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Originally Posted by PR3SSUR3
There suspiciously does not seem to be a straight answer forthcoming in the other threads, so let us ask here:-
Is omcdave banned? If so, on what grounds?
Furthermore, it appears some if not all of his posts have been removed from the forum entirely.
What is the justification for this?
I don't believe this member - unlike some others - was intentionally rude, pornographic or an aggressive troublemaker. He wasn't even sarcastic.
It is generally agreed that some of his posts might have been silly, but then the same goes for many other - unbanned - members of horror.com. Far more offensive and banal entries have been allowed to stay on the forum, and their posters go unchecked.
Is the establishment executing its right to remove (all trace of) any member it deems 'unsuitable' using some dubious excuse of his 'excessive posting' or typing 'not what people want to read'?
If this is the case, it is extremely disappointing from a community which has been known to boast about its diversity, tolerance and broad mindedness when it comes to discussing horror and other subjects.
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I believe more than one complaint was made against him for some of the stuff he had been doing on here and behind the scenes. Also, he and his cohorts have been filling this place with total nonsense since they joined. Till November-December last year, he wasnt posting anywhere else except the General Forum, not to mention opening countless threads of idiocy and filling other threads with stupidity.
When pointed that he wasnt posting anything related to "contribution to horror" by The Flayed One, he started frequenting the Asian movies and Modern movies sections and added some information about Asian stuff. Knowing the fascination us movie-goers have for asian movies these days (since Hollywood has gone drastically down in the Horror genre) he was lauded for it, but actually most of his recommendations were lifted from sites such as upcominghorrormovies.com and hkflix.com et al. (How do I know about it? His posts regarding a particular movie matched the reviews in those sites by other people) I doubt the guy himself took any time out to watch the movies he actually posted about.
And lately he has been doing some stuff which went beyond the transgression of the mods. I am sure if they removed him they had enough evidence and complaints lodged against him, and in subsequent investigations, they found a lot of proof to back those complaints.
Maybe if BR or Zwoti or whoever did the banning clears it up, then everyone would believe it. I am just voicing my thoughts as to what might have happened.
And I applaud the mods for being so tolerant of the fellow and giving him more than one chance to be a good standing and contributing member. Many other excellent members protested and left in disgust, but the mods still let him stay.
It was a severe loss to the forum when so many good contributing members left in protest because their complaints against him werent being heeded upon. Its a classic case of one apple spoiling the whole barrel. I doubt if we will ever get those good members back again.