MSE has closed the Money Saving Arms.

colinw

Nope make that Five! it appears I can not spell long! and I had to correct two there.....

elsien

Blame predictive text, I always do.
I love the area round Bamburgh.
I may be willing to drive to a beach if I was sure there were facilities open. I hate to think where all those people have been going to the toilet up until now. 

colinw

elsien said:

Blame predictive text, I always do.
I love the area round Bamburgh.
I may be willing to drive to a beach if I was sure there were facilities open. I hate to think where all those people have been going to the toilet up until now. 

It is a laptop so no predictive the problem is my brain working my fingers!

The toilets were open when I was there yesterday.....

It is a nice area though and the beaches are big enough to be able to keep out of peoples way

andygb

reliability said:

elsien said:

sweetsand said:

I would not join the new board and am glad that the he/she poster that was here 7x7, 24/7, his/her life actually was the MSE discussion forums has joined the new place and they are rarely here now. This is all good for the MSE forums as posters like that just created non existent problems.  I can post quiet a bit on the forums and waste a lot of my time arguing with clowns that think they know it all. I've said it on this thread about my 3mobile post and the first response was by a joker. I rebuked the joker as the thread was a serious one where real people can get defrauded of everything they own. 

Not just MSE but every forum I've been on you have your little cliques where people don't work, never worked, work from home or HQ and spend too much time trying to score points and when you get the better of them IE point out their mistake/s, they take it personally and the PM's start lying to others with too much time on their hnads who then join in to defend the indefensible. Thankfully there are not a lot of them these days and this recent action by MSE will stop these time wasters posting here so people can then raise genuine concerns, alerts, questions via threads with a lot less fear of being mocked or hypocritical posts.

I read last night several threads and two stick in my mins. One was about claiming benefits and working along with trying to get a couicl property, the rubbish that was posted at by some that had been here for a while and the OP was accused of being X, Y, Z etc.
The other thread was by someone who must have worked hard all of their lives like some of here and they were asking about how to safeguard some assets at least to pass on to their grandchildren, children etc as they felt they'd paid more than enough tax at every stag. The abuse, p taking hypocritical stance by those that may never had a penny to their name or managing hand to moth was incredible.

Before I continue with my online shopping I must mention a thread where the OP talked about an nice holiday in the UK but it was expensive with " ? number of kids." the indirect p taking, the condescending, the hypocritical posts was incredible but as soon as the OP hit back, pals came to support the silly posts and yes, the OP was then claimed to be an ex poster and the usual he/she was X, Y, Z, etc. 
I'm glad that a couple of posters that spent their lives on MSE may have moved on to trash another forum.

All I have to say to this is pot and kettle. 

All I have to say is - what more proof of the cliques in here do you need?

Keep it shut MSE and give yourselves the chance to attract new members that are interested in helping others to save money but who wouldn't join before because of the nastiness & trolling which you'd earned quite the reputation for.

There are plenty of places on MSE where you can get good (and bad) advice on money saving, but the Discussion zone was for - discussion. Nobody is forcing anyone to take part in online discussions. Depensds how thick your skin is, how easily you are offended.

colinw

I still do not get why this forum would want to drive quite a lot of people away from it, the spin off forum is ticking along quite nicely at the moment with about 90 users

stephen77

colinw said:

I still do not get why this forum would want to drive quite a lot of people away from it, the spin off forum is ticking along quite nicely at the moment with about 90 users

My guess is, it creates a bit of noise. It only takes a few bad posts not to get deleted in time and the daily mail will print an article saying MSE is this and that, that can damage the brand?
That is worst case. 
There was a journalist snooping around age a while ago. 

Admittedly as some posters have said in the past, the DT part of the forum, stops debates happening in other parts of the forum.  

suki1964

colinw said:

I still do not get why this forum would want to drive quite a lot of people away from it, the spin off forum is ticking along quite nicely at the moment with about 90 users

95 last count
Even those who said they wouldn't be coming have done. no mischief to be made here now theres no where to push peoples buttons with supposedly discussion

wilfred30

Yeah, it's really boring here now!

cognoscenti

suki1964 said:

colinw said:

I still do not get why this forum would want to drive quite a lot of people away from it, the spin off forum is ticking along quite nicely at the moment with about 90 users

95 last count
Even those who said they wouldn't be coming have done. no mischief to be made here now theres no where to push peoples buttons with supposedly discussion

That's not quite true though, is it?
I said I wouldn't, and I won't ( but cheer if you wish and show your true colours by doing so).
Ignoring the missing threads, posts and - strangely - even a user is more than a hint that all is not sweetness & roses.
No I'm not saying it's bad, but seeing certain users that also posted here is enough to convince me not to bother and to use my time better elsewhere.

If you have the time available and if you wanted a possibly parasitic but anonymous echo chamber for the sort of disgruntled types who would rather switch homes than admit any complicity in what led to closures here it's the place to be.
I have nothing but admiration for the founder as I have openly stated in these forums in the past and wish them well, but I do hope that the infection I see resolves over time rather than become endemic.

Marisco

colinw said:

I still do not get why this forum would want to drive quite a lot of people away from it, the spin off forum is ticking along quite nicely at the moment with about 90 users

Make that 105 now Colin