http://davidylan..com/2007/04/sorry-davidylan-you-are-banned-from.html

another good member gone again?

not gone yet. But sadly contemplating the inevitable. . . virtually all those who make this site tick have either been banned or lost interest no thanks to the admins attitude. All we are left with are little kids, intellectually challenged dimwitts and crooks.

wonder wonder!

madam what are u wondering about? u're such a tease!

davidylan:

not gone yet. But sadly contemplating the inevitable. . . virtually all those who make this site tick have either been banned or lost interest no thanks to the admins attitude. All we are left with are little kids, intellectually challenged dimwitts and crooks.

see your highlighted words? the same thoughts have been going through ma mind!

me? a tease? nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

oh ok. At least i'm not the only one who comes here these days and wonders where the old nairaland disappeared to. You search for topics of interest and all you get are sexual topics, silly questions like "looking for a white LovePeddler" or children arguing over how they look. Any thread that appears to make a little sense is ruined by children choosing to use the same as grounds to show off their bad parental training or ends up in the almighty admins recycle bin (is anything actually recycled there?).

and as for u being a tease? YES YES YES! Dont ask me why i think so.

i totally agree with you! what happened to the likes of nutter,chxta, Scorpio et all , all we see this days are peeps with multiple ids acting crazy,419er trying to geep you . i don tire jor


you know amma ask you why? how? you came to that conclusion that ika6 is a tease!

Na only those people you remember? What of Ijebuman, Havila, 4Play, Gwaine, Nilla, Trae_z, Eurphoria? Where are the days when the politics section was so hot that was where i spent virtually all my day at the detriment of my first semester exams?
May God help Nairaland.

errm errr lets just leave it at that eh. . . ika6 is the biggest tease on NL. That's the best clue i will give you. You should be able to figure out the rest, c'mon you're a girl!  

Sisi_dutty:

There are reasons why people have multiple ids that because the Almighty crack head seun banned them.

Get ready for a lengthy ban when obantalapipi finds out this thread tomorrow. I'm already used to it and i've made necessary arrangements for life outside of NL.

Sisi_dutty:

There are reasons why people have multiple ids that because the Almighty crack head seun banned them.

i think i know who this fine sisi is now



@ david i don tire for this matter oh! gone where the days , 24/7 all i wanted to do was be on Nairaland

true that! may God help Nairaland oh!



prolly ma brain is fried tonight! please explain !

ive gotten banned a couple of times and i think they were all unfairly. i believe a forum should allow you speak your mind without fear of banning.and in thrashing out issues people tend to lock horns and get very heated(nothing wrong in that), its part of the fun. it shouldnt incur you a ban.  besides we cant all agree with seuns point of view all the time.  ( that would be absurd). the thing is when the people who make it interesting are all sent away  it'll become another hangout for fourteen year olds (God they kill me their naive posts!).

Sisi_dutty:

LMAO he already banned me and moreover this isn't my real id , so SEUN can kiss my ass.

THE GRACE OF NAIRALAND HAS FALLEN, SHAME ON THAT RETARDED UNEDUCATED ASSHOLE CALLED SEUN, STUPID DROP ASS COLLEGE STUDENT.

Well i have life outside Nairaland, so he can ban me again . Not scared nor is he my GOD

you dont have to be verbally abusive. we get your point.

Sisi_dutty:

Oh please save that for someone else.

When people get ban for useless reason.
Example you are banned for house cleaning can you believe that and you want me to be nice, hell no.

This are reason i can't stand Nairaland you people are scare of speaking your mind just because your don't want to get ban by ALMIGHTY SEUN, too bad i wasn't brought up that way.

my dear calm down. Your attitude is one of the reasons Nairaland has become a turn off. When i signed up in 2005, it was rare to find people go personal. Why? Because majority of the members then were older and more mature individuals. Intellectually stimulating topics that had you scrambling for your dictionary and google were common place. Now all we have are toddlers who derive pleasure in ruining threads and learning to curse their mothers in the name of rap!
With the "i am the owner of the land" attitude of the admin, majority dropped out. I have countless who sent emails and messages to say why they were no longer going to be a part of Nairaland and IT WAS THE SAME ISSUE TIME AND TIME AGAIN! THE ADMIN!

When u are banned "for not being afraid of being banned" then it is cause for alarm!

ikamefa:

prolly ma brain is fried tonight! please explain !

lai lai! Explain for wetin?  Are you a new yorker too?

davidylan:


lai lai! Explain for wetin? Are you a new yorker too?

is the base of the kettle black? ok oh i give up if you don't explain !

@ Sisi_dutty
its possible to get your point across without all the name calling. i choose not to talk like that. its understandable that you are mad but no need to hit below the belt. (not that seun would consider dropping out of school hitting below the belt!  ) look what he started and how far he's come!

@davidylan
 i feel you jare. it seems the older guys just leave after a couple of bannings since they actually have a life and other things to do. it alarms me to find out that 14 year olds and 15 year olds have access. they froth at the mouth and cuss and swear. its to bad taste. kills the fun for me.

@ spoilt
its incredibly sad. Many of the old time naija bloggers actually used to be members of nairaland in the early days. All of them have disappeared today. The surprising thing is you rarely see the kids get banned! The problem is you cant reverse the trend, most people once banned dont return.
Take a good look at the miss nairaland thread for example, within a few hrs it had degenerated into a free for all fight!

@ ika6, ok i take that as a yes.
Dont worry, one day you will know why i say so. Good to create some suspense once in a while eh.

davidylan:

@ spoilt
its incredibly sad. Many of the old time naija bloggers actually used to be members of nairaland in the early days. All of them have disappeared today. The surprising thing is you rarely see the kids get banned! The problem is you can't reverse the trend, most people once banned don't return.
Take a good look at the miss nairaland thread for example, within a few hrs it had degenerated into a free for all fight!

