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millwall ken
Me thinks that the teeth... sorry dentures, need to come back out of the bedside table.
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Octopus
Isn't it a sign of getting old? you know, policemen are younger, etc, etc,
However....
Most young people are like this these days!
However....
Most young people are like this these days!
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Paul.M
It's not only new members, theirs a particular respected member that works abroad that is peeing people off at the moment. But I know what you mean ken, a clip around the lug is needed some times.
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millwall ken
Oh its alright mate, at the moment A YEAR TWO TRAINEE has a hard on for me. He put a picture up of the world's worse example of tray work and has taken offence at my comments even though I was as diplomatic and polite as I could be.
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millwall ken
Thing is though mate, as I'm the newest member to the arms; I've really had to wind my neck in. I really like this forum and don't wanna get banned BUT some of the recent attacks on me are starting to get the old hairs up.
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Mark_Burgess
The thing is guys, you have to just ignore, move on and unsubscribe from any of those threads. Being high contributors to threads that you are, you may find it hard to not contribute or in some cases not defend your post that some scrote is bitching about.
I just cant be bothered to even read any further in a thread as soon as I read some obnoxious bunghole is on a mission.
I just cant be bothered to even read any further in a thread as soon as I read some obnoxious bunghole is on a mission.
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Paul.M
Mayfair its not you mate, you know whome I'm talking about, I just try really hard and stay away from his posts although he knows what I think about him, I've told him. As for millwallken, who's having a go at you fella? We all know that you don't need any help in this department but I always look out for the guys that deserve my attention. I'll back you up Ken any day.
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CRAGS
I know what you mean Ken sometimes it hard to not say something back when under attack etc... but just let the juniors or respected members keep mumbling. There are some genuine junior/respected members who join the forum for advice and there are others who just join to cause trouble or stir
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High Tower
Same goes for me!, ill back up any of the genuine members here, like i think u guys would do for me. there are some guys that are beyond help!, and its just not worth arguing the point with them.
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Paul.M
Are we thinking of the same person by any chance? I bet we are. Some people are beyond help, leave them to their own little world and just pity their wifes.
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Not wanting to high jack this thread fellas, but just wanted an opinion on something.
There's been a couple of discussions tonight regarding gobby members, arms members and gobby arms members.. you get the idea.
Now I eyeballed the tilers forum earlier after the 500,00th post announcement on here and I noticed that some users have a 'trusted adviser' as well as an 'arms member' with their user names.
I was wondering as to weather a similar thing might be worth recognition on this forum. My main reasoning for this is many threads now are being swamped with a mixture of interpretations and opinions, which may be a good thing, however a lot of bickering and slagging off seems to occur.
When I scan through a thread, I know who's posts I will read. I know who I trust as I have the benefit of their prior contributions from all my previous time on here. However new members wanting genuine advise are unaware of who is who here and so can only go on their initial experience.. take this thread from earlier as an example of my point.
I'm thinking maybe people could be considered as 'trusted advisers' according to an overall assessment of their contributions, and possibly time of membership and post count. It could be carried out by mods in the first instance and then mods and existing trusted advisers further down the line..
I'm not trying to say one person is better than the other, but I honestly feel that the Arms is no longer limited to users who try to do what's best for this community.
There's been a couple of discussions tonight regarding gobby members, arms members and gobby arms members.. you get the idea.
Now I eyeballed the tilers forum earlier after the 500,00th post announcement on here and I noticed that some users have a 'trusted adviser' as well as an 'arms member' with their user names.
I was wondering as to weather a similar thing might be worth recognition on this forum. My main reasoning for this is many threads now are being swamped with a mixture of interpretations and opinions, which may be a good thing, however a lot of bickering and slagging off seems to occur.
When I scan through a thread, I know who's posts I will read. I know who I trust as I have the benefit of their prior contributions from all my previous time on here. However new members wanting genuine advise are unaware of who is who here and so can only go on their initial experience.. take this thread from earlier as an example of my point.
I'm thinking maybe people could be considered as 'trusted advisers' according to an overall assessment of their contributions, and possibly time of membership and post count. It could be carried out by mods in the first instance and then mods and existing trusted advisers further down the line..
