With electrics, they are dangerous, life threatening and BAS takes the attitude that if he doesn't advise or sits there telling people they need an electrician... And being frank with them that they will then go out and get an electrician.... But in reality WRONG.
It's not my fault if they reject good advice and do the wrong thing.
People I have found if they are adement enough to do it themselves regardless of their level of knowledge and safety aspects they will do so..and telling them they don't know what they are doing, get an electrician, and making frank remarks picking at their knowledge is in no way going to change their decision to do it themselves.
And being an opportunist and deciding therefore to encourage them is wrong.
So doing what he thinks is right, and probably is right is not the right thing to be doing on here!
Yes it is.
A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing... But people come on here to increase that knowledge and help them do it safely.
By picking at the holes in their knowledge and refusing help they are then going to continue with that little knowledge and along the path of it being dangerous... But with a little extra knowledge they will do it safer than it would of been.
And helping people to find where to gain that extra knowledge so that they acquire a genuine understanding and become safe is what I do all the time, and it's what I'm criticised for doing by those who think that people asking for help should just be used as a pair of remote hands.
BAS fails to see this often, he thinks he's doing the right thing... And if I'm honest it is the right thing to try and discourage people
I don't try to discourage anybody, per se. On the contrary, I encourage people to gain knowledge and take responsibility. Those I discourage are the ones who don't want to learn what they need to know in order to competently do what they have decided they want to do.
But if he doesn't want to put it to use helping people because he brands every diver incompetant
I don't brand everyone that - only the incompetent ones. And "branding" is not an appropriate term -incompetence is not a character defect - it's a straightforward state which can be remedied.
But in the real world and reality, you have to remember this is a DIY forum and people if they wanted to get an electrician they would have instead of attempting it themselves and finding themselves on here asking for advice and BAS picking at their knowledge and basically saying NO this is wrong you have no idea what you are doing,
It is very important that people be told if they are wrong and ignorant, so that they know what they need to learn.
Because this is indeed a DIY site, and my position is that they should do it
themselves. So if
they have decided that
they want to install a supply to an outbuilding for example, then
they should do it themselves, and that means that they should learn how to design it, not ask people here to design it for them. That's not DIY, any more than assembling a chest of drawers from Ikea makes you a cabinet maker.
Have you really not noticed the number of times I've advised people who've got into a mess with their lights that calling an electrician is one solution, but that Plan A is to learn what they need to know, and resolve the problem themselves?
He doesn't consider that sometimes people don't get electricians in for a reason.
The reason is irrelevant. Whether someone chooses or is forced to not use one has no bearing on the need for them to therefore know what they are doing.
It's not nice being bluntly branded incompetent
If I started asking questions on a sailing forum because I'd decided to go off on a yachting holiday, or to sail the channel because I couldn't afford a boat fare, why on earth would I object to being tol, quite rightly, that I was incompetent, and needed to learn a great deal more before I could just cast off and hoist a sale?
