It’s a ridiculous situation, though, when the people whose incentive should be to try to sound like an expert (you’d think?) are the only ones actually talking nonsense! 
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This is true, but it’s not really Babypips’ fault. 
You get this rubbish in other places, too.
The people posting with their promotional agendas (subtly or - as here - usually very unsubtly and just wanting to “get posts on the board”) are the ones who neither bother to read the threads in which they respond, nor to read the responses to their own posts. So they probably don’t even know when people are dismissing what they post as nonsense.
It comes across as “Get another post on the board, just repeat the usual junk”, of course. Whether that does them more good than harm is another question, but certainly it irritates large numbers of other members, and we/they repeatedly say so.
Maybe @tommor has the right approach, just putting them all on his “ignore list” and interacting only with what/whom he wants to.
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That solution obviously works well for @tommor .
I’ve now put a couple of strongly offensive people on “ignore” (and I know that several others have, too), but it’s really not a comfortable long-term solution for me, because I’d feel that I don’t know what’s going on here, which I’m sure would bother me.
Putting people on “ignore” also reduces the number of people reporting the blatantly guideline-breaching idiocies to the moderators, who really can’t be expected do anything about them if they don’t know about them, and that’s obviously bad, too.
Anyway we’re straying far off the subject, here, sorry. It just seems to be the issue that “won’t go away,” in this forum.
@EquatorialForex ’s simple suggestion, just above, seems so glaringly obvious - partly because it’s the one successfully used everywhere else?
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