Some of you at the MyBroadband forums run and owned by Rudolph Muller may have fallen for his vague and highly ambiguous reasons as to why he chose to ban me. The reality of the situation is while Rudolph and his bias mods continued to allow sexist and alienating remarks to be made by the majority of ‘popular’ forum members at the expense of another valuable forumite I stepped in to protest the actions taking place.

My ‘disruption’ was a well planned jest (as many saw it) against the newer members of mybroadband forum who seemed to have little idea of where the forum originated and it’s founding goals. Some time after I had ended my ‘disruption’ and things had settled on the forum I wrote a post. This post is what ultimately got Halicon banned from Rudolph Muller’s forum, mybroadband.

Originally Posted by halicon
an open letter to administrators of Myadsl

Hello all,

I am sure you all noted my crazy and unbecoming behavior considering i have not behaved this way before on this forum, however this forum has fast become a playground for clowns.

Odd how when i myself become a clown i get threatened with a ban. (I have 0 infractions over 5 years of being here)

Weird how some members are banned twice in 3 months for far worse actions and yet they live on.

So considering I may get banned because I am protesting what I can only call favoritism to newer members who seemingly can do, say and behave however they please and then gloat in it is perhaps the biggest warning sign that MyAdsl, a once awesome forum, has got a cancer.

It would be ashame to see this post deleted, but perhaps reinforce my protest and it would be a greater shame to be banned because i am airing my view.

You are welcome to lock this thread as I do not think a discussion needs to occur around my opinion and further to this it upsets me that it is the old members like myself who created this forum into what it is today.

I understand advertising revenues are made and help maintain and run this site, but when you start disrespecting the very people who made this possible, who ARE the very foundation of MyAdsl in favour for the clowns who bring you your advertising revenue, then i question what MYBB has become.

Certainly not a place of protest against unfair practice (uncanny isn’t it), but rather a place where people are allowed to be clowns which is cool BUT it is no wonder this forum lacks company representatives – why should it be taking seriously anymore – something I am sure Telkom took note of when their first add rolled onto MyADSL… a public vote made by clowns who have explicitly stated – They do not care about the history of MYBB.

I care about the history and future of MyBB and i may get banned for expressing it but I would rather be banned for something like this.

[mods please lock thread]

I honestly do not care what members of the forum think. I helped RPM in a very small way build what he has today, the least he can do is acknowledge he has sold out and stop bullshitting his membership, the media and the telecoms industry.

Rudolph if you ever read this, know that you sold your members to the telecoms industry and Mybroadband is no longer an accurate and transparent reflection of the broadband community of South Africa. And I will continue to spread the word where it matters most.