Elephant in the room

[ken100464]

Re: Elephant in the room

When I wrote the original post I didnt expect a thread this long but it has been a brilliant read.

What it has brought home to me is how much I value ALL posters views. It helps me understand and make clear in my own head the state of an individual debt.

I can then make an informed choice and not just a knee jerk response to some drivel sent out by a threat o gram machine.

I actually think it enhances the forum having such widely held views.

Would be awful if we were all busy checking our CRA's all the time. Then taking everybody to court.

[CleverClogs (RIP)]

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Indecently this is why we( me and many others) stopped posting on CAG in 07

Whats so indecent about that?

Perhaps the "indecency" lay in how they stopped posting - or was "gross indecency" involved?

[gravytrain]

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Oh I know..... I was gobsmacked when I logged in to see a Wonga ad right at the top of the forum, which was obviously an affiliate link but then when I went to log-in, I was banned. No reason, nothing.

Ahh well, that's why they're nobodies that rely on funding from MSE Charity, really.

Ah well thats because you are obviously a bad influence Nidd

My account was still active, i was looking into what was being said on the PDL issue, as I had been doing a bit of work with Stella Creasy. i scrolled to the top of a particular horror story involving Wonga only to find it being advertised on the PDL forum , I don't know if my account is still active but i suspect not, after the post i made on the subject.

[gravytrain]

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Perhaps the "indecency" lay in how they stopped posting - or was "gross indecency" involved?

Yeh OK I put indecently instead of incidently, big yuk

Let it go now boys

[jon1965]

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Not at all, we like a bit of indecency, gross indecency even better

[CleverClogs (RIP)]

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Perhaps the "indecency" lay in how they stopped posting - or was "gross indecency" involved?

Yeh OK I put indecently instead of incidently, big yuk

Let it go now boys

Not at all, we like a bit of indecency, gross indecency even better

It depends on whom it's with.

I could more readily engage in such games with lovely Di than with you or Niddy...

[cymruambyth]

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Cloggy I have so missed your humour, it's great to see you back and firing on all cylinders!

[Never-In-Doubt]

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I could more readily engage in such games with lovely Di

welsh rarebit eh...

[MrsD]

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Cloggy I have so missed your humour, it's great to see you back and firing on all cylinders!

he's found another cylinder somewhere I think

but

it is nice to see you back, I almost missed your wee comments, just almost mind..........

[jon1965]

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Cloggy you are just a dirty old man. Me i am just old

[lookingforward]

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And that's why we are proud to be different.

We don't want growth. Ideally as years go by our posters would drop, meaning we're doing what we set out to achieve.

Please by all means express whatever opinion you like but don't forget our ethos - we help those that need it. Therefore we do offer a very long helping hand to newbies. We don't expect people to come here and be clued up. I never set us up to be like that, this all stemmed from my having one unenforceability section on MSE.

The users here are happy with the way we operate and unless the majority ask for change then we can't change things. We are not CAG or the likes. 100 opinions does no good. We stick to basic principles and have had reasonable success so far but the user knows that ultimately whatever they do or don't do is on their own decisions. We only offer help and guidance.

So although at present I tend to "check" cca's - we don't presume it'll go legal at that early stage and if it does, we deal with it as and when. As I say the users here on AAD are best suited to answer this but I think you'll find they are happy at the way we currently operate.

We are however building a cca checker that will give you basics based on user input. It'll be automated using Ajax script and easy to use. So that'll also allow a lot more user self-diagnosis which we'll link to templates or additional help as necessary, depending on the outcome of the user entries.

This will be very handy indeed. I've done OK so far using the templates and am nearly 1/2 way to SB, however I when I rec'd a lovely letter from Northampton for one of my alleged debts I was pretty much done for. I did try to get to grips with the in's and out's of "legalize" but you may just as well asked me to draw up plans for designing an Atlantic tunnel so on that one I had to concede albeit at a rate I could afford. So if there's a CCA checker that allows me to see what is wrong and maybe points out what part of the regs it contravines in "leagalize" that would definately help if the worst should happen again.

A big thanks to Niddy, Paul, Mods and all on here for their help thus far, long may this forum continue.

[CleverClogs (RIP)]

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you may just as well asked me to draw up plans for designing an Atlantic tunnel

You do realise that, due to the drift of the respective tectonic plates, a trans-atlantic tunnel would be utterly impossible?

[Never-In-Doubt]

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You do realise that, due to the drift of the respective tectonic plates, a trans-atlantic tunnel would be utterly impossible?

In English please, my dear Watson

[MrsD]

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I think he means there would be a big hole in the roof with a water feature

[Never-In-Doubt]

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I think he means there would be a big hole in the roof with a water feature

Lol. Love your description

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