If Nimmo's banned it's because he created a fake profile just to be especially rude to someone. I banned that profile and the IP address. If he did it from his home computer, and I am not saying he did, then that's why he's banned. ER was banned for physically threatening people, including me. I actually like having characters like that around, but sadly you let em go and they end up crapping in their own nest.
Ghost town? Nah, I disagree. Sure the characters change, but the forum is still a great melting pot of people and information. I've said it before though, times change. The VMX scene is a little different now, with different characters and I think a different flavour. It's also not 'new' in the way it once was. Even I find myself at events like CD8 going "hohum, more old dirtbikes". But people move on. Not everyone stays in a scene forever.
One thing that I really thought would take off on the Ning site was blogs. Somewhere people could write longer stories about themselves, their history, events etc. Maybe a race report or whatever. But it just didn't fly, instead it gets used as a sort of pretend forum where people post questions or requests for info. In some ways I think I should just make the Ning site an international site and fire up its own forum, and keep this forum as OzVMX. Then we wouldn't have this sort of separation we have at the moment. Trouble is, I can't rename either of them!
Regardless, I still think this forum is a good one with lots of interesting discussion, information, and images. Maybe we should just do less complaining and do more enjoying?
