Also even more insane----or maybe he did this to all banned people------I do not know.
My friend sent me the copy and paste of the rant, but I was able to click her link and view it too.
OK- BL suggested I keep it up so that people do not have to go to his forum to view it.
However, we both agree he can post his own BS here. Also mods feel free to delete this post at any time.
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Below is a copy and paste rant from Mark-
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"Let's get down to some straight, no BS talking. Nip this one in the bud.
There's quite a few people moaning and bitching on other writing forums... spreading outright lies and BS about me since starting the Article Writing Forum with Arfa Saira.
A few of these points I wish to address...
One competitor posted up that I sent him an abusive and threatening email.
I call BS. You received no such email from me. You exaggerate the truth.
Purely in empathy for you as a forum owner, I sent you an email asking you to kindly remove one new posters comments on your forum where she was promoting this forum, on
your forum.
Now, we don't mind people here posting up links. Why should we? We're all professional marketers after all is said and done. And marketing involves a little bit of promotion every now and then. But I can well understand you not wanting the same on your forum. Your forum. Your rules.
Our forum. Our rules.
I contacted you with no malicious intent in the slightest. I don't know you. I've never met you. Our lives have never crossed lines before as far as I know. I wish you no ill and like everyone here would wish only the very best for you and if I could help you, I would. If it was in my capacity to do so.
I asked you very simply to remove the offending thread, if it upset you in any way. That very brief, short and to the point email finished with the line...
"Simply remove the offending post. Problem solved."
How you managed to glean from that, that this was was a threatening, rude and abrasive email, is anyone's guess. But you saw fit to post your comments up on your forum telling everyone else that I had sent you a very abusive and threatening email. You Sir are a liar. There's no other way to state the truth of the matter.
You were
not threatened and you certainly didn't receive an abusive, threatening email from me. That was the last thing on my mind for you to pick up this false impression. Perhaps I did sign off the email with that last sentence a little abruptly. Fact is, the phone went and since it's a bit of a sprint to answer the phone at the other end of the house, I just quickly ended the email with that last sentence and clicked Send.
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Now... several other posters have also been posting up very negative remarks and links to my other websites in an effort to bring my good business name into disrepute.
One person raised the point in a very derogatory manner about my being banned from the Warrior Forum last summer.
Let me put you straight on the reason why I was banned from the Warrior Forum last summer...
A moderator advised *** (***- WF user name) THE marketing legend, responsible for well over $400 million worth of sales in his career to date, an absolute gentleman of the finest pedigree possible, a gentleman in his mid seventies who only lost his wife a few months previously... this moderator advised Jim to make a post on the Warrior Forum.
Another moderator came along and first deleted ***'s comment and then subsequently banned his account for 7 days. ****, copywriter and WF moderator then posted up a new thread about JF ** being banned from the forum. Most of the A** kissers on there agreed with the decision to ban him. A few including myself, we disagreed with this moderators decision to ban this marketing legend from the WF.
Four people immediately spring to mind, posters who were quite outspoken in their utter disgust about this decision, one a web developer from New York... ***. *** was extremely outspoken as was *** and myself.
For my trouble sticking up for ***, I was banned from the Warrior Forum myself along with one or two other people defending J** and his right to stay at the WF.
We didn't want to see him embarrassed like this and felt the need to state rightly or wrongly our opinion on the matter. This has been documented elsewhere online. You can do the research for yourselves.
So no, I wasn't banned for scamming anyone at all, as one or two of you wish to imply. Get your facts straight. Upon being banned, all 2,000 of my threads and posts were immediately removed from the Warrior Forum.
It's no big deal. I still stand by my decision now to speak out and disagree with the moderators there about that extremely ridiculous decision to ban this gentleman.
Prior to this, I enjoyed a very good reputation on that forum for always being kind and helpful towards other posters. People still remember this fact today and every now and again, I still receive communications from the members there thanking me for taking so much out of my time and busy schedule to help others. Which is jolly nice to receive and very decent of them and I thank them sincerely for it.
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Now, a few posters have been banned from this forum too.
When this forum was started off, we had a terrific problem with spammers signing up, registering for accounts here and subsequently posting up their *** links etc. It took a great deal of time to stay on top of it all.
Anyone who registered on this forum with an obviously fake user name, I automatically banned and deleted their accounts to protect the rest of our fledgling community of genuine posters.
One poster on one forum hasn't stopped since, posting up very negative remarks about us here. She signed up with a completely unintelligible username, I straightaway thought spammer and deleted her account. She hasn't stopped bitching and moaning about it for the past 2 weeks since approximately.
If you had followed the forum rules here, this wouldn't have happened to you. The forum rules clearly state that if you wish to register and use this forum, you must use a real name or 'real' pen name / business name. Seems pretty simply to me. I'm sorry for you that you couldn't follow this exceedingly simple rule.
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On the back of so many spammers registering, I installed a modification to the forum.
A way to stop the spammers registering for an account. This has caught one or two people too who are now moaning about it on these other writing forums. This mod is aligned with
http://www.StopForumSpam.com
I do not personally check out your IP addresses as one or two of you have falsely stated. If you register here and this modification catches your IP address, user name, email address used etc it will automatically put your account name used into a list for later approval manually by me. If any trigger shows up in red as a warning, I simply will not approve you. Simple.
I haven't got the time to faff about checking out whether or not you are a genuine poster or not. I trust this mod to do it's work on my behalf. That is the reason I installed it. To save me the time and aggravation of manually checking to see if you are a genuine person or not as the case may be.
Mistakes happen. We're all human. Coding isn't always perfect. We have to live with it. Make the best out of the tools and knowledge available to us. So some of you couldn't use this forum. It's a great shame because we would have loved nothing better than to see you posting here within this growing community. But like it or lump it, it is the way it is.
One or two have sent me the most ridiculous emails, revolting insults calling me Hitler this, Hitler that and Hitler something else. Well, to be perfectly frank with you, with an attitude like this, you're not welcome here anyway.
As I said above, it's our forum, our rules. Don't like it? Leave. Doors over there, don't let it slam you on the a*** on the way out. Clear enough for you?
We welcome well intentioned posters on this forum and will do our utmost to help anyone out who asks for assistance. That is our nature, but push, prod or keep prodding at us to provoke us only and you will be removed from this forum. No questions asked.
We respect good manners and 99% of people understand this, as a natural part of their personalities. We want good people to enjoy using this forum and whatever we can do to help you... we will - plain and simple.
The rest of these troublemakers, I'm sorry, you're not welcome here.
Let this be my final say on this / these matter/s."
Mark Andrews
Admin AWF