I felt the news no longer warranted a thread.. But it is back up.. It has nothing to do with anyone's opinions, it has to do with a regular pattern of posting content that gets SFBC in hot water, and one or two complaints from other members a week.
We are done with that. The other forum may apreciate the content. I figured I would put the matter to rest, I thought maybe I would be making a mess after watching the thread for an hour, so I took it down. Here it is again..
Anyone who wants to talk about fishing in a non-hot headed manner that doesn't result in my inbox getting two or three complaints a week is welcome to do so on this forum.
We are really taking the forum away from thought of the hour. 7K posts and how many of them had to do with fishing, versus how many were a hot headed reabuttle? Really. There are several members with thousands of posts who have never even come up on the radar. That is the type of content we are looking to host.
I imagine he has a few up island buddies that will go to bat for him, but the matter is sooo closed.. All of the other times he had been asked to pipe down then brings a payroll matter into the public light really just made the decision for us that his content is not right for the site.. I explained to him in a very long personal message to keep it to fishing not a week ago.
NO regular poster has been canned without several times hearing from me. Our policy is 1 infraction and that's it. If someone wonders why they have never heard from me/us , then they have figured it out. So far, that's over 6000 members, versus 4 in the last couple of years who have not.. I would say those are good odds.
And it is this exact kind of debate that I hoped to avoid by taking down the thread, I wish Cam no ill will and would probably like the guy if I met him, but business is business, and the last PM we recieved had several references to chicken manure, and how he is "not going away". I don't care if he is not going away, if I got thrown out of a bar by the bouncer I would not claw back at the door, I'd probably find another bar.
If this forum weighs THAT much on someone to devote an afternoon to several different logon attempts (Against the terms of use again), and several very terse emails laced with profanity and using the words "chickensh*t" after we calmly explained our position in profesional language, really time to turn off the computer and find another hobby. WE DO NOT WANT YOU HERE.
I took down the thread as a service to Cam, I thought I should just let it be and not have his legacy be us explaining why we are done with him, but since that ain't what the public wants, then here you go.