East Dulwich Forum Facebook

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Was that this group he is referring to?

 

[Sue]

This East Dulwich Forum was in existence long before the ED Facebook page.

The Facebook group nicked the name, and if memory serves there was nothing that admin could do about it.

It has no connection with this forum.

Never heard of the one with Herne Hill in it though.

Edited Monday at 11:21 by Sue

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

I know but the confusion is this newer version of the EDF was probably why he could keep the name since he set the group up whilst the older version of the EDF was running. 
I’m assuming he had to add on Herne Hill to get around the EDF name and reinstate his group. 

As per this: 

[alice]

So the Facebook pretender cites free speech as its usp.   
How words change their meanings

[Administrator]

In summary:

• East Dulwich Forum was founded in 2006 before Facebook existed.
• A few years ago, someone maliciously started using the East Dulwich Forum identity and created a Facebook Group of the same East Dulwich Forum name and used many of the slogans, phrases from this website.
• This person has been using their Facebook Group to promote a Cleaning and Building business they are connected with. They are using it for their own financial gain. They apparently suppress links / comments from rival trades businesses to make sure theirs is the one seen to be recommended.
• People often get confused between this website and the Facebook Group. I regularly receive sent via the 'Contact Us' page on this website asking questions about something 'on the Facebook Group' despite it being completely unconnected. Furthermore there have been times where the Facebook Group owner has made comments or decisions to damage the reputation of the East Dulwich Forum 'brand' (an example here).

I'm not a legal expert but in my opinion, the clearly amounts to maliciously 'Passing Off' as another business. Note - this is different to copyright or trademark infringement which would be difficult to claim against (more info about the differences here - its quite complex!).

Recently I submitted a complaint to Facebook to notify them of this page passing off as eastdulwichforum.co.uk. Surprisingly, it appears that this complaint was considered and as a result, they have (slightly) modified the name of their group. A small win.

 

To be honest, I wouldn't usually care about this type of thing but it was damaging the reputation of this forum. And for the record, there are many of other legitimate local Facebook Groups which I encourage people to use - ones which don't try to make a financial gain by passing off as a long running business.

 

[Kipper_1972]

it's the only FB Group I was a member of where scam messages would sit for days unmanaged

 

[Sue]

Dear oh dear.

Just reading that stuff from the "Group expert in Business news" hurts my brain.