If you have any queries Paul, feel free to contact admin.
To be brutally honest, I'm a little tired of your holier than thou attitude toward anyone you deem lower than your almighty self.
This forum is and always has been run in exactly the same way, A FRIENDLY PLACE FOR EVERYONE TO USE.
If you don't like it, as I said contact admin. Also, there are many other forums out there to use if you still feel unable to abide by our rules.
Lenny,
This is NOTHING to do with how I deem people in relation to myself.
This is EVERYTHING to do with COMPETENCE in relation to statute law and accepted industry practice.
I am VERY disappointed with the way that this forum reinforces, allows, and perpetuates advice which goes against UK statute law and the relevant guidance and related standards, then hides behind their disclaimer, that is just so irresponsible, then members try to justify it.
It seems if anyone is prepared to speak out and support statute law and legislation in the UK, then they are lambasted.
I can't see how a forum with these sorts of principles is so successful, else I am reading things different to most others on here.
I have recently had to suffer a tirade of abuse from 2 members, both of which, whilst they may have worked at high levels of competence in the past in the UK, both admit, not to having done so in recent years.
One now seems retired, the other works abroad, and both have been in this situation for many years.
They both seem to lambaste the training in the UK< but, they are willing to advise anyone with any unknown level of competence to undertake any works that they feel competent to do themselves, they may be competent, but how do they KNOW on an internet forum the the OP is competent.
I get flamed for questioning this.
They don't know the site conditions or the competence of the OP, or ANY other aspects of the situation, but THEY feel that they can make definitive statements about the situation, that is incompetence.
Following their criticism of the training and competence situation in the UK they should BOTH know better.
I suspect that they do, but their ego's will not let them admit it.
I am told this is a friendly place. (Above)
It does not appear to be so unless you tow the forum line of meeting the forum attitude, which seems to be not that of UK statute law, standards and guidance on many matters, so HOW CAN I as a registered Professional Engineer go along with such advise, I am duty bound by my professional recognition, as are ANY OTHERS of you on here to pick up these errors and point these out.
I cannot see how the forum "rules" can insist upon giving advice which does not meet UK statute law, guidance and standards, though it seems this is becoming the way things are on here.
If you do not then you are not in compliance with the requirements of the membership of your professional institutes.
So any of you who are members of UK professional institutes and ignore or are complicit with some of the incompetent or incorrect advice given on this forum must realise that you are in breach of the terms of your membership of those said institutes.
Now I doubt that many will read this, as I suspect that it will be deleted and that I will be banned from the forum for speaking the truth, if this is so, then those of you who do get to read this post, please realise the "community" that you have joined and the level of "censorship" that you are submitted to.
I still cannot believe the way that this forum is moderated.
