !!!!! :eek:
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  • SingleSue
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    Martin is probably a little like me....post something, read it through, think "Oh dear, I wanted to say this as well", go back and edit, come out, read through again and go through the whole process again.

    And then finally when I have done all that, I notice a spelling mistake and go back in and edit again!
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  • redux
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    Generali wrote: »
    What's revisionist?

    The original post was changed wholesale. For a start it appeared to be hastily put together as the syntax was all over the place.

    You may get a thrill out of these assertions about the man's literacy, but actually only one paragraph was changed
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