Dougal is gracious with his answers to suspension questions. I can't wait to read more of his posts.
Dougal is Awesome
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Doesn’t matter and in the end none of (y-)our business.
If someone is banned, he or she will certainly know the reason why and made the choice him/herself.
I’ve been a moderator and admin for years myself and before we banned a member we did warn several times.
It’s up to the person to decide whether to adapt or not.
The consequences are clear..
Freedom of speech is a given right, one can spill that right in showing wrong behavior, not along the policy or in the spirit of a Forum.
If someone is banned, he or she will certainly know the reason why and made the choice him/herself.
I’ve been a moderator and admin for years myself and before we banned a member we did warn several times.
It’s up to the person to decide whether to adapt or not.
The consequences are clear..
Freedom of speech is a given right, one can spill that right in showing wrong behavior, not along the policy or in the spirit of a Forum.
No it doesn't matter and yet it can still be of interest to some people.
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I get why some of us would like to know the reason, but what would that be worth to know?
Personally I think the mods here do their job in a good, honest and pretty stealth manner (how it should be)
On top of this if it was me I wouldn’t like to be bespoken after being banned, no way to defend myself and prolly not nice to “be exposed” too.
The reason(s) are severe enough for being banned.
Never witnessed somebody banned for no good reasons.
FTR I have no dog in “this fight”, just saying the man for sure did not behave according the spirit and policy of this forum, was warned, didn’t react and was banned in the end.
Just deserts.
Personally I think the mods here do their job in a good, honest and pretty stealth manner (how it should be)
On top of this if it was me I wouldn’t like to be bespoken after being banned, no way to defend myself and prolly not nice to “be exposed” too.
The reason(s) are severe enough for being banned.
Never witnessed somebody banned for no good reasons.
FTR I have no dog in “this fight”, just saying the man for sure did not behave according the spirit and policy of this forum, was warned, didn’t react and was banned in the end.
Just deserts.
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The benefit of the reason being public it to deter other users from posting the same way.
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No need, comply to the guidelines and everyone will be fine.
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Agree with OP.
This is a very unfortunate circumstance, and I for one am disappointed.
He was one person who was actually happy to share knowledge, and experience to help anyone asking.
Yes, everyone has their own bias, but few are willing to put their full reasoning on the table for others to dissect.
Dougal was one of these rare people, and argued with people where there were tanglble issues in statements or assumptions being discussed.
Opinion is a wonderful thing, everyone is allowed their own and no one can take it away.
Open forums are always a melting pot of this, and this can lead to conflict that has to be respectful, or at least accepted responses with a filter of common sense and tolerance.
The community has lost avery useful opinion by banning Dougal.
This is a very unfortunate circumstance, and I for one am disappointed.
He was one person who was actually happy to share knowledge, and experience to help anyone asking.
Yes, everyone has their own bias, but few are willing to put their full reasoning on the table for others to dissect.
Dougal was one of these rare people, and argued with people where there were tanglble issues in statements or assumptions being discussed.
Opinion is a wonderful thing, everyone is allowed their own and no one can take it away.
Open forums are always a melting pot of this, and this can lead to conflict that has to be respectful, or at least accepted responses with a filter of common sense and tolerance.
The community has lost avery useful opinion by banning Dougal.
He was one of the only people that posted here that had an actual engineering background and could explain why things work the way they do. I know he ruffled feathers with his responses to Darren and a few others over the years, but his contributions to a lot of threads was actually really interesting or helpful esp with Hayes related projects. The forum lost value without him being here IMO.
Forums are a slowing medium for discussion with a lot of groups moving to FB or reddit, banning one of the highest contribution users isn't going to help and is a bad look esp when there wasn't some obvious reason.
Forums are a slowing medium for discussion with a lot of groups moving to FB or reddit, banning one of the highest contribution users isn't going to help and is a bad look esp when there wasn't some obvious reason.
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Well, it's because Darren would say some bizarre stuff and then at times would "play games" by not answering/avoiding or using vague answers that didn't answer the question. Calling out Darren for that was exactly what should have happened. MRP did a damper release and was very straightforward about everything, not playing the games that Push has in the past. Having people with technical background for this is invaluable to the site.
Yeah mountain biking is so full of marketing bullshit that its nice to have someone who can call it out with actual credentials rather than bro-science
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