+1 i think after having that pointed out to the f-chat community shows that grahams ban is completely unjust! at least his threads had a point to them and more often than not concerned ferraris in some way. bring him back
an awful lot of you don't like him but would rather complain about him then put him on your ignore list...
The problem with the ignore feature is you can't ignore the threads he starts. They show up if he's on ignore or not. DM
Can't you allow him to only post in the Supercar section? That is where he seems to be missed, I certainly do not enjoy his company.
Compared to some of the rubbish that gets posted in my section (me included)...... he was a nice change, a fresh breath of air. Simple, don't like him, ignore him. I enjoyed his perfect English and light-hearted banter.
He has one purpose, to be a troll. Thats why he redoubled his efforts to annoy after he was told by moderators to stop posting off topic stuff in the Supercar section. He even taunted in one of his threads that he was fishing for negative responses from people - i.e. trolling. He's been banned before more than once I believe. When he is allowed back he will take another week or so to be banned again. He's not trying to play by the rules or just have a good time, he is just trying to be a thorn in peoples side to achieve the end result of being banned. IMO there's no point letting him back ever - he'll be banned again in a matter of days or weeks, but he will be let back and he will be banned again. Sorry but just because some folks think he's a nice guy doesn't mean he should be allowed to break the rules. And does he ever post anything of real value? All I've ever seen is useless drivel and pot-shots at folk. He's a waste of bandwidth and we're better off without him.
I'm new here so have no axe to grind either way. But this thread intrests me cos this guy is so contreversal and also the way the posts on this thread about him are so polarised into love and hate against him. I've spent some time going thruegh his threads an posts. Its obvious that this guy has had one hell of an education and one that looks like it cost a hell of a lot a money. He also seems to be extremely inteligent and by the cars he drives like F40 and rolls Royce Phantom he aint poor either. And looking at the profiles of some of them that opose him well some are just school kids and others dont seem all that successful and it looks like the guys got beaten up just cos a gang of failues resent his education, inteligents and money ..... this is what it looks like to me. I cant see nothing in th e things he wrote that is offensive. Also some of the **** that was thrown at him he never respondid to. And as others have said - if you dont like him then ignore him. Jealousy is a rotten thing and maybe even the moderator is jealous as Ive read some of his posts and hes pinched a hole raft of the words this guy used. my view on this is it stinks. And yes, I've got an Enzo and other ferraris and have had more than my fair share of em plus Lambos and pretty much everything else and Im used to quality and I know **** wehn i see it - and this guy has been dished out a load of ****. This is my few cents worth or pennys worth (I live in UK and US)
A. Singer, you must have been looking at someone elses posts. His posts were the most useless waste of time, that I've ever read but that's just my opinion.
Much to the chagrin of SuperCar fans and owners alike, the otherwise delightful, [if not Efforty [that's "F40" to you]] 512TeaAre, aka Graham created one thread after another in SuperCar subforum having little uniquely Efforty about it. Many were subsequently moved from SuperCar subforum to nether-regions [where one finds them now], and the Efforty [that's "F40" to you]] 512TeaAre, aka Graham was cautioned time and again by my distinguished colleague, [Moderator Goderator dm_n_stuff] in so many words to cease and desist, yet caution was thrown to the wind; which as cause and effect has a way of doing, led some to question not whether his presence was welcome, but theirs. Much to the delight of SuperCar fans and owners alike... he was banned for 90 days, of which 60 Days, 19 Hours remain. To wit; http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/sho...9&postcount=50 His ban message reads as follows; Due to flagrant overuse, schadenfreude has been depreciated from a word worth a Pony to a Maggie a dozen. ^^^ what the hell does that mean? ^^^ http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/money.htm Pony Of all the money slang terms, perhaps the oldest and best established are the pony and the monkey, respectively £25 and £500. Of the two, pony seems to be the older, being documented from the end of the eighteenth century; monkey is first recorded in 1832 (though the German visitor who did so thought it was only five pounds, which might have been a bit of a shock for him when he found out). As usual, nobody seems to know where the words originated, except that they both grew out of gambling, the race track and general raffishness. Another term for £25 is macaroni, rhyming slang for pony, which was invented last century and is still to be heard in some specialist fields. ... Maggie Such names for smaller sums of British money have obviously fallen out of use since the decimalisation of the currency in 1971, which rendered most of the old coins obsolete, and have not yet been replaced with new ones. The only one which achieved popularity was Maggie in the eighties, of the then new gold-coloured one-pound coin, because, it was said, “it’s brassy, two-faced and thinks it’s a sovereign” (the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, had a noticeable tendency to mimic some of the more regal characteristics of Her Majesty). Perhaps the nearest equivalent outside Britain is the Canadian one-dollar coin, universally called a loonie, ostensibly because of the bird pictured on one face, but more likely an expression of what people thought of the coin... ^^^ what does schadenfreude have to do with anything and what the hell is it?^^^ Schadenfreude was mentioned for good reason, as it was his trolling bait, hook, line and sinker... and eventually, his concrete boots, as he swims with the fishes. Schadenfreude is a German word meaning 'pleasure from misfortune'. It has been borrowed by the English language and is sometimes also used as a loanword by other languages. Though some [including dear Graham] might perceive this to mean it was rhetorical-overload, it was ignoring repeated warnings to post his "general" Efforty topics elsewhere [time and place for everything and all that] than SuperCar subforum that brought him under focus by Member and Moderator alike, and much to his own chagrin, "taking pleasure from misfortune" when Member and Moderator alike had their buttons, and blatantly so, pushed one time too many, resulting in the ban button being pushed as a last resort. Other than that, he's a delight, no doubt whatsoever.
Translation: Graham was a worthless troll and banished to purgatory where he will emerge after 90 days of penance, hopefully a better poster or else ...
