Do you really need to announce your credentials for your view to be taken seriously?

They were! but nigh on a year of hardly ever having croissant, pilates classes and cardio they have been turned from croissant to awesome.

AbsofCroissant was one of my favourite MN names.

I think the most useful thing is when someone can find the right links easily - I've seen people on threads about the law, or planning, link to a page it'd have taken me ages to find on my own. But then of course, they could do that without saying how they knew of it.

Hmm, I know we're not supposed to bring up old posts but were your abs not formerly made of croissant?

Mine! As if. DH's are getting flabby, even though he'll deny it to the point of death

agree with OP aside from anything else, as 'experts' rarely agree, it hardly means jack does it?

Are the abs that you are boasting about not your own abs at all but the abs of your husband?

They might be lying anyway.

I can neither confirm nor deny that I am Putin's wife

I wouldn't mind as he is allegedly worth $40bn and has nice pecs

I haven't! I'm over there NOW

Is it a wrestling match or something? Or judo? He's very good at judo

Abs have you seen this thread?

I can see why the OP is concerned.
I only mention what my job is when asked why I seem to know quite a bit about a specialist area.
I always qualify any comment I make with see someone in RL. I try to stay out of the threads but when I see people giving advice that I know contradicts what at work would be national guidelines then I feel I have to give at least a counter point and point in direction of RL professional (in this case mostly GPs).
The point of my comment here is I guess that hopefully I'm not annoying anyone and that I do add this stuff because I really care about my area and get concerned to see possibly not quite right advice being given.

I wanna know, I wanna know!

Abs is either
An expert in radioactive toxicology
or
A spy counter-intelligence agent.

Do I get a prize?

I'm in two minds to be honest, I work in a very specialist area, so it could be identifying. I might just spout out random facts about Putin to keep myself amused

Equally, though, people ask. Or indeed tell. I've been told I would think that, since I'm a state school teacher, plenty. Except that I'm not.

You also see a lot of 'well, you wouldnt/ couldnt know' or, 'where did you go to school/university?' or 'you have no idea what it's like to have a child with SN' type posts, which, unsurprisingly , people are quick to correct.

I have been waiting, nigh on SEVEN YEARS for a thread to come up which covers my area of expertise, so I can jump in and OWN that thread like nobody's business.

I found a thread once, and they had discussed my area of expertise stuff around 3 months before. I thought bringing it up at that point would have been the height of twattishness, so I continue to wait in vain.

I remember a quite urgent, worrying thread on a medical problem where one poster was dominating the advice - much of which seemed a tad irresponsible, given that she's only examined the patient at second hand via this forum. It emerged that she says she's a doctor's wife. After that, of course, the poor OP never got a look-in as this wife felt it more important to show why marriage endowed her with the knowledge of a fully GP

YY, Thumb, re 'opponents' suddenly deciding the entire thread needs to know a respondent's credentials before continuing! Really pointless & annoying.

Do let me know how you get on with your badminton rules

All joking apart, do you really, omfg? cos if you do, can you help me out with the scoring - I'm sure you used to only score off your own service but now it seems the rules have changed and you score off anyone's service, is that right?

actually top that...I have a scotvec module in...wait for it....badminton get your CV's in now folks

hey hey I have a joint hons degree in psychology and an other ology" (remember the yellow pages ad) Im such an expert on everything...just ask me!!!

I feel the same about people who put their profession in their user name

Sorry you don't like it, but I have used similar 'screen' | 'user' names for the past 15+ years, describing an aspect of my work for 30+ years. It might prove a little too specific but perhaps guides someone to not expect me to know all there is to know about cars (don't drive) or lots of other things, whereas if I had some vague 'GeekyGuy' nickname, I might be deemed both idiot [when answering wrongly] and show-off [might still be some who think it, but that's their problem, isn't it].

I'll be the first to admit where my experience falls short (though I may well be able to point to useful reading if I have seen something on the subject recently). Dabbled with a lot of things, and happy to say so, even if no expert on any matter... often find there is no single 'best' solution, just a number of ways to solve a problem, each [usually] with both good and bad points.

Y'see Beryl, I would have known that working in IT an' all