Askaboutmoney.com - Awful moderating, or just making up the rules for the people they like

My charitable inner-self would like to agree with you Fiona for just even a moment, the realist within me hazards a guess that very little of that cash was spent on anything more than TV's, sound-systems, beer and snacks. Very little run on the food aisles at Tesco/Lidl/Aldi.

Are there any indications on the purveyors of the social norms such as twitter or instaface that anybody toddled off to stock the larder to actually avert hunger?

What a bizarre thread.

they have a few frequent posters and financial guys that seem well up in the financial establishment in Ireland. If you challenge any of these guys the others row in to defend that poster. All in all they seem to be pro establishment , pro more taxation and public sector probably because many of them work for the state. Also seem to be entrenched in south Dublin think.

On the other hand they are very knowledgeable on irish financial affairs and taxation and you can get alot of useful information there but I think the site is getting less and less traffic now for the above reasons. But it was very early into the world of the internet establishing the site long before many others in Ireland realised its power

Jeez I think the Public Sector gets an even worse bashing there than here. Not much profit in unions. For an early site its surprising it failed to grow. But it's obvious why it didn't. Many of the more helpful members seem to have left, in recent years.

I'm sure that there were some ATM visitors struggling that deserve empathy there's a lot that don't.

That aside you're barking up the wrong tree posting a counter opinion on that forum. Never mind one relying on empathy for other parts of society.

Well this is a bizarre thread to say the least!

Probably not that's it failed but it has become more like an old man's pub that don't want youngsters drinking in there because they just want to talk old man's stuff, no loud music or red bull for sale

I was looking up something and google threw up an AAM link. I used to be registered on it so clicked it and had a look around…..you are spot on with your analogy.

Most of the financial stuff is very informative, but as you progress down the forums it gets progressively worse, particularly in the Don't Ask about Money section - old information and engrained habit are unquestionable facts - "I've done it that way for 40 years, how dare you question me"

'The Depths' is the reserved table in the old mans pub. There's one or two posters that are unequivocally not to be challenged on their opinions, irrespective of how ill-informed they are. One small group lives their lives on & through that site, and have done for the best part of twenty years; the biggest fish in a small, irrelevant and rarely visited pond.