You're a norty norty boy, Richard!!! (said in my best Monty Python voice) lolol
I've just looked and you couldn't make it any plainer who you are ............ and you're top of the posters lists.
Sorry, but I'm really not interested in the other site. Let them do what they want, we've got a great forum here, no need for the chip on the shoulder. IMO of course.
Someone set up an account apparently as RRTH years ago when this site started first. I emailed him at the time and he says it wasn't him, which might or might not be the case (it was registered from an IP somewhere in the US, but that's about all I know), and I locked it to prevent abuse. It can easily be unlocked, if he asks. If he wants to join the site - or LLT for that matter - then he'd be just as much a welcome and valued member of the rrpub community as anyone else.
gordonjcp wrote:
Someone set up an account apparently as RRTH years ago when this site started first. I emailed him at the time and he says it wasn't him, which might or might not be the case (it was registered from an IP somewhere in the US, but that's about all I know), and I locked it to prevent abuse. It can easily be unlocked, if he asks. If he wants to join the site - or LLT for that matter - then he'd be just as much a welcome and valued member of the rrpub community as anyone else.
Awww... I might have registered an account under the name RRTH here just to see the reactions it got lol. I'd have admitted it was me after a day or two ;-)
Well I would very much doubt that RRTH would actually register under his 'own name'.....far too many enymies....
It's not my decision but I would be happy to see him join this site, as long as I could take him out straight out into the Pub Carpark for a 'chat'.. !!
EDIT: Just visted 'the other site' and seen the comments: It seems Toad's 'banning rights' were revoked then; Nice to see he is now just a Super Tampon....err Mod, and it should have happened years ago.... but should he been given some credit for this site, as it really would not exist without him ?!
Morat, I do agree that this is a far superior forum........
Watching the disintegration of .net has a sort of morbid fascination......Kinda like a slow motion train wreck.......
Heckling the admins as Richard (and to a lesser extent, myself) have been doing is just a bit of fun, sort of a competition to see who can get banned first?!.
If it causes any kind of change for the better?......Hmmmm......What's the opposite of "Collateral damage"?
There are lots of folks out there who will stick with what they know and never find their way here.
It is sad that .net has lost 98% of it's best folks and virtually 100% of it's knowledge base. It's great that it is all here!
Who's got the next round?
davew wrote:
It seems Toad's 'banning rights' were revoked then
Where did you see that? Not that it matters as I only got 2 or 3 one week bans from him, my lifetime ban came from "the site owners" according to a personal email from LLT (who claimed that he had argued with them in my defence and pointed out that I had contributed a lot to the forum over the years). That's why I really want them to adopt my suggested site Intro text.......
Where ? From reading the relevant thread/s and noting the fact that Toad does not seem to be banning folks now on his own personal whims ?
https://www.rangerovers.net/threads/searching.338032/ (Pretty provocative and open and yet you were not banned !......)
Toad used to ban folks because he claimed 'he had complaints' and, as for the 'site owners' issuing Lifetime Bans, I seriously doubt that too !...
Plus that's the same Site Owners who ignored all (and many) complaints about Toad, and the same site owners who did not actually bother to consult anyone on the recent rrs/net changes either (including LLT it seems)
I would absolutely agree you have been a major contributor of course, but the validity/knowledge etc of anyone's posts was never Toad's main criteria either....(and I was banned three times.. !)