A message from Neio.

Originally Posted by Ed

I wasn't online much on the day of the 'flame war' and I don't know what was said so I can't comment on that.

I think flame war was a bit of an exaggeration, things did seem to get taken a bit too personally, lots of salt is needed for these sort of situations!!!

[Lissa]

Having met Neio a few times I can honestly say that in person he is nothing like the way he posts sometimes. He has often posted stuff that has got my back up, but knowing Neio I just ignored it, as I do most things that wind me up. We can't all agree about everything all the time, and sometimes I'm sure people post just to get a reaction.

Neio has never been anything but polite to Pete and myself. Well, apart from saying to me on an NW weekend 'If you and Pete come past me again scaring the carp out of me with that can I will bludgeon you both to death' He was joking.......................I think

[Shellywoozle]

Hope you come back soon and have a change of heart mate, only met you the once but had a few communications with you.

Door will always be open and I hope to see you on a ride out, less greenery in ya boots next time hey

Ride safe over the winter months, you have my facebook so drop me a line from time to time just to say hi !

Shell xx

[Bibio]

from what i have read in threads, Neio had a self opinionated view of stuff which i actually liked. yes he came across quite strong sometimes but his views never really offended me as i took everything he said with a pinch of salt. i have seen much worse in other MC forums and this is why i like the org. if we all had the same views and opinions then i think the world would be quite a boring place....

just my 2p's worth...

Originally Posted by Bibio

from what i have read in threads, Neio had a self opinionated view of stuff which i actually liked. yes he came across quite strong sometimes but his views never really offended me as i took everything he said with a pinch of salt. i have seen much worse in other MC forums and this is why i like the org. if we all had the same views and opinions then i think the world would be quite a boring place....

just my 2p's worth...

Does not matter what opinion he had, it was how eloquently he put it across to people.
just my 2.1p's worth

you never upset me mate.

[Stu]

To be fair to the mods, they didn't ban him for life. I think it's a great shame that Neio is choosing not to sit out his restriction and come back He'll be missed. It's great to have different characters on here, and if one of those characters has wayout views then everyone soon learns that and can deal with them accordingly (as Lissa said) whether that's Ignore/a pinch of salt or whatever. This place would be pretty boring if everyone just agreed with each other, someone starts a thread & the only response is +1


IMO I didn't think Neio's posts were that offensive & as said it's impossible to truely swear on here But that's really irrelevant as I said the mods didn't ban him & I'm sure a suspension was justified if that's the conclusion they came to.

Hope you'll take away some fond memories Neio

How did he get banned?

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

Neio in real life is actually a nice guy.

+1. I've seen a side to him that few have, and I doubt few will do. Namely when Jason came off his pan.

Originally Posted by Dangerous Dave

I think this thread should be locked before it turns into something else.

I don't see a reason for that personally, but it would be understandable.

[fizzwheel]

I'm damned if I do. I'm damned if i dont....

I cannot allow the actions of a small minority of users to disrupt the forum. Be that by breaking rules. Or posting for effect to get a rise out of people or to provoke a reponse.

Be clear I didnt ban Neio I retricted his forum access to allow a period of cooling off whilst we discussed what we did. However I did say that as far as i was concerned the chances of re-instigation would be small.

Lets be clear on some facts here.

1. Neio has already served 1 Ban for breaking forum rules ( he told a moderator to go and "F*ck yourself you st*pid c*nt" so already not in my good books.

2. I discover via the grapevine that Neio has admited that his soul purpose of using the forum is to disrupt it and cause trouble and he gives not one t*ss about any of us that do use the forum. Remember this under another guise could be classed as trolling.

3. He then waits for a contoversial thread to be started and then wades in with his admitedly strong viewpoints he doesnt back off and keeps pushing his point.

So ask yourselves, if this was a new user or somebody we didnt know. Would you tolerate it ? Or would you all be up in arms about it ? Or are we in danger of tolerating one persons behaviour because "its just what he does"

This action wasnt taken lightly, its something that we thought long and hard about.

If you break the rules, whether written or unwritten ( and I think we all know whats acceptable and whats not and TBH it doesnt need writing down ) and also you p*ss the moderator team off in the process then I'm sorry but you need to face up to that fact that there might be consequences of your behaviour.

I suggest that we all move on now and I'm going to lock this thread. I'm happy to discuss via PM but this kind of thread does nobody any favours.

I have met Neio a few times he's always been a friendly personable guy in the flesh, sadly he chooses to be other than this when using the forum.


Fizz