@ ika6, ok i take that as a yes.
Dont worry, one day you will know why i say so. Good to create some suspense once in a while eh.

i dont like that word ! , i dont like what it means !

ikamefa:

i don't like that word ! , i don't like what it means !

It may be a good thing, you just never know do ya?
Keep your fingers crossed.

davidylan:

It may be a good thing, you just never know do ya?
Keep your fingers crossed.

all the six fingers ?

if u've got more you can keep them crossed too.

Gone are those days when challenging topics were the norm on the board. Today, rap, sex, and other less challenging topics fill the board. Honestly, its sad to see the caliber of people on this board who, presumably are Nigerians, are so inclined to embrace rap and rap about it on the board. Seun, have you noticed the difference too?

Seun,
It is quite sad that you could ban a guy like David from Nairaland he gives quite incisive contributions on the thread that everybody goes to research now the only thing that thrive in Nairaland is the romance section

How I wish you could reinstate those guys that you sent out. probably their views dont match yours. Be more tolerant man!! If you are the president of Naija only God knows How many Nigerians would be in exile and prison first person Gani Fawehinmi

Dayokanu, I don't think he was banned permanently.

davidylan:


not gone yet. But sadly contemplating the inevitable. . .

hahahahah so it's not only me i have been banned, unbanned, rebanned and debanned all within 48hrs for speaking out my mind. I even came back to repeat everything I said seriously attacking that dude called seun and daring him to continue. he didn't waste a second he rebanned me again. i remember when i used to live in politics section. well at a stage i decided to give him my mind and banned myself b4 he notices

anyhow sha, it was a blessing in disguise b/c i was getting addicted ti nairaland i had more time for books and making money and most importantly for sleep

now i go on self exile bye bye folks. if in the event you see me in nairaland, it will be in sports section or culture

Davidylan and all other seniors,

It's indeed really sad that almost al the old, interesting members either have left or have been banned by our dear admin. Left are the intellectually challenged and immature (with a few exceptions of course). What bugs me most though is that, through the high rotation of members, there's almost no sense of community left. In the beginning we almost all 'socialised' here on the board, even outside of our pet subjects.
Because of that, many conversations have become free for all where one (and I have become guilty of that too) doesn't even bother to construct a proper argument. I just loved to disagree with many of the old members, it was civil and we respected each others differences. Nowadays too many people have an axe to grind and/or are too dull witted to even talk to.

This is sad and will do more harm than good to Nairaland.

I have been banned 2 times (under 15mins on each occassion) for responding to insults in kind and I doubt if those that started the insults were even banned themselves.

On each occassion I had hoped for the ban to be permanent but no.

It all depends on why people visit this forum as I never visit sections other than politics, webmasters, programming, Technology market.

I have made it clear to Seun using email that he needs to change his style and must be ready to accomodate views and opinions that he may neither understand nor like.

I agree completely that this forum is losing its best posters and the reasons are not farfetched.

NB: But this thread should not be on the politics section as it has nothing to do with politics abi na for maximum exposure?

Whatever Happened To The Freedom Of Post.

NairaLand is Just A Macrocosm of The Larger Society We've All Learnt To Live With.

We Wont Vacate The World Because There Are Morons?

I Mean Morons Make The World Go Round. I Cannot Imagine A World Without Morons, etc. So Also This Forum. I Mean, By What Datum Would We Measure Intellectual Capacity Without A Base Reference (MORONS)?

Lets Give Morons A Chance. They Are Here To Commune and May Be Learn A Thing Or Two From The "Intellectuals''.

So, Why Be Selfish. I Want To Use This Avenue to Appeal To All "Intellectuals" :: Please Come Back Home.

The Intellectually Challenged Need U. Please

Signed::CODIC [Commitee De Intellectually Challenged]

@ Nferyn
You are as usual straight on point. The sense of community that used to exist on certain sections is long gone. On politics and religion threads in the old days you could almost count on a certain set of people to always be there to agree and disagree with, today just about anybody pops up and says whatever they like. The result; boring threads left hanging.

It will be amazing to see if Nairaland can survive beyond this year besides those who swarm the boards either looking for employment opportunities or people to spam.

You guys're definitely saying the obvious.There has been a drastic drop in the quality of communal discourse that once characterised Nairaland. Imagine the Religion forum without the likes of Havila;the Politics forum without the likes of Odeku;etc, now I'm about to lose my master of witty humor in person of davidylan. . . .Someone tell me this is not happening.

I must be dreaming!

Davidylan please tell me you are not going anywhere!

This one na serious matter o!

The strange thing is that I was just discussing this issue with Akolawole recently. I asked him why he is no longer active on this forum and he said the same thing.

Now it is Davidylan! This is getting scary o! Where has everybody gone?

Would u blame him or anyone else at that?
Your profile says u're just 'bout 4mths old on this forum ^{(no disrespect intended trust me)} so u're not likely to fully appreciate the gross disparity between what was n'what presently obtains in the forum.I am barely a year old myself and find the trend pretty disturbing.I can only imagine how those who've been around much longer wld feel.
Really miss the intellectually stimulating n'challenging topics and contributions. . .
Now I make do with a few laughs here n'there.

O boy. I have begged and begged and pleaded and pleaded with Akolawole to come back to the forum, but he always refuses.

He says that the forum has been turned into something else. He says he misses the days of Jackal and co.

I wonder what the problem really is.

He even created a thread in offtopic in which he was craving for the old days.

Davidylan abeg don't go o! I promise to be a good girl henceforth!