Oh dear.. You've been binned!
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Oh dear.. You've been binned!
I thought banning was bad enough but Binning.... that's just cruel :bigcry:
Apparently, I have earned a lifetime ban and no reason was given. The forum rules must have changed recently ;)
And I thought Pino was a bit of a ball breaker during the wrong time of the month :laugh:
Honestly - how long until motorsport.com realise that their website isn't really that good? It has a moderately useful archive section but that's just because it's been around so long. The same goes for it's domain - just because you have one of the TLD's for motorsport doesn't necessarily mean your site is any good.
Combine Autosport and Crash and you have something ten times better than motorsport.com. The move on the forum is a ridiculous step as it could only highlight further the lack of popularity. This forum, ten tenths and Autosport-Atlas are all superior and will remain so simply due to having a larger user base.
I honestly hope this is the beginning of the end for them now.
I originally came to the forums back in 2001 via AR-1, almost by accident. I had been surfing AR-1 on and off for articles,, but didn't notice the forum link. My brother stumbled across it one day and liked what he saw and emailed me if I knew about the site and it's forums. I didn't even notice the link as I wasn't looking, and as the old timers can tell you it was pretty well hidden on the front page back then.Quote:
Originally Posted by barryfullalove
I basicly stopped coming via AR-1 when I stopped going to their site when they started charging for articles and I discovered I could come in directly via www.motorsportforums.com bypassing all of the "web magazine" portals. In a way it was actually faster, one less screen to click through to get to forums. Man, we somtimes complain about the load times now, but back then the server was always crashing, and when it did work it was slower than HRT at Spa....
I have been accessing via motorsportforums.com ever since about mid to late 2002. I didn't even know about what happened here recently until I stumbled into this thread, as i was laying low for a few weeks getting my new 'puter fully up and running. In fact when I logged in and did my mischeif to get banned was the first time I can ever remember accessing the forum via motorsport.com, other than maybe that one time last year when we had a bad day with the server and that was just about the only way in.
I fail to see how anyone with a sane mind could have possibly thought it would have been a good idea. I mean, look at forums in general. You have a few hardcore users who post alot, then do something stupid and get banned, or just get mad and leave. Then you look here. I've been here for over 9 YEARS and I'm not considered an "old timer", I'm not one of the orginals. Just glancing at the usernames in this thread alone i have seen several who have been here longer than me, and a couple who have been here since the beginning! That shows me some loyalty exists between the users and Mark. Sure, there are flashier forums out there that have more hardcore users. But here everyone pretty much knows everyone in some small way or another. Take me for example-y'all know what your getting from me ("Oh great, there's Slo, he's getting ready to bore me with some more stats, time to log off-quick, LOL :p :) .Quote:
Originally Posted by barryfullalove
Did they not think that EVEN IF Mark hadn't had a chance to back up everything that there aren't a good number of us out here that wouldn't have been googling anything we could use to find a way to hook back up with him? Do they think we are all that stupid? Pretty lame on their part if ya ask me, heck, even if ya didn't ask (LOL).. ;)
Just popped my head in over there and it's like a grave yard.
How are they licencing it Mark because I'm going to do everything I can to ensure they lose money and a couple of calls to my old colleagues at F.A.S.T. should f*ck them up nicely :D
Well he posted a strange reply in Donkey Jote's thread which made me think he might be a rebel or something that prefers the moronsport.com forums.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
They claim they do have a licence which I don't doubt as they are easy enough to buy. However the PHP code they are using will have my licence number on it and contains all the modifications I made to improve the forums, which is my personal copyright.
Bunch of donkeys ;) :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
I sent him one also earlier this week from my wife's log in....something tells me he's a plant. Don't mess with him anymore....Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
I've still not been banned from there and I went on and called them all a bunch a c**ts :s (Yeah that's right i'm a keyboard warrior :p : )
This was a PM I had from one of the mods
That mod also only had 6 posts to his name :sQuote:
Dear 306 Cosworth,
You have received an infraction at Motorsport.com Forums.
http://forums.motorsport.com/showthread.php?p=876080
Reason: Could not find phrase 'infractionlevel5_title' [1/0].
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This infraction is worth 100 point(s) and may result in restricted access until it expires. Serious infractions will never expire.
All the best,
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