I'm not trying to say one person is better than the other, but I honestly feel that the Arms is no longer limited to users who try to do what's best for this community.
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Paul.M
I'm a member of the tilers forum (0 posts BTW) and their system of classing members should be taken up by JIB, its that good. Mods and admin would hate implementing this great idea but its worth it. I could list s dozen arms members to by classed as a 5 star advisor, yourself included Widdler (but not me, I don't even class myself in the same league). This would be a clear indication of who is giving the advice, hopefully it won't turn out to be a competition on who's got the biggest knob. It's a great idea Widdler, what do the admin say? (looks like I'm having a go at the admin tonight but its not international).
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Adam W
Back to the original point: there have always been gobby new members, usually with an axe to grind, telling us we're not all that. As the forum gets more popular that will only increase.
As much as I'm against 'feathers in caps' I think a 'trusted member' scheme would be a good idea - I could name several members who I generally agree with and would accept their advice but new members wouldn't know who they are. This shouldn't be any kind of graded system though.
Currently for new members seeking advice the only real indication is that the person giving advice is an arms member, but as I've just mentioned in another thread in the arms, even that is potentially flawed.
As much as I'm against 'feathers in caps' I think a 'trusted member' scheme would be a good idea - I could name several members who I generally agree with and would accept their advice but new members wouldn't know who they are. This shouldn't be any kind of graded system though.
Currently for new members seeking advice the only real indication is that the person giving advice is an arms member, but as I've just mentioned in another thread in the arms, even that is potentially flawed.
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I thought I disguised the p-ing off of people pretty well.:shocked3: IMO I think if some come on here gobby then I try and let them dig their own holes to fall into, asking for reg numbers is one of my favourites of trying to sort a few out, especially when you see the immortal line
"it's against the regs"
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Paul.M
It's not you Malcolm BTW. I've been walking away from his posts for a month now ever since he had a go at SMB and SMB has never been back on the forum. I might start using the "add to ignore" function, it blocks that persons posts from you seeing it although you can see the rest of the thread.
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Spudnik
This is something we are working on at the moment so be patient!
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Paul.M
It's been mentioned on other threads Widdler. A couple of them from me, think Jason just wants me to shut up about it if he's got something in the pipe line.
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Electricalserv
Things like you mention Widdler bring cliques into forums. Then its a case of if you don't agree with the clique your not accepted. It goes on atm.
This thing was stated in the rules by Dan.
Don't mock newbies to the trade
Don't mock timed served
This is the main issue here. People stating others aren't electricians and so on.
I have a personal belief that I have been marked by certain members and Mods in a clique on here because of my bold.
This type of thread should be shut down because its singling people out and mods are keeping them open.
This thing was stated in the rules by Dan.
Don't mock newbies to the trade
Don't mock timed served
This is the main issue here. People stating others aren't electricians and so on.
I have a personal belief that I have been marked by certain members and Mods in a clique on here because of my bold.
This type of thread should be shut down because its singling people out and mods are keeping them open.
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mayfair
We could have so called advisors but sometimes advice on the forum isn't just a single line of text with no explanation. It goes a bit deeper than that and i don't think it would be a good idea to just have purely academic advice. Some of the Q's also need practical advice and not just a quick quote from the xyz regs. A couple of examples of how to use this advice in the real world maybe more the thing to go for. Personally i think it would be better to have a few of the more respected members contributing to more of a hands on type answer. There seems to be a lack of practical work in the training centres these days. IMO parrot fashion learning of regs is not going help you out there in the real world of being a sparky at whatever level.
Some people give great answers to question some with humour some from straight behind the desk it all helps but don't make anyone any better than anyone else.
Some people give great answers to question some with humour some from straight behind the desk it all helps but don't make anyone any better than anyone else.
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You'll never get rid of the juice takers, they will always be around. Best just to ignore, it hurts them a lot more when they go unnoticed.
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Octopus
Actually, aren't there a few gobby old members on here!
Tin hat on, off to open a bottle of red!
Tin hat on, off to open a bottle of red!
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