Big Hitter gets lifetime ban

Stoner is a pussycat!

What we need is a league table of bans, warnings etc. Just so we can see how it’s going 😉

Maybe there can be a strava mod to make it work for some Post Count KOM’s

Stoner’s a banker is he. I though he was a self employed brick counter 😉

Personally its easy to say but I hope the forum will be a more welcoming place without him (and will take less time to mod)

I’m sure he was a nice guy but the force to which he held his views on here was really difficult to handle for alot of people

juan, stop talking nonsense.

LoLing about stoner he’s lush.

Might be other people who argue but point is TJ was warned, he even said so and admitted he argued to much and admitted he couldn’t leave it. He’s only himself to blame.

We all like to get our pov across but sometimes best thing is to walk away

juan, stop talking nonsense.

Oi! Sometimes he speaks sense! 😀

I look forward to seeing TJ on BikeMagic, he’ll fit right in with the rest of us on their perfectly 😀

As I’ve mentioned Bike Magic (twice now), I’ll no doubt get banned soon as it did seem to stick in the (sponsored by Singletrack) SITS commentators throat as he announced our Team member over the line and realised the cunning play on words we’d used as our team name…

don simon isn’t even premier….

BAN HIM!

I argued with him alot but he was good value.
I picked up his email address once and I hope I get a chance to banter or ride with him one day.
I’d love to have the helmet argument with him in person and see how it differed to all the many online ones we had.
I’m surprised with the Stoner comparison. Seems like a great guy to me and haven’t seen anything nasty.

Stoner is both pleasant, and likes pipes. What’s not to like?

I argued with him alot

negative use of the forum….

Stoner’s certainly a banker, just not that type of banker.

Maybe all threads with more than three posts from any of TJ/Z-11/don simon/THM* should automatically get moved to a separate, hidden ‘arguments forum’ that only they can access. They could then carry on to their hearts content, with the bonus of them spending less time on the main forum because none of them could ever leave an argument.

*add or delete as appropriate

It’s a shame but as Emsz said, it’s hardly a suprise. Right or wrong, if you’re taking up a lot of the mods’ time then sometimes it’s just easier to bring out the ban hammer (Copyright TJ).

I do suspect though that he’ll actually be happier off here – some people did delight in winding him up just for the sport of it.

Stoners always been helpful in the threads I have seen

Bump.

This thread is still here?? wtf?

Good grief, I go away to do a nightshift and it all kicks off.

Anyone care to give me a summary of the previous pages?

summary of the previous pages

TJ’s gone.

Arguing continues.

Anyone care to give me a summary of the previous pages?

I’d guess (cos I only got as far as my own comment on the first page)
-some people care
-some people don’t
-a bit of arguing
-some bollocks

Interesting development no?
Have to say I’m a teej fan, his opinions and style I appreciated, didn’t agree with him on most things but then thank god this is (was) a free country.
I miss elfin.

Can appreciate the mods trying to clean this place up, but think its becoming too sanitised.

Oh well.

Time for an alternative forum ?

I’m disappointed that he’s gone and no longer able to announce his Highland camping trips.

I will now have to rely on luck if I am to be exercising my picnic loving dogs off the lead near his wild camping spots late at night.

Can appreciate the mods trying to clean this place up, but think its becoming too sanitised.

STW a trail centre? 😯

Where do I park my VW’s ?

Boo Hiss

Frankly this forum got worse when the Mleh lot departed, and progressively degraded as the Freds et al disappeared too. Totally accept the principle of “its my ball and I’m going home”, but if TJ’s offences are life time bannnings most forum in the world would have tumbleweed rolling through them.

As I said, if a particular poster ends up taking a disproportionate amount of the mods’ (limited) time then I don’t see it as unreasonable behaviour to try and stop that problem using bans. It is a shame it comes to that though.

I’ve often considered setting up a new forum with a ‘no being a ****’ rule and pretty much anything else goes but I suspect that it’s not as simple as it appears, particularly to maintain or even to maintain the positives of this forum. Not to mention that you’d probably just end up with all the banned people from here on it while everyone else stuck on STW.

Juan – Stoner?? WTF?

Ban PhilConsequence for those bloody lolcatz.

I think it might be for the best TBH – he clearly gets very wound up/angry about stuff on here.

There are though several consistently unpleasant characters who remain unbanned, who delighted in what is essentially bullying. I hope you’re proud of yourselves.

when the Mleh lot departed

Thought they’d all dragged themselves back one by one.

@clubber, you’d have to automatically exclude yourself from your forum. 😛

To misquote someone famous;

“I’d never want to start a forum that would have me as a member.”

There are people on this forum who I’ve found downright rude, and TJ isn’t one of them. It’s a shame, I think.

Well I do find stoner’s view about money being more important than people very disturbing and not nice at all. Should I be banned for having a different opinion?
To be honest this forum is really going toward “bnpness”. I had to report a post 3 times with a formal e-mail to get it banned for xenophobia. This kind of post wouldn’t have happened when elf and TJ were here.

Should I be banned for having a different opinion?
To be honest this forum is really going toward “bnpness”. I had to report a post 3 times with a formal e-mail to get it banned for xenophobia. This kind of post wouldn’t have happened when elf and TJ were here.

Juan – are you on crack?

To be honest this forum is really going toward “bnpness”.

really?

blimey.

I often wonder if the internet, particularly internet forums, have had a detrimental affect on peoples ability to communicate in real life situations. I’m sure that nobody on here would talk to others face-to-face in the same manner they do on here. But I would love to see some of the people on here try, just to see the physical outcome.

I argued a lot with Teej and I didnt much like being called racist by him but at heart he’s a good bloke. Clearly couldnt let go of an argument, and knows it, but couldnt stop himself.

I hope he’s allowed back, place will be worse without him. Fred however was a thoroughly nasty piece of work who we are well rid of.