Every forum should have a Sloppy Saver!!

Sloppy_Saver

Hi guys,

I started a thread in this very forum called "Don't pay off your mortgage early!!". Generally it was well received, several people disagreed with my views and so a balanced, sometimes heated debate grew. This is exactly what I was hoping for, so that people (including myself) were given two sides to the POYM strategy and could decide if it was pertinent for them.

What I didn't expect were complaints from certain people* who said that I should be thrown off the website because my view differed from theirs and that this forum was ONLY for like-minded people.

The trouble with exclusively having like-minded people in a forum is that no one questions the advice spouted by well meaning (or not) individuals who have very little financial or legal experience.

The following thread gives an example of this sort of advice. A poster was considering going bankrupt and was offered advice about what would happen to her partner's pension. Lot of well meaning, like-minded people got together and advised her that the pension was safe, so bankruptcy was an option. Step in "Super Saver", saviour of the Mortgage Free Wannabe's and now the Debt Free Wannabe's too:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=383361

Don't shoot the messenger just because you don't like the message, and don't ignore advice just because it opposes your own viewpoint. Every choice has pros and cons, lets hear everybody's view guys!

*(you know who you are)

Sloppy_Saver

I enjoyed it too it was good fun and informative. Shame some people had to be rude though

Sloppy_Saver

somehow we've just got to put up with them. Shame can't all just get along.

Sloppy_Saver

see what I mean? Like flies to my spiders web and don't even have the sense to realise it.

Gibberish as usual from this poster, and the usual 2x posting. Classic.

WISHIWASRICH_2

Be Great If You Got A Life And Stopped Stalking Mfw Board....

Sloppy_Saver

tsk tsk, sad really, such a waste

Sloppy_Saver

I just don't know what I do to antagonise that person?

regularsaver1

I've just been told to stop posting by this poster as i am stopping them taking over the forum? !!!!!!

Sloppy_Saver

surely not, you must have missunderstood the message? Where did it say that?

regularsaver1

Kenshaz????

Sloppy_Saver

sorry, don't understand?