I just want to thank Eugene at Monzo who has noe rectified this for me. It was a stressful 6 hours but my account is back up and running
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Glad to hear it @Rockinthesocks
Must have been a stressful time for you.
Important for both the bank and the community to treat people with dignity and understandingā¦
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Great to hear although shame it caused so much stress and concern for you.
I saw your previously thread and was not impressed with the replies. Such a shame Monzo didnāt step in earlier 
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I too found the closure and comments unecessarily brusque but very glad to see you got this resolved.
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Just to jump in here, we direct all specific questions about account issues to the in-app chat since we canāt help here on the forum. Since thereās nothing else to say after that we close the threads and hide them so nobodyās confused.
@Rockinthesocks Iām glad to hear youāre back up and running again. Let us know if you need anything else.
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Can I ask why you think people would people confused?
It feels to me like thereās a risk of being seen to hide topics away where there have been problems, rather than being open and transparent and saying āyeah, we donāt always get it right straight away, but weāre trying hard to be a different sort of bankā.
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Writing as a long-time forum user: past experience.
If topics like that are left open, people will chip in with their own thoughts and ideas which may not necessarily be relevant. At best this can confuse the customer, especially when they get a response from Monzo chat (official, full view of matter and circumstances) and it is different to what posts on the forum (members of the public, from a place of no special knowledge) have led them to believe it might be.
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Fair point.
But why not just close without hiding them?
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The way I read it, Monzo is very good with their blog posts and SEO and they wish to portray a positive image.
Itās clear from this forum that some customers have a less than stellar experience of Monzo customer service. By raising their experiences here, it may detract from Monzoās carefully curated SEO.
In the early days, Monzo came across as cuddly, caring and friendly. Theyāve probably had so much investment now that their big investors are pushing to see results. Monzo continues to burn cash whilst a FinTech competitor is predicted to soon be in the black.
The last thing they need is negative experiences being highlighted here, which is why topics get closed and hidden. As, indeed, this one inevitably will.
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Aside from presenting a good image as mentioned already which may well be a factorā¦
I actually think as a forum user, especially if theyāre aiming to keep the forum as a place for people to share ideas and feedback with the aim of improving the product as much as possible, itās actually helpful to keep it as clear as possible of threads about specific peopleās individual issues. If I come on the forum to chat about what I like and donāt like about Monzo I donāt want to have to wade through a lot of individual threads about issues that should be directed to Monzo support. It doesnāt add anything for me.
I could see the value of having megathreads about certain issues of this kind where people can simply share their experiences, for other customers or potential customers to see the good and bad sides of the company. But having loads of little threads for customer support issues ends up cluttering the forum too much imo.
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Given that a FinTech competitor, maybe even the same one as alluded to by the rather cynical post above, closed their forum with the dubious reason/excuse that they could not be having threads commenting on individual cases, it does not seem to far out of bounds to field them and move on
Because they are of no use to anyone.
As mentioned above people start just start guessing what the cause was and then they get locked. Combine this with nobody on the forums (staff or customers) being able to help there is no need to have them laying around.
Hiding them also removes them from being found using the search function which would confuse people looking for answers that arenāt there. So itās better for everyone theyāre just hidden and locked.
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Sorry didnt expect the topic to end up like this, I just wanted to express my gratitude but I do appreciate the support from people thanks
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My post was written in a manner of fact way and was intended to be a neutral observation.
This is why the threads get closed!
Glad your issue is resolved.
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Itās only a conversation not sure why you feel the need to apologise 
Granted it has gone a little off topic but thatās pretty normal around here so donāt worry 
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