Interest rates on Club Lloyds and Bank of Scotland Vantage accounts to be slashed - MSE News 23 July 2020 at 1:00PM in Budgeting & bank accounts 11 replies 981 views

Former_MSE_Naomi

Lloyds and Bank of Scotland customers will earn less interest on Club Lloyds and Vantage accounts from October...

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'Interest rates on Club Lloyds and Bank of Scotland Vantage accounts to be slashed'

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soulsaver

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6169235/lloyds-club-lloyds-current-account-rate-reduction-from-1st-october-2020/p1

Nick_C

Yep.  Posted by a forum member over a week ago. This site has really gone downhill. 

LittleVoice

Queen Ann is dead.

veryintrigued

LittleVoice said:

Queen Ann is dead.

You mean Queen Anne per chance?

Yorkshire_Pud

Nick_C said:

Yep.  Posted by a forum member over a week ago. This site has really gone downhill. 

Not really.
mse staff don’t read the forum unless it’s a post report. They react as and when they receive information or a news release from a bank then turn it into a story on the forum. That’s their job.

You can’t expect them to add to an existing thread (it’s not their job).

Zanderman

Yorkshire_Pud said:

Nick_C said:

Yep.  Posted by a forum member over a week ago. This site has really gone downhill. 

Not really.
mse staff don’t read the forum unless it’s a post report. They react as and when they receive information or a news release from a bank then turn it into a story on the forum. That’s their job.

You can’t expect them to add to an existing thread (it’s not their job).

Hmmm, a debatable point.  It is their job to highlight the story - and write about it. Agree totally.

But it's surely not their job to start a duplicate discussion thread.  Which is merely confusing the discussion.

They can - and have in the past on occasions - take-over, in the nicest possible way, the existing thread and add their own spin and link to their full story, to the opening thread, retaining the original post as well - which enables both MSE Towers and the original OP to have joint credit/billing.  Without starting another thread.

I can't see any reason for them not to do that - except for laziness.

Yorkshire_Pud

Zanderman said:

Yorkshire_Pud said:

Nick_C said:

Yep.  Posted by a forum member over a week ago. This site has really gone downhill. 

Not really.
mse staff don’t read the forum unless it’s a post report. They react as and when they receive information or a news release from a bank then turn it into a story on the forum. That’s their job.

You can’t expect them to add to an existing thread (it’s not their job).

Hmmm, a debatable point.  It is their job to highlight the story - and write about it. Agree totally.

But it's surely not their job to start a duplicate discussion thread.  Which is merely confusing the discussion.

They can - and have in the past on occasions - take-over, in the nicest possible way, the existing thread and add their own spin and link to their full story, to the opening thread, retaining the original post as well - which enables both MSE Towers and the original OP to have joint credit/billing.  Without starting another thread.

I can't see any reason for them not to do that - except for laziness.

Accept your points it can be jarring to have two threads going on the same story.

I don’t suppose it is laziness though. More doing what their manager/editor tells them to do in order to keep their job. 

Zanderman

Yorkshire_Pud said:

Zanderman said:

Yorkshire_Pud said:

Nick_C said:

Yep.  Posted by a forum member over a week ago. This site has really gone downhill. 

Not really.
mse staff don’t read the forum unless it’s a post report. They react as and when they receive information or a news release from a bank then turn it into a story on the forum. That’s their job.

You can’t expect them to add to an existing thread (it’s not their job).

Hmmm, a debatable point.  It is their job to highlight the story - and write about it. Agree totally.

But it's surely not their job to start a duplicate discussion thread.  Which is merely confusing the discussion.

They can - and have in the past on occasions - take-over, in the nicest possible way, the existing thread and add their own spin and link to their full story, to the opening thread, retaining the original post as well - which enables both MSE Towers and the original OP to have joint credit/billing.  Without starting another thread.

I can't see any reason for them not to do that - except for laziness.

Accept your points it can be jarring to have two threads going on the same story.

I don’t suppose it is laziness though. More doing what their manager/editor tells them to do in order to keep their job. 

Actually I strongly suspect it IS laziness - probably not even bothering to check the forum. 

I doubt there's a standing order to always make a new thread regardless of whether there's an existing one.

Especially as, if the MSE team actually read the forum (there's ample evidence that they don't!), they'd be aware that every time they do this - run a story and make a duplicate thread, it generates reactions like we're seeing above. 

It does not put them, MSE, in a good light - so it would be a very odd standing order.

block10

Wonder what Martin Lewis thinks about duplicate threads

Consumerist

What makes me laugh is the "Have your say" link at the end of news stories - with no link to any thread, started by MSE Towers or otherwise.

Please make a special note MSE Callum - a serial offender to my certain knowledge.