23-10-2018, 05:29 PM
To get back to the point:
There was in fact a "yellow card".
The person concerned seems to have taken exception to something on a technical thread, which rapidly degenerated into a savage and completely one-sided attack on another well-respected member. I've no idea what triggered this.
"Management" took the offending post down and made a perfectly reasonable request to keep things civilised - the Yellow Card.
A new thread then appeared under a title referring to lies and deceit, which repeated previous abusive remarks, with even more offensive additions.
As far as I can gather it was this posting that resulted in the ban.
This was a truly vile personal attack that was suggesting conspiracies and had nothing whatever to do with Austin Sevens. It's a great shame, as the writer was someone who had made some valuable contributions to the Forum over the years and with whom I'd exchanged a number of friendly personal messages. However, his comments were so unnecessary and unpleasant that my personal opinion is that Management had no alternative but to ban him.
There was in fact a "yellow card".
The person concerned seems to have taken exception to something on a technical thread, which rapidly degenerated into a savage and completely one-sided attack on another well-respected member. I've no idea what triggered this.
"Management" took the offending post down and made a perfectly reasonable request to keep things civilised - the Yellow Card.
A new thread then appeared under a title referring to lies and deceit, which repeated previous abusive remarks, with even more offensive additions.
As far as I can gather it was this posting that resulted in the ban.
This was a truly vile personal attack that was suggesting conspiracies and had nothing whatever to do with Austin Sevens. It's a great shame, as the writer was someone who had made some valuable contributions to the Forum over the years and with whom I'd exchanged a number of friendly personal messages. However, his comments were so unnecessary and unpleasant that my personal opinion is that Management had no alternative but to ban him.