Yep, Dave sure fuc*ed up and has upset a lot of people. Good, I think he and the rest of the VMX community now know it so lets move on. The continuous negativity on this forum is growing to plague proportions and if it's not nipped in the bud the whole thing will turn to shit. I'd rather read about how to make a throttle cable, see Tom, Dick or Harry's new project or given a lead on a bargain on eBay than continuously read posts about Dodgy Dave, the evil good old boys and how fuc*ed up the world is. If I want to know how fuc*ed the world is I'll turn on the telly. For a bit of self education, go back over some threads from a couple of years ago and notice how many members who were then regularly posting have resigned or just don't bother posting any more. If you did a quickie poll with these people you'd find that a big percentage of them have dropped out because of the continuous negative and abusive posts. I've spoken to a lot of different people since I resigned and I was not so surprised to find that most agreed with my reasons for getting out.
There was a time when this was the best little forum in VMX. The cameraderie was fantastic, the 'help out a mate' network was working a treat and many a friendship was formed through meeting in this place. Then bit by bit the odd negative slag morphed into whole threads set up just to belittle or make fun of someone whether they deserved it or not. Taking the piss is one thing but some of this stuff is just plain nasty.
For this forum to work in the way it is intended we need to behave and contribute in a positive way and act like responsible grown ups. I know members of the forum who have a shed full of unusual and interesting bikes and who posessa lot of historical and mechanical knowledge yet their posts are almost alway boring little one liners containing nothing of interest. Why not show us whay you've got in the shed, educate us with your knowledge or at the very least, support someone who has started a positive and in formative thread with a decent contribution.
I left this forum because I was tired of the negativity and the lack of action on keeping it under control. I'm posting this on an old account we at Klub Kevlar Central used to use as a group but had become inactive purely because I could see that something was finally being done to keep the forum on an even keel and that Mod1 needed some support and wasn't getting it from you blokes. The moderator isn't there to cop your shit, he's there to keep everything happy and take some of the load off Graeme who's getting pretty tired of all of this shit anyway. I plead with you all to respect each other and to give the moderator and Graeme the respect for wanting this to remain a good forum.
just ask Greg Chapple,
Trevor Chappel.
