mattycoss said:
and i will continue to speak my mind - you cant stop me, the admins cant stop me. whether you like it or not - when i leave, i will be leaving on my terms.
People are not here to "silence" you, as you keep insisting. There is a very simple cycle here:
1) You were banned for the first time on the original account.
2) As a result, all other new accounts/threads/posts were automatically banned/deleted regardless of whether you spoke your mind/had malicious/non malicious intents. (I know you disagree with the way this works, but this is the etiquette of the forum)
3) When those subsequent accounts were banned, you saw it as a personal attack
4) Polls are made, abusive threads are made, and the cycle repeats.
5) Those polls historically have had three outcomes:
i) The poll creator deletes it because it went against their favour and pretended it never happened (I believe the last was JayWalker?)
ii) The poll voted they should leave or they decide to leave, but they eventually come back for one reason or another (as you have matty)
iii) The poll attracts no interest from the majority of the community except for the few of the 57000 odd members involved.
6) Regardless of the poll, it eventually turns out to be a no-show.
crazyhomo said:
see, that's what i thought it was, but sunny seems to be saying something different. you say admins do whatever the hell they feel like, sunny says admins have a set plan in order to correct failures in the system (except nobody knows how this plan applies to them, only how it applies to mods)
Put in a crude way, admins can do whatever they please as this forum belongs to them, but that does not mean they have no ethics or morals. They would certainly apply those same guidelines to themselves, which what I was trying to say. If they did did whatever they pleased, this website would never be updated, the server would have never gotten upgraded, etc
Arvin Sloane said:
fora without members are nothing. Sure the forum will keep running, but no one will be there.
Those around long enough would recognise the social evolution the forum takes. Outside of NS business always happens as per usual. It is only inside NS there are ever such problems. It is about every 1.5 years that NS has a form of "switch over" (since old Year 12 members will only stay on for so long before permanently leaving), where newer members are the majority posters in NS. Towards the end of each cycle the above process happens, until the old group dies out and leaves, then a new group will come in and take over.
My personal opinion for those members that want attention has always been that they are welcome to leave the BOS community and create their own forum, where they can take their people power with them, and be as self important as they see fit and set their own rules. Clone sites happen, but we rarely hear about them here.