Dear Autopia.org members. In case you haven’t noticed, over the last few weeks we’ve had dozens of old members re-join our community. To put it to you as honestly as possible, many of these people were banned from our forum at one time or another for undisclosed reasons. Our administration has been hard at work for several months working behind the scenes reviewing the long list of banned members and have come to the conclusion of lifting many of their bans. We’ve not only read and cross referenced through thousands of their posts, but also the journals of our private moderator forum in search of an acceptable shred of evidence to assist with our new found decision. After this review, we feel there is no plausible reason to warrant the continuance of their banning from the forum under our new belief system. With our new stance we’ve chosen to take a totally open door policy to discussion and we truly feel this makes our forum very dynamic compared to all others. Moving forward, we endorse and encourage people to discuss all types and brands of products and processes as long as it remains within our rule system.



In case you weren’t aware, our forum changed ownership approximately 2 years ago and the way it’s now managed and its focus is totally different than how it was previously. Many (especially these banned members) have been quite pleased to find that David Byron is no longer involved with our forum in any way, shape or form! We would like you to know that we are working hard to build new relationships as well as patching up prior ones. Another thing that many may or may not know is that the prior administration had a tendency of deleting/editing posts and banning members due to their affiliations within the detailing industry. We do not wish to place any blame on the Moderators that were in charge at the time of these people’s demise as the decision to ban these people were ultimately directed by and under the custody and care of the Administrator. We find many of these practices appalling and we are doing everything possible to rebuild people’s trust in us. We find it very unfortunate that several were banned from a forum that they obviously spent a great deal of time building up. And for that we at Autopia would like to say thanks. Moving forward, we would like to personally apologize for the prior administration’s actions and would hope that they at least consider our efforts at face value. At any rate this message may straighten out and update people’s perception of us. I look forward to everyone’s future participation!



We are happy to announce that these people have officially been reinstated back onto Autopia.org:



geekysteve

danponjican

Relaited

WilliamHBonney

mtodde

dternst

Airborne Ranger

mirrorfinishman

VIKING

BW

Burlyq

BillNorth

bretfraz

buda

stevet

JeffBruce

Ron Ketcham

SVR

TOGWT

NozeBleedSpeed

Nimble

Miracle

Shiny Lil Detlr

forrest

Mr. Chemist

Dennis H.

GoudyL

TW85 HHI

doged

ZoranC

User Name

VASuperShine

Shutter

Pontman43

Greg

agentf

theDodo

Dodo Factory

Flash Gordon



Even though several have been quite positive in response to our contact, we’re afraid that many have not (yet) for variously unknown reasons. If anyone has any remote communication with these people please feel free to pass this information onto them or provide their whereabouts to me. Anyone that has an interest in having their account reinstated are to contact me at: autopiamoderator@yahoo.com



Disclaimer & Reminder:

What we are asking of not just the members returning, but each and every one here is to follow and understand these forum rules: http://www.autopia.org/forum/faq.php?faq=new_faq_item