This is for the record.
First I'll show the thread Gino started on RebelScum (he's banned here so couldn't advertise here):
Then Jedimike1 asked a question and I replied:
And without having posted anything on the RPF, I see this:
This gives a pretty good indication of the kind of integrity shown by Art Andrews, the owner of the RPF and a good friend of Gino's. I would like to see him provide evidence of any interference on my part in any way to anyone on that forum. Otherwise let it be known to him that it is libel to state that as a reason when it is patently unfounded. I keep a record of every post I've made for several years past, and stand by that record. And everything that Art has said to me in private was a whitewash because all he is interested in doing is protect his buddies, even if they lie and commit fraud about what they are selling.
But the ban is what it is. And I think that if my record has been anything, I stand by every post I've made on that forum or any other, and I do my best to convey what I think is fair and true to the best of my knowledge. I do not regret my time there, but if I am to be banned it should be for something that is actually true, and then I would admit my wrongdoing and move on.
I leave it up to your own judgement. In my own mind years back I banned the RPF from my interest because it was not true to the pursuit of finding out whether castings are authentic. Instead it pursues popularity, profit, and pandering to licencees. And it supports those whose own integrity has proven again and again to be exemplary of nothing other than the lowest common denominator.
Perhaps there should be something new on the horizon that promises integrity and going back to the original values of what the RPF had so many years ago.