I would like to take again the opportunity to tell everyone to READ the Terms of Use & Community Standards.
And I would like to take also the opportunity to tell you to please respect the topic a little more, I know it can't be 100% about New Order, but there is a certain limit to respect, if you want to talk about the FIFA World Cup, gee, start a football thread, not 100!!
And I would also like to ask a few of our latest members to respect others and use lower cases in there messages, using only upper cases is kind of agressive, this usually is used (from my 12 years of chat and electronic exchange experience) for yelling, this is very annoying and I'm sure I'm not the only one to feel that way...
So based on all the recent events, I had no choice to ban a first user since a LONG time, due to abuse of the system and personal attack over another member of the site, this person is Tim Jauncey aka Fred West, which posted hate mail, posted hate information in his profile, I can't tolerate this kind of behaviour, so he's suspended until further notice, until he can proove he can stop acting like a child.
And this goes for everyone, if you want to be a user here, you will have to repect the guidelines and the authorities of this site, sometimes it might not seem fair, but there is a civilized way of doing things, and I think I'm doing this the right way, I gave the opportunity to people to do mistakes, but I sure don't allow them to continue doing them after a serious warning.
I hope this will close the debate, I hope everyone will move forward and stop this non-sense (and this applies to EVERYONE, webmaster or not).
Please use this system with respect of other people and of the topic, we had several complaints about people not using the forum anymore because it was full of off-topic posts or personal posts, even I don't read all the posts like I used to because there is no interest, we are trying to make the forum more interesting for everyone to enjoy, and not only for specific people, I sure hope everyone understand this, this doesn't mean we are selecting our users or everything, we just think that personnal matter and personal stuff should be done privatly in email.
I hope this is okay with everyone, I'm willing to accept your comment on this, bad or good, you can either do it publicly, or privately, as you want, but in respect and in a constructive way, nobody's perfect, and maybe our vision of what this forum should be is not the best one.
Thanks.
Nicolas LeBlanc Webmaster NewOrderOnline.com
Sorry to take this slightly O/T....but what are the chances of our good friends making a return? I have had quite a few e-mails concerning this subject, and it appears that everyone would love em to return, obviously myself included!
The place simply isn't the same - which makes me kinda sad - people are missing out on genuine insights and information concerning the band, can this situation be resolved?
I feel like breaking into "A bridge over trobled water" :D
I sure hope so! It would be nice to have some fun around here. ;)
) who has managed to clock up several hundred posts in his relatively brief time here (less than a month from my calculation)....this wouldn't be such a staggering achievement when you consider how - no matter how knowledgable, and entertaining, he seems (and he does genuinely know a lot about all things related to New Order) - of most of these 900-odd posts, about 20 percent of them made sense and the other 80 percent would have actually struggled to comprise one paragraph in itself!! In many cases, several successive posts were made inside of a few minutes, some repeated, some not, but always comprised of just one or two words......are you telling me that this sort of thing should be encouraged?
