Banned Member

[Nokesy]

Management have decided to ban Finbar from this forum due to his post in a thread under Site Feedback which has now been removed - including his public apology which you will all now never get to see!

His avatar has a slightly confusing active / inactive member wording but please don't think him rude if you PM him (which you still can do) but don't get a reply - as he can't do this anymore!

You will be missed on the forum Finbar but look forward to seeing you at meets and rideouts [smiley=thumbsup.gif]


EDIT : Finbar will not be joining for any WB rideouts as he is a banned forum member, this also bans him from attending ride outs, thats what a ban means. His being banned also doesn't mean that he uses your account or goes through you to post on this forum, the idea of a ban is that he is not allowed on the forum, even by proxy. If you continue to do it either through PM's or posts, you will put your own account at risk, we would rather not have to ban another account, so please don't also put us in a position were we have no other option.

[Morticia]

Could you tell him I want my bike back, please?

[Nokesy]

EDIT : Finbar will not be joining for any WB rideouts as he is a banned forum member, this also bans him from attending ride outs, thats what a ban means. His being banned also doesn't mean that he uses your account or goes through you to post on this forum, the idea of a ban is that he is not allowed on the forum, even by proxy. If you continue to do it either through PM's or posts, you will put your own account at risk, we would rather not have to ban another account, so please don't also put us in a position were we have no other option.[/quote]

My posts are entirely my own - I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'contiuing to do it either through PM's or posts' ? I just wanted to let everyone know where Finbar had gone - I am very happy to leave this subject alone and get on with life now. [smiley=thumbsup.gif] At least other members won't think he is being rude now when they get no response from a PM which was one of my main concerns.

[Dabz]

Can I just make it clear his ban is NOT reflecture purely of the post he made in the Site Feedback forum, so that allegation is completely untrue. Additionally, we can't ban people from attending rides as it's a free country - our ban is simply removing him from this online forum.

You will also NOT put your own account at risk if you PM someone else on his behalf.

Not sure where or why the above assumptions came from

[Nokesy]

Can I just make it clear his ban is NOT reflecture purely of the post he made in the Site Feedback forum, so that allegation is completely untrue. Additionally, we can't ban people from attending rides as it's a free country - our ban is simply removing him from this online forum.

You will also NOT put your own account at risk if you PM someone else on his behalf.

Not sure where or why the above assumptions came from

The words in 'red' were Hunar's edit to my original post.

[Hunar]

Right guys and girls firstly let me apologise for the late posting of this message, but as it comes on behalf of the forum admins, I have to make sure they all agree with the wording before I make a post on their behalf.

The decision was taken to ban Finbar from the forum due to his recent conduct. In the 5 year history of this forum, Finbar is only the 3rd person to get banned, it’s not a decision that is taken lightly or made on a whim, we don’t like having to ban members, but sometimes we are forced to do it.

There are certain terms and conditions that everyone must agree to when joining the forum, and with his recent conduct Finbar has broken those conditions. There are quite a few reasons that ended up in this choice being made, mostly the amount of complaints received regarding his behaviour and attitude towards other members of this forum at meets and also on the forum, but the final choice was made after watching the video of the ride out where the bike Fin was riding broke down and watching the tirade of abuse he launched at Robin.

As we are not self righteous thought Nazi’s, there is a site feedback section so that members can put forward ideas to improve the forum for everyone, however, we do expect a certain amount of civility when making a request, we cannot please everyone and in the vast majority of cases we like to discuss it before making a decision. In the matter of the word filter, when the request was made we started discussing it, we obviously have a few people who want it removed completely, a few who just want it turned down a bit, a few that want it turned down a lot, and a few that don’t want it turned down at all, now we have a responsibility to ensure that we find a solution that suits everyone, or at least pisses off as few people as possible, and as we all have lives outside of the forum we have to wait for the others to log in and read and reply, so the process isn’t instant, however the post Finbar made the next day, was far from civil, normally we would take it as a joke, but Finbar stated quite clearly that it wasn’t a joke, and his subsequent posts certainly confirmed that. We would take action against a member who spoke like that to another member, and I don’t think it’s un-reasonable to do the same when it’s aimed at the admins, or in this case, other members and the admins.

As always you are more than welcome to speak to any of the admins about this or any other matter

[rich1988]

I dont know the ins and outs of what happened extensively but if someone continues to abuse the rules and or members/admin on the forum they really wont do the forum any good so its clear there was no real choice left in the matter, thanks for keeping us all updated

[Morticia]

I just want my bike back...

[rich1988]

you havent got it back :s?? I Assumed you must be a good friend of his to lend it to him?

[Morticia]

I'm getting it tomorrow. I lend anything to anyone, specially a biker. Stupid, I know, but that's me! If I can help, I tend to...