You are quite simply incorrect.
Have you finished now?

Frankly I have no more to say on the subject. Perhaps others have a view one way or another that they would like to express.

I think the problem is that some people don't want to agree to differ - they actively seek out confrontation and wish to argue just for the sake of it.

To be honest, I don't really see the point in this thread or what the issue is. If a member of the forum has been warned regarding their behaviour but chooses to disregard that warning then it is inevitable they will be banned. Internet forums such as this are not democracies they are privately owned - those who own/moderate such forums are free to manage them as they wish and they certainly don't have to abide by a book of Internet definitions. If members of said forums don't like the way they are moderated they are free to leave.

Well said that man!
I agree with you on all points raised.

Very sensible post, or you could have just said, fit in or feck off.

Can I make a suggestion? Ban TAS members from discussing HFS and its membership entirely otherwise this open sore will never heal, it will have the added advantage of depriving them of their fun.

I stopped commenting on all things NVA and HFS some time ago for any number of reasons, but mainly because I had become increasingly irritated by the orchestrated agenda of disruption facilitated by a few joint members of both fora (anyone who has bothered to read HFS will be well aware that this campaign is indeed orchestrated).

Their 'modus operandi' is to disrupt other fora as much as possible by trolling members until they snap, thus in turn enabling them to accuse that member of disruptive behaviour. It's an insidious strategy and not particularly clever, but it works. This is, in actuality, a campaign of strategic trolling and it needs nipping in the bud right now. Anybody who happens to be a joint member of both TAS & HFS who engages, even in a minor way, in activity likely to prolong or support this agenda should be warned to cease and desist. Any further violations would be dealt with accordingly. Forgive me guys, and by 'guys' I mean the owners and moderators of TAS, but I've been away for a few months now and it saddens me to return to the same old shit, just a different day. I know you guys don't like banning members, but seriously, this fiasco has gone on for long enough and it needs dealing with decisively.

Now, I'd also like to issue a cautionary warning to any TAS members who may have purchased an NVA product: The proprietor of NVA keeps a record of all his customers email addresses for business purposes, as one might expect. Imagine my surprise then when I discovered an unsolicited personal email from this gentleman in my inbox. Some of you will be aware that myself and this person have a bit of a history, so I wasn't expecting the message within to be full of the joys of spring. Staggeringly though the message was reasonably polite, almost jovial, however it contained an attack on the owner of another hifi forum. I'm ashamed to admit that I engaged this gentleman in a manner that wasn't entirely friendly nor constructive (he had caught me on a very bad day unfortunately), and I also railed against his abusing my privacy by sending me a personal email, the address of which he had obviously lifted from his business list. His reply? Personal emails and their content are in the public interest. You have been warned...

Fair enough bud, I guess it's just a matter of us keeping our noses clean then. Anyway, I solemnly promise that this will be the last time 'I' mention the company, the forum and its proprietor. Life's too short...

Red & swollen... lmao XD

What happens is that Person A is banned from Forum B. They then set up Forum C, and immediately the person who banned them from Forum A joins Forum C and starts stirring the pot, so Person A bans them from Forum C. It's a closed circle of people banning each other, with the vast majority of forum members looking on in bemusement, or amusement depending on what makes them laugh. Personally, I'd have a zero tolerance approach, with the first offence resulting in a permanent ban. Within days I'd be the only member of the forum, and could argue with myself until I crossed a metaphorical line and banned myself.