Moving this board.

chucky

ess0two wrote: »

Seems a good idea the majority in here want houses to be given away with a box of cornflakes.

i guess it's not the image that Martin Lewis wants to create - he'd like this forum hidden away.

it's not the best marketing for Martin with the anti-government, basically anti-everything ghetto that reside on the board that believe they can move markets by their rantings.

divadee

i just cant understand the problem really,

its like your favourite restaurant moving 10 shops along from where it is now.

would you stop going just cos it moved? its still the same restaurant and food etc... its just moved 10 shops away:rolleyes:

Generali

divadee wrote: »

it is going to be a main board near the arms, martin has stated that in his opening post. It will not be a sub board.

I misread the opening post.

TBH, I'm not in favour of the move but it's Martin's site and he'll do with it what he wants.

Sir_Humphrey

Perhaps a better move would be setting a separate I hate Brown/Goodwin/We are all doomed/Tin foil hat/Water powered car/etc board, so the boring stuff can be moved there, leaving this board for more serious discussion?

carolt

divadee wrote: »

i just cant understand the problem really,

its like your favourite restaurant moving 10 shops along from where it is now.

would you stop going just cos it moved? its still the same restaurant and food etc... its just moved 10 shops away:rolleyes:

Yes - I would stop going if it was stuck in a dark corner, and I hadn't spotted it. My point exactly. And I at least actually know where to look for it. Newbies would never know it was there at all.

I sincerely hope other's cynicism is misplaced, and that isn't the entire point.

Graham_Devon

SingleSue wrote: »

Quite possibly but then it is personal to me and I don't like being accused of being scum because someone does not have the good grace to think of the wider picture......that makes it personal. So a little of personal experience is a good thing to put a point across.

I have posted in both the Arms and DT, the arms seemed full of non important x factor type stuff, the more serious discussions in DT.

Of course, there were exceptions to this...sometimes a more serious topic would be posted in the Arms but it soon got lost in x factor type stuff.

This is the point I was trying to make earlier, when you stated everyone calls everyone scum, and I had to pipe up.

No one at all was calling YOU scum. There was an article in a paper most probably, which is what people were talking about. There was probably one or two people calling these people in the news scum.....nothing worse than goes on here at all.

You chose to take it somewhat personally, which is why I stated inflamatory earlier.

Honestly, DT is not a bad place, it has its characters, I'm one of them, but to label it as you did was completely false and only your perception as you took what people were saying wrong, and took it personally.

Also, as I understood it, this would be a seperate board within the arms. At the moment there are four boards. Poll results, funny money, DT and the arms itself.

The arms board itself, IS for the x-factor type stuff, that IS it's purpose. But that doesnt spill over into DT.

penguine

Almost a year ago my OH and I were looking to buy a house. I went to the house buying / selling forum to post a question about surveys and then at some point, out of curiosity, I wandered into the house prices sub forum.

I didn't realise at that point that house prices were already falling, but I got hooked on that forum.

About 6 weeks later we pulled out of our house purchase -- partly because we learned the house needed a lot of work, but mainly because once we realised that house prices were falling and the wider economy was in trouble, a property that looked like a bargain when we put in our offer was now obviously overpriced.

Without reading the discussions and linked articles on the house prices forum, we wouldn't have thought so hard about whether it was the right time to buy a house. We might have rushed to find another property in the next few months before our mortgage offer expired. We probably wouldn't still be waiting and watching the market now, confident that in another year or two we'll be buying a house for considerably less.

The house prices forum deserves a lot of credit for keeping us from making what would almost certainly have been the biggest financial mistake of our lives. That would never have happened if the forum had been buried down the bottom of the list in the Money Saving Arms, because I'd never have found it there.

The economy, recession and house prices are as "pure money" as you can get.

Moderate, don't marginalise, this board.

Lifeisbutadream

carolt wrote: »

Yes - I would stop going if it was stuck in a dark corner, and I hadn't spotted it. My point exactly. And I at least actually know where to look for it. Newbies would never know it was there at all.

I sincerely hope other's cynicism is misplaced, and that isn't the entire point.

How do you think anyone found The Arms? there is newbies there too you know - we're not all inbreds..:p

divadee

carolt wrote: »

Yes - I would stop going if it was stuck in a dark corner, and I hadn't spotted it. My point exactly. And I at least actually know where to look for it. Newbies would never know it was there at all.

I sincerely hope other's cynicism is misplaced, and that isn't the entire point.

well then you need to broaden your horizons and look at all the other boards on this forum.

I found the arms when i first came here very easily, i think you will find most newbies will look at all the boards over time, and then most stick to the ones that interest them most.

And to be honest, this forum isnt pure money at all, it is mainly just discussion threads so it is best suited to where it may be moved to

Graham_Devon

Generali wrote: »

Is it going to be a sub board of the Arms (in which case it will take its tone from the Arms) or will it be a main board in the same area as the Arms?

The Arms is a sub board of the Arms.

Do pensions advice spill over to this board? It's no different.