What's a forum without people posting, some friendly banter and opposing views. By MAMs decision to remove the above posters we now have less views and these forums have lost their humour and rich content. I say bring back GF and DB immediately.

Please post your support if you agree?

B .... i would fully concur that the pair of them became totally ridiculous and tiresome in their antics ..... however, one of the perpetrators - oh GF for goodness sake! - was actually a very long term, useful and interesting contributor except when in one of his sillier moods

that said, there have been far worse serial offenders from the point of view of racism and the like, and assuredly it is not unknown for them to be re-admitted to the fold (more than once!)

though no name should be considered bigger than the game (the board), i think that this place will be very much the poorer without GF's presence

i am fully aware that a number of people would not agree with me, but i very much hope that you will reconsider and, perhaps with a further cooling off period, allow them back (it would be unreasonable to allow one without the other) albeit under strict licence .....

as you said, the members are usually most effective policemen

..... but not in this case???????????

55011 - no, but that is something of a red herring insofar as members cannot (surprise surprise) delete another's post

Be that as it may.

I say, let Mr Boydells' ruling stand.

I agree, not exactly a rush to get GF reinstated was there. Democracy rules :0)

Well since his ban i have had a couple of emails back and forth with Goldfinger .

I always got on well with him and when i first arrived here more than 10 years ago he was always helpful where i was concerned .

Trashing threads is wrong without doubt and it seemed out of character for him to do that .

For me he was always one of the better posters ,there are some supposedly hot shots on here who wouldn't give you the time of day .
As for arguing on the internet i can't see the point , you can never get to punch the person annoying you so why bother .

chris - how valuable to the site do you feel DB was? .... you don't really need to answer!
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55011 - is this an alter ego for a member whom we might all know?

55,

Have spilt your old ale again?

arguably only fred is older than me on this site, but i would be more than happy to act as Father of the House and try to keep a lid on GF's excesses .... there's a small chance GF will listen to me (DB assuredly will not)

What time were they having this row?

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When you think you are important put you finger in a bowl of water and notice the hole you leave when you take it out.

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But, the charts thread was interesting to me, often put the larger companies in my to watch portfolio and personally never found GF offensive to me. But I do wish he would think a shade or two longer before hitting the Key board.

Sad for me.

No "old ale" Fred, the stuff doesn't stay on the shelf long enough.

Can't see Stan offering to push the boat out anytime soon, seeing as his computer is maxed out..........

Still, as long as the market rises all should come good!

fred - you really are getting senile ..... i do wish you would think a shade or two longer before hitting the keyboard :-)

Quite disappointing the number of posters and READERS that have expressed a view on here . Many seem willing to read the threads put up By GF that have been very good . I can tell by the counters on the threads I have introduced to the site that there are many more readers than contributors. This thread has been up a day or so and I am disappointed in the numbers willing to stand up for GF and db4. Even if nothing comes of it , do regular readers of the sites not owe something back ?

Makes me wonder if I ever came close to a ban on the ASC "ASOS" thread with all the abuse Tomasz and I threw at each other!!

I think that's the only person I've ever had handbags at 5m with!

Here, here dreamcatcher on the above... GF mainly traded equities where as I mainly trade indices and currency so can say I never followed his posts from an investment perspective. However as we both chart, we share a common interest.. An interest I feel will now be lost on MAM..

Extinction I would think!

cynic - Nothing against DB, he was never offensive to me or anybody else as far as i am aware. I did take his side against GF freely admit.

If anybody is in any doubt re GF and his odd ball ways check out FOXT thread. Start on page 6. For confirmation check out same thread across the road where he posts as mike740. The logic of de-ramping a stock when not even trading it is lost on me, throw in personal abuse against DB on this thread and both DB and CR across the road and you may change your mind. Not to mention multiple user names (who have conversations). DYOR this is not a one off. Do you really want this board to go the same way?

Apart from the above what sort of mental state would drive you to trash number of threads on here because posters disagreed with your point of view?