[Closed] New Forum...Coming March 15th....probably

monging

😐

*Sets reminder on phone.*

Is it 2006 already? 😯

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'Mongering' then?

'Mongering' then?

That's the one.

Good job I am not the leader of a major political party.

Oops...soz, didn't realise it was an errerrerror* on your part. I withdraw my 😐 and replace it with a 😀

*mrs deadly gets me to say "error" occasionally, such is my difficulty in saying it with an Oirish accent. 🙄

NEWWWWW FORUM!!!!!

*is off to spread the news*

BIGHITTERS VIP area I hear.

I don't like the new forum layout (thought I'd get it in early as I'm out on 15 March) 🙂

Interesting article on bikebiz too.

Mark was tweeting about this at Christmas

[url= http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/singletrack-outlines-future-publishing-and-subscriptions-strategy/012454 ]Bikebiz article[/url]

BIGHITTERS VIP area I hear.

😐

Auspicious day, the 15th of March:

Friends, bikers, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury the old forum, not to praise it...

*wonders what it would be like if they put the bike forum and chat forum together to form one big friendly place.*

*not listening*

*wonders if there will be a cake forum*

Officially: Not Exciting news 🙄

From the Bike Biz article:

... and perhaps of the most interest to retail, controlled access to the subscriber database - a potential avenue to new customers.

Hope that isn't used too heavily.

have they bred super hamsters?

Officially: Not Exciting news

Officially: GTFO if your not interested in one of the major news events of 2012...

...now take these and go amuse yourself:

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26" with boing forks with gears forum
26" with old non-boing forks with gears forum
26" with boing forks and singlespeed forum
26" with old non-boing forks and singlespeed forum
29" & unicycle & BMX forum
Darkside bike forum
How much is it worth forum
Is it worth going tubeless forum
Which shaver forum
Which car for ....forum
Will I die if....forum
Should we have guns forum

The list is endless

A new way of arguing via computers? new colours?

y'know I'm not feeling it Jamie. 😆

Edit O.M.G. *faints with excitment*

y'know I'm not feeling it Jamie.

Look again. How about now?

That was a bit of a misquote/interpretation of our press release. We won't be handing over any personal data to any third parties without the express permission of the subscribers/users concerned. Since that would be onerous and impractical you can read into that that we just won't be selling or making any personal subs data available to any third parties.

What we are promoting is the strengthening of the benefits link between dealers and subscribers through our members card system. Dealers will be able to 'contact' subscribers only as additions to our newsletter or other ways we communicate with subscribers.

So, to confirm most clearly.... We won't be passing your personal data onto ANY other companies unless you say we can. We've never done that. We won't do it. We don't like that sort of thing.

🙂

Would this be a good time for the mods to finally permanently ban the induviduals who have appeared under various names over the years who ruin the forum with 24/7 arguing/trolling?

😆

Edit O.M.G. *faints with excitment*

The Nutella, or the bearer?

Both??! 😯

Personally, I'd like to see an end to over-long, uncatchy forum names.

😆

You could be name-mod Deadly

Personally, I'd like to see an end to over-long, uncatchy forum names.

I propose 10 characters or less. Anything over, you're banned.

Good plan, though latitude should be used for use of alliteration and a sexy surname.

Jamie - Member
Personally, I'd like to see an end to over-long, uncatchy forum names.
I propose 10 characters or less. Anything over, you're banned.

There should be a daily limit on the number of posts by each user.

There should be a daily limit on the number of posts by each user.

Tumbleweed would blow through the forum after around, say...1030 hrs.

[url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ ]

don simon - Member
*wonders what it would be like if they put the bike forum and chat forum together to form one big friendly place.*

forum names should be limited to age and initials, such as 40DD

Or age and gender, like 32F

Or age and gender, like 32F

I'm worried.

*is worried*

Can I write you an android app for the forum please? And will you pay me?

*didn't think that through*

We won't be handing over any personal data to any third parties without the express permission of the subscribers/users concerned.

Presumably this permission will be opt-in rather than opt-out?

I don't like change.

The Nutella, or the bearer?

Both??!

I hate Nutella, and the young lady, though very fetching and in the possession of a lovely smile, commits the faux pas of wearing sunglasses tucked into her top. Very Tom Jones, and totally unpardonable.

So no to both.

She's not that cute, nice smile. 😆

30 a (on a good day)

forum names should be limited to age and initials

I'll be 40E in a few weeks. 😐

Is this where we put our requests in?

Can I request a 'McMoonter builds things and knocks things down' Forum? They've been the most interesting threads of the last few weeks.

druidh - Member

don simon - Member
*wonders what it would be like if they put the bike forum and chat forum together to form one big friendly place.*

Posted 18 minutes ago # Report-Post

'express permission' means you have to actively say 'yes' to a request by us. How much more 'opt in' can we be?

How about I make it this clear..

No no no no no no never never ever ever will we pass on personal data of our users or subscribers or anyone else who provides such data to us in exchange for our products or services without the person or persons concerned telling us that this is ok by either ticking a box that say's 'yes' to a written and explicit request for us to pass on said data or by writing to us and saying 'please prostitute my own personal data in order to earn some money'.

Our own newsletter can be opted in or out by any registered user from your account settings. There is no mechanism currently active on this site that even gives us the ability to allow you to opt in to us passing on your personal data. We don't like that sort of business and we've never engaged in trying to sell data so far in our ten year history and we have no plans.. none, zilch, nada... to start earning money from selling personal data.

