Our stance on providing advice online - More for the sparky forum but I'll write a similar thing for here

[Dan]

Sharing and providing electrical (or Gas Plumbing) advice online - Discussion thread

IMPORTANT: Please note that nobody on this forum should be seeking or providing advice to people who are not competent in their field. If you live in a country where electrical advice is only to be shared between professional qualified electricians, then clearly you need to abide by those laws...

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I just posted this on the sparky forum.

We provide Gas pluming advice on this forum. And whilst it's clear sometimes who knows their stuff. And we can check against GSR at the time of them providing us their GSR number. We don't and can't check daily to remove those who aren't now GSR registered.

So I would say, without giving it much thought, that I'd have the same stance on this forum too.

Kinda, if you provide the advice, you're assuming they *should (are allowed to?) be seeking it.

But we as a forum can't change the industry in the UK. And certainly not globally.

So be careful who you provide advice to.

I haven't spent much time on this forum since upgrading it but I will do ASAP. Need sort out some categories and help the mods get some moderation tools. And also give you guys as members more tools to help you get more business in, cheaper tools, better training, that kinda jazz.

We're here to help. But we're here to help those who need the help. Yet we aren't the ones who choose who that is, as a forum. That's kinda down to those who are going around seeking the advice. And whether they're using their collective knowledge that they've gathered from various places, to act on it and fiddle with their gas pipes or electrical wiring.

Who are we to say who that is?

Just thinking out loud here.

p.s. I've asked for an API to see if we can plug into the GSR system. They refused and wished me luck in creating one myself. Cheeky barstewards.

 

[Welder]

Sharing and providing electrical (or Gas Plumbing) advice online - Discussion thread

IMPORTANT: Please note that nobody on this forum should be seeking or providing advice to people who are not competent in their field. If you live in a country where electrical advice is only to be shared between professional qualified electricians, then clearly you need to abide by those laws...

www.electriciansforums.net

I just posted this on the sparky forum.

We provide Gas pluming advice on this forum. And whilst it's clear sometimes who knows their stuff. And we can check against GSR at the time of them providing us their GSR number. We don't and can't check daily to remove those who aren't now GSR registered.

So I would say, without giving it much thought, that I'd have the same stance on this forum too.

Kinda, if you provide the advice, you're assuming they *should (are allowed to?) be seeking it.

But we as a forum can't change the industry in the UK. And certainly not globally.

So be careful who you provide advice to.

I haven't spent much time on this forum since upgrading it but I will do ASAP. Need sort out some categories and help the mods get some moderation tools. And also give you guys as members more tools to help you get more business in, cheaper tools, better training, that kinda jazz.

We're here to help. But we're here to help those who need the help. Yet we aren't the ones who choose who that is, as a forum. That's kinda down to those who are going around seeking the advice. And whether they're using their collective knowledge that they've gathered from various places, to act on it and fiddle with their gas pipes or electrical wiring.

Who are we to say who that is?

Just thinking out loud here.

p.s. I've asked for an API to see if we can plug into the GSR system. They refused and wished me luck in creating one myself. Cheeky barstewards.

Why am I not surprised at GSR's response...

 

[Dan]

We have been around longer than they have had access to that database so they will come and go by the looks of it. So perhaps best we made our own somehow. How we do that, I haven't got a clue. We don't store details of GSR members when they send them to us. Never wanted the data responsibility that comes with that kinda thing.

Perhaps we just go off our own GSR records which is a simple 'Yes they sent us details once' or 'No they haven't yet' kinda thing. But we don't check every few weeks or whatever to remove those who have expired, or renew those who have renewed or whatever.

Headache I don't want to deal with today lol

But you guys get the picture yeah?

 

[townfanjon]

Erm, think so !! ( 5 word effin rule )

 

[Dan]

"I think I do yeah" - also 5 words.

 

[WaterTight]

i t hink i do

 

[Welder]

That rule is both logical & fine Dan