Do it myself and mods

[Leo21]

This guy really gets up my nose.

hes on here giving advise under the ukpf banner. We don't know his qualifications, he's got no badges what so ever.

so surely he shouldn't be giving advise? Can the mods do anything about this, maybe some sort of disclaimer attached to his posts? Something along the lines of,

" we cannot be responsible for the accurateness of this idiots posts, as far as we're aware he's not qualified in any way, we recommend you ignore this sad tw@t"

You get the gist.

really though mods, come on, it's making a mockery of us.

 

[Rickster123]

You can't go banning people just because they annoy. (Jase being the exception obviously)

Does he annoy anyone else or is it just Leo being Leo?

 

[Millsy 82]

I tend to go past his posts now. I think his name gives him away to most people.

 

[SimonG]

I ignore him.

 

[quality]

everybody has their own opinion its whats makes us different. Sometimes we agree sometimes we don't that's what makes us human. but yes some clowns really annoy me

 

[Riley]

I find a lot of what he says drivvel and some of it sounds like it has literally been lifted from websites and instructions

 

[AlexGas]

 

[Whyme]

A bit deep that haha

 

[Riley]

I don't have a problem with him exactly he just seems to be coming across as having a lot of knowledge when he clearly doesn't and often just gives the plain wrong answer to people. Granted this is down to the poster as to whether they use the advice or not but it could reflect badly on us as a forum

 

[AlexGas]

Maybe he has a few drinks on occasion!?

 

[Leo21]

Ok, he's annoying. But my main issue is him giving out advise under our banner. Users coming on here can't/won't be able to differentiate between good advise and bad advise. And as I've said, no qualifications or even background in the trade. It's ridiculous, embarrassing and potontially costly to the recipient, and at worse dangerous.

 

[rpm]

Whilst I understand your points mate isn`t it the same on all forums where you can be given advice and sometimes the replies are conflicting.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Give him a diy banner then 😀

 

[ShaunCorbs]

And an added benefit I'm sure it will **** him off

 

[rpm]

Give him a diy banner then 😀

There isn`t one, and don`t see how that works anyway.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

There isn`t one, and don`t see how that works anyway.

The elec forum have one and there both run on the same software maybe ask Dan crops/ mods

 

[quality]

this is a uk plumbers forum for everybody and anyone there are many professional forums to choose from

 

[plumben]

There isn`t one, and don`t see how that works anyway.

Give all of the Gas safe and members in the forum a Professional banner and him DIY

 

[lame plumber]

This guy really gets up my nose.

hes on here giving advise under the ukpf banner. We don't know his qualifications, he's got no badges what so ever.

so surely he shouldn't be giving advise? Can the mods do anything about this, maybe some sort of disclaimer attached to his posts? Something along the lines of,

" we cannot be responsible for the accurateness of this idiots posts, as far as we're aware he's not qualified in any way, we recommend you ignore this sad tw@t"

You get the gist.

really though mods, come on, it's making a mockery of us.

the simplest answer for now, is to get Leo to annotate all his posts with something like "these comments are understood to be from a diy merchant, they may or probably are not correct or valid answers"

 

[rpm]

The elec forum have one

So you keep saying! Still don`t think it`s needed as threads are debated and likes & thanks are given to good replies which is a good enough guide to the OP imho.

 

[rpm]

Give all of the Gas safe and members in the forum a Professional banner and him DIY

Just give all member with say 2yrs attendance a Dislike button?

 

[lame plumber]

Just give all member with say 2yrs attendance a Dislike button?

I'd wear it out on your posts though......................

 

[hammers4spanner]

Why not do a youtube style thumbs up or down if advise is good or bad

 

[quality]

its a free forum for everybody

 

[rpm]

I'd wear it out on your posts though......................

Due to the lack of a 🙂 there I`m not sure which way to take that Lame.

 

[lame plumber]

Due to the lack of a 🙂 there I`m not sure which way to take that Lame.

well there's a small conundrum for you .....................................

 

[rpm]

well there's a small conundrum for you .....................................

Which I won`t waste my time on then if it`s all the same to you.

 

[Masood]

As a forum we have dealt with people like him before - remember m.joshi? He came across in a similar way - answers copied & pasted from MIs and websites, often completely wrong. Doitmyself isn't quite as bad IMO but sometimes posts complete drivel.

I get that it's public forum and eveyone is free to post but I also get what Leo and Riley are saying - the average punter won't know he's wrong and it could reflect badly on the professionalism of the forum as a whole.

I don't think banning is the answer but certainly some means of identifying people whose advice shouldn't be taken as gospel might be helpful. Or else a general disclaimer at the top of every page along the lines of "Any advice given is to be taken as guidance only. You should exercise your own judgement as to it's accuracy and merit, and any work carried out is at your own risk"

There's something like that on the technical subforums of motorbike forums that I belong to, to protect the forum from idiots doing daft things...

 

[Ray Stafford]

Isnt this why we have the trusted advisor badge?

People can come to the forum, and like any other internet site, take their chances on the quality of the input. If they see the "trusted" badge, they may listen more carefully to that.

I'm not a fan of content censorship. If someone posts drivel, then post a refutation.

 

[TFGplumbing]

This guy really gets up my nose.

hes on here giving advise under the ukpf banner. We don't know his qualifications, he's got no badges what so ever.

so surely he shouldn't be giving advise? Can the mods do anything about this, maybe some sort of disclaimer attached to his posts? Something along the lines of,

" we cannot be responsible for the accurateness of this idiots posts, as far as we're aware he's not qualified in any way, we recommend you ignore this sad tw@t"

You get the gist.

really though mods, come on, it's making a mockery of us.

hes nauseating isn't he? hes seems to know what hes on about though

god I want to troll him

 

[Masood]

Isnt this why we have the trusted advisor badge?

People can come to the forum, and like any other internet site, take their chances on the quality of the input. If they see the "trusted" badge, they may listen more carefully to that.

I'm not a fan of content censorship. If someone posts drivel, then post a refutation.

Both good points Ray but we have some very knowledgable members who aren't (yet) TAs. If would be a shame if their input were to be overlooked. Refutation of bad advice is probably the ideal way to deal with it as long as things don't descend into slanging matches...

 

[WaterTight]

hes on here giving advise under the ukpf banner. We don't know his qualifications, he's got no badges what so ever.

sums me up too.

 

[WaterTight]

mind you i don't give advice. i mainly here for making snide and superior jabs.

 

[Riley]

hes nauseating isn't he? hes seems to know what hes on about though

god I want to troll him

Alexgas is pretty good at digging the dirt on people maybe we set him a task :smile:

 

[Rich8]

I think there should be a unvented G3 badge d.i.y clowns giving advise on that could have consequences !