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digitalscream

Warning issued over racist content in P&E.

FFS, we were on a good run there for a while.

Roland

Price criticism removed from the John Hullah thread. If a seller declines your offer then harassing him isn’t going to change his mind. It is more likely to persuade other members that they don’t want to deal with you.

Roland

sbarker1978 has been escorted from the building after she was uncovered being a shill for Essex Recording Studios and his YouTube channel.

Bridgehouse

After a while, a modmin develops a nose for stuff that just smells a bit off.

No, it's not Emp Fab's damp socks, but a rather strange post in a thread that's not been updated for a while. In this case it was a thread about a member's wife having cancer, where said new user joined, and for their first post demanded an update. 

I know it's close to halloween but that's a bit too ghoulish for me. Anyway, the first course of action for us is to check various account details. 

And there we have it - user koreyrobson banned for being at least 3 other banned members (all spammers/scammers)

digitalscream

Ilovegolf banned.

Why? Yet another of Gaz Richards' pseudonyms.

Roland

adriangonciarz has lost his Classified access. He had previously stated that he only used the Classifieds for sales of personal guitars, and that his guitar sales business was run separately. Today’s episode has demonstrated that this statement was not true. In addition, the deliberately misleading wording of his advert (since edited), demonstrates an attitude towards forum members which we are not willing to tolerate.

Roland

tanihhiavlt has been banned for running (EDIT: having) two accounts, the other being Frankus. 

Bridgehouse

Roland said:

adriangonciarz has lost his Classified access. He had previously stated that he only used the Classifieds for sales of personal guitars, and that his guitar sales business was run separately. Today’s episode has demonstrated that this statement was not true. In addition, the deliberately misleading wording of his advert (since edited), demonstrates an attitude towards forum members which we are not willing to tolerate.

Sadly it appears that adriangonciarz didn't take his removal of classifieds access well, and decided that it was more important that he had a way of getting cheap stock for his business than actually following our rules. 

Realising that his account could no longer access the classifieds he decided to register a new account - harry_blackhole.

Ironic, as both that account and his old account have both disappeared down a black hole. 

Bridgehouse

They are coming out of the woodwork today!

Kevinabraham banned for also being Reiddan who was previously banned for being a spammer. Some of you might have spotted the religion/church spam, which was a bit of a giveaway. 

You know what they say, these duplicate-user bans come in threes!

Jalapeno

Roger Waters / Polly Sampson thread moved to P&E

digitalscream

Dottore in the cooler for getting abusive.

Not by me, I might add (I was the target), I'm just updating this thread 'cos the other guys were busy.

digitalscream

Lewy's asked to take a bit of a break.

Roland

Dottore is back, refreshed from his week off

Roland

Officer_Lahey, the member who joined solely to trash Jordan Guitars has been banned for trying to set up a second username.

digitalscream

Jordan Guitars thread closed because...well, some people are just desperate to have the last word, and it was getting repetitive.

Roland

Regular visitors will know that we don’t like personal details being posted for the world to see. This morning I’ve had to remove email addresses and a ‘phone number before someone gets a “These are my intimate photos” message.

digitalscream

m_custom suddenly decided to start chucking abuse around (I have no idea what started it, but hey...each to their own). He then expressed a desire to have his account closed, so I granted his wish. Kinda.

He's now in a world of his own (ie the Trolls section). It's quite amusing in there, shame the rest of you can't see it...maybe one day...

Roland

Derailing comments removed from the WTB Any Used Ivesons thread. 

digitalscream

Major cleanup in aisle 3 (ie the WTD: Ivison thread derailment).

digitalscream

Schofield thread closed.

As a casual-but-pointed reminder: playing the man not the ball is expressly prohibited, as is carrying beefs over from other threads. From the Schofield thread alone there are at least four members flirting with that line, and I'd really rather not be forced into digging out the keys to the cooler.