I didn't want to hijack this thread but here we are:
Our company's roots go back to when we posted our first Goblin prototype build log on a very receptive forum. Before that, it was just an idea between a father and son to Frankenstein a car together by using the leftovers from a Cobalt. If that forum would have been hostile to us, there is a good chance we would have stopped sharing anything on that forum and never would have seen interest in our car as a product instead of just a project. Who knows if any of you would have a Goblin if it had played out any other way.
That forum helped us out so we always knew we would benefit from having our own forum for people to share their progress, get help with questions and possibly throw out ideas they are working on. That is why we launched our first forum before we even had our first orders. And we are so glad that we did.
Many of you guys might not realize how big of an impact you have on the Goblin community and our business. Almost every single first time visitor to the shop and most guys calling/emailing us end up talking about a forum member or two by their screen names and telling us about how helpful they are or how awesome their builds are.
Over the years the forum has been sustaining itself as a positive environment without any input from us. However, we've been pushed over the edge by Mayor West and the many reports we've received from other users about his posts.
Mayor West's recent posts in this thread and many others have been needlessly inflammatory and are not acceptable if this forum is to continue to be a decent community. For that, he is temporarily going to be marked as a "Limited User." He will be able to view threads and add to his own build thread but he won't be able to post or direct message anyone through the forum for the next month.
We are not afraid to take more drastic action in the future to protect the forum.
Our company's roots go back to when we posted our first Goblin prototype build log on a very receptive forum. Before that, it was just an idea between a father and son to Frankenstein a car together by using the leftovers from a Cobalt. If that forum would have been hostile to us, there is a good chance we would have stopped sharing anything on that forum and never would have seen interest in our car as a product instead of just a project. Who knows if any of you would have a Goblin if it had played out any other way.
That forum helped us out so we always knew we would benefit from having our own forum for people to share their progress, get help with questions and possibly throw out ideas they are working on. That is why we launched our first forum before we even had our first orders. And we are so glad that we did.
Many of you guys might not realize how big of an impact you have on the Goblin community and our business. Almost every single first time visitor to the shop and most guys calling/emailing us end up talking about a forum member or two by their screen names and telling us about how helpful they are or how awesome their builds are.
Over the years the forum has been sustaining itself as a positive environment without any input from us. However, we've been pushed over the edge by Mayor West and the many reports we've received from other users about his posts.
Mayor West's recent posts in this thread and many others have been needlessly inflammatory and are not acceptable if this forum is to continue to be a decent community. For that, he is temporarily going to be marked as a "Limited User." He will be able to view threads and add to his own build thread but he won't be able to post or direct message anyone through the forum for the next month.
We are not afraid to take more drastic action in the future to protect the forum.
