Are the antics of some traders ruining this forum ?

[voodoo]

You know what the ironic thing is? I don't want all this cr4p either.

Like John, if you check back through my posts I haven't so much as suggested anything negative about ANYBODY, no matter how strongly I feel. Funnily enough if you also search the instigator of this thread you will notice a common theme bad mouthing myself and my collegues.

Mark has been a tit at times, I am sure he would agree - that is his way. BUT we have discussed this and he has stopped being destructive. HOWEVER he, John and myself are allowed an opinion and as this is a public forum we are entitled to express that opinion otherwise what is the point? If you don't want critisism then crawl back under your rock; personally I'd rather ten of you said to me "Honestly, that design is rubbish, leave it to the experts" than sitting bitching behind my back - critisism is how I better myself.

I recently released my plans, I have recieved many emails of thanks and praise for doing that but not a word on here, why do you think that might be? Perhaps the bully-boy tactics of certain 'cronies' on here have people too scared to speak their minds? A sad day indeed.

Finally, Ronnie. If you spent half as long actually working on your car as you do bitching about members of my team you'd have finished it months ago and would be driving around with a grin from cheek to cheek.

[MarkB]

Public debate is a good thing but public slanging match just makes folk look retarded. I only pointed out why we stopped our single seater as we saw it as a track car not a road car. If folk want to make them for the road then fine go for it BUT be prepared for folk with an opinion like those on LCB.

[voodoo]

Can't be bothered.

[Bonzo]

Originally Posted by voodoo

Can't be bothered.

After reading the comments that you have just removed Matt

Have a good read of this thread

http://www.haynes.co.uk/forums/showt...=reality+check

Might go some way to explaining why I am not able to be working on my build at the moment !!

Quite easy to kick a man when he is down, isn't it ??

Swap your life for mine any day of the week ( Wouldn't wish that on anyone )

I will now go back & crawl under my rock

[Balidey]

Are the antics of some traders ruining this forum?
In my experience... no.

Honestly, have you ever seen a forum that has never had a public slanging match, handbags at dawn, people banned and then a break away forum?

None of it is a surprise. It happens on every forum. There are always people who get the hump and delete their old posts and go out with a harrumph and others who hang around and slag off those that have gone.

Thats just forum life. Take a deep breath and either read or ignore the posts and get over it.

Remember the huge arguments on the needle point forum where Gladys said that Joan had been using the wrong needle size on her crochet pattern for the vicars wife? Well thats what started the new forum called 'recreational-stitching-UK' and then that split off when one of the suppliers of the needles realised it was for crochet and not darning. And well, you remember how it all kicked off again and then the 'needlecrafting' website was created.....

[Jimmyd]

Originally Posted by Balidey

Are the antics of some traders ruining this forum?
In my experience... no.

Honestly, have you ever seen a forum that has never had a public slanging match, handbags at dawn, people banned and then a break away forum?

None of it is a surprise. It happens on every forum. There are always people who get the hump and delete their old posts and go out with a harrumph and others who hang around and slag off those that have gone.

Thats just forum life. Take a deep breath and either read or ignore the posts and get over it.

Remember the huge arguments on the needle point forum where Gladys said that Joan had been using the wrong needle size on her crochet pattern for the vicars wife? Well thats what started the new forum called 'recreational-stitching-UK' and then that split off when one of the suppliers of the needles realised it was for crochet and not darning. And well, you remember how it all kicked off again and then the 'needlecrafting' website was created.....

I must of missed something in the last day or two but I couldn't have said it any better!!

[AshG]

I have sat back and let this go for a couple of days to see where it goes. Now its time to chip in. there are two approaches that i can take as a moderator.

1. the nicely nicely way. i will leave everything alone warn you all to play nice here and now and let that be the end of it.

2. if you cant all play nice then i can get mega heavy handed delete hundreds of posts from all the known traders, trouble makers and ban loads of people.

now quite frankly i have got lots going on at the min and would be really hacked off if we have to go down road number two as it will take me a whole afternoon that i dont really have.

so i dont care who doesn't like who. or who said what about about what. man up get over it and move on.................... or quite simply ship out.

Over to you guys.....................



BTW this is the last attempt at the softly softly approach

THREAD LOCKED!!!

[tkpm]

Originally Posted by AdrianH

I haver to ask the question if this will help the situation in any way or if it will hinder.

In the past I have used the services of Triton as under Mark for bodywork parts, 3GE for chassis plates and wishbones sets. Andy at Saturn for body parts, and lastly Phil at Talon for a complete chassis and wishbone set.

I really do not care who supplies what, as I feel that as a customer I will go off what services I can get in what time, for what price. If I find anyone lets me down, to this point they have not then I will make up my own mind and vote with my wallet in another direction.

Phil took a lot of stick when he first came on board, as I believe so did Andy when people thought he was encroaching on John at 3GE. Mr Henderson gave up and left the forum and there was others trying to offer services that gave up.

As a potential customer I do find all this bickering tiresome and wish it would go away, so from my view get along with each other, post no more digs and forget the pole

There are other builders or suppliers out there for the 'Haynes Roadster look' that are getting on with things and advertising elsewhere. There is a potential market for all, do not make them go to other makes of car because if they come on here there is a chance they will.

Adrian.

Sometimes wishing there was a delete all posts, and all information so I could disassociate myself with the lot.

+1 with AdrianH on this

Terry