He's certainly ignorant of how to conduct himself on an internet forum so that his presence doesn't detract from others using it.
What Gary_Lager says about attention seekers is spot on. It spoils things when someone squats on a thread, purposely walking the line.
He'll love the fact there is an ongoing conversation about him. That tells you all you need to know.
The forum will be the poorer for his passing.
If I want boring predictable forums full of solemn questions about cycling or the best way to learn knitting, then there are lots of those around.
f I want boring predictable forums full of solemn questions about cycling or the best way to learn knitting, then there are lots of those around.
However, the presence of an individual on a mountain biking forum who didn't post about biking and just wound people up about non-biking subjects is better than knitting? Why not start a blog celebrating his uniqueness?
luked2 +1
Fred is a nice guy who speaks his mind. I disagree with banning him, if he were over the top the forum would ignore his presence. The mods got it wrong IMO but as it's their playground...
If you want forums full of bedroom dwellers posting mediocre pish from their Mum's PC all the f-Kin time then there's lots of those around, too.
The point is that STW is a good balance - you can ask dry cycling questions, knock about the issues of the day, take the piss, ask personal stuff etc etc - whatever you want and whole thing breathes on it's own. Shrill bulb-ends jumping up and down shouting me me me are just a chore and make the forum less interesting.
Frikkin hell are we still going on about Talkabloodymada...fred...rudeboy...whoever, there must be a couple of threads doing the rounds about this bloke right now, it's academic really as he'll be back under a different guise by the end of the week.
I love this forum, and its gentle moderation, I'm a member on another forum non cycling related and I've had two warnings about minor stuff and I'm not normally someone who argues or bothers other people.
The moderation is a pain and very depressing, after being on here for so long, the other forum feels like living under a labour government. 😉
mmmm smee is in a happy place ...
look forward to see if hes trained hard for our audaxing trip in a couple weeks !
talkie toaster was annoying at times but there are worse still here thats for sure !
oh dear
I'm glad he's gone, in particular after "the guy falling off because of a farmer thred".
Well I thought he talked a lot of sense on that thread - though I suppose as a farmer you'd be irritated by anybody suggesting what farmers did might be wrong.
How is Smee? He was the grumpiest driving instructor I'd ever met, went all the way to that Scotland, did Innerleithen, and he was there at the bottom of Caddon Bank scowling away!
Tell him we did the Peebles-Cardrona-St Marys Loch-Moffat-Peebles road ride I asked him about, and it was as good as I hoped.
[i]The forum will be the poorer for his passing.[/i]
Well it was a good place before he joined as has never been any worse on he's previous absence, in fact usually much better.
Shame, I was glad to see him back. Certainly he could be confrontational, but often because others chose to keep on at him when he asked them to stop, as in the peasouper story. Persistently casting doubt on his dad's story when a brief google check would show the veracity of the story was just plain rude and Fred/Talky asked them to stop. There are, indeed others who have deserved bans a lot more and who have gotten away with stuff. Certainly TalkyFred seemed much more relaxed about things, so I for one am disappointed.
Well I like him. He did get a bit overexcited, but then people did wind him up.
But I realise that not everyone cares about finding the good in people as much as I do 🙂
He's certainly ignorant of how to conduct himself on an internet forum so that his presence doesn't detract from others using it.
whilst I wouldn't agree with stifling your personality for the purposes of posting on a forum, I do agree that Fred's posts were destructive
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the guy's clearly got things going on in his head that need sorting out professionally - whether it's good for him to be banned or not, I don't know
he never troubled me. but then none of you trouble me. it's just a 'net forum, not real life.
'Tis a shame that this community hasn't got space for society's more colourful characters.
aracer - MemberI'm glad he's gone, in particular after "the guy falling off because of a farmer thred".
Well I thought he talked a lot of sense on that thread - though I suppose as a farmer you'd be irritated by anybody suggesting what farmers did might be wrong.
He was right like i said about THAT farmer in question being in the wrong, It was all the offensive comments that went along with it that got my back up.
As mentioned above he soon got all uppity when someone (with good reason) called him a * or a * or a * or a **** etc. But if you read his posts no end of times he called many on here thick or unintelligent (just because he couldn't understand that they have a different point of view to him) racist, blah, blah.Good riddance to the annoying, attention seeking, little
* STW is a finer place without - Hell we may even be able to have a funny thread or two now
Tend to agree with that. Everyone on here is entitled to their opinion but it was the sheer volume of his posts, clogging up almost every remotely interesting thread (well it seemed like that at times) which I found most annoying.
There must be loads of other forums out there more worthy of his perceived superior wit and political wisdom. Lets hope he finds them and stays there.
What utterly amazes me is that people take how people act on an internet forum as given.
