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:)have to agree with basil on this one ,no one told me he was banned and I personally think it's down to the management to stop him and not ask everyone to ignore him ,sorry but I had enough of that sort of thing at school but then that's just me, hope I don't offend anyone with my comments . now here comes a smilly :) :) and I still like your show huner just get some of my request in [smiley=thumbsup.gif] ;D ;D
With reference to the photo shoot....... ;)
A big thankyou to Basil, Tash, Dabz, Hazel et al.
Very tidily done [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
Hoping to get some of the pics printed out big ready for Friday, and then will also post on here etc :)
potter? that was pottering was it? well some of it was through the villages, but alot of it wasn't! See told you that you are faster than me, that was a blat for me, and a potter for you, I need a sports bike lol, but I did enjoy pottering with you![/quote]Quote:
Originally Posted by roxychick
It was a pleasure to potter with the mighty Hunar too, better than riding back on my own. Lovely roads, the sun was out and the bike went well! ;)
Roxy :)[/quote]
I had to leave you dudes at the airport :'( now that was painful, what a perfect riding day [smiley=thumbsup.gif] [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
Pop round tomorrow Dabz!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dabz
Kettle will be on [smiley=thumbsup.gif] [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
potter? that was pottering was it? well some of it was through the villages, but alot of it wasn't! See told you that you are faster than me, that was a blat for me, and a potter for you, I need a sports bike lol, but I did enjoy pottering with you![/quote]Quote:
Originally Posted by Bornagain
It was a pleasure to potter with the mighty Hunar too, better than riding back on my own. Lovely roads, the sun was out and the bike went well! ;)
Roxy :)[/quote]
I had to leave you dudes at the airport :'( now that was painful, what a perfect riding day [smiley=thumbsup.gif] [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
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You left us cos you knew you would be playing catch up to the girlie r6! lol ;D :D ;D
Hay basil I think were gona have to show roxy what these Ninja thoroughbred are capable of boom boom shake the room vroom vroom when we pas you he he
;D ;D
Oh comeon Green man, we all know them Ninjas hold nothing on the ARRRR6's! ;D [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
Hay Lexxor if you got a R6 get your cash out Race Race !! PS i dint say what Ninja i got he he h ha ;D ;DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lexx0r
Basil
I'm not taking it as a dig chief, I agree it could have been handled differently, I have offered my resigination as a member of the management team and forum, because I don't think it's an image we need, and made my apologies. I was pointing out the way I think it should have been handled, by everyoine ignoring him and telling him to leave WB events.
Smelly
Chief if you request a rock tune and I have it in my collection and there is time I will play it, no worries, unless of course it's the osmonds and crazy horses, which obviously isn't a rock tune, despite what Amanate thinks (I'm on tonight by thwe way, 10pm - midnight, www.bikerfm.co.uk, but I do have to warn listeners that the some people may find the content of the show offensive, outrageous, childish, possibly indecent, hillarious, inspiring or even life changing!)
The management have made it perfectly clear to fin that he is not welcome at WB events, I believe that most, if not all of us, have made that point perfectly clear. The problem is that fin likes to tease and push people, and he knows that we can't technically stop him from riding wherever he likes on the public highways, and he gets a nice buzz from turning up and ruining everyones day with his presence, no idea why he gets a kick from it, but there you go, I guess to some people it gives them a sense of power which they can't get any other way.
Why shouldn't we rely on members to help enforce the rules? how are we supposed to enforce a banning if people talk to him and invite him to events? We tell him to leave as he's not welcome, while everyone is saying 'Hi Fin, how's it going mate?', how's that goign to work? you've seen what happens when someone does confront him individually, he wasn't going to leave, he had every intention of staying, even though he knew he wasn't welcome. In fact when he did leave he went straight down to Weymouth and waited for us to arrive, so not sure how we are supposed to enforce the rules without the help of the forum members as well.
Fin obviously wouldn't tell you he was banned, I know a couple of guys he also got this way, just told them he wasn't on the forum and could they post for him. They met him at a non WB event, and as they didn't know the full story (as he obviously wouldn't tell them), they talk to him, although having seen him on a few of our trips they where getting the idea he wasn't popular, but no idea how unpopular, now they know, and he's not very popular with them either. This is how he justifies turngin up to WB events, as he said himself on Sunday 'my friends want me here', I know people don't like him but talk to him out of politeness, that's what he classes as a friend, people who talk to him. You can also raise the point again, that if his 'friends' want and invite him to turn up to WB events, IF they know he's banned, how are we supposed to enforce the rule? Personally I would hope his 'friends' would respect the descision and wishes of the vast majority of the other members of this forum and not invite him along, and tell him not to come when he says he will attend, if you want to ride with him or meet him somewhere then do it another time somewhere he is welcome and not at WB meets, obviously, if they know he's banned. Unfortunately he won't tell new friends that info, and then we get these kinds of problems.
We could put a sticky post up about banned members, but I think the opinion of the management team, is that we rather we didn't have too, in the 5 years or so this forum has been active we have only had to ban about 5 usernames, and some of those where just spam accounts, so it's not somethgin we do on a regular basis, or somethign we enjoy having to do, but sometimes you have no choice, if you give someone enough chances and they still carry on, you can either lose members or ban them. I think the worry is that a sticky'd post about banned members may be seen as a sign we just through the ban hammer around for the fun of it, maybe we need to do it, the post that is, not the ban hammer.
It's also been suggested to make certain sections members only, or the whole forum private, and a few other ideas to restrict access I don't think Dabz wants any of these things to have to happen, and neither do the admins, and to be honest it's not hard to re-register with a new username, I wouldn't be suprised if he has already done that, and the forum is public view so everyone can read it without having to log in, it's always been that way, and this is the only time it's really been a problem, I don't see the need to change a system that everyone seems happy with, that seems to work (judging from the membership increases we're getting), just because one person decides to be an arse just because he can. It's much easier for everyone to let him know he shouldn't attend WB events and to ignore him when he does, I appreciate everyone is different, and that he may have friends who are members of this forum, but if they don't agree with his banning, why are they still here? why can't they respect the wishes of everyone else and meet with him at other times? like I said though, IF they know he's banned.
It's not an easy problem to solve, well it is just by ignoring him, but if thats not likely to happen, then it's not an easy problem to solve, but what I believe will happen if he continues to turn up and no one does anything, is that people will leave or stop posting and just communiate through PM's with people, ride outs organised in secret to ensure he doesn't turn up, people going home or somewhere different to the rest of the group when he does, I already know of people who stay at home rather than go out, in case he is there. Doesn't sound like fun to me, all this because one guy doesn't get it? yup back to skool dayz, but then we are dealing with a child, so it shouldn't come as a great suprise.