If your name happens to have any of the components of the fictitious names I have used below, rest assured it is only coincidental..
I'm not going to post all of the PMs I have gotten over the last few years here in public. You can either take this at face value or call me a liar and move on.
Along with the other moderators, we have gotten countless PMs over the years.. Like little kids fighting in the back seat of the station wagon whining to Mom and Dad that the other siblings are cheating, not playing fair, looking at me, touching me, blah blah blah.. Only of course it's far worse..
The following is true, but names changed (for obvious reasons)..
Joe-Bob has gone off his rocker and is threatening me with physical violence.
Jim-Bob has posted my 80+ year old parent's address and phone number just to get back at me for calling him a freaking idiot.
Tim-Bob PMs because he's p!ssed because his posts in a manufacturer's forum have been deleted and he's threatening to sue GT40's if his messages aren't restored.
Bill-Bob PMs because he's p!ssed that his threats to Joe-Bob were moderated (deleted) and this is a free country and wants all his support dollars back that he has ever paid to support GT40s.
Bo-Bob has been causing a ton of trouble in numerous forums with his constant banter and jabs at other members which have also PM'd all the moderators. Bo-Bob gets a PM from the moderator asking him to settle down or get a time out. Bostarts threatening law suit..
So - why lock down the paddock?
I'm afraid that If it is left as it is with full open access and not restricted in terms of topics - all this bull sh!t will just continue.. More people of value will leave.
If you lock it down and hide it from the public, at least we will have succeeded in insulating the public from all the acidic BS behavior in the Paddock. The next time one of our members has his own or his parent's own personal information posted in the Paddock, it will at least be restricted from view to the general public (limiting damage / mitigating risk).
About the BS spilling out into the other forums --
In my opinion, all of our other forums are to be moderated, kept on topic and if there are any hot-spots, we moderators should step in and take the control Ron has given us. Yes, one of these recent spats took place in a forum other than the Paddock. It should have been moderated, but even us moderators can't be in all places at all times.
So that's it from my vantage point..
So Joe-bob, Jim-Bob, Bill-Bob and all you other Bobs - I really don't want to hear the whining about the topics in The Paddock anymore. Take some of the medicine you are doling out here when you say things such as "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen"... You don't like what's being said, get the heck out of Dodge!
I'm not going to post all of the PMs I have gotten over the last few years here in public. You can either take this at face value or call me a liar and move on.
Along with the other moderators, we have gotten countless PMs over the years.. Like little kids fighting in the back seat of the station wagon whining to Mom and Dad that the other siblings are cheating, not playing fair, looking at me, touching me, blah blah blah.. Only of course it's far worse..
The following is true, but names changed (for obvious reasons)..
Joe-Bob has gone off his rocker and is threatening me with physical violence.
Jim-Bob has posted my 80+ year old parent's address and phone number just to get back at me for calling him a freaking idiot.
Tim-Bob PMs because he's p!ssed because his posts in a manufacturer's forum have been deleted and he's threatening to sue GT40's if his messages aren't restored.
Bill-Bob PMs because he's p!ssed that his threats to Joe-Bob were moderated (deleted) and this is a free country and wants all his support dollars back that he has ever paid to support GT40s.
Bo-Bob has been causing a ton of trouble in numerous forums with his constant banter and jabs at other members which have also PM'd all the moderators. Bo-Bob gets a PM from the moderator asking him to settle down or get a time out. Bostarts threatening law suit..
So - why lock down the paddock?
I'm afraid that If it is left as it is with full open access and not restricted in terms of topics - all this bull sh!t will just continue.. More people of value will leave.
If you lock it down and hide it from the public, at least we will have succeeded in insulating the public from all the acidic BS behavior in the Paddock. The next time one of our members has his own or his parent's own personal information posted in the Paddock, it will at least be restricted from view to the general public (limiting damage / mitigating risk).
About the BS spilling out into the other forums --
In my opinion, all of our other forums are to be moderated, kept on topic and if there are any hot-spots, we moderators should step in and take the control Ron has given us. Yes, one of these recent spats took place in a forum other than the Paddock. It should have been moderated, but even us moderators can't be in all places at all times.
So that's it from my vantage point..
So Joe-bob, Jim-Bob, Bill-Bob and all you other Bobs - I really don't want to hear the whining about the topics in The Paddock anymore. Take some of the medicine you are doling out here when you say things such as "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen"... You don't like what's being said, get the heck out of Dodge!
