chinnyhill10 wrote:
Dudley wrote:
Only 1 permanently, ironically one I admined where the owner went crazy and we all moved to a new forum set up by one of the users.
Fuck me, Dudley is Revstu! RETRACT VOTE! RETRACT VOTE!
I thought it was something else ruining the line of your trousers, but it was the banning hammer all along!
Surely it simply means I've seen a Rev Stu before?
In that case it wasn't an attempt to charge for a free forum while calling your entire board parasites for freeloading off a board you don't provide. It was actually granturismo.com (back when that was a private site) where the owner decided he didn't want any games players anymore, just "hardcore track day people" and closed the off topic area, which caused chaos.
Otherwise it unfolded much the same, censoring and banning of urls to other sites, deleting of any posts by dissenting voices and eventually, the total collapse of the site, which he sold to some company for pennies, who then immediately sold it on to Sony for thousands.