I received an email from the admin Kong Leong Khoo that I will share with you and answer here. When I signed up I chose NOT to receive emails in my profile settings, but still that person disregarded my privacy and violated the trust I put in this forum when I entered my real email address by sending me an email. Even worse, he is using his free hotmail address which increases the risks of my email address being spammed by the free ad scanners that come with free email like hotmail and gmail. This shows a complete lack of integrity, even before I discuss email contents. Of course I have every right to post the email contents because it was sent to me against my wishes and therefore I have no obligation to keep it confidential, and I hope the admin will have enough courage to let every one read the kind of crap he says in private.
The email
Dear Jeff
I refer to your membership of gtpopping and to advise that the administrators on the forum have decided to delete your membership and to ban you from the forum. In the time, you've been a member, you've made one post on the thread on "Aussie Reel".
In your post, you made a number of claims which could only be described as outlandish. Not unexpectedly, members disputed these claims and thus far, you have failed to respond to substantiate any of those claims. We, the administrators of the forum, can only form the opinion that these claims are not based on fact.
Accordingly, I am writing to you to ask you to show cause on why we should not delete your membership and ban you from the forum. If you wish to make a submission, please respond to this e-mail with the reasons why you should not be banned. You have till 12am, GMT time Friday, 26 March to make a submission. If no submmission is received by that time, we will be proceeding to delete your membership and ban you from the forum.
To begin, at no point during the sign up did the terms and conditions dictated that my or anyone else have to provide any sort of proof to any thing I say. It would have been common sense if I was trashing a product or a charter operator, but I was praising a product, and providing proof is some thing that I could chose to do or not to as I wish. The admin don't have the right to fabricate a rule and decide to cancel my membership or ban me based on that. If that was to be made a rule I will have the right to ask any one who post a report about a fish caught to post proof. And if I am not convinced by the proof I have the right to ask for his account to be canceled and a warning email sent to him even if he said he does not want emails.
Regards why I did not come back or post again. One needs to look at what and how other members reacted. I came back a day later to check and post then found crap that turned me off completely from this place and the members.
The first post was some one HAN PUAH calling me reckless and being so hostile the admin him self posted immediately after asking him to keep it civil. That person later apologized and admitted to have a scrambled brain (I did not need his confession to know it).
Then some one else Josef Ngan think he is the king of comedy and post that he is running to the shop to buy. ha ha funny
Then some one else shuen fan said I got paid for posting this. He was acting as if I accused him of being a liar which I did not. I said that people who bad mouth the product are. And no one in this thread did this. My reference was to people on other forms who bad mouth the product then refuse to provide evidence. (check fishwrecked and tuna 360 site).
Then Chuen fan came again and posted about nomad pulled off the site and hinted that tufftackle were lying about them and other charter operators listed. What gives him the right to make such unfounded clams before waiting for an explanation which Simon kindly provided in a follow up?
Then Hon Su Chin comes and asks me to meet him and dared me to say my post in person. A physical violence threat by some one who will most likely poop his pants if he ever sees me coming. I was threatened with physical violence using childish manner and again the admin asked him to keep it civil. The same admin who had the balls to send me that email but not to ban the member who made physical violence threats.
And you ask me why I did not care to answer and then try to force me and twist my arm to post proof with this email? You are a very funny group of people.
I was asked to provide a reason why I should not be deleted, and this is not why I post this. I want my account to be deleted. I do not mind and don't want to be a member in this crap hole any more. I posted because I did not want the admin to send me that email then go away thinking that he is a smart man or some thing when in fact he is only a foolish person who twists the arm of a new member and leaves older ones to post all crap they want including girlie physical threats. That same Hon Su Shin posted that 10 out of 10 people say tufftackle is trash yet no one asked him for proof for that dubious claim.
Simon was correct to say he does not trust web forums. The internet is full of morons who has no better pass time than to post crap and trash products for their own agendas. If by any chance any one after genuine information was readin, the fact remains that tufftackle are as good if not better than shimano and daiwa high end at half the price. But money speaks and Simon, a true engineer and a knowledgeable person does not pay people to publicize his products and stand against reasonably priced competition like shimano and daiwa does. If you don't believe me search the internet for how many saltigas got broken into two pieces at the stem, then you can criticize tufftackle because a tiny number had broken arms due to wrong use and it is a cheap and quick fix unlike the broken stem of the daiwa who does not give you free repair or stand behind the product like tufftackle do.
Ban me now. I am done with this crap.
