The Negotiator said:
On recommendation byPete, I am starting a thread about insurance where we can discuss the possibility of individuals requesting help for modifications and stating specifically that they won't insure it and whether they should be helped or not.
Apparently not doing so means I am not making the forum aware enough and that that sort of information can't go within the relevant thread since it is off-topic.
So, what do people think?
No Paul, you appear to have misread my message. The thread I suggested you start was about insurance, and what people's obligations and the consequences of their actions could be, but it appears to be having the right response anyway. I suggested you start this separately as it wasn't appropriate where you started it before.
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The Negotiator
Common sense and the moderation team putting the mass majority of our members first instead of hiding facts from everybody.
Steve1219 said:
Sorry if it appeared I was having a go Stu I was not the forum as it stands is being run very fairly. I was responding to the above quote where the mod team would behave like policemen.
The quote was pointed directly at me. Paul is upset that I removed a hypothetical argument from a technical thread.
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The Negotiator said:
The issue isn't about telling people off for not insuring mods, though the mass majority on here are happy to do that, I am talking about the issue of helping somebody to mod their car when it has been made plainly clear on more than one occasion that they will NOT insure it. Then the fact of that being removed from public view.
The comments were removed from public view because
in that thread the member made no suggestion that he was not going to insure the modification, and an argument based on an assumption ensued.
Previously in a different thread concerning a different situation he had suggested he wouldn't tell the insurance company, in which case he deserved the criticism he received. In the thread you are referring to it was unwarranted - nobody actually asked him if he was going to insure it, or gave him the chance to respond before the lectures started.
You
still do not know if he had changed his mind over insurance cover based on the previous thread, merely assuming that he won't.
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black cinq said:
But the person involved provoked this thread for saying he wasnt going to insure a turbo conversion or similar.
In a previous thread, he did state that he was not intending to insure modifications he was discussing. In the turbo thread, people seem to believe (based on another member's comments) that he made the same claim. Please let me reiterate that at no point in the turbo thread did he mention disclosing or not disclosing modifications in any way. He was not asked, nor given the opportunity to state what his intentions were concerning insurance before the ridicule began.
Had he stated that he was not going to declare, then the comments would have been valid. As they stood, they made no effort to ascertain whether previous comments had been heeded and he intended to properly insure. It is possible he listened before, but nobody seemed to be interested enough to ask.
As it stood, the posts were slander or libel (someone with a better understanding of the terms may be able to clarify).