Sunday, Jun 08, 2008 at 11:28
There is a difference between what Doug did and others that blatantly abuse the
forum to self promote, Paul Grabonski being one of them.
Doug had nothing to sell, I have seen him and his passion in finding and offering researched info, As I have said before, on now deleted threads Doug did nothing wrong he volunteered a substantial part of his own time to give people that use this site quality info, he put it all on a non profit web site for all to use for free, I have said it before and I will say it again IMHA he was unfairly treated in the first instance, (having his post removed).
Far more people abuse this site for personal gain without so much as a warning far more people abuse this site in other ways EG: start slanging matches, Troll the site to provoke argument, Starting O/T threads that are controversial or promote their business using their business name as their user name, if only the moderators sorted these problems as quick as they did with Dougs post, it wouldn't be seen as a double standard.
Anyway Doug had a lot of support from Paid members and Advertisers something I think shouldn't have been ignored.
Cheers Steve.
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