OT. Wahoo - I'm a Fair Trader!

You seem to be appointing yourself as judge and jury on this 'stealth advertising' charge. The consensus of those in the group who've expressed an opinion seems to be that it isn't. Like the emperor's nose that doesn't establish fact but it does put the onus on you to either persuade a substantial body of people to agree with you or accept that it's only your opinion rather than stating it as an established fact.

If Steve F suffers or has suffered from mental health problems then that's an extremely spiteful thing to say about him.

Whether or not Steve does, it's a spiteful thing to say about the millions of people who do or have.

I find Dave's posts quite interesting, as I did yours about olive farming a while back.

It's a fact - no one else promotes their business here as he does. I can see the "mateship" thing is more important to some that that we each behave ourselves.

Please do, that way we'll all know who to avoid.

MBQ

Steve. You still haven't made it clear why you think I would want too promote my business to people who don't need my services & live too far away for me to provide them?

My target market are people who are unable & unwilling to do DIY. Or they lack the time, knowledge or equipment. Not the profile of the average member here is it?

I only operate in a very small area in mid Kent. Why would I want to promote my business nationally?

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Steve is in my killfile. Dave isn't (as yet). :-)

Thanks Roger - I think :-(

I didn't mean it Geoff - I lied to annoy Firth. Of course Father Christmas & the Tooth Fairy are real - so is the Easter Bunny.

Are you claiming that increasing the hit rate on your website is of no use to you?

In message , The Medway Handyman writes

... breathes sigh of relief

And what about the vicar's imaginary friend?

The number of posts from TMH (or anybody else for that matter) is a fact. Whether they're promoting his business is a a matter of opinion. As far as I can see you're the only poster on the subject who holds that opinion.

Imaginary? I don't know what you mean.

Well, from a purely gut feeling point of view, daves posts seem to fall into 4 categories

which anyone can do who posts here

well ... you get used to it

self explanatory, but includes experience gained having gained useful advice from others here and put into practice

as the rest of us do

While it might be said that he crosses the line, so do I, as I will advertise my website in a post when I think it's appropriate. At the end of the day, it comes down to going with the flow

very different to commercial posting from those having made no useful contribution

The line is fuzzy, but this is effectively a social group and drawing that line comes down to what those who regularly post here deem acceptable

I'd be more concerned for the choirboys ...

But what about the October Half-Term Weasel?

Owain

... so last (but one) month

And what would that be? Your expert consultancy on wood preservation?

Steve "The Great Expert On Everything" Firth