Franko, as best I can tell, has been banned from just about every forum he has joined...
in this case id say: whatever! if it is a revenue to site owner allowing us to use this site to post our crap, im all for it. i have not even noticed that section and surely it does not take any unnecessary room as long as none is posting there, so whats there to complain about? even though i have usually been critical about the site owners practices in many cases, this in my eyes is nitpicking.
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that such advertising does bring in revenue and keeps the site going. If money is good, then more money is even better. So, now, the owner opens more electric car forums and people start responding to them... there's a chance that this forum could stop being about Amigas and be about electric cars.
Is the above scenario a stretch? Yes, a little bit, but it could happen and suddenly "Amiga.org" is no longer of any use to the rest us. It's better if the Owner just opened up a TeslaRules.com forum and be done with it.
That said, CommodoreJohn can sometimes be a bit over-vocal. He often protests to strongly over issue that I, ordinarily, would have let go. But banning him at all for protesting an irrelevant forum to me is a bit much. Myself, as a moderator, would have likely responded "your protest is noted" and let it go at that.
But then again, as a moderator/admin of another Forum, I wouldn't be opening up any sub-forums that violate the actual purpose of the site. So, no, there won't be any Amiga sub-forums on my B-17 site even if it did make me money. Instead, I'd likely create another Site called "the Lovers of Amiga and B-17 Forum." I suspect it would be a pretty empty forum, but I bet it would generate as much money as the Tesla forums are generating here...
