Repetitive posters - why?

Barmaid | 23:31 Tue 30th Oct 2012 | Law

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There are a couple of posters who inhabit law in various incarnations. The questions tend to be care home fee based or pension question based. All questions are variations on a theme of previous questions. A couple of "detectives" have them bang to rights every time.

My question in to that person - or those people. Why? You posted your question the first time, you had answers - why not continue with the same question (if you didn't like the answer) rather than starting up a new user name? Do you not realise that in posting the same question over and over you are taking up resources? For instance, I don't post on many of your questions anymore - thus you've lost the benefit of my advice (no benefit, I hear you say). But what is the point? If you disagree or you've a point to make why not come back in your original name rather than creating new names and new similar scenarios. Post answer on your original thread and sensible and knowledgable people will attempt to answer them.

If you've got a particularly challenging legal problem and you are looking for a different answer - just say and I am sure someone can point you in the right direction.

I am looking to factor, bednobs etc for some support here......

Am I liable for insurance excess on my ex employers vehicle?.

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factor30

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I have enjoyed some of the conversations, particularly with Brimoan, Granger99 and Holmes 123; there was some good banter and no malice- just the occasional 'nudge nudge, wink wink' from both sides. It was good natured and I'd be happy to continue in that vein. But it would be necessary I feel for him to 'come clean' so we could establish what the real...

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woofgang

Barmaid I have wondered the same thing....I wonder whether something is preying on their mind so much for some reason that they can't get away from it.....

factor-fiction

Hi Barmaid- I have just replied to your last post on the Insurance Excess thread.

I wish I knew. The poster may have had some bad experiences that he can't let go of. Maybe he is campaigning on behalf of friends. Maybe he just wants companionship through here and has only so many topics he can raise. or maybe he is just having a laugh with us.

Some of the tales are so unusual/bizarre they have to be taken with a pinch of salt. And the fact that he becomes a she and other key details change also make me wonder what is the case and what isn't.

I used to spend a lot of time researching things and helping until it became clear we were dealing with a serial poster using numerous names and answering his own threads, occasionally slipping up and signing in in the wrong name.

I'd prefer (if Ed is prepared to let him stay) for him to come clean and stick to one user name.

i hope he answers your question but I doubt it. The nearest we got was when he said once "the subject will keep coming up".

Barmaid

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"I'd prefer (if Ed is prepared to let him stay) for him to come clean and stick to one user name. "

I wholeheartedly agree. If he did so, he might find that I would be prepared to help him (for free!) rather than him having to post the same question in different guises several times over.

I'd really like him to come clean too. I get the impression that there is no malice, but its bloody annoying all the same.

factor-fiction

ojread2

I'd like to know how on earth you manage to suss these posters out! LOL

I never (maybe once or twice) see through this type of poster
I agree though, if it's harmless banter where is the harm?

After, there is usually some excellent information being put onto those threads that otherwise may get lost in the dark well that is the internet

And brimoan is one of them :(

bednobs

hi barmaid, while i fully support your point of view, today answering the insurance post was an abberation for me - i realised months ago that there was just no point in "outing" the person as they never acknowledge what they are doing, people don't read the posts "outing" them and answer them anyway, and quite frankly it just gets my back up when i see his/her posts and the people who are genuinely answering, not knowing the are being taken for a ride. Nowadays, i just report it and move on - it's much better for my sanity :)
I have come to the conclusion the poster will never acknowledge they are a pain in the bum, or even that they have more than 1 username, and i really find them a bit strange so now i just tend to stay away

factor-fiction

tonywiltshire

I have no idea why people would post untrue situations to be answered when there are enough unfair and true situations to go around for people to try to answer, the fact that information is free may have something to do with it, I spent nearly four years with the CAB and we had repeat time wasters there but at least we could see and identify them, some of them would wait several hours to ask the same question that they had previously had answered. Many people will just avoid answering questions they think are repeat questions or not serious situations and in doing so may ignore a genuine question which needs to be answered. If you just want to see people react to your untrue situation you should do something more useful as you may well be stopping a genuine question from being answered by someone prepared to research or use their knowledge and try to give helpful information.
Keep up the good work of identifying these people and remember free advice from Council is unheard of in much of the legal profession.

jno

perhaps this Q should go into the Ed's Blog thread where he'll be more likely to see it?

-- answer removed --

factor-fiction

I won't add anything to that!

factor-fiction

Hi Barmaid- well, it seems you got a response from the poster to whom you were holding out the olive branch, but it seems he/she was simply intending to carry on as before. He responding on this thread, and to his own insurance excess thread, under yet another name.
I don't think there's much more I can add now, bednobs has set out her thoughts and others have contributed.

Peter Pedant

I find Barnmaid and Tony WIltshire's answers especially helpful.
Sometimes I wonder if the poster is listening/can read
but that is thenature of advice [it may not be taken ]

In terms of the compulsion to re-post - do the re-posters realise they are doing it ?

tonywiltshire

Thank you PP for your comments and F30 I am often guided by you regarding repetition but I wonder if PP comments are correct, should we should just feel pity for people who feel compelled to behave in this way, they are seeking something and perhaps even they do not know what it is?

Peter Pedant

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oh god it is spreading !
Captain Crunch is posting stylisticallyvery similar questions
in science
- four- and only registered yesterday !

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