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General Discussion / Re: The future of OzVMX
« on: February 08, 2015, 10:06:42 AM »
There was a time when this forum was the strongest, most active VMX forum on the whole internet. I was on here almost from the start and absolutely enjoyed contributing. By nature I love a good old shit stir and must admit that at times I contributed a bit of mischief to the place which prompted some fun and frivolity but on the other side of the coin prompted awful exchanges which in retrospect I'm not proud of. There were/are posters on here that annoyed me and I reacted to their rubbish in my own way which also caused me becoming a sort of Snidely Whiplash character and had my own group of haters and contributing in quite a few leaving the forum. At first I wore it as a badge of honour but one morning when reading back on some o fmy old posts I realised that I'd been as big a wanker as the posters I was acting against and became deeply embarrassed by some of my behaviour. From that very moment I vowed to stay away from potential trouble and leave the shitfights to others.
All went well for a few years until a discussion started about Evolution Rules. It grew, and grew and became nastier and nastier and a new generation of forum wanker emerged from that one seemingly simple post. I saw a side of people whom I'd respected and liked and it pissed me off. I made my point early in the piece and decided to pull away from the forum and catch up with other things that I'd been neglecting in my life.
Then, after almost a year of self imposed absense I signed on to have a look at what was happening and I found that those same old antagonists were still attacking MA, the Evo rules and making personal attacks on a guy who has done more for our sport as an official, racer and mentor than all of his keyboard antagonists combined. I was saddened to see that these people had reduced this forum and our sport to a nasty antagonistic venom filled soap box for their cause. The good stuff was still there but this rubbish, and it is rubbish, dominated. Once again I walked away, returning only briefly last week to contribute to another rule shitfight about pre 65 rules. I later slapped myself in the chops for that bit of personal idiocy!
Graeme has been a veritible pillar of rock during all of the shit that's gone on here. I've known for a long time that he's been well over it and I wouldn't blame him if he did shut up shop. He's had a fu*king gutful. It's time that a few of you did what I did and take a good long look at yourselves and ask if you've really done anything good for the forum or the sport or have you just created more disharmony and angst while destroying the reputations of people who don't deserve it. I've become a bit disillusioned and disappointed in the sport that I had a big hand in actually starting. I've got to that teeter-totter decision in my life where I could and probably should sell up and move back to my other love of drag racing. Where this forum once was a great meeting place for lovers of old bikes, it's now driving us away..........Get rid of the rulebook preachers and those wanting the sport to fit into their vision and this will be a better place.
All went well for a few years until a discussion started about Evolution Rules. It grew, and grew and became nastier and nastier and a new generation of forum wanker emerged from that one seemingly simple post. I saw a side of people whom I'd respected and liked and it pissed me off. I made my point early in the piece and decided to pull away from the forum and catch up with other things that I'd been neglecting in my life.
Then, after almost a year of self imposed absense I signed on to have a look at what was happening and I found that those same old antagonists were still attacking MA, the Evo rules and making personal attacks on a guy who has done more for our sport as an official, racer and mentor than all of his keyboard antagonists combined. I was saddened to see that these people had reduced this forum and our sport to a nasty antagonistic venom filled soap box for their cause. The good stuff was still there but this rubbish, and it is rubbish, dominated. Once again I walked away, returning only briefly last week to contribute to another rule shitfight about pre 65 rules. I later slapped myself in the chops for that bit of personal idiocy!
Graeme has been a veritible pillar of rock during all of the shit that's gone on here. I've known for a long time that he's been well over it and I wouldn't blame him if he did shut up shop. He's had a fu*king gutful. It's time that a few of you did what I did and take a good long look at yourselves and ask if you've really done anything good for the forum or the sport or have you just created more disharmony and angst while destroying the reputations of people who don't deserve it. I've become a bit disillusioned and disappointed in the sport that I had a big hand in actually starting. I've got to that teeter-totter decision in my life where I could and probably should sell up and move back to my other love of drag racing. Where this forum once was a great meeting place for lovers of old bikes, it's now driving us away..........Get rid of the rulebook preachers and those wanting the sport to fit into their vision and this will be a better place.