Birchall
Dick Chown Award 2016
Democracies have rules too. It doesn't make them dictatorships.I agree James.
I think unfortunately this fun forum with the opportunity to help people out, recommend good workmanship and share enthusiasm for our little cars has changed into pettiness.
The new rules allows you to announce if you had work done by an individual but not a company/business ?
It does come down to freedom of speech unfortunately. As long as no harm is done, what's the harm in announcing who you trust your baby with? Business or individual?
Feels like dictatorship to me... But hey ho. I'm here mostly for the socials to share my enthusiasm with fellow A2 lovers.
As people saw I "liked" the change that James did to his signature. It still said "Serviced by A2cars limited" and that is fine. So how are we preventing people from saying where they get their parts or servicing done. It is just that full on advertising other people's businesses can cause problems. All businesses can have problems, it happens all of the time and if we recommend a business and a member has a problem (it happens) that can lead to all kinds of issues.
People are also missing an important difference here. The business being advertised by James is actually one that is banned on here. The reasons for the ban are very involved and we don't wish to broadcast those reasons. It would not be helpful to anyone if we did. So please can we ask for some trust in what we are doing. It is not petty or restricting free speech, as I say James can say who does the work on his car (his signature does that now) but over endorsing a banned business and asking others to do the same, is not on. It goes against our ban.
Steve B