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Hi, Bong.

 

As Breadline said, these searches are going on all the time, but unfortunately, not everyone uses a spellchecker.:D

 

This means that inevitably we miss the occasional suspect post.

It is for that reason that we have the "Report This Thread" facility, and I'm glad to say that it does get used and it does a very useful job.

 

Thanks to anyone who informs us of any "dodgy posts".

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hi Rooster - just curious to know, if you can help - would it be libellous to say something general like "the thieving banks" or would it have to specifically mention the bank's name for it to warrant concern?

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Possibly, since you are thusly besmirching the reputation of everyone in the sector, maybe giving every bank an opportunity to sue.

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Of course, it's fine in that context, because you're not accusing the banks of thievery, merely inquiring about what would happen if you did. Qualification is everything. :)

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IMHO....

 

Better to be safe than sorry.

 

After all, this site is about getting charges back, not giving them away.

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Out of interest, what is the policy on potentially libellous usernames? "Stopthethieves" is fine, since it doesn't make reference to anything in particular - in fact, stopping thieves is a perfectly noble goal. But I've spotted at least one recently that might be problematic.

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Robbing , Robbed, thieving, stolen.

All come under. Insurance threads, car threads, jokes. :(

Oh yeah...duh lol

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How interesting....I'll certainly inform a mod if I am uncertain.

 

form of either bribery (Won't work).

 

:o How very dare they!!!! they haven't have they? well, not that you could say!!!!:o

 

Forum owners are, indeed liable for the content on the forum as they are publishers..

 

Wasn't there that case recently where a writer of parent help books (Gina Ford?) filed a claim against a 'baby forum' for the things they were saying about her books?.....anyone know more about it? it was a while ago...

 

Incidently (and very off topic) how did you get into chasing down the **** that peddle child porn? I'd love to track them down and make sure they got what they deserved - although I'd probably be too emotionally involved and lose my rag with them if I ever met one!

 

Me too

 

well I just came across a post which made a libellous comment about the bank, and reported it, however I decided afterwards to do a search on the word 'thieving' and, as it is so often misspelt - 'theiving'. Numerous posts came up and I wondered why the mods aren't doing searches such as this themselves to delete the offending words?

 

I read somewhere that if a policeman takes you name down wrong when you have committed a speeding offence (any other offence???) then it is inadmissable and you could get off on a technicality....would it be the same on a forum? if I said **** are a theiving bunch of gits, would this be inadmissable because it's misspelt?

 

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I read somewhere that if a policeman takes you name down wrong when you have committed a speeding offence (any other offence???) then it is inadmissable and you could get off on a technicality....

Wxx

 

That, to the best of my knowledge, is incorrect, I have been browsing quite a bit lately on the motoring sites, and what I read was you can't get away with it if it a minor misspelling or missing letter.

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Out of interest, what is the policy on potentially libellous usernames? "Stopthethieves" is fine, since it doesn't make reference to anything in particular - in fact, stopping thieves is a perfectly noble goal. But I've spotted at least one recently that might be problematic.

 

Well, it depends, really, for example:

 

"Natwesttookmy money" is fine. They did take his money, there is no libel, it is a fact.

"NatwestSTOLEmy money" would NOT be fine... for obvious reasons.

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"Natwesttookmy money" is fine. They did take his money, there is no libel, it is a fact.

 

Truth is not a complete defence in the UK. It's reasonable to argue that using such a name in the context of unlawful charges also implies that the bank has acted unlawfully, itself true but still defamatory (doesn't need to be false to be so). Bit of a grey area there still methinks :(

 

"NatwestSTOLEmy money" would NOT be fine... for obvious reasons.

 

I think there might have been one of those too. There are a few names referencing banks being "cowboys" too. Would be nice to call up the userlist so we could track them all down, and allow them to make arrangements for usernames to be changed.

 

Getting hosted in the US wouldn't really help. The only thing that would be different is that the hosts would have a jurisdiction gap to protect them - they can still be sued under UK law, but the judgement would have to be enforced separately in the US. Enforcement would fail, because under US law, truth is a complete defence to libel. However, this would offer no protection to Reclaim The Right Ltd., the forum administrators, and the majority of the users, who would still be based in the UK.

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..... in your choice of words when posting on the site.

 

I have just seen another posting in one of the bank threads that has been edited by a mod for the use of the word "stolen"

 

The word stolen implies that the banks have comitted a criminal act in taking the charges and this is not the case. The issue is one of civil and not criminal law and use of words that suggest criminal activity could result in a claim for libel against the owners of this site. Not a nice thought. Bankfodder and Dave have taken a lot upon themselves to get this thing going, not to mention the mods and site helpers who have enough to do without dealing with stupid comments, even if they are made out of ignorance.

 

Sorry for the rant but it would be a shame to see the site go pear shaped because of the misguided activities of a few people. We are all disgruntled bank customers so lets work together without giving them any ammunition to fire back.

 

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Paul, I think that you could be refering to my comment, i have not explained mtyself enough.when i stated that i had money stolen, i have had money stolen out of my business account via a cloned atm card! This is a fact and i must add that the Bank i use are helping me and have agreed that i will get a full refund, but in the meantime i am still £1600 short and due to ABBEY declaring a default notice against me i have been unable to get an overdraft, thus causing me further loss and hardship

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Is the word Lying which I have seen a few times on one particular thread albeit spelt wrong on all four occasions used defamatory or in need on mod intervention?

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Paul, I think that you could be refering to my comment, i have not explained mtyself enough.when i stated that i had money stolen, i have had money stolen out of my business account via a cloned atm card! This is a fact and i must add that the Bank i use are helping me and have agreed that i will get a full refund, but in the meantime i am still £1600 short and due to ABBEY declaring a default notice against me i have been unable to get an overdraft, thus causing me further loss and hardship

 

No, this wasn't the post I was referring to. In your case you did have money stolen but not by the bank.

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Is the word Lying which I have seen a few times on one particular thread albeit spelt wrong on all four occasions used defamatory or in need on mod intervention?

 

 

Another one I would personally choose to avoid as it suggests that the banks are not telling the truth when the fact is they are actually just saying nothing.

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Sorry to dig up an old thread.

 

My question/suggestion is that this thread get moved to the welcome section.

 

Ive been using this site since Feb 06 and I am carefull what I say but I did not realise it went as far as saying, robbing, theif, stolen ect.

 

 

Might be helpfull to see this discussion when you are new.

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2007 thread

 

now closing

please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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