Toxicity

BoiledBreadTomatoSauce

Is it just me, or are a significant number of posters across the site mainly focused on patronising, shaming or otherwise attmepting to belittle anyone who ask for advice?

Posted something fairly innocuous in the pensions forum and it didn't take long before the snippy comments came in. A couple of years back I got an absolute roasting for daring to ask about applying for a mortgage before I'd fully paid off my credit card. There are plenty of decent posters on here but definitely a bad element too.

JJ_Egan

I see nothing toxic in your thread .


https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/75871700#Comment_75871700


However it is a forum and all opinions can be posted as per the rules .

whitepaper

BoiledBreadTomatoSauce wrote: »

Is it just me, or are a significant number of posters across the site mainly focused on patronising, shaming or otherwise attmepting to belittle anyone who ask for advice?

Posted something fairly innocuous in the pensions forum and it didn't take long before the snippy comments came in. A couple of years back I got an absolute roasting for daring to ask about applying for a mortgage before I'd fully paid off my credit card. There are plenty of decent posters on here but definitely a bad element too.

I have looked at your thread from yesterday, and cannopt see any suggestion of any "snippy comments"

As one poster there did suggest, however:
"We all see what we want to see."

In regards to the "absolute roasting" you claim to have received "A couple of years back", I did try to search for this to better understand your issue, but I found you only appear to have joined this site last September :cool:

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NaughtiusMaximus

JJ_Egan wrote: »

I see nothing toxic in your thread .


https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/75871700#Comment_75871700


However it is a forum and all opinions can be posted as per the rules .

Quite. I have seen a number of examples on this forum of requests for information being met with unhelpful, condescending and sometimes downright nasty comments but this is not one of them,

BoiledBreadTomatoSauce

whitepaper wrote: »

I have looked at your thread from yesterday, and cannopt see any suggestion of any "snippy comments"

As one poster there did suggest, however:
"We all see what we want to see."

In regards to the "absolute roasting" you claim to have received "A couple of years back", I did try to search for this to better understand your issue, but I found you only appear to have joined this site last September :cool:

This is what the forum rules say in regards to innapropriate, offensive or racist posts.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/site/forum-faqs/

In short, ignore and report; the forum team will then review and take any action they deem appropriate.

You can ignore all posts by specific users by adding that user to your ignore list.

The "see what we want to see" post in the thread was fairly obviously intended as a dig.

I started a new account in September hence your findings.