2. Every club has its rules and one of the major rule of the other forum is that members must not question the validity of TRNC. If you don't like it you do not join it, as simple as that
I doubt anyone questions the 'validity of the UK' but they are free to CRITICISE it, criticise the government, legal system, welfare system. Criticise rogue builders (hell, they devote whole TV series to them!)
You do not have to 'question the validity of the TRNC' to get booted off CY44. You merely have to mildly question any ex pat Brit who bought property there as to whether they enquired about the validity of their title, or complain that some dodgy builder or other took your money and ran to get your thread locked and yourself cast out forever.
bear in mind that C44 is a commercial site and no.1 priority is to attract more business.
Yes - and how can you take seriously a forum where nothing can ever be said that just might remotely make one of those paying advertisers think twice about advertising on there?
It's obvious that the 'once you join you can never leave' rule is in place purely to impress potential paying advertisers with the size of the member list. I doubt they are given a breakdown of just how many actually USE the site (or are allowed to). I think it's a bit bloody much to use the name and membership of someone who is banned from using the site to bolster the image of the site.
It is touted as primarily a site offering advice and information about the TRNC yet many of the 'general info' pages are woefully out of date, and some even inaccurate.
Quite recently someone pointed out that the latest news on the Orams on CY44 stated that the case was waiting to be heard on appeal in 2006 lol!
I suppose any update on that gem would have counted as a mild criticism of something or other being rotten in the state of TRNC and could therefore have got the site owner (who I guess must have posted the info) banned for life?