What is and isn't acceptable on this board.

Edinburghlass_2

I think though Ted, that you are missing the point in that did you gain the information you found from a Moneysaving website?

There is a big difference between being supportive of someone who is suffering from depression, diabetes etc to giving them actual advice as to how to manage their illness.

I would imagine there are forums on the internet for every conceivable thing and they presumably have their legal limits as has MSE. Martin has given his limits and obviously these should be adhered to.

Traf posted recently when her daughter was diagnosed with gestational diabetes. A number of people responded, myself included, with their experiences and I have no doubt that helped Traf and her family. The posters did not give advice as to how to handle the diabetes. On the debt boards the posters give their advice as to how they coped with their debt problems BUT yet the best advice they give is to see a professional. Maybe the first professional someone might see may not be the best person for that particular problem but I would hope that the advice given would be to find another professional to help and not expect that the person standing next to you in the pub whose mother has suffered the same can give you the same expertise.

mini

I can see the relationship between debt & depression, there are many depression communities on the internet some of them even mention this site


I think we need to keep away from advice giving, more pointers in the direction of further support and information. Debt advice such as transfer your credit card to a 0% card is unlikely to cause harm whereas some one posting to say I took blah anti depressants they saved my life, well not all medications work on people in the same way, still using anti depressants as an example, for some people increase the occurence of suicidal thoughts. There is a limit to what can be posted here & I think the health queries are too involved to attempt to answer in full & accurately. I am guilty myself of having asked for advice for first aid (not on here), completley omitting to mention the involvement of warfarin for the person, a crucial difference.

We want to keep the site surely & the community which builds up within it, to do that we need to know limitations.

mini

MSE_Martin

Hi folks

Just read through this. My point isn't 'forums aren't for medical advice' more 'this forum isn't for this advice because i'm not willing to take responsbility for it'. The difference between this and debt is the forum is part of a wider site with articles about debt which i've written, so there's an in-built context, with health there's no corresponding articles to refer to - so I can't take responsibility for giving the info.

martin

Fran

Perhaps it's something you could look into for the future, so that this wide group of people (with health problems) can moneysave in that area. Many people get into debt because of health problems which causes them to not be able to cope with their finances as well as a healthy person would, so the two things are closely entwined a lot of the time.

Glad

queensway_boy wrote:

Yes we do know who we are.

this is a perfect example of how someone can read a post and see a perfectly different meaning than the one the was posted,

I wrote 'However I know who I am, do you?' which in perfect english means 'do you know who I am?'
but queensway_boy read it totally differently and gave the above response,

if a simple sentence like that can be confused how easy would it be to have someone misread complicated advice being given out.

queensway_boy

glad wrote:

this is a perfect example of how someone can read a post and see a perfectly different meaning than the one the was posted,

I wrote 'However I know who I am, do you?' which in perfect english means 'do you know who I am?'
but queensway_boy read it totally differently and gave the above response,

if a simple sentence like that can be confused how easy would it be to have someone misread complicated advice being given out.

Then again you could of worded it wrong.

System

queensway_boy wrote:

Then again you could of worded it wrong or is that not possible.

I dont think she 'worded' it wrong, i think you misunderstood it.

WeirdoMagnet

queensway_boy wrote:

Then again you could of worded it wrong or is that not possible.

I don't think it was worded incorrectly, but, a correct/true statement could be worded/quoted incorrectly, a bit like Chinese whispers.

queensway_boy

Judi wrote:

I dont think she 'worded' it wrong, i think you misunderstood it.

Are you saying that ONLY the reader of a post can misunderstand the wording,because i'm saying the poster(any poster) can also word a phrase wrong,which is what i pointed out,which is what glads on about.Misinterpratation.

trafalgar_2

queensway_boy wrote:

Are you saying that ONLY the reader of a post can misunderstand the wording,because i'm saying the poster(any poster) can also word a phrase wrong,which is what i pointed out,which is what glads on about.Misinterpratation.

I read it as ,'I know who I am,do you know who you are'