Talk.ElectricianForum.co.uk
https://talk.electricianforum.co.uk – The UK’s Friendliest Electrical Forum
First Forum Using Domain
17th April 2007 we bought electriciansforums.co.uk
15th Jan 2008 they bought electricianforum.co.uk
(click those dates to check yourself)
First Forum to 1.5m Posts
We have 1.5m posts, they don’t have 500k yet and they’ve got some right stupid threads going to try increase post count
First Forum with 45,000 members
We erase unused account, allow members to erase their account, have zero spam accounts get through, and have 45,000+ genuine members. They have sub 25,000 and nearly half automated bot accounts with zero posts.
CHANGE DOMAINS!
It would cost them the price of a .com domain name to change their whole website over to a new unique name of their own that saves no confusion.
It is possible to 301 redirect all old traffic to the new domain. We just did it with our .co.uk to .net change.
We would have chosen another brand name but WE HAVE 12 DOMAINS OF THE SAME BRANDING YOU NUMPTIES!
Branding
Get your bloody own and stop riding on the back of our traffic ya fuckers.
Stick with a .co.uk if you wish
Just make sure you’ve used more than a single brain cell and a tiny bit of thinking power so you can come up with a name of your own instead of jumping on the back of somebody else’s branding.
Domain Terrorists
“I was confused I thought I’d signed up to electriciansforums.co.uk and then found the other domain and tried to login to that instead”
Janet Morris; genuine case
“I signed up to electriciansforums.co.uk in 2007 and then in 2008 thought the domain had changed, I quickly learnt it was a criminal copycat”
Willie Brown; actual member who’s pissed off still to this day
“I think we should just DDOS the fuck out of them during all their busy periods until their hosting costs more than its worth because they need to outbandwidth the traffic which is very costly”
Sean Fisher; ethical hacker
Let’s work together to stop you being a problem for us
We will help you FOC to fuck off onto a domain name of your own. If you can only use domain names that we can think up, we can think up a few for you and you use your little fat fingers to pick one out of a hat – ya cunts
- So we had a powercut at home last night, overnight. Took my tired brain a few minutes to work it out, though, as a whole bunch of downlights, device electronics (washing machine controls, google hub, sky router, oven timer….) etc all stayed on but 'unhappy'. I first thought it might have been a surge from lightning as there was some around but then after flipping some breakers off and checking that the digital meter was actually also dead, I realised that that the incoming L must have still been live but the N broken, the resultant path for enough current […]
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- Bit of a random question but I’ve got a practice reason for asking. I know with a lot of control circuit timers and relays they state on them what there contacts can carry for example 2amp inductive 5amp resistive. My question is if we are pulling in a relay through these contacts is it possible for the relay to cause an overload for example the coil usually only draws 1 amp. The reason I’m asking is there’s a control circuit protected by a 6amp fuse and most the contacts are rated at 5 amps. the science of this is a […]
- Removed this this weekend from a house built in 1963. Presumably originally to do some outside lighting and from the way it was wired may well have been original to the house, or at least installed not long after. Were these common in domestic back in the day, or is this possibly an industrial unit that made it's way into domestic usage (previous homeowner was also a factory owner apparently). All in very good condition for it's age if anyone's interested in it – Probably too recent for your collection @Lucien Nunes ? It has a month as well as […]
- I don't see this type of query anywhere on this site – but if this is repetition, perhaps some "kind soul" will direct me to the correct site? My question is:- I still receive bills from companies e.g. TalkTalk, that only show a gross invoice total (incl. VAT) but omit to show the 20% VAT element in that cost. Does anyone out there know the formula to "extract" the 20% content of a gross figure i.e. a figure that is "including VAT"? I know the formulas for the 17.5% & the 15% VAT but not the 20%.
- Hi. I'm looking to change career from a stonemason to electrician, so I'm not new to the building industry (been doing stonework for 17 years), but have no electrical experience other than a few times I've helped my brother (who is a sparky with over 20 years experience). Read loads about the courses on offer and I'm still not sure which is best. I'm most tempted by the OLCI course, but I'd appreciate any advice on the best course to take as i cant really afford 4 years on low wages as an apprentice. All comments much appreciated. Thanks.
- Hi, Not sure if anyone can help but I have a bulb/lighting query. I've noticed my parents in law still have halogen bulbs on the main light in the kitchen. I was thinking of being helpful and swapping these for LED (warm white). I have attached an image of the current bulb but I presume I'd use a gu5.3 type bulb?. Also what wattage would people recommend. The current light has 4 bulbs. Many thanks in advance.
- Just received an unsolicited email from this company looking for contractors in my area i.e. GU postcode. Aberdeen based company touting maintenance work for 27 properties a month. This fits exactly with the MO used by previous Scottish based operator who has caused issues for other members of this forum in the past. My spider senses say SCAM so beware and my ex-police senses say ….they're well at it, still!
- Right … Just been nudged to set this up by Paul.M and sounds a good idea following recent threads I've done in the Arms.. Rules….No Offensive material… edit if required before posting as this is the public arena. Anything to do with the trade or in and around it …H&S pic's welcome. I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago. mg_smile:
- He hasn't been around for a while which is highly irregular. I hope all is well with him. I like his blunt, intelligent, helpful replies.
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So a guy sees new electrical forum, joins it, kicks around on it and gets a ban, creates his own and doesn’t have much between the ears so the only name he can come up with is one exactly the same as the one he’s been banned on. Did he A) choose it to ride off the back of it B) choose it because he was banned from the first one or C) all of the above?
Whichever it was, his website isn’t his own, he’s just using it until it is claimed by the owner of the brand he’s borrowing without permission.