AmiGeek banned, yet again?

This was a conflict that I didn't particularly relish.  Since his re-emergence, it did, in fact, seem as though he was trying to get along and play nice.

There are several factors at play here.  The numerous complaints I was receiving, the fact that he had opened up multiple accounts, the reports of e-bay fraud, the threats to "come to Huntsville and kick my ass" (from a few years ago).

If he had come to me and said "I really want to come back and I'll play nice", I would have been ok with giving him another chance.  Instead, he opened a duplicate account and began posting.

Like I said, conflicted.  I just kept getting complaint after complaint about his re-emergence until I made the decision to remove him based on those instances.

I think it's strangely hypocritical that the same people questioning me for banning him are amongst the same people blasting him for ripping them off on eBay.

If he wants to contact me about coming back and he's willing to reform his ways, then I'm ok with that.  I would not allow him to post eBay ads for obvious reasons, but I'll give pretty much anyone enough rope to hang themselves at least once.

Redrumloa is correct.  Delete the user account, all posts and child posts are deleted.  I'm not interested in having hundreds of orphaned posts caused by renaming accounts.  

There is no censorship involved, and frankly as one of my strongest of pet peeves, anyone who suggests differently might find themselves on the same short list as doomy.  

Sorry, I've just been doing this too many years for people to toss around such verbage without taking sincere insult.  The fact that you have no clue what decisions are necessary to operate a web site does not make it censorship.

Wayne

[swift240]

What is the problem here?
He is a well known tit head, in general not a very nice person to do the things he did/does.

Get rid of him, end of story that's it.

Wayne you done right, take no notice of the hypocrites.

What he done and how he got back was wrong, never trust a rattle snake, because as soon as your back is turned.........

Mike.

[Krusher]

Thanks for clearing this matter up. About the "censorship" I've been on the other side of websites and I do know about decisions to operate a website and I've seen erasing posts happen because of personal issues, that is just bad behavior, understandable, but not the way to operate as a moderator, that's why I suggested the censorship part. I'm sorry for that but I was not expecting erased posts here since older posts from another account where still available; I would have handled it differently is all.

[HopperJF]

JJ wrote:
Specualtion is not libel.

A persons opinion can not be libel.

Someone whould have to say so and so defo has mental issues.

Saying I believe or I think, is not libel.  Well Im pretty sure its not in the UK.  Its called freedom of speech

Freedom of speech doesn't exist anymore you can't even call someone blind these days without facing the wrath of the PC brigade

[swift240]

Freedom of speech in the UK is going out of the window and fast.
You cant say this, you cant say that.
We have to bend over backwards in case some one gets offended.
The PC brigade take things to ridiculous levels.
Why don't the PC brigade go back under there rock and stay there.
My daughter told me when she was at school they was not allowed to say "Blackboard" any longer but its a white board.
Ohhhhh please...........
We are losing it all to others, or rather the PC brigade.
or both.
I wander what the poor lot from WWII think, was it worth fighting for to see this country get to this state.
Here this is true, I was at Morrisons food hall last week and my wife and I was having some lunch, well any way as we was talking, she said you fancy a jar of jam, I said year why not, I remember the gollywog on the jars back then I used to collect them, now this was a private conversation between me and my wife NO ONE else, I got told from a table behind us that I can not use those words, because its offensive.
The person was in her 50`s with her hen pecked husband it seemed. I could not believe it. WHAT, I had to get up and leave as I was boiling over and my mouth would have got me into trouble.
Just what the hell is going on these days, we are getting more and more limited as time goes by.

All above are my opinions and are not intended to offend any person or persons in any way what so ever.

That should cover it (for the PC brigade)
Right now let me make this crystal clear, I am not prejudice in any way, I just want fairness of freedom to say what I want and not offend any one, without out being told what I can say and what I can not say, am I asking to much here.

Sorry guys but I feel so strong about this, yes I know the topic was not on this but it got this way.
Ohhhhh let me chill out................

Mike.

[jj]

I agree with you swift.

Perosnally I think people should be allowed to say what they like when they like, even if it offends someone.

Christ I thought being british was about basically {bleep}ing off the rest of the world  :-D

But seriously I am not racisit or homophobic or anything like that.  Live and let live is what I say.  And if people want to say they hate somone based on their race or whatever then thats their opinion and they are entitled to it. Dont care if they shour it from the rooftops.  As long as they are not inciting people to harm other people based on predjuice.

We all have predjuices of one kind or another.  Be it based on bad past experiences or whatever.

You can never please everyone in a multi-racial, mulit-region society.  Somebody is always going to be offended about something.

Let them be offended.

Sorry rant over

[Orjan]

Oh, so AmiGeek actually was Doomy? I started to suspect as much when he started to talk about how he used compressed air to clean computer parts.. But I didnt want to ask if it was him and open a can of worms.. :-)

Oh well, now I now..  :-D

[amigadave]

TjLaZer wrote:
I think he was doing a stand up job with all the crap some of you were throwing at him!  I would of lost it, but he kept his cool.  I don't know why he is not given another chance.  After  all he shares the same hobby as we do.  Not too many Amiga  users, and Amiga forums either!

It is understandable that you have always stood up for Doomy, as you have a close relationship with him.  IIRC, you are/were a moderator on one or more of his forums at his website.  He also said that he would be doing more videos and that you were going to be one of the people he was planning on interviewing in the near future.

I think you have therefore taken his side in the many disputes that have been mentioned in the past, or you simply don't believe all the complaints against Doomy.

You probably think I am one of the members here that are responsible for him being banned again, but my comments were only intended to protect the mostly peaceful environment that we enjoy here, compared to most other websites I have ever visited.  As I stated more than once before, I am all for giving people second, or even third chances to redeem themselves and contribute here, but they must admit to their prior bad behavior and ask for forgiveness while promising to remedy their behavior in the future to earn my trust and forgiveness.  Doomy was not willing to do this, so I voiced my concerns that he would likely soon return to that prior bad behavior and disrupt our relative peace here.

I for one am glad that he is no longer here, as it relieves me from the uneasy feeling I had while reading his posts.  I enjoy this community too much to see its peaceful operation threatened in any way.  I may be guilty of stirring up some hostile feelings once or twice here, but I have admitted when I was wrong and tried to patch things up as soon as possible with whomever I may have offended.

(steps of the soap box and attempts to erase Doomy from limited memory space) :-D

[redrumloa]

And with that, I am locking this thread. Everyone has had a say, except Doomy who cannot exactly reply. Some charges are being leveled at Doomy and letting this thread go on without him being able to defend himself would be wrong. I am not defending Doomy, I just think this thread has expired it's usefulness. Wayne has stated what happened, it needs to die.

@Doomy
If you are reading this and you want back on the site, Wayne has laid out what you need to do. Email Wayne and work things out.