All registered users agree to terms and conditions when registering for this site. Those t&cs already contain an assurance that we won't ever pass on personal data without permission.

It just feels wrong to me to sell personal data. That's why it just isn't part of our business plan.

Save this reply and by all means stuff it down my throat and say 'ner ner na ner ner' if we ever sell your personal data without your explicit, written permission.

And anyway, I seem to recall that it would be rather illegal to do so under the terms of the Data Protection Act. At least I'm living my life assuming it is and if it isn't it bloody well should be!

🙂

New Forum, same topics though yeah?

We deffo need an Art and Architecture area..

And a music area too..

And a Flounce area.

What we are promoting is the strengthening of the benefits link between dealers and subscribers through our members card system

Do members cards actually exist then? Never got mine since renewing subs last April. 🙁

'express permission' means you have to actively say 'yes' to a request by us. How much more 'opt in' can we be?

How about I make it this clear..

No no no no no no never never ever ever will we pass on personal data of our users or subscribers or anyone else who provides such data to us in exchange for our products or services without the person or persons concerned telling us that this is ok by either ticking a box that say's 'yes' to a written and explicit request for us to pass on said data.

Our own newsletter can be opted in or out by any registered user from your account settings. There is no mechanism currently active on this site that even gives us the ability to allow you to opt in to us passing on your personal data. We don't like that sort of business and we've never engaged in trying to sell data so far in our ten year history and we have no plans.. none, zilch, nada... to start earning money from selling personal data.

All registered users agree to terms and conditions when registering for this site. Those t&cs already contain and assurance that we won't ever pass on personal data.

It just feels wrong to me to sell personal data. That's why it just isn't part of our business plan.

Save this reply and by all means stuff it down my throat and say 'ner ner na ner ner' if we ever sell your personal data without your explicit, written permission.

And anyway, I seem to recall that it would be rather illegal to do so under the terms of the Data Protection Act. At least I'm living my life assuming it is and if it isn't it bloody well should be!

Emsz, you'll not have any concept of this, but being 46 myself, looking

30 a (on a good day)

I hate Nutella, and the young lady, though very fetching and in the possession of a lovely smile, commits the faux pas of wearing sunglasses tucked into her top. Very Tom Jones, and totally unpardonable.

So no to both.

Jeepers, some folk are reet fussy. Can I keep the young lady, can I?

Do members cards actually exist then? Never got mine since renewing subs last April.

+1. I've never received mine.

nickf - why you no answer your phone?

Designed by the new BBC website team?

Hope not!

She's not that cute, nice smile.

So, as I understand it, they'll be selling their entire user database, including inside leg measurements and preferred single speed gear ratios, to Google on the 15th March - or was it publishing it on Wikileaks?

nickf - why you no answer your phone?

'Cos it's not rung? Honest, I've seen nowt on the screen from you. Realistically no chance to call later - am still at work and will be for a while yet, just posting from a dreadful conf call.

Am riding at Swinley on Sunday if you fancy a blast? 0930 Lookout.

Something tells me the price of the magazine is about to go up...

I could turn her, no prob 😉

So, to confirm most clearly.... We won't be passing your personal data onto ANY other companies unless you say we can. We've never done that. We won't do it. We don't like that sort of thing.

Cheers Mark.
Thought the initial article looked iffy when I read it, glad to hear that it was a misunderstanding/misquote.

Andyhilton - Member
Something tells me the price of the magazine is about to go up...

Can I write you an android app for the forum please? And will you pay me?

Cue a million 'how do I write an Android app' questions.

😀

Cue a million 'how do I write an Android app' questions.

And a million more "no, that's not how you do it" replies to the answers. 🙂

Personal data is never sold from the forum you have to buy it from spotty hacker groups 🙂

nickf - why you no answer your phone?

Maybe he's had to go and pick up some railway sleepers? 😐

I could turn her, no prob

Listen love; once she'd seen me dancin, y'know, [i]really[/i] dancin, you'd have no chance.

will be still be able to log in with our same username and password ?
i mite come back in disguise but better watch my spellings commers abbreviations, hyphns, p's and q's.fulll stops , Kapital Letters,etc etc etc.... 😉

[i]"Expect a lot less waste though." [/i]

The new format Triathlète magazine droped through my letterbox yeasterday. It's now half the size. This wouldn't be a problem if they hadn't also reduced the font size by half. I now need glasses and a magnifying glass to read it.

emsz - Member
I could turn her, no prob

Doesn't count unless witnessed by a third party who remains independent of the proceedings

*volunteers as independent 3rd party*

And a million more "no, that's not how you do it" replies to the answers.

Thread prediction:
1) Molgrips asks question
2) Molgrips gets told what to do
3) Molgrips disagrees
4) Molgrips argues with those he asked opinons off
5) We all end up losers

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Can we have an Edinburgh Defence forum please?

Jamie - Member

Personally, I'd like to see an end to over-long, uncatchy forum names.

I propose 10 characters or less

[u]Fewer[/u]
Please can we have a pedant button on the new forum, to automatically correct spelling, grammar and scientific inaccuracies? For example, it could resolve the 'plane on a conveyor belt' thread in 2 posts 🙂

apparently they are adding a "like", "share" and "flounce" button

Fewer

Congrats! You spotted the deliberate mistake I left their. Please come to the stage to collect you're prize.

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*makes note to go to a club with Elf*

they wouldn't stand a chance. 😆

Can we have an argument forum? Any thread on reaching a critical mass of posts by a certain list of posters is immediately transferred!

Can there be a 'black is actually white' thread.
Just for one particular forum member.