Who is 'DocRick' and why and how is he getting access to promote his website on 'Homework help' ?

He advertises as a chiropractor who specialises in 'alternative medicine'. It's not immediately clear on what basis he gives himself the style 'Doc' unless it be he's a friend of Bugs 'What's up' Bunny. (Hmm. Could be on to something there if it turns out he recommends carrots as 'alternative medicine' ).

I don't and can't put anything on Homework Help ( who the heck has homework on English law?) so I raise the question here.

Fred, You can use the Admin."Report this Post" Link "Yellow Triangle Icon"

I did it for you and Typed "Spammer!"

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I don't and can't put anything on Homework Help ( who the heck has homework on English law?) so I raise the question here.

I understand that only approved people can ANSWER questions on homework help.
But I thought anyone could ASK a question on there without registering? Hence the spam.(Docrick has registered).
But I just tried seeing what would happen if I asked a question, and it says I have to register.
So what's the situation? Do people have to register to get help there?

Doc Rick, the 22 year-old back cracker is gone, as is his post. dg, I'll look into what you said. I had the same impression as you did. (But please remember that my skills as a web master consist of being able to post and little more.)

Here's what the Control Panel tells me:
Anyone, Member or Guest, can post a question, but only certain people can reply.

I can't tell you why you couldn't open a discussion, dg. What forum did you try? (I just looked at the Health forum; the controls are forum specific.)

I've only just got the joke . He's a chiropractor calling himself 'Rick' as in 'I'm in agony.I've ricked my back!' or, better, 'I've got a rick in my back'

I still think the 'carrots' line was better

P.S. I can post a question there? Right, I've got a great homework question about the rule in Foss v Harbottle...

What I meant was, that I was required to register before posting a question. Yet it says on the Homework forum:

"You are not required to register to post a question in this category."

Sorry if I didn't make myself clear.

Ok, I just went through the first few forums up to, and including, English Lit. You have to register for all these forums to post a question.

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Originally posted by FredPuli:
P.S. I can post a question there? Right, I've got a great homework question about the rule in Foss v Harbottle...

dg, even though the settings show that you should have been able to start a discussion in there, I updated them through English. Please see if that made a difference.

No sorry, DG, it's just the same.
It doesn't matter to me, but I thought you'd want to know that, contrary to what the forum says, people do have to register to post.

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Originally posted by dance girl:

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Originally posted by FredPuli:
P.S. I can post a question there? Right, I've got a great homework question about the rule in Foss v Harbottle...

No dg. I understood the rule once , for all of the three hours it took to sit an exam about it.

Would have been indefensible for me to forget the details.After all, the case was in 1842, so it must have been brand new when I did the exams

Ahhh..then R. v. Dudley and Stephens (1884) would have been far more meaty, I'm sure.

Thanks for checking that, dg. Unfortunately, we are at the limit of my web master skills. The best that can do is remove the words saying that students don't have to register.

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Originally posted by dance girl:
Ahhh..then R. v. Dudley and Stephens (1884) would have been far more meaty, I'm sure.

Nice.The rule of the Bar is 'dog eats dog'.We nearly got them acquitted by analogy,arguing that the rule of the mariners was 'seadog eats seadog'. Further, and in the alternative, that 'seadog eats mere pup', a raw cabin boy (or 'fruit de mer tartare', as the French say),made no offence, being a neat application, by extension, of the principle de minimis non curat lex 'the law does not concern itself with trifles'

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'the law does not concern itself with trifles'

They aren't into dessert?

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Originally posted by juanruiz:

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'the law does not concern itself with trifles'

They aren't into dessert?

It is.'Fruit de mer tartare' was regarded as a a trifle, for the argument, but the law always ensures that everyone gets their just desserts