Just mods taking out the trash. Only time I've ever seen things deleted here(and that's pretty rare) is when threads "descend" into imaginary pissing contests or petty childish arguments.
Compared to a lot of other forums, rules here are very open. And yet this is by far the "best behaved" community by far I've encountered. Other sites have strict rules about what can and can't be talked about, and yet every other thread turns into a pointless "flame war" with two asshats arguing about some utterly trivial detail.
You don't realize how good VMF is until you go somewhere else and get bitched out by a mod for making a **** joke. While v4hondabbs was a good site (when I had the Magna) for info, I had a bad experience with one of their big vendors (kind of a Sean equivalent for Honda v4). Ordered some parts through him, paid, and then.....nothing for a good 2 weeks. Sent emails and PMs, none got answered. Even got another member to give me his phone # and tried calling....nobody answered and nobody called back. 3 weeks in with no contact and no refund, I post on the forum saying what happened (politely). I was out like $80. A mod starts bitching me out for "badmouthing" this "highly esteemed member of our community" and "the public flogging needs to stop". Finally, about a month later, paypal emails me and says it's been refunded. He sends me a message saying he "took a break" from doing parts and service for a while and thought he had filled all the orders beforehand. I asked why he hadn't responded to PMs, emails, forum posts, and phone calls for weeks. He claims he never heard anything. I asked why he just now sent a refund, and he said he "just saw" my forum thread (which had been at the top of the list for like 2 weeks, constantly being bumped by members telling me to go **** myself). Right. I noted in the thread I'd gotten a refund with essentially no reason given. The same mod messaged me again and essentially said I wasn't welcome there anymore. I didn't get banned, but I got my Vmax like a month later so that was that.
Now "nobody" is gone there shouldn't be any more threads getting ruined with his ****** attitude. Why people put so much time and effort expressly toward being a dick is beyond me. Seriously, do people like that really have nothing better to do with their time than insult people on the internet?
