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Thread: roadfly does not allow tinyurl anymore

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    See the statement of Charlie:

    Charlie R. on 2006-01-10 at 10:43:53 (Roadfly member #1; Roadfly Inner Circle member since 1997-04-01)


    Subject: Guys, can we please get back on topic

    Message: This thread was emailed to me. I'm in Detroit covering the Auto Show and don't have time to respond. Remember that if you're reading the forums you're reading an awful lot of rumor and speculation. In some cases we don't allow URLs because we have legal problems with the owners, in some cases, we don't allow URLs because of fraud problems, and there are a host of other reasons as well.

    We have rules for a reason and we provide these forums as a free resource and ask that people simply follow the rules. One of the rules is that we ask people not to intentionally go around our banning of a URL. Doing so is always cause to have membership terminated and in my opinion is a really silly reason to have membership terminated.

    In the case of Shogun, he has violated a major policy of ours for airing his personal disagreement in public to try and drum up discontent and make a scene. This approach is not tolerated and always leads to that individual being banned from Roadfly.

    We have a very large community of millions of people to keep happy. We can't let one individual or 20 for that matter dictate policy for the entire forum especially when those people are basing their arguments not on fact but on rumor and speculation.

    I'm closing this thread. Can we please get back to discussing E32s now.

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    I thought you aired your disagreement publicly due to the fact that you couldn't reach any of the admin privately? Oh well, it sucks for them, and is their loss. Now we can monopolize your time!


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    Quote Originally Posted by shogun
    See the statement of Charlie:

    We have rules for a reason and we provide these forums as a free resource and ask that people simply follow the rules. One of the rules is that we ask people not to intentionally go around our banning of a URL. Doing so is always cause to have membership terminated and in my opinion is a really silly reason to have membership terminated.

    In the case of Shogun, he has violated a major policy of ours for airing his personal disagreement in public to try and drum up discontent and make a scene. This approach is not tolerated and always leads to that individual being banned from Roadfly.

    We have a very large community of millions of people to keep happy. We can't let one individual or 20 for that matter dictate policy for the entire forum especially when those people are basing their arguments not on fact but on rumor and speculation.

    I'm closing this thread. Can we please get back to discussing E32s now.
    What a joke, discussing e32s is all Shogun ever does.

    Their loss Erich, I can only say that people get too big for the pants and forget what keeps them in them.

    Now I lose respect for Roadfly entirely. All they are interested in doing is making money- so much so they resort to banning dissenting members just like a Burmese, Pinochet or Stalin government would throw a dissenter in jail or in front of a firing squad. I never liked Roadfly for its commercial approach to a community based thing, anyone can milk a community for money as is their want- and it is not pleasant being there when it happens. Erich, those guys wouldn't know you or the work you do, they are too cheap adn cynical to have any staff (secret police) to tell them you are more than the average joe who actually helps them make the money they so love.

    But don't lose any sleep over it, by posting there all you do is help them do this at the expense of more worthy, helpful and supported communities you are so familiar with (and as we have here, thanks be to Ed...) Nick

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    This is a huge loss for roadfly. It is too bad you could not post on the E34 board to give everyone there a heads up.

    The main reason I like and still use roadfly is because I love the layout. There are also some great guys over there and the layout makes it easy to track their new posts.

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    That may be a good idea to let them know that I am no longer there. As you said there are some great guys over there too and they might be wondering why I suddenly do not post anymore.
    Just today I got from someone on E32 board roadfly an email asking for help.
    I do not know if that would be possible that someone posts something there without getting into trouble on the E34 board.
    Ahh, well, for sure one day they will notice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shogun
    That may be a good idea to let them know that I am no longer there. As you said there are some great guys over there too and they might be wondering why I suddenly do not post anymore.
    Just today I got from someone on E32 board roadfly an email asking for help.
    I do not know if that would be possible that someone posts something there without getting into trouble on the E34 board.
    Ahh, well, for sure one day they will notice.

    I was thinking of posting but like you said, I would probably get banned. Anyway, will this be the main place we can find you???

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    Not sure of the history of the BMW boards... but in the few months that I have been surfing through a few. It seems that originally roadfly was the place to be... then they decided that the big brother aproach to moderation was the key to making money, and the other boards formed...

    I have been a regular on many message boards for about 10 years... Ive moderated, ran, and left many a board. But this story seems all to common these days.

    I used to play Everquest (or Evercrack, or whatever you call it ) for 5 years, from 99 to '04... the board for my server was originally hosted by IGN, it had between 3-4k members.... then one day, in about '02 the moderators decided that the 3 years of doing what we were doing was wrong. They banned, edited posts and removed users over the course of 2 days... (my fondest memory of the people I met in EQ was 9/11/01 when we were all trying to figure out where the people we knew were... I was at the pentagon that morning from 8-9am...)

    Long story short... we created a new board... and now, 4 years later... none of us still play the video game that ruled our lives for so many years. But, when I was in London, Denmark, and Sweeden last year, I met up with people that I had only spoken to online for years. And the friendship was there.

    The board we created is still thriving, on things like video games, computer news, current events... the community lives on... the webspace that we were at hasnt seen a post since the 1 year anniversery of us leaving, where we all decided to get banned again

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    Look at this one before it will be deleted
    http://bimmer.roadfly.com/bmw/forums/e32/7161692-1.html


    copied:

    Author: FrancoisP on 2005-10-27 at 03:31:05 (posted from: Host: c-67-174-220-128.hsd1.ca.comcast.net IP: 67.174.220.128)


    Subject: here is more pics (85 views)

    Message:

    as you probably remember, i am doing one TT 750

    Francois

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