Has anyone tried this and found that it works?
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Locked pots would stop you doing that as well 
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Slightly clickbait-esque title, this. Can we just not?
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Isnāt it supposed to be? This isnāt aimed at Monzo users, but trying to attract eyeballs to bring more users to Monzo, no? I donāt like it either but is one way marketing is done these days?
If itās not aimed at Monzo users, why mention it here on its own topic?
Clickbait titles are the absolute worst and indicate (IMO) a desperate need to get clicks over and above the need to disseminate information.
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Yeah, no idea why we get notification of new posts here (I wonder if itās an easy way to get a ālinkā which Google will use as part of its page rating algorithm I think).
And yes, clickbait isnāt great, but for Iād warrant that the key metric is to get more users to Monzo, by any means possible. Writing blog posts that get shared and get more eyes on them is one way of doing that, and those kind of titles are part and parcel.
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Are you āwatchingā the #newsblog category?
The button in the top right of the category page controls whether you receive notifications for new posts or not. Itās not on by default.
These blog posts are definitely for the people who donāt follow Monzo (or follow them loosely).
I donāt mind seeing them as such (although, like others, the click bait headline is a turn off), but if anything, this blog is a real manipulation of marketing.
There have been people arguing for ācustom pot imagesā for as long as I can remember. Yet Monzo had always said, āItās not a priority for usā¦ we have some challenges around this areaā etc etc.
Then when it was announced that it was coming (quite a while ago), it transpired that itās a āMonzo timeā project - i.e. Itās still not important enough for Monzo to bother with, and itās down to the staff who actually want it, to implement it.
Now itās here, all of a sudden we get blog posts telling us of the psychological importance of images on pots, and referencing Indian studiesā¦
I appreciate Iām cynical (overly so, no doubt), but at times, it feels like Monzo is becoming a marketing company who happen to offer a bank account.
Iāll reiterateā¦ I appreciate 99% of the customer base wonāt think along these lines, and likely donāt care - But the few who read these forums and are starting to get a little disillusioned with the āblogsā, will potentially feel the same.
There have been some really interesting blogs in the past (that offered genuinely good advice/information).
It would be great to get back to those timesā¦
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One trick thatās only available on iOS.
(Yeah, Iām not bitter at all 
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Monzoās friction for pots has gone from having it unlockable only by customer services to stick an image of your kids on it. 
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Yeah thanks. Bad wording. I was more questioning why such posts were double posted into the forums as well. Iād warrant most of us are already customers and know this stuff asā¦ we are in the forums? 
I know Monzo were (possibly still are?), testing out different tones of voice with their communicationā¦ But Iād just like to agree with @tbutz here, and say I hate the click bait postsā¦
Iāve just seen this on Twitter, and itās so far removed from what Iād like to see from Monzoā¦
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I wish this kinda stuff would go under a new blog category so I can just block it like I do with the travel one as this is not news nor an update.