Sorry you feel this way oldbill but I guess people have to understand taking pokes at people isn't fun and you will notice the decline in press releases here this year for that reason of people bashing the poster or the press release.
Monitor Police?? I care lot about the board and there were more bashing posts then the Sunset vs Barrie on here.
We are still trying to work out things we are monitoring and maybe we have made a mistake or two but in most part I have got a lot of people thanking me for cleaning up the site and more people have signed up to the site as they are noticing they can post and not have a personal attack against them.
I will tell you something that happened about 3 months ago we had a serious partner looking to invest in the board and then he started reading the posts and said he didn't want to get involved in a battle field board. This guy has been involved in the racing market for 16+ years and this would have helped the board and most likely taken it to the next level as he had some really good ideas and things he wanted to help us with. So at that point I decided it was time to clean the board up.
We have been running the site for 8 seasons and last season I must admit was bad with all the fights. I had only had to ban one user in 7 years and this season I had to ban and warn a ton of users. I think some good members were banned as they got all tangled up in the way the site was heading.
Please understand we want the site to grow and get to the next level and steps had to be taken. How many years can I run a site where nothing new happens to the site???
This year was great for us and I'm excited with our sponsorship with OSS and maybe there will be some other news coming. I also real need to focus on getting a sponsor that will help pay for the site and somethings I want to do for the site.
What I want to do is offer users there own photo album on-line but we need to get sponsor ship to do this as it will require more hosting bandwidth and storage space plus the program cost.
Everyone will see the changes that happens and yes there will be a little pain in the beginning as we work things out here.
I have got some moderators to help me and this should maybe free up sometime for me to get some stuff done on the site and work on getting some sponsors here as the ads you see on here only pulled in 250.00 for the year and that is just not enough to do what needs to be done here.
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