Politics is simply off topic. Once it starts, in subtle ways it creeps in...

Abandoned places have a magic all of their own. These are magnificent.

If posters can edit their posts, what was happening was that some were actually going back and altering what they had previously said, thus undermining an argument. There were some cases where considerable mischief happened, so the ability to edit was time limited to prevent this abuse.

In the case of a sale, a devious seller could post "the lens has no scratches" and later change it to "the lens has some scratches" so the possibility of doing that is simply not there.

You buy branded AA batteries Steve, not packs of 100 for £1 on the market?

Eneloops seem to be well regarded.

The threads are kept because they form a feedback history for sellers and buyers alike. We can see all the deals ever done, building confidence as time goes by.

No, there's a time limit on editing, and there are very good reasons for that.

Chris, you have to know exactly where to drive in the screw. It's been done when someone jammed a battery in a camera backwards.

However, I'm sure you're absolutely right. I'm not trying it though!

Things have moved on Smeggypants, as have general concerns about Lithium batteries.

We've been over this ground many times before and all your pictures demonstrate Doug are that batteries have different specifications. You have there four different branded batteries, all intended for their own applications.

That's a totally different argument to the safety one. Performance aside, we should be very careful of cheap batteries and chargers from eBay, Amazon perhaps and elsewhwere that have no known source of origin. Some are dangerous, it's not unreferenced or unbacked, but you'll have to do the reading I've already done for yourself.

Probably Google is as good a place as any to start!

I could Doug, but I simply haven't got time. I'll have to refer you to the various regulations that have been issued by airlines, postal services and there have been umpteen press reports discussing the subject.

I'd think it's well known by now that there is actually an issue, much more recent than the Sony laptop problem.