I have been interested to see that bbb_uk has just become a Global Moderator of this site and would love to know how this great honour came to be bestowed and where the job vacancy was advertised?

I would of course like to say that I think bbb_uk is probably a most suitable person to be a moderator on this site but it would be interesting to know why the forum management has bestowed this honour on bbb_uk but not on some of us other longstanding forum members.

I suspect it all has to do with the fact that bbb_uk is a more technically minded individual likely to be good at dealing with the geographic number alternative queries but is not of a more politically oriented mindset (like myself or the late lamented dorf or mc661) and so is less likely to ask awkward questions about the £150 FreePay ripoff banner that now heads up a site supposed to be about stopping scams.

However I would certainly be interested to hear from bbb_uk or Daniel or Dave about how this great honour came to be bestowed.

I think this constant personal vendetta that you harbour demeans your otherwise clearly excellent technical knowledge of the uk telecoms marketplace.

Since the Dave, DaveM and ForumAdmin triumvirate has remained a closed shop for a very long time I think we are more than entitled to ask how someone else so suddenly joins the party.

I note you do not complain about the £150 ripoff FreePay banners which seems very unusual for someone of your normally highly developed critical faculty.  Of course you may just be another ego of Dave, DaveM and ForumAdmin which would explain much.

andy9 wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2006 at 11:26pm:


The objectionable £150 FreePay fictitious Gift Vouchers offer is now in the top right of almost every page on this website.  How can you miss it unless you are a visually impaired user reading the website via text to speech software I cannot imagine.

It would be nice to know bbb_uk's view on the ripoff £150 Gift Voucher Offer that now adorns the top of every single page on this website.

Because he seemed to be a genuinely independent minded guy rather than one of those who have been part of the establishment setup of this website from its outset.

bbb_uk wrote on Feb 25^th, 2006 at 12:30pm:


What not more links to sites that Daniel gets paid commission on!   I hope you will be getting a percentage of this bbb_uk

However I am pleased to see that Daniel has finally got the message on the FreePay website link disgrace and has replaced it with something much more acceptable and in line with the aims and objectives of this site (site to find cheapest gas and electricity suppliers).  And let me say it was Freepay's particular cashback marketing strategy I objected to as a weblink to www.greasypalm.co.uk might well have been quite acceptable.

bbb_uk I think one of your first jobs for the site needs to be to change the link on the front page to one that goes to Ofcom's new consultation on its revised NTNP.  As obviously the NTS: A Way Forward consultation closed quite some months ago.

mc661 wrote on Feb 26^th, 2006 at 12:43am:


I would personally find it very interesting if the forum held some kind of actual social get together although I do appreciate that the problems caused by the geographic dispersion of much of its membership may be somewhat insuperable on this front.

But it really would ne nice to meet Martin Lewis, Daniel -, Dave, Dave M and bbb_uk in one room on one day so as to convince myself they are all quite different, separate and real people.  I'm convinced bbb_uk is probably someone different but not so sure about all the others.

As to the forum moderator position I suppose it would have helped if its availability had been advertised and all possible worthy candidates could have applied.  But at least FreePay has disappeared and been replaced by EnergyLinx and also the thread I started criticising the use of the FreePay banner was not deleted from the forum.  Although the alternative geographic number I have kept adding to the database for www.westierhoming.me.uk has repeatedly been removed.

andy9 wrote on Feb 26^th, 2006 at 8:59pm:


I must say that this witty, sardonic and intelligent form of response also reflects on you in a far more favourable light andy9.  If you have criticisms to make I think seems to be a far more productive way in which to do it.