With apologies to Lionel Shriver, we can't keep burying our heads in the sand when it comes to ban-all-sheds ("bas").
Another thread was deleted, partly I'm sure, due to personal insults directed to bas by me.
Can we please have a grown up conversation about bas' contribution to this sub-forum?
I can be objective and, as long as the mods contribute, I'm happy to bow to the collective will of the majority on here.
On balance, I do not believe that bas is a positive influence within the Electrics UK sub-forum. I don't believe that his intention is to help address posters' questions, nor do I believe that he holds the interest of the OP or the membership at large in any regard.
Over the eight years that I have been a member of diynot I have received an enormous amount of help from members in various sub-fora but, within Electrics UK, it has been a constant battle.
bas really personifies this sub-forum - what he agrees with, goes, and what he disagrees with is beaten into submission. This either happens directly because he makes the OP go away, or through attrition because everyone else just gives up when faced with the misery of multi-quote after multi-quote.
My projected position is that the Electrics UK forum is effectively ruled by bas, and that is unhealthy. From a diynot perspective (and I stand to be corrected) I don't think that a single member has this much of a stranglehold on any other sub-forum...?
To the crux of my post;
bas has been allowed to grow into the unofficial arbiter of what we are allowed to discuss on here, and that's not fair on the OPs nor on the prolific posters (many of whom have far more experience, and are far more helpful than bas).
This is a debate that needs to happen. If it's quashed then my tiny voice, along with many, many OPs with two posts, will give up and move elsewhere.
Another thread was deleted, partly I'm sure, due to personal insults directed to bas by me.
Can we please have a grown up conversation about bas' contribution to this sub-forum?
I can be objective and, as long as the mods contribute, I'm happy to bow to the collective will of the majority on here.
On balance, I do not believe that bas is a positive influence within the Electrics UK sub-forum. I don't believe that his intention is to help address posters' questions, nor do I believe that he holds the interest of the OP or the membership at large in any regard.
Over the eight years that I have been a member of diynot I have received an enormous amount of help from members in various sub-fora but, within Electrics UK, it has been a constant battle.
bas really personifies this sub-forum - what he agrees with, goes, and what he disagrees with is beaten into submission. This either happens directly because he makes the OP go away, or through attrition because everyone else just gives up when faced with the misery of multi-quote after multi-quote.
My projected position is that the Electrics UK forum is effectively ruled by bas, and that is unhealthy. From a diynot perspective (and I stand to be corrected) I don't think that a single member has this much of a stranglehold on any other sub-forum...?
To the crux of my post;
- I'd like to understand other members' positions on bas' input, ideally with a black-or-white view on whether he helps or hinders the Electrics UK community
- I'd like to see the moderators' view on where bas fits into this, probably based on the answers to #1
bas has been allowed to grow into the unofficial arbiter of what we are allowed to discuss on here, and that's not fair on the OPs nor on the prolific posters (many of whom have far more experience, and are far more helpful than bas).
This is a debate that needs to happen. If it's quashed then my tiny voice, along with many, many OPs with two posts, will give up and move elsewhere.