ive never selectively lifted a ban for anybody
if 4 people are involved… they all get temp banned for the same amt of time and that ban sticks for everyone
i cant be on this site 24 hours a day just to make sure the BS stays off it.
a lot of times it’s like monitoring children. well, this isnt fuckn preschool or a daycare centre. if it was solely up to me i would permanently ban a lot more people - but this isn’t “my” club or “bings” club. we run it because we are in a good position to run it. we do it because we love the cars and we love the community.
and, sean, if we actually ‘did something about’ all the people acting like 15 year olds on the site, you’d be permbanned a long time ago.
so, we COULD go that route… but it would probably eliminate a quarter (or more) of our member base and that’s just not something we think is beneficial to the club.
it is extremely difficult maintaining a balance between membership levels and maturity – esp when 240s are many people’s first cars. they’re cheap and they’re “in” right now. so we tend to get a younger and poorer and perhaps less knowledgeable member base. there’s nothing wrong with that.
it’s when people start being disrespectful that shit starts to turn ugly. and when people can’t follow simple forum rules.
how fucking hard is it to take two seconds and think!! before you hit the reply button. not that hard. that’s all it would take.