Why can't we....

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by sANDYbAY, Jun 29, 2017.

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  1. scrooge95

    scrooge95 Moderator and piggy bank keeper

    Ha ha I hope you know very well it weren't you Sean!
     
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  2. I remember getting ticked off a while back cos I gave my personal opinion of someone's Bay for sale on here. I made what I thought were helpful and positive comments but whoever they were disliked my points and gave me a warning.

    We are a great forum and a lot more than just technical stuff about vans, and the General Discussion is excellent and we all talk about life issues, personal stuff, politics and so on. Ok the politics stuff does get a bit heated, but that's real life. people voice their personal opinions.

    I don't think it helps the forum or its reputation by going around banning members, especially without explaining why they were banned.

    People don't have to be on here and banning them just means they go elsewhere and take their helpful knowledge with them.

    We learn a lot from tlb and we are quick to come on and offer help when folks have a problem.

    Banning is a poor way to resolve a dispute of any kind, lets hope that whoever it is that's going around doing the banning, cools it all down.

    Last thing we want is for our members to drift away to other forums.
     
  3. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    Okay here we go.

    This is a trolling thread. You haven't started a thread for ages Bob. You're Trolling now.

    Razzyh If he was banned by Fish in private then he must have been quite rude to him, because as you know Fish was always quite laid back. Ray is still on here in another guise anyway.

    Mrs Volkswombat used to respond to my threads and comments daily.She never responded to me once after I gave her husband warning points for consistent bad language. The next time she responded to me was to report me for a picture that had been posted a dozen times before 'without offence. It was a obvious go at me. No big deal to me, but others saw it for what it was and sorted the way they saw fit. Other people have transgressed the rules and been dealt with by Fish. They have now flounced off as you well know to start another forum. No big deal. They are desperate for new members and each time a thread like this appears they swell their ranks by one or two, YAY for the bitters. Great, another angst member for an already grim forum.

    Recently I have seen the stuff posted on there, saw a very unpleasant post by volkswombat aimed at me and fish that talked about sexual activity while banning people. Childish and crude, but the strange thing was, it never seemed to offend MrsVW in her next post as she never even mentioned his vile post. I would have thought that given the way my silly picture offended her then that should have mortified her. I doubt either did really. Oh the irony!

    As for these continual recruitment posts that get copied and pasted over there as if they are trophies and justify the vile, they sicken me. the whole forum over there sickens me. This place was never like that and fish along with others tried to encourage the lightheartedness of TLB, but it's gone, eroded by the constant laddishness and less than clever humour enjoyed by me and you alike ( rightly or wrongly ) we could do better at one time, People have become bored, offended, banned or lost interest, I am one TBH.

    I wouldn't bother copying and posting this post over there Woody as everyone over there still reads this forum anyway.

    See ya later guys!
     
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  4. I thinks its still light hearted :thumbsup:
    I couldn't care less what anyone says on here as its not real.
     
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  5. Berns post page 1 ???
     
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  6. bernjb56

    bernjb56 Supporter

    They joint own it as far as I know. Hailfrank has been absent for an age, Fish is still about.
     
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  7. Barry Haynes

    Barry Haynes I dance in leopard skin mankini’s

    Don't be *******ed off malc, we still have what I call our regulars and we have a laugh,
     
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  8. sANDYbAY

    sANDYbAY On benefits-won't sponsor!

    Ok, here I go.

    @Ploptop2

    I have no idea how many or how recently I've started a thread. I did actually have a look in my profile to find out but all I can see is that since the last TLB crash I've posted 11,507 times and received 13,320 'likes' so.....probably not a troll then!

    However, if it makes you more comfortable to label me as a troll that is your right.

    As for me being a member on Blunderbuss aka the vile and sickening forum. I go on there because some very good friends of mine are on there and I didn't want to lose touch with them, which is exactly the same reason that I am on here, to keep in contact with some very good friends, and I include you in that description as well Malc.

    I've been on this forum for long enough to not only have met fish but worked with him on my engine for a day and I thoroughly enjoyed it. He was a good laugh and very knowledgeable (and I said exactly the same in his defence on Blunderbus)

    None of which alters the fact that this forum functioned for years and years with only a few noteable bannings and in almost all of those the reasons were transparent and understood by the vast majority of other forum users.

    And for the record Malc, I fail to see why asking a perfectly reasonable question would lead you to think it was posted just to cause trouble. Sometimes difficult or uncomfortable questions need to be asked.
     
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  9. sANDYbAY

    sANDYbAY On benefits-won't sponsor!

    Yes they do, way way back in the distant past, when TLB was started they both started it together.
     
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  10. Imho
    mostly about right,
    there will always be bitter people on the internet,
    who get wound up and would like to destroy what they dont like..

    its the way of the interweb ...:rolleyes:
     
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  11. Barry Haynes

    Barry Haynes I dance in leopard skin mankini’s

    @sANDYbAY I too was recently accused of being a troll, I had to google it cos I didn't know what one was lol
     
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  12. I just did as well and click images ?

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  13. Barry Haynes

    Barry Haynes I dance in leopard skin mankini’s

    Shut it Malc :thumbsup:
     
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  14. Barry Haynes

    Barry Haynes I dance in leopard skin mankini’s

    Good player
     
  15. Flakey

    Flakey Supporter

    Robbie Fowler rated him :D
     
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  16. Quality coke head :thumbsup:
     

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  17. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    I'm not disputing questions need to be asked. The fact this thread may cause trouble is clear, and should be to you as I credit you with enough intellect to know that.

    Questions can be asked in private messages and you know you will get a proper response in reply to a polite question. To do it openly as you ask is only likely to to open up old wounds, again - you know that!

    I for one have been offended by the vile posted over there and the lack of anyone saying to Woody or Zed ( And now that volkwombat bloke) when they posted nasty stuff about me and openly encouraging others to dislike me and Fish, like the opening welcome Zed put up on there when it was started and as since been modded (hence the sheep attacks of recent from people I don't even know) that they are wrong as they have met me and enjoyed my company, is just horrible. I include you in that expectation of my defence BTW.

    The open attacks on me and fish and the vocabulary used is too crud for words. I can say here and now that this sort of stuff has shown me another side to forum life and I am truly disappointed in some of the members and ex of both forums. I did like and get on well with most people on that forum and most on here, but after reading stuff recently I am mortified at the underlying nastiness of some and and just feel it has gone too far now.

    I dare say Zed will put some kind of spin on this post about me manipulating or not being honest, But that's ironic as it was exactly that that he now posts about me that I told him about him in a pm just before he threw his toys out of the pram and set up his site for the TLB disenchanted.

    Nuff said without really saying ( for legal reasons ) what else I think of them! You can carry on posting stuff like this Bob, but you know and I know, it doesn't help!
     
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  18. sANDYbAY

    sANDYbAY On benefits-won't sponsor!

    If you agree that questions need to be asked then why should they be asked and answered in private?

    That's all really as it's clear that I'm not going to get an answer as to why people are being banned secretly and, it seems, on the whim of one person.
     
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  20. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    I think that person needs to answer that, not me.

    I have just said how I feel about these type of posts from people like yourself and others who are on both forums and think that coming on here just to start this type of thread is totally transparent and harming both forums. It's getting too much now. If that place needs to keep doing this to attract people then it it isn't really working is it?

    I hate predictive text btw!
     
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