GH Online wrote: Private forum - a case for legal action?
No - and I will tell you why.
* The implication that, because I run a Grange Hill site, I am a particular sort of person. There has been much references to "underage members of the Grange Hill cast he fancies" etc.
Suggestions of that kind were swiftly removed by both Hymagumba and myself. The individual responsible (username "Jamez") was banned for an extended period of time and it was made abundantly clear that no such accusations would be tolerated on Metropol247.co.uk.
* People looking up my address on sites like 192.com and speculating about my living arrangements.
I have never seen your address published here at any time. I have no knowledge of your address beyond the word "Bideford", which you published on TV Forum when you mentioned a programme had been filmed there and, further, that not enough other programmes were set
the likes of there.
* Speculation about my mental state etc.
Members, including myself, can only comment based upon opinions and thoughts you have published. If they or I have formed an inaccurate opinion, it may be down to the material judged.
The use of "etc." is unhelpful when you wish to discuss things you object to. It is nebulous and misleading.
* Unauthorised republishing of an old photo of myself, and derogatory comments about my physical appearance ie. I have Down's Syndrome.
Your picture was placed in the public domain (for many years) by yourself. Despite that fact it has been removed several times from metropol247.co.uk at your request, as a goodwill gesture.
Unfortunately, that goodwill has been eradicated by your extremely disturbing comments regarding the use of illegal drugs, with an inference that I condone such illegality, or that I am otherwise unmindful of the deleterious effects.
* One member who was once banned on this general discussion forum for going to far in his accusations against me has since not only been allowed back, he's now a moderator.
The only active moderators on this site are Hymagumba and myself, neither of whom are party to what you are suggesting. The previous owner and operator of this site appointed the user "Jamez" to be a moderator - and he was subsequently banned for the comments to which you refer.
* Who I believe to be the same member of this forum also got hold of my landline number, made a prank call and my telephone voice has since become a subject of discussion (and amusement) on this board.
I have no knowledge of this event. I personally have never heard your voice, either live, or in recorded format. If you can demonstrate that it exists on Metropol247.co.uk, please direct me to it and it will be removed immediately.
As you say yourself, "While I am the first to admit I often land myself in it with some of the controversial viewpoints I express on DS..." then it may be that you may have left yourself open to abuse by one of the many thousand members of
that site. Statistically that is the more likely source of "prank callers", but I would not like to comment because, as I stated, I have no knowledge of it.
Until this week this particular forum was closed to non-members and up to then I was blissfully ignorant of whatever was being said about me there. However, the forum was made open-access on Tuesday and I find that in January, the following was written about me:
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Posted by Administrator of forum under discussion, discussing my comments made about Mark Speight here at the time of his arrest:
Absolutely disgusting. So perhaps (GH Online) should be banned from participating on forums with those under the age of consent, given some of the unproven accusations bandied around about him?
Of course that would be shocking and unthinkable - and yet he is demanding the end of a man's career without a shred of evidence.
As I stated, and will reiterate; I believe it is, and would be, wrong for anyone to act on rumour and gossip, either in the case of Mr Speight, or yourself, Mr Luxton. You may quote me 10 times if you wish and it won't make my point any less true, or any less fair.
There is absolutely no point in me contacting the senior admin of this forum, as he is completely intransigent and it's fair to say there is no love lost between us! I am therefore wondering if there is any point in me contacting this forum's ISP to see if the discussion of myself is in someway in breach of terms of service or, possibly, look into legal action?
As my hosting company will tell you - your first course of action should be to contact the site directly - as you have done in the past. I have logged and documented each of your posts to this site, and the immediate action taken - which has been to your satisfaction on each of those occasions, bar your penultimate request before your account was deactivated (your final request).
I'm sure you can't have underestimated my intelligence regarding the prudent archiving of
all of our correspondence over the years, (including originating IP addresses), so I can only assume that our chats have slipped your mind.
Amazingly, despite all this I was a member of this forum for a while (my hand forced to answer particular allegations) but admin refused my request in January to delete my account. By not doing so, are they in breach of the Data Protection Act?
As I replied to you at that time, our Terms and Conditions (which you subscribed to of your own volition) allow for posted material by you or anyone else to remain on this site
in perpetuity - at
my discretion. According to my correspondence logs you indicated that you wished me to delete each of your posts from every thread you had contributed to. I explained, in a reply later that day, that I thought that would render many of the long running discussion threads unintelligible to the rest of the membership, and I politely declined your request.
I have very competent legal counsel upon which to call, Simon Luxton - and I am fully confident with every word I have uttered on the matters brought to light.
You, however, should be very careful about further inferring malicious or otherwise irresponsible acts on my part.
Or I will sue you, Simon Luxton.
Sue you.
, so no-one is listening....