I have the greatest of respect for Pat, but I really cannot let her post (directed at me, I think) pass unchallenged.
"Would you like someone to come inside of your business and tell the public that they can get better/cheaper elsewhere?"
- I have not done that. I have not suggested on HJ that car4play is better in any way ("cheaper" isn't relevant); I have merely offered information about its existence. My last (now removed) post does not even hint at the nature of the information I was prepared to offer. My previous posts have offered privately to answer questions raised on HJ about where certain BR members have gone. I guess I am now blacklisted.
"...you would turf them out on their ear, and claim you had every right to do so... 'touting against forum rules'..."
- I accept that those who run a website have every right to do as it suits them and I have said so to the various representatives of HJ with whom I have been in communication. However, they have claimed I have breached their rules in some way, which I do not understand; read the t & c and policy documents published on their website and form your own judgement. So if objective criteria are claimed to be relevant here, it seems that HJ's minions' apparent inability to justify their banning of even the faintest whiff of car4play smacks of petty-mindedness, to say the least. And of course it's one-way; car4play does not ban references to HJ, positive or otherwise.
What you say about the internet being big enough to accommodate both sites is certainly true and I share your reluctance to gloat. As for feeling sad that HJ seems to be struggling, I guess I am more matter-of-fact about that than you. They have made their bed and must now lie in it.
"I also know where my loyalty lies, but I have a personal code of practice that I try and live my life by..."
- I believe loyalty should be to individual people rather than organisations and I guess that is why a lot of people are here, on car4play. As for a personal code of practice, I hope you can accept that I have been motivated by principle, not prejudice. If my moral and ethical compasses seem awry I trust someone will show me in what way this is so.
Last edited by: ChrisPeugeot on Fri 4 Jun 10 at 10:12
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