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OK - I'm going to outline the reason for the ban. This topic will be the FINAL DISCUSSION about this on the forum. Any other new threads will be locked without warning. Honestly, I'm getting real tired of this crap.
Firstly, message to Keith:
You continue to re-register and spam my user base with invitations to your new forum.
All I'll do is continue to ban you. I was due to speak to Michael G tomorrow on the phone to see if we could solve this problem but frankly, you're making this situation a lot harder. I also think it's important to tell people why you're banned, don't you?
1) You did not get the ego massage from us that you so wanted. You continually used your position as a prominent member of the community to gain financially from traders by advertising their wares on this forum and receiving freebies from them as a result. This has been mentioned to you a 100 times. We even let you sell your t-shirts and mugs. The final one was your prop shaft thread - an absolutely brilliant thread with valuable content which you duly crapped on by the blatant ad at the end of it. Amazing how you managed to get a free prop shaft and THEN put a huge ad up at the same time isn't it?
2) Your problem with Jason is not the concern of the forum. This goes for my moderators too because Christ knows I'm not showing favoritisms to anyone. Nobody deserves to be brought into the middle of what appears to have the potential of becoming a violent dispute. This forum is for discussions about Skylines and when Neanderthals start talking about breaking skulls, then crikey, you can all go take your ball and play elsewhere - I don't know about you but I'm a family man, fighting ended at 16 for me.
3) Your relationship with Rod Bell is healthy and I commend your loyalty, but continually attempting to ram the RB name down our throats in the absence of a paltry £25.00 banner is going to always push the wrong buttons. Imagine what could have been possible if there WAS a banner in place. However, I got a feeling you knew this and as a result, was happy to keep pushing those wrong buttons. You have a anarchistic nature.
Now you spam my users with invites to your new forum? You're only doing this because:
a) You've been banned from here.
b) You've been shunned on SOC.
c) You do not have the loyal fan base you thought you did.
This forum is not about an individual. This forum is about the car the namesake represents and if you are unable to act as an equal member of the community, then the community can do without you.
I've given Keith ample opportunity to contact me to discuss this problem - he has failed to do so on numerous occasions. My phone number is available to him, my email address is available to him. Michael has at least seen sense to try to pacify a situation which we both admit has gone way out of hand.
Again, I reiterate, my email address is here. If Keith wants to talk about this and put this mess behind us, then I will gladly have a chat on the phone.
Personally, I don't believe any of this is for public consumption. I don't like washing my laundry in public, so if people can PLEASE refrain from bringing this up again, I'll be most grateful.
I'm going to leave this thread open over the weekend at which point I'll lock it. Meanwhile, if anybody craps this thread up then I'll lock it earlier - let's try to have a reasoned discussion, ok?
Cem
p.s. I've also acknowledged that moderators posting in threads after they've been locked is wrong and ill-advised. In their defence, as a moderator you cannot clearly see that the thread is locked as you can still see the 'reply' feature, something hidden to normal users. I've mentioned this in another thread so hopefully we can put this to rest too.
Firstly, message to Keith:
You continue to re-register and spam my user base with invitations to your new forum.
All I'll do is continue to ban you. I was due to speak to Michael G tomorrow on the phone to see if we could solve this problem but frankly, you're making this situation a lot harder. I also think it's important to tell people why you're banned, don't you?
1) You did not get the ego massage from us that you so wanted. You continually used your position as a prominent member of the community to gain financially from traders by advertising their wares on this forum and receiving freebies from them as a result. This has been mentioned to you a 100 times. We even let you sell your t-shirts and mugs. The final one was your prop shaft thread - an absolutely brilliant thread with valuable content which you duly crapped on by the blatant ad at the end of it. Amazing how you managed to get a free prop shaft and THEN put a huge ad up at the same time isn't it?
2) Your problem with Jason is not the concern of the forum. This goes for my moderators too because Christ knows I'm not showing favoritisms to anyone. Nobody deserves to be brought into the middle of what appears to have the potential of becoming a violent dispute. This forum is for discussions about Skylines and when Neanderthals start talking about breaking skulls, then crikey, you can all go take your ball and play elsewhere - I don't know about you but I'm a family man, fighting ended at 16 for me.
3) Your relationship with Rod Bell is healthy and I commend your loyalty, but continually attempting to ram the RB name down our throats in the absence of a paltry £25.00 banner is going to always push the wrong buttons. Imagine what could have been possible if there WAS a banner in place. However, I got a feeling you knew this and as a result, was happy to keep pushing those wrong buttons. You have a anarchistic nature.
Now you spam my users with invites to your new forum? You're only doing this because:
a) You've been banned from here.
b) You've been shunned on SOC.
c) You do not have the loyal fan base you thought you did.
This forum is not about an individual. This forum is about the car the namesake represents and if you are unable to act as an equal member of the community, then the community can do without you.
I've given Keith ample opportunity to contact me to discuss this problem - he has failed to do so on numerous occasions. My phone number is available to him, my email address is available to him. Michael has at least seen sense to try to pacify a situation which we both admit has gone way out of hand.
Again, I reiterate, my email address is here. If Keith wants to talk about this and put this mess behind us, then I will gladly have a chat on the phone.
Personally, I don't believe any of this is for public consumption. I don't like washing my laundry in public, so if people can PLEASE refrain from bringing this up again, I'll be most grateful.
I'm going to leave this thread open over the weekend at which point I'll lock it. Meanwhile, if anybody craps this thread up then I'll lock it earlier - let's try to have a reasoned discussion, ok?
Cem
p.s. I've also acknowledged that moderators posting in threads after they've been locked is wrong and ill-advised. In their defence, as a moderator you cannot clearly see that the thread is locked as you can still see the 'reply' feature, something hidden to normal users. I've mentioned this in another thread so hopefully we can put this to rest too.