x5drivers.co.uk SITE DOWN

[TheGodfather]

Originally Posted by BWG

I would equate what you have done, to attending a party at someone elses house, and at the end of the night noticing theres loads of booze left, then deciding to take it all home for your own use. Out of order!!! Someone had to buy that booze, someone had to pay for the party, yes, money is involved!! but its a 'social' event, not a business, and thats the difference. You are clearly not understanding what forums are all about!!

You're a pensioner right? Then I guess you're quite old? If that's the case, you have allot to learn about the internet my friend, in many cases it is all about making money! And if you're not old, you should know better.

And your analogy is horrible and completely false. It does not relate to this situation whatsoever. Stop making ridiculous outlandish stories and anecdotes.

[BWG]

Originally Posted by TheGodfather

You're a pensioner right? Then I guess you're quite old? If that's the case, you have allot to learn about the internet my friend, in many cases it is all about making money! And if you're not old, you should know better.

And your analogy is horrible and completely false. It does not relate to this situation whatsoever. Stop making ridiculous outlandish stories and anecdotes.

You still don't understand do you? You knew exactly what you were doing when you asked that question in your first post. Its not the mechanics of the deal thats the problem, the exact date etc, its just the principle behind why you bought the domain, knowing the moderators were working on getting it running again, something explained in the first post.

You can bang on about it being a fair transaction and just business but its just not the right thing to do in this forum to forum situation IMO. If you were a true petrolhead, you would understand the camaraderie between like minded people, and I'm sure would not have felt it appropriate to do what you did.

My reference to the party/booze was an 'analogy' by the way, and it was a crude attempt to try and make you see how other people view forums (and why you're getting so much stick for this). You may see websites as just a way to make money, but the majority of forum users do not, I felt this was particularly true on X5D.

I'm sure you will understand this concept one day my friend.

[CondorX5]

What an unhappy situation - it sounds from Scottie as if this is certainly not the kind of behaviour he was used to from the site administrator: the guy may have taken ill or been in an accident or is in hospital or something, unable to organise the admin involved in renewing the site domain name, whatever it was, it seems something entirely unforseen happened. As the site was not exactly a business venture, more like a social forum which pays for itself with a few ads, it may well be that the site admin never had the opportunity to let anyone know about whatever unfortunate circumstances had occurred.

There's always some sneaky low life hanging about like a vulture hoping to capitalise on the misfortune of others, in all walks of life. I reckon that this one should be ignored and left with the poached domain he squatted on - when the forum is revived and pointed to another domain, traffic to the old domain will reduce. He's certainly gained no kudos from his behaviour.

AW8,pvr, other mods of the old forum, please PM me, am happy to contribute to a new site.

[x1singh]

+1, am happy to contribute to a new site

[Thunder22]

Originally Posted by x1singh

+1, am happy to contribute to a new site

I don't get it, you guys are already here, why not just stay?

[BWG]

Thunder22, I will certainly stick around, this is a great forum.

[DONONE69]

I spoke to the x5drivers administrator last sunday via email

[CondorX5]

Originally Posted by Thunder22

I don't get it, you guys are already here, why not just stay?

Thanks Thunder22, I think a lot of us probably visit here a bit; it's just that having a UK forum which is geared more or less to UK based BMW stuff is really useful to us - the different sides of the pond are treated very differently by BMW and the specs of the cars differ even though they are built in the US!

I think I'm beginning to smell a rat with the disappearance of the X forum, though, as there is an ex-member there (who visits here a lot too) who was thrown off for abusive behaviour and has been repeatedly returning under different aliases he has signed up on; who knows, perhaps the site admin was "persuaded" by the ex-member with the grudge to have this happen, then the unexpected arrival of our Canadian student friend (NOT) complicated the matter even more.....

I somehow don't think the X forum will ever revive as it was, but I hope those of us who enjoyed its assistance and the friendships we made there, will somehow get together to form a new one, make it more robust against things like this happening again. You live and learn. While the godfather may not have had anything to do with the expiry of the domain, he cashed in on an unfortunate situation and obviously has no morals - here's hoping he lives in interesting times.

The loss is not so much the domain name, its all the forum info on X5s, which was pretty extensive. But I'm sure we can start again if need be.

[Scottie]

Thanks Godfather got your pm and have replied. for everyone else the godfather and I now have an understanding

so we can we all now really just let this one go.

I am confident the UK forum will be back and in respect to the site administrator just let it drop until we all know the full story when I get news you will all be brought up to date.

[LeMansX5]

Originally Posted by CondorX5

Thanks Thunder22, I think a lot of us probably visit here a bit; it's just that having a UK forum which is geared more or less to UK based BMW stuff is really useful to us - the different sides of the pond are treated very differently by BMW and the specs of the cars differ even though they are built in the US!


The loss is not so much the domain name, its all the forum info on X5s, which was pretty extensive. But I'm sure we can start again if need be.

We can create a sub-forum specially for you UK folks.