He's gone, rejoice and move on. It seems you haven't done that, in fact all you seem to have done is wind yourself up.
Someone referred to Nick (i presume) as a w*****. I know him personally, you couldn't get him more wrong. Probably one of the nicest people you'd wish to meet and would do anything for you if you're in his friends circle. I am almost polar opposites to him but respect what he has to say along with what he politically believes. Whatever beliefs, politically, right wing/left wing and spiritually you have-you could air them on here, not it seems any more. Irony and banter seem to have taken a back seat and offence seems to be the order of the day.
Whatever Nick was banned for, some of you have turned into snowflakes and need to take a bit of a look at yourselves. Imagine a Bellyman thread now? Some of you would be consulting lawyers.

I refuse to believe there are that many people out there that can't spell. Too f**king lazy, that's what I think.

Just actually had to join, as I had passed my limit of views. Can anyone expand on what was said in these tweets, and by whom?

Ah, good memories and , as I recall, a lot of tea spat out over my keyboard.

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky."

Apologies as I must have missed that. This isn't the BBS and even ex members shouldn't be insulted like that on here

This will be my 16th year on HOL.

It's certainly changed in that time, as you would expect.

Some excellent posters have gone and some excellent newcomers have taken their place.

Where I think it significantly differs from the ' old days ' is that the site seems to have lost it's sense of humour. Maybe that's a reflection of where the football club itself is these days....when I joined Palace were floundering, now we are in our 5th consecutive season in the PL - something we could only have dreamed about in 2002 !

Now it seems the order of the day is trying to score cheap points off of one another, differences of opinion quickly escalating into traded personal insults and a general lack of respect towards fellow members.

I enjoy HOL still and have always restricted myself to Palace Talk - I'm only interested in the football element of this site. I think where it starts to go wrong is in General Talk and all the political nonsense that accompanys it. So I don't go on it.

HOL to me it's a football website where I can exchange views on the subject that brings us together in the first place - CPFC. Perhaps restricting HOL to only football related topics would improve matters ?

I find it hard to understand that people can behave that badly on a website that there even has to be a card system in place !

Old, Ungifted and White

It's pathetic mate. This is a message board that had all of a sudden become a playground battle. This is grown men acting like kids over something as unimportant as a forum.