Sorry for not replying earlier, but just spent over 6 hours in A&E with Laura, who's health is pretty shit at the moment.
Little point in going over old ground, but as others have, I gave Daz a short ban for breaking the rule about abusing other members which I felt abused his moderator position, which he took offence over. If he had problems with her prior behavior, he had ample opportunity to do something about it. For the record, she never saw mod chat, she was obviously aware there was a discussion in it (she asked what I was typing, and I said replying to n, about xyz), but never saw it. That was a lie, and I do wonder how you came to that conclusion.
As for the meets, given she is banned, and received a lot of hostile comments on here, why would she want to attend a meet, which is a great shame as we as a family have attended every big meet since the start of OOF.
We used to sit on OOF together of an evening, and have a laugh, as she is no longer welcome, we dont, and consequently I don't do that on my own, we do other things instead.
I feel some infantile behavior in the name of humour has pissed off a lot of people to not posting, and also not posting for fear of the replies from some. A view I have found is shared by some members I have talked to privately.
Yes some of the 'spirit of oof' died when people started charging for work, but I also feel this was a necessary change due to both economic circumstances and to avoid piss taking.
This has had the knock on effect of not teaching 'newbies' as much as happened in days of old.
When I joined the forum, I couldn't even do an oil change, the forum, and some members in particular were really helpful in teaching me, so I can now do most tasks. This is very rarely seen now (webby being an exception) as the advice is always 'contact one of these to do it for you....'
That said, the advice is all still there in the forum of the excellent maintenance guides, for which I thank all the contributors.