It takes a village...

Thank you RLD!! 

Appreciate the message RLD, though pretty new here, I could instantly tell the person posting did not fit in with all the other great posts I have read, nor with all the great messages I have received from people on this forum over the last month or so.

It's difficult to take that decision, but ultimately the correct one. To paraphrase Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday: "And, either we heal, now, as a team, or we will die as individuals."

So, who else was banned? I can understand why Yellow Snow Star was booted but did I miss more to the week's excitement? 

I think it's great that you police the site and respond to complaints in a timely manner. I don't come on here as often as I should and I just am now returning after a couple of days to check on one of said threads (I heard through the grapevine that I should) and realized it was gone. As well it should be.

I tend to punch back at trolls no matter where they appear in my day-to-day with sarcasm and, if it continues, meaness. Toss in a healthy dose of humor and there you have it. Just like I did with the loud, entitled, mean lady at the grocery store yesterday. She deserved it, and someone needed to call her out on it. Turning the other cheek isn't in my bag. History dictates that it shouldn't be in anyone's. Traditionally, I've never fed the trolls, but lately my approach is that life's too short not to smack them around a little sometimes, especially when it's directed at people that I know. Sometimes people can be a little too... provocative, we'll call it, as many people online are. I am. Hopefully my provocations aren't too inappropriate for consumption here. If I offended anyone, other than the troll, I apologize. No, I didn't mean to make this about me, but after hearing "through the grapevine" that I should revisit and address my comment on the deleted thread, I feel like an explanation was warranted. As for my provocations, and this is directly addressing and related to comments made in the deleted thread (I hate that I missed those), someone should start a forum post about cheating. Don't you agree? That would be the opportunity for everyone to discuss the issue in, hopefully, a civil manner. Clear the air and set boundaries between racers, so to speak. It would also help to keep the subject matter contained to one forum posting and not expressed in thinly-veiled comments about it in many, many other unrelated postings that I've seen on the site. I get everyone's frustrations on the subject, but It's not ok to gang up on someone (primarly just one in particular, and it's not me) like a angry mob that's unwilling to do so upfront. If anything, express your concerns with the supposed cheater privately. We're grownups, right? If anyone does have the moxie to start the discussion on cheating in a separate posting, let's keep it clean, civil, honest, and lead the issue with it's passive-agressive comments away from unrelated forum postings. Subterfuge should be left to polititics and boardrooms. Cheers y'all. Have a great start to your weekend!

Don't let this distract anyone from the fact that I've still got the worst track in diecast....