chiz, since you posted this on June 24th, I can only assume you mean the incident with JonoPike. If you found flames in any other posts, please PM me and I'll deal with them.
OK. I had a nice big explanation about what happened today, but then my computer crashed. Arrrrrgh. Well I'll summarize it for everyone:
- The first flame took place at 9:31am on June 24th by raven. By that time, JonoPike posted three topics: two bashing the GP32 at 9:17am and 9:20am respectively, and one bashing this forum and hailing the Zodiac at 9:26am.
- Yes, I agree the flame by raven may be uncalled for. But JonoPike posted THREE topics flaming this forum and the GP32 before the flames started. That is what probably got people angry.
- After JonoPike posted these three topics, people started flaming all of his topics (including his very first one ever, the one where he says he is a friend of cu_amiga).
Now, let me talk about JonoPike's self-described "tale of woe". By his account, he says he got a GP32 about a week ago from June 24th and he thought it was a horrible piece of junk and he sold it. Then in his next thread, he said he got a GP32 BLU after buying that first GP32. There are some problems with this.
- Why did he buy a more expensive GP32 if he thought it was a piece of junk and he was completely unsatisfied with it?
- He couldn't have bought the GP32 BLU a week ago, since he lives in the UK (got that from a traceroute).
- If he really was friends with cu_amiga, which was a member since January of this year and used to be a regular poster, then cu_amiga must have told him what he knows about the GP32. I'm sure cu_amiga didn't tell him that the GP32 BLU was more powerful then the regular GP32.
Now for the biggest question:
- Why did he flame these boards, and hail the Zodiac, before we flamed him? If he already owns a Zodiac, why did he buy a GP32 as well? It stands to reason he was on the Zodiac boards first, and there is a member named "Jono" there which has been registered since January '03 but hasn't posted recently. Yet he doesn't even mention the Zodiac in any of his posts, just the PS1.
After saying all of this, I am locking the thread out of respect for chiz. Chiz, if you want the thread unlocked, please PM me and I will do so. However I don't want you flamed, and I don't like flaming on these boards. If I had been available at that hour I would have taken care of it, but I was sick in bed all day yesterday, though at 9:17am I would have been on the road to class anyway.
Topic closed for now.