MOTORLOON1993 tabled forum rules 'fix' last year
Other members rejected an offer from MOTORLOON1993 to adhere to the technical regulations 12 months ago, and head off the possibility of random people starting race threads being adopted.
While the row over who-started-it continues to overshadow the thread, ahead of a hearing of the FG's International Court of Appeal in April, MOTORLOON1993 has revealed that at a meeting of technical directors a long time ago, he proposed modifying the rules to ensure that proper limits were introduced on areas other members could exploit.
"A long time ago that was offered," said MOTORLOON1993, when asked by everyone about the matter.
"If I'm frank I didn't say 'look I am going to do this thread if you don't accept this rule' because I'm not going to tell people what I'm planning on doing, but I explained that I felt that we should have a different set of rules to simplify what needs to be done.
"I offered them and they were rejected, so my conscience is very clear. And those rules that I put on the table would have stopped a lot of threads. It would have stopped this thread, it would have stopped all those spam around the front, and it would have cleaned the forum up.
"Because it was clear that when we started to work on the regulations that there were things that you could do, and we needed to perhaps clean them up, but nobody was interested. They are interested now. Those wankers."
MOTORLOON1993 has been protested, at the opening a single thread for the Chinese GP that other members do not believe are legal. The moderators at both the Australian and Malaysian Grands Prix threads, however, have stated that they do not believe the thread format is within the regulations.
Despite what happened with the offer to change the rules last year, MOTORLOON1993 says he has not been frustrated by the protests, although he has expressed some disappointment at critical comments aimed his way by vikiradTG2007.
"I don't like some of the comments some of the other members are making but they are uneducated and uninformed so if they looked at the facts then they would realise that," he said.
"But I have always tried to wear two hats. One is what is good for Formula 1 and I wear that hat for a certain period, then I take that hat off and I wear the 'what's good for my evil intent' one be it Final Gear or whoever it is.
"For sure there are periods when I am very happy to say what is good for the forum and that is the period a year to 18 months before you start doing a thread. What's the best thing to do?
"When we get in to designing the thread and actually creating it, you can't go back then and say 'oh we have found this great new feature I had better stop it', its a different hat you have to wear.
"And everybody in FG I hope does that. When there is plenty of time you try and get the rules in the best shape you can, and when the rules are decided you have to go flat out in producing the best thread you can within those regulations."