I am posting this here as well as in the actual thread to ensure that everyone sees it. I'm sorry for breaking my ban but thought I should make this apology sooner rather than later.
I do have an apology to make. Hindsight is a valuable thing and I have been thinking about my actions and posts a lot.
Where as I do not feel I can apologise for having a different opinion to Robbo since we are different people and have different views and in a different context my points could have been valid, I do feel I owe a huge apology to Sergei and the Russian Legion for my part in this incident.
My inital post on the subject was meant as a generic question about the finely tuned guns we see so often now and which do give me cause for concern for many reasons. I do believe in the rules of this game and feel it important to implement them as well as possible. With hindsight I realise I should have started a seperate independent thread and spoken about my concerns hypothetically not as if they were solely about the Russian Legion. I instead made the dreadful mistake of putting my post in a thread where the issue of what happened to the Russian legion in Portugal was being discussed.
Robbo jumped on my post and his insulting, heavy handed manner and defamation made me feel the only way to justify my position and question was to give valid suppositions of what could have happened in the Russian Legion's case. That was a massive error on my behalf and I apologise to Sergei and the Russian Legion for it.
Instead of speaking hypothetically I used supposition to validate what could have possibly happened. This was the wrong thing to do as I had no valid evidence, it was all hypothetical and as such I should not have done it. My points were all hypothetical and should not have been related to the RL since we have no solid evidence of what happened. With hindsight I believe I was provoked by Robbo's nature of posting and I should have known better, the more he insulted me and was unable to see that my points in relation to the RL could have been valid under certain circumstances, the more I felt I needed to prove that although my points may not have been what happened that they were still valid as what could have happened.
I can be just as hot headed and stubborn as Pete, although always more courteous.
I was absolutely wrong to use the Russian Legion as an example to try and prove the validity of my concerns over people pushing the rules and knowingly breaking them.
In fact as I look back, my posts were in complete contradiction to why I normally post on the net. Instead of trying to help and promote paintball, which is what I normally do (at great cost to myself), I was attacking a team through inferred commments, whom I have a huge amount of respect and admiration for. Again I apologise for that. I made a big mistakes in using the RL as an example for my concerns. My concerns on these things are as a general point for the whole of this sport and any specific inferred comments about the RL have no basis in fact and should not have been made.
manike
I do have an apology to make. Hindsight is a valuable thing and I have been thinking about my actions and posts a lot.
Where as I do not feel I can apologise for having a different opinion to Robbo since we are different people and have different views and in a different context my points could have been valid, I do feel I owe a huge apology to Sergei and the Russian Legion for my part in this incident.
My inital post on the subject was meant as a generic question about the finely tuned guns we see so often now and which do give me cause for concern for many reasons. I do believe in the rules of this game and feel it important to implement them as well as possible. With hindsight I realise I should have started a seperate independent thread and spoken about my concerns hypothetically not as if they were solely about the Russian Legion. I instead made the dreadful mistake of putting my post in a thread where the issue of what happened to the Russian legion in Portugal was being discussed.
Robbo jumped on my post and his insulting, heavy handed manner and defamation made me feel the only way to justify my position and question was to give valid suppositions of what could have happened in the Russian Legion's case. That was a massive error on my behalf and I apologise to Sergei and the Russian Legion for it.
Instead of speaking hypothetically I used supposition to validate what could have possibly happened. This was the wrong thing to do as I had no valid evidence, it was all hypothetical and as such I should not have done it. My points were all hypothetical and should not have been related to the RL since we have no solid evidence of what happened. With hindsight I believe I was provoked by Robbo's nature of posting and I should have known better, the more he insulted me and was unable to see that my points in relation to the RL could have been valid under certain circumstances, the more I felt I needed to prove that although my points may not have been what happened that they were still valid as what could have happened.
I can be just as hot headed and stubborn as Pete, although always more courteous.
I was absolutely wrong to use the Russian Legion as an example to try and prove the validity of my concerns over people pushing the rules and knowingly breaking them.
In fact as I look back, my posts were in complete contradiction to why I normally post on the net. Instead of trying to help and promote paintball, which is what I normally do (at great cost to myself), I was attacking a team through inferred commments, whom I have a huge amount of respect and admiration for. Again I apologise for that. I made a big mistakes in using the RL as an example for my concerns. My concerns on these things are as a general point for the whole of this sport and any specific inferred comments about the RL have no basis in fact and should not have been made.
manike
