Is this one of those sites where the mods are allowed to conduct little jihads against members who they have some personal issue with? Per the rules, it amounts to an abuse of power, and a review, in which no goods or services were exchanged...
To whit: Mod: XXX is bad, he and I got into it over something and I banned him to show him who's boss.
Of course, XXX cannot reply, because he's banned. He cannot defend himself either. Since Mod's experience with XXX is limited to a personality conflict, his objectivity is suspect.
It would seem to me that it's indicative of the beginning of a downward spiral of boards in which the management allows such shenanigans to occur. I've been around a while and intelligent moderatorship is one of the first things to suffer. Seen it before on Assault Web, ar15.com, full-auto.com and more than a few others which do not present themselves to my old memory at this moment.
I implore the mods to refrain from such activities. The integrity of the board is more important than your ego.
The Dreamer.
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Im not exactly sure what your deal is... if your the guy that got banned or not, but i've been here for a year and a half or so.... and this is a professional board, not a bashing ground.
If somebody got banned, its because they broke the rules, not because one of the mods "over reacted". I have said some very stupid things here, and have had mods remove comments. I always apologise because i knew they were stupid.
The moderators here are very reasonable, and would not just "ban" somebody because they got into a squabble.
If this person whom was banned, had a problem with keeping the topics related to HK stuff, then this is not the board for that person!
This is also not a place for bashing people! We have a feedback forum to asses transactions, and try to work problems out. Generally most transactons are "good".
If somebody posted a negative comment in the feedback, and the person - that the said feedback was about - starts accusing the OP of lying, then its pretty clear of whom is right. Most professional people would have contacted the OP through IM's and tried to work the problem out, or taken the negative feedback because they knew they were in thr wrong. Or if the poster of negative feedback was lying, it would have been a much better idea to contact the site moderators, and try to have them mediate the deal. (thats what feedback is for. Both the buyer and seller!)
Again, i do not know any details of what happened, but i do know this is;
1. an HK specific board, please try to keep it that way.
2. a professional TECHNICAL board, not an "arfcom GD" forum.
3. a place where we share information, and experiances about the type of firearm, and firearms related items this site is about.
4. a place where we keep things postive, and try try to keep things polite and honest!