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  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,076 Forumite
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    In_For_A_Penny wrote: »

    Great publicity for a company I had never heard off before. Anyone looking for a new kitchen?

    Does it come with free abuse?
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  • Generali
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    Doozergirl wrote: »
    Does it come with free abuse?

    It seems that you get the abuse up front.
  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,076 Forumite
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    I din't suppose there are many Sun readers on this theead, but my house was on Sarah Beeny's property page yesterday. Bit weird!
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  • silvercar
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    Doozergirl wrote: »
    I din't suppose there are many Sun readers on this theead, but my house was on Sarah Beeny's property page yesterday. Bit weird!

    Any publicity is good publicity....unless you are a dodgy kitchen company.
    I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    MSE asking posters to click spam button....
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • silvercar
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    Dangerously on topic.

    I must have had my head in the sand. Sunday Times Home section talks about house prices being "back up to" 2006-7 levels in most areas now. In my little corner of the world prices are near double that level.
    I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.
  • michaels
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    LydiaJ wrote: »
    I don't think michaels is necessarily disagreeing with that. We probably all agree that the friend has been both wrong and stupid. I think michaels is addressing the question of to what extent mas should allow this incident to change his view of his friend. And without knowing more facts, we're not in a position to say whether the friend is a thoughtless and irresponsible idiot behaving in a foreign country as all his friends already know he behaves at home, or a deceitful and dangerous pervert that nobody in their right mind would want to touch with a bargepole ever again.
    Thanks Lydia, it is great having you here to say exactly what I mean even though I am unable to articulate it clearly.
    Doozergirl wrote: »
    I din't suppose there are many Sun readers on this theead, but my house was on Sarah Beeny's property page yesterday. Bit weird!
    Oh dear, hopefully none of your potential market would have seen it...bit embarassing that you have found out of course...
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    MSE asking posters to click spam button....
    Perhaps they have set the forum software so that a single spam report will delete a thread and lock out a user...one to try? ;)
    I think....
  • caronoel
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    silvercar wrote: »
    Dangerously on topic.

    I must have had my head in the sand. Sunday Times Home section talks about house prices being "back up to" 2006-7 levels in most areas now. In my little corner of the world prices are near double that level.


    Round my way, Harpenden, they certainly are 60-80% above the low point of early 2009. Bigger houses seem to have risen more than smaller ones.

    As for my flats in London - they certainly are close to double their low price point five years ago!

    :T:T:T:T
  • Yorkie1
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    Doozergirl wrote: »
    Someone's been busy this morning.

    I remember Nenen from years ago. Lovely poster :). The thread the angry refers to comes up first in google when putting in an infamous kitchen person's name and one of the brands associated. It hasn't made me think any better of them.

    The naughty word filter could do with some vocabulary adding to it :)
    mystic_trev wrote: »
    Well two can play at that game, I've 'thanked' Browntoa's thread.

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5068412
    Generali wrote: »
    The massages are different on the bits of spam I've seen. Is someone really doing this by hand? What a waste of effort if they are. Pretty funny in the way that comedy graffiti is: you shouldn't really laugh because they are messing up the place but sometimes you do anyway.

    I initially reported several messages before realising the scale of it :eek:

    There were 120-ish posts just on the mortgages forum. Having clicked the lot, I'm not minded to carry on for the other boards :A

    It was quite entertaining to see how spelling improved where wrong, and words were varied to get round the spam filter, over time:D
  • Generali
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    michaels wrote: »
    Perhaps they have set the forum software so that a single spam report will delete a thread and lock out a user...one to try? ;)

    Regardless if I was running a site like this where I don't want to pay for moderators, I'd set a threshold so if so many people (5 or 10) clicked the Spam button then the post is automatically deleted and the poster suspended.
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