Ladas needed for Billing Classic-car Show

baxter

Ladas needed for Billing Classic-car Show - link removed

Please feel free to advertise this event but don't link to another forum which is against the rules (and when the Mods remove a thread don't repost it in exactly the same way)

Neil Chowney · Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 8:18 pm Post subject:

To be fair to Baxter, ithink he was just trying to save himself some typing by putting a link in to a place where it was already posted.

baxter

gadgetboy · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 11:00 am Post subject:

I must admit I find this a rather draconian attitude. The Lada UK forum is the correct place to inform people that there's a classic car show that would like some Ladas.

Surely a link to information about a non-commercial event is allowed. It is, after all, where the majority of Lada owners go for Lada information.

Yet again Difflock is going out of its way to alienate the Lada members.

Great work chaps.

RichardD · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:09 pm Post subject:

I checked that thread and there are comments about using a defunct Club's free pitch at Billing to promote someone's business. That is NOT what our free promotion for Clubs and Charities is all about.

As for more typing, cut and paste, dear boy, cust and paste!!

If the Lada owners stuck to the rules that have been in place for many years and followed happily and easily by everybody else then maybe this thread would not have needed moderated.

Yet again the Lada section is going out of its way to annoy Difflock's Mods and members.

Great work chaps. Rolling Eyes

RichardD

gadgetboy · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:20 pm Post subject:

Richard. What Lada parts does Difflock actually sell?

RichardD · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:29 pm Post subject:

Are you trying to claim that the Forum rules do not apply to Lada owners because there are no Lada specific parts on the Difflock shop?

RichardD · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:35 pm Post subject:

Just for clarity, and to prove that one does not need to type much, here is an extract cut and pasted from the link referred to above:

Note, the emphasis is mine

gadgetboy · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 3:06 pm Post subject:

I'm merely trying to ascertain whether you class Lada UK as a commercial competitor.

Right. Seeing as you're being pedantic and petty so shall I.

The link in question was to a thread started by a forum member with no association with the business. The link was not an advert and the user had no authority to suggest promoting the business. However, I commend him for attempting to do so on the Lada UK forum and the show in question. Applying the same logic every YouTube link should be deleted because the vast majority of videos on YouTube contain adverts.

In my opinion there was no conscious attempt to advertise a commercial business and I re-iterate that links to other fora or webpages advertising such events should be allowed.

RichardD · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 3:22 pm Post subject:

gadgetboy · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 3:28 pm Post subject:

I must have been editing that while you posted Richard. You may re-read if you wish.

RichardD · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 9:00 pm Post subject:

The mods don't make the rules, we merely apply them ... And I'm not using the Nuremberg defence, we do apply some kind of logic but the same rules are applied to everyone.

I accept your comments and your point of view but had Baxter contacted us firs we would have suggested putting in his own post without the link.

baxter · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 6:39 am Post subject:

RichardD · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 11:33 am Post subject: