DarkLynx Banned, an explanation.

[DARKSTAR]

DarkLynx has been on this site for a long time. In that time he had disrespected other members of the site, started fights with people in the forums, disregarded the rules of this forum, and disrespected the administrators of this site. He has received several temporary bans from 3 days to a month long. After the last one month ban he was warned that the next time he posted something incendiary, disrespectful, or violated the forums rules in any way he would be permanently banned. After that he did ok for a while. However it was not long before he was at it again. Instead of just banning him I reminded him that he was on his last strike, and he was walking a thin line. He cleaned up his posts for a while again. But again, it did not last. Since then I have been essentially ignoring his posts... almost trying not to read them, as I knew he would not be able to abide by the rules, and a permanent ban was inevitable.
Believe me the last thing I want to do is ban any member from this site, or this league. I have defended him on many occasions, without my intervention he would have been banned a long time ago. I am not proud, or happy that DarkLynx is banned. I think of it as a personal failure that I could not get through to him.

Let me be clear. If I wanted swear words banned on the site I could easily do that, the Administrators of the site have the ability to automatically censor any words we choose. I prefer the members of this site be able to express themselves freely, using any language they choose. As long as they are able to show respect for their fellow drivers, and the Administrators, there is no problem with the language they use. However I admit I do not like to see foul language in the shout box. We have a lot of younger members on this site, and the shout box is on the home page of this forum. Anyone's parents who were curious about what their kids were doing on this site can easily find our forum home page, and the shout box would be one of the first things they saw. Trust me, it wont be one of you that will have to deal with an angry parent, it will be me.

I am surprised to see so much support for DarkLynx. He has always been something of a pariah (look it up!) in this community. I know there are many who openly hate him. Nevertheless he is still part of the ORL family. It pleases me to see people come to the defense of members of their family even when they are possibly the least popular.

Please feel free to express yourself in this thread. I want to hear your reactions. While this league is not a Democracy, popular opinion, and the will of the people still have meaning here. It is not impossible for my decisions to be reversed if the community demands it.

[gogetarulez]

Now that I hear that he was actually told several times and was given several bans and warnings, I completely understand. I mean, if he just keeps breaking rules, and keeps getting banned, I think this is a good solution. It might be a tiny bit harsh because he can't access the website, but he should've learned from his (many) mistakes. I like how you handled this by posting this as well, instead of having to tell everybody on Xbox or something. Btw I'm curious, did you perma ban his account or did you I.P. Ban him?

[DARKSTAR]

He has been IP banned.

[Virtualy Dark]

You did what you had to do its his own fault for running his mouth i defended him just like some others but he broke the rules and you banned him for it thats it plain and simple

[amgcarbone]

Is it a ban from the website only or is he also banned from the racing and stuff?

[TheOffice1808]

First of all, I totally agree with the website ban Darkstar. However, on the other hand some drivers really need to grow up. Whenever darklynx would join a party or game, at least one person would always say something like “Oh great” or “Yay its Darklynx…” Most of the time darklynx never even did anything to them in the first place. Then people would just tag along and make fun of him. That is what really pissed me off. So to the few drivers that think it is funny to “bully” someone else for no reason, they really need to grow up. Thank You for reading.

[xUnknownGamingx]

KEEP HIM BANNED, KEEP HIM BANNED!!!!jk, he had it coming his way though, and I respect your decision

[Pancake]

Gaming that's exactly what Office was saying -____-

[psychoseraph86]

Me and lynx were having such a good season too. :-(

[BrownsFanMAN22]

I agree if you ban him from the site, but not from racing. His mouth shouldn't have an influence on his driving abilities and maturity.

[TheOffice1808]

He isn't banned from racing.

[CaptainSlayer]

I'm late to the party, sure.

But I support the return of DarkLynx.

My reasoning is simple. A lot of people tend to push buttons that shouldn't be pushed. (See: TheOffice1808's original post for a detailed description).

I've been lurking on these forums for a while. Logging in and not posting anything but rather just browsing what's going on and Lynx posted some nasty stuff.

Trials of xFireviperx come to mind and he is one that has managed to grow up quite a bit and move on.

I fully support being able to tell someone who's being a dick to go fuck themselves. This is against the rules, but what they are doing in the first place is also and Eric and Reignz shouldn't have to play babysitter.

I don't race often (if ever), but when I have I've had to bite my tongue (and let it loose) multiple times on people who've come at me because they've all but just forgotten that the entire league was founded on a video game which is meant to be played for fun.

Competition is great and respect is a must. However, Defense and hitting a breaking point are two different things.

At the end of the day, we are just a bunch of gamers playing a game. It should be fun. It should be friendly to a point.

But if someone keeps poking you in the head, eventually your going to punch the right in the freaking nose.

Oh, and keep in mind, from the times I met Lynx he's been a dick to me in the past. The difference? I don't care for his opinion.

Free the lynx, Eric... free the lyyyynnnxxxxx.

[Virtualy Dark]

Amen