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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KnockerNorton" data-source="post: 1242363" data-attributes="member: 66452">But what are you "helping them out" of, exactly? Having their nice relaxing day, which has been spoiled by a 'know-all' chipping in to their conversation? That's the risk. Who's to decide who should be helped and who should be the helper? Self-appointed 'hide oracles'? Is interrupting a private conversation (eg between two people in a hide) with unsolicited 'advice' a polite thing to do? Who's to say the adivice is correct anyway? Would anyone do that e.g. in a pub? Only that character out of Fast Show.What county recorder is going to publish a WWBT without a description? So there's a safeguard in such a case as yours.</blockquote>