MSE News: NS&I slashes savings limit on bonds to just £10,000

bowlhead99 wrote: »

An existing discussion thread on this was started this morning:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5855143/ns-igrowth-bonds-holding-reduced

Indeed, but it only used the word 'reduced', whereas compliance with MSE's tabloidy sensationalistic style guide necessitates the use of 'slashes' in the official version

To be fair, if you can't use 'slashes' for a 99% reduction then there won't be many legitimate uses for the term I suppose....

badmemory wrote: »

I would think that anyone who didn't refer to a cut from 100% to 1% as a "slash" or a similar term would be a person who was defending it for some personal reason. Because if not why defend it?

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Are you seriously suggesting that Jimmithecat, who started the original thread on this but didn't use the term 'slashed', is therefore defending the cut? It's an unlikely scenario!

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5855143/ns-igrowth-bonds-holding-reduced

badmemory wrote: »

I would think that anyone who didn't refer to a cut from 100% to 1% as a "slash" or a similar term would be a person who was defending it for some personal reason.

In which case you would think wrong!

You'd fit in well on some of the TSB threads, where anyone challenging the hysterical, over the top and indiscriminate style of some critics is automatically (but usually wrongly) assumed to be defending the bank, but that distinction would appear to be too subtle for some.

I don't know if you were actually referring to my post immediately prior to yours, but my remarks were obviously about MSE's journalistic style rather than any defence of the subject of the underlying story....

Zanderman wrote: »

Have you noticed the relative absence of silly posts on the TSB threads recently? A certain somewhat time-wasting contributor, lets called him M, hasn't been active since 7th June. Nor has another, very much more helpful poster, let's called him V, often picked on by said M, also hasn't been active since 11th June. Both have logged in since their most recent (surviving) posts but have been inactive - not posting. I wonder have one or both been banned - temporarily or permanent?

V has been banned (in the form of Posting Privileges Revoked, hence 'PPR' displayed under the username) since 1 June, based on date of most recent post, but I don't know how long the ban is for.

M maybe eventually got bored of trolling endlessly, or perhaps it was just that half-term finished?

There is also the 'diminishing returns' aspect of the TSB saga, in that there's little new left to say, sensible or otherwise, on the subject....

Zanderman wrote: »

Not quite sure I can quite credit M with just getting weary of posting, and his record goes back well before half-term.

Oh well, maybe he's back in pokey.