trackside528
At the Start
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- Apr 30, 2006
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God, the double standards on this forum are truly breathtaking - moderators, you need to be changed.
I get an apology from DVDS2000 in private for his comments to me on a public thread - nothing in public, of course and nothing at all from two other moderators for over two weeks about a reported post that was unacceptable by the stated forum rules (now, belatedly, pulled after this having been pointed out yesterday) and my post, which only contained a true statement, gets deleted and I am told I'm 'provactive' ? Yet personal abuse as evidenced above get ignored and a frankly over the top crude post elsewhere also gets left for all to see.
First of all I don't see why you've taken these issues onto the forum. With apologies for dragging the thread off topic your post does, however, merit a response.
You did report a post, a portion of which contravened forum rules. It was clearly missed and should have been taken down at the time; all of the moderators I know are fairly busy, particularly during the week, and this will happen on occasion as I would hope you can accept.
With regards to your post that 'only contained a true statement.' The only statement (whether it was true or not I don't know or care) your post contained was a direct reference to the personal lives of two other forum members which would clearly have caused personal issues to be dragged onto the forum.
As for the 'personal abuse' on this thread, it is inevitable that where people hold strong opinions strong debate will ensue - debate that will sometimes turn argumentative in the heat of the moment (something I have been guilty of myself in the past). My personal opinion inclination is to interfere as little as possible as long as debate remains both within reason and on topic (which it did until your post). There is a clear distinction between occasionally feisty debate and bringing personal issues onto the forum, which simply drag threads off topic and lead to petty digs and personal remarks. Your accusation of sexism is bizarre; it is not that the people posting on this thread are men (I don't know if many are or aren't men), but that they have stuck to discussing racing rather than the personal lives of others.