Monzo to introduce new fees for UK cash withdrawals and card replacements - MSE News

Former_MSE_Naomi

App-based bank Monzo is introducing new fees for customers who take out cash or order replacement cards from October - though you won't need to pay if you have Monzo Plus or rely on Monzo as your main bank account...

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'Monzo to introduce new fees for UK cash withdrawals and card replacements'

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EarthBoy

Already being discussed here:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6186064/monzo-fairer-banking-new-fees-for-the-minority#latest
Why does MSE insist on creating new threads when there already is one for the same topic?

eskbanker

EarthBoy said:

Why does MSE insist on creating new threads when there already is one for the same topic?

Presumably because they usually create a link to an 'official' forum thread (which they can own/manage/control) from their news stories (thread titled the same as the news piece and first post in a standard template format, so probably auto-generated to a certain extent), and obviously it takes them some time to write the story up in the first place, so in most cases there'll already be an 'unofficial' thread created before the MSE one, thanks to the ever-vigilant forum members who can start a thread in seconds without being held accountable to any editorial standards!

Zanderman

eskbanker said:

EarthBoy said:

Why does MSE insist on creating new threads when there already is one for the same topic?

Presumably because they usually create a link to an 'official' forum thread (which they can own/manage/control) from their news stories (thread titled the same as the news piece and first post in a standard template format, so probably auto-generated to a certain extent), and obviously it takes them some time to write the story up in the first place, so in most cases there'll already be an 'unofficial' thread created before the MSE one, thanks to the ever-vigilant forum members who can start a thread in seconds without being held accountable to any editorial standards!

Doesn't stop them linking to the pre-existing one - or even combining them - does it!? 
My belief, as I've stated before on these things, is that they just don't bother to check for existing threads.  And/or can't comprehend that two threads on one subject will confuse, not help.

eskbanker

Zanderman said:

eskbanker said:

EarthBoy said:

Why does MSE insist on creating new threads when there already is one for the same topic?

Presumably because they usually create a link to an 'official' forum thread (which they can own/manage/control) from their news stories (thread titled the same as the news piece and first post in a standard template format, so probably auto-generated to a certain extent), and obviously it takes them some time to write the story up in the first place, so in most cases there'll already be an 'unofficial' thread created before the MSE one, thanks to the ever-vigilant forum members who can start a thread in seconds without being held accountable to any editorial standards!

Doesn't stop them linking to the pre-existing one - or even combining them - does it!? 
My belief, as I've stated before on these things, is that they just don't bother to check for existing threads.  And/or can't comprehend that two threads on one subject will confuse, not help.

I'm just speculating but, as above, suspect that such threads will be created at least semi-automatically when publishing the news pieces and also imagine that it's important to them to be in control of these, i.e. if their news story was linked to an 'unofficial' thread whose first post was subsequently edited by its creator then that wouldn't be ideal, so they presumably prefer to have the news story linked to a thread created by an MSE staffer.

No doubt they could link to existing threads or combine them though, but I'd perceive it as a conscious policy decision not to, rather than laziness....