Where exactly would these members go then?

The people who are complaining seem to spend an awful lot of time here, therefore if there was a better forum out there that was free to use etc why haven't people already left and gone there?

Simple answer is, there isn't. That's because this site is model specific and that's why we're all here.
Swiftyboi - You've been here 2.5 years, I've been here nearly 9 years and I can tell you in that time as well as enjoying this great community for what it is and meeting and befriending loads of great people including Ash himself that this is a great forum to be part of and in that time I've not found a better one out there which caters anywhere near as well for the model of vehicle we all own.

Tom (site owner) was basically a massive prick who said if you don't like it, leave.

Fair play what a load of nonsense. All the times Owain used to be a nob (had to get it in ) and he never got banned yet the guy speaks his mind in a way that wasn't offensive or anything and myself and most others happen to 100% agree with him and you put him on the naughty step. It seems someone is on a power trip, didn't like what he was saying and as Eliot said seems to have a personal issue with Owain which isn't a justified reason to ban him.

That forum admin user is just another load of rubbish. It's clearly an account all admin's can use and I'm sure I recall Kev explaining this at the time of it's introduction but it seems to only be used whenever an admin doesn't want to have to justify their comments or actions. It's a bit obvious on occasions like Stan warning Welshy with it before he got banned. Either that or Stan must of emailed/text said user and said "go on the owners club and sort Welshpug out for me will you, he's getting too clever and way too helpfull for my liking". I'll go with Stan logging in as forum admin and banning him as he didn't have the minerals to do it without hiding behind this 'other user'.

As has been said by many it's just like playground rules at the end of the day and it's just sad Imo, no other word for it. This forum used to be really good, now you come on here and you have the owner calling admin's liars, members pointing out the owner is lying, members pointing out that 'non profit making forum' actually makes a fair wedge and arguing about that and crazy people correcting everything anyone says and arguing about part numbers, if you step back and look at it all it's quite strange for what is simply a car forum. Seeing as feedback should never be purely negative I'll give the forum one good thing though, it's certainly unique even if it is in a bad way.

To be honest all is fixed now so may aswell close this thread before people get banned

clicky

Ha I didnt know that was Owains site.