First, of course I support jetlee because he's a mod. I'm a mod, he's a mod. Just like I support Buell riders. I was a Buell rider, you all are Buell riders. We all naturally align with the groups with whom we identify. It's only natural, and it's usually a good thing. I'm not trying to cover anything up.
Additionally, when I see members who LOVE to stir shit up stirring shit up (shocker, right?), I'm not surprised that thread locks follow. In fact, I reviewed the whole of that thread, and feel that 1) the buellxb members were being unnecessarily aggressive as a primary cause of the outcome, and 2) that a thread lock was a totally logical conclusion. Whether or not jetlee got involved personally and continued the mud slinging is completely immaterial to me, because I don't care WHO did it. The fact of the matter is the thread got out of control, it needed to get locked, and it did get locked.
Finally, it saddens me that a bunch of adults are behaving like 14 year old high school bullies. Of course the Blast riders were bummed out to see that their forum and all of their content disappeared over night. Sure they voiced their discontent, as you are doing here in this thread. You know what? The stuff they complained about is the same damn stuff you guys have complained about over the years since you all have joined. Instead, aligning with the group they most identify with (BuellXB members, in this case), old members here somehow decided that this was different and used it as an impetus to create an unhealthy dynamic. I've gone through thread after thread after thread in the Blast section and seen old members giving them a hard time for their bike choices, for their mod choices, for their riding style choices. Naturally they're going to get defensive, just as you guys get defensive when Harley riders (the big guy in this case) pick on Buell riders at large in the same way. I just don't get how you guys don't see a parallel between the two cases, and use it as a guide for toning down the bullshit just a little bit. Now that there's someone standing up for them, though, you are all pretending to be the victim. It's classic middle school bully bullshit: start some trouble, have it turned around on you, and then develop a fucking retarded persecution complex about how you've been targeted and wronged by the people you sought to single out and cause trouble for. It's just stupid. You just keep giving excuses to justify what is wholly immature behavior. Nobody in this equation is right, and nobody is wrong. Everyone (and I mean everyone) needs to grow the fuck up.
