acpaterson wrote:What does one have to do to get banned?
In the 10 years that ACVWSA exists, it was normally only Spammers that were banned, although I am aware of a few known Exporters who were also banned as they only used the Forum as a grocery list for their BUSiness (no pun intended
).
I am not sure what the circumstances were with Vader's banning, but it was a personal issue between himself and Eben. Keep in mind that Eben is the founder of ACVWSA, so I think we should respect his decision. After all, it is his house, and we are the guests here.
The only certainty in life is change, and a lot of us (myself not excluded) have kinda moved on. Personally I am in the (what I regard as a fortunate) position of not having to spend many hours of the day in front of a computer anymore, so much less time on ACVWSA as well. I also spend a lot less time on the Forum
http://hotwheelsclubza.freeforums.org (which I started, based on the experience I have gained from ACVWSA).
To answer your question, I think if you stick to the basic rules of any social inter-action, you should be safe. ACVWSA is a world-wide platform, which is seen literally by thousands on a daily base. Please refrain from making personal differences public, name-calling, insults, and negative comments about other members.
For interest sake, here are the names of the first 15 ACVWSA members, with the date they joined. Good to see that most of them are still with us!
1. eben (Sep 13, 2005)
2. Tony Z (Sep 14, 2005)
3. calooker (Sep 14, 2005)
4. IMPI (Sep 14, 2005)
5. camperman (Sep 15, 2005)
6. Pine (Sep 18, 2005)
7. vader (Sep 19, 2005)
8. 4agedub (Sep 19, 2005)
9. beetlepower (Sep 20, 2005)
10. Merlin (Sep 20, 2005)
11. didi (Oct 29, 2005)
12. Cumulus (Oct 29, 2005)
13. ftt (Nov 08, 2005)
14. flatfourfan (Nov 08, 2005)
15. hifibug57 (Nov 11, 2005)
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