If Albrecht and HollowPoint want to have an on-line punch up then so be it.
There is no need to moderate their online comments as long as the language is appropriate and no one else is harmed during the thread.
I don't mind a punch up between two forum members having a scrap online as they obviously need to sort their beef out but there is no reason to stop us enjoying their patter surely???
Craig, you appear to have fallen into the big hole dug by HollowPoint...
What you are calling a "punch up" between HollowPoint and myself was just a sideshow, and a late one at that ( HollowPoint often seems to have turned up just before the lights get turned off, but anyway.... ). All that vaguely personal stuff, and whether us "Freeloaders" should pay our way or not ( hey, I've already said I'll happily contribute to the forum running costs ) and any of that other spiel was just 'Tits On a Bull'.
What happened with that thread was that a Z Club member
repeated a story that he'd first started relating something more than four years ago now. Somebody else prompted the re-telling of the story, and I simply picked up on it being repeated.
That story first appeared on a thread that I had started, and - I'm pretty sure about this - I believe it was initially told as a wind-up ( guess who it was supposed to wind up? ). It doesn't ring true, and no evidence that would back it up has ever been produced. In fact, it's full of rather obvious holes. Especially if you know anything about Japan.
So if - as I'm sure is the case - the whole thing was just a wind-up based around a tall story, then arguments / disagreements and enmity arising out of its re-telling are going to be inevitable. That's the
root casue of the trouble. We just saw a situation where the
reason for the original friction was quickly glossed-over and obscured, and a sideshow ensued. There didn't seem to be any attempt by the Moderating team to get to the bottom of the original story ( is it true, or is it not true? ) and - in my opinion at least - the whole point was completely missed. People banging on about any Albrecht vs HollowPoint sideshow simply allows the original reason for the kerfuffle to slip away into the night.
So now a couple of us ( or more, who knows? ) have been 'awarded' infractions for what ensued after Elvis had effectively
left the building. Even the Moderators and Committee appear to have missed the whole point. The person who continues telling this fairly implausible story as a wind-up, and who told me to
"put your money where your mouth is", is bringing the forum - and by extension the Z Club - into disrepute in my opinion. He's not just making a fool of me, he's making a fool of all of you too.
I'm hoping that 'red baron' gets well soon, not least because the spotlight will eventually fall on him again and he might feel the urge to bring the whole saga to a close either by showing copper-bottomed evidence ( good enough to leave no question of whether it's the truth or not ) or 'fessing up to his long-running gag. Perhaps the Committee and Moderators, along with some of his fellow Z Club members, will give him a little encouragement this time...?
'Nice car', by the way 'red baron'. It's a mid-1970 build, not a late-1969.