Esp you Fred or whatever your name is, why do you want to argue with everyone?
Just chill and enjoy a forum for what it is, a place to get advice and also royally say things you wouldnt say in real life.
Sheesh.
The best thing about him being banned is now we get to play another round of 'Find Freddy' with the new posters 😆
Fred would be the first to admit that he can be a right pain in the backside at times. What is confusing is that he got banned, yet there are still people posting on here that hold far more worrying viewpoints. I suppose that's just life, but it hardly seems consistent.
I think it was the increasing amount of negative posts (that were getting painful).
I only got to chat with him this last week.. and he royally tried to rub me up the wrong way... and by his arrogance he succeeded.. and he got the right hump when given a taste of his own medicine.. but at the same time he also managed to find it in his heart to be humble and complimentary and genuine and kind when he felt it was appopriate.. (possibly shortly after a warning from the mods?)
I loved to hate him this week and bore his boorish banter with a begrudging bonhomie..
eulogy over... as others have said that he will probably be back soon so I say the pratt is dead... long live the pratt...
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Persistently casting doubt on his dad's story when a brief google check would show the veracity of the story was just plain rude and Fred/Talky asked them to stop.
Yes, he was a typical bully really. Could dish it out, but could never take it and started crying about it when people wouldn't stop. He rounded on enough people in his time: surely it's fair that others rounded on him? He seemed to thrive on it.
Oh and he was ignorant, very ignorant, on many levels.
Aren't we all on some level?
He was ok - you just had to know how to read him. Plus, I naturally sympathise with people whose mouths get the better of them. It's like a form of OCD - you just can't stop with the arguments...
Seemed fine to me - maybe we suffer from the same "syndrome" or something and so I'm blind to any negativity?
Funny how those who were bullied at school become the online bullies of today?
paddedfred has/had no brakes. You could tell from his number of posts steadily rising to a crescendo over the last couple of weeks that he was going to get a ban.
I've always liked his rantings and don't really understand how people can get so upset about the internet. I get the impression that if you locked him in a room on his own he would eventually beat himself up then shake hands with himself.
Characters are what makes human interaction interesting, and he's a character.
Far too many people on here take/took him far too seriously. What the mods should do is put an automatic signature on his posts:
"Don't take this post too seriously"
Yossarian - that is so true.
Me - I'd just have a shouting match with myself in a locked room
Crikey. 5 pages?
Whether I agreed with his views or not he is/was just some bloke on some internet forum.
I feel a bit sorry for him. Anyone who keeps coming back like that is obviously very needy and just a little bit creepy too.
He'll be back.
FWIW (not much, really), it's interesting what a sense of community there is on here - people feeling quite strongly about how we're a group and this is where we come to chat.
Thing is, it's not *our* forum, it's stw's, so if they want to bar people, they can.
Not that I really knew any of the aforementioned people, mind.
To me there are two issues.
1) Fred was banned without any breech of the rules
2) other people are allowed to stay on here despite having abhorrent views and despite breaking the rules continuously
I know its not a democracy and that it is STWs playground but to me this is rank hypocrisy. Some people get away with using multiple logins to express abhorrent views or return to the forum after lifetime bans with a new login and are allowed to stay, some are not.
It looks like its about does your face fit.
I liked him, he was nice to me. Anyway, vigorous discussions and opposing points of view are good things aren't they?
Was he banned for the word ponce? A quick google gives:
(context, UK, slang) A pimp.
(context, UK, pejorative) A posh or effeminate person
and
An individual who attempts to fake having intelligence, class, or culture.
I always understood it to mean a cadger or scrounger and a woman I work with from Oz once called another colleague a ponce. Upon seeing our reaction, she explained that back home it meant a happy lively person.
Nothing homophobic there
Would I be asking too much, or possibly incurring the wrath of THEM by asking the mods why he was banned? I'm not trying to be argumentative, but the fact that this thread is now running to five pages surely speaks volumes about the depth of feeling (both negative and positive) about the cheeky scamp.
I have to say I feel the same way as TandemJeremy, albeit slightly less strongly.
FWIW, I think the moderation could be a little bit heavier but otoh I recognise that that takes time and/or effort and/or money, and apparently I am unwilling to contribute to that myself, so maybe I should stfu. But what I think is bad is that you get a lot (well, no, not a lot - but a certain volume) of very crappy stuff like the anti-Gypsy/Muslim threads that pop up periodically that is never modded. The situation there comes like the boor at a party that's telling "****" jokes - do you ignore him (which lets him think everyone agrees with him) or do you challenge him (which makes a scene and gives him a martyr complex)? Fredboy would always challenge him. But really the better approach would be if the party's host chucked the boor out themselves.
But then again, if you don't like someone else's party, feel free to host your own at your own place.
But then again again, if you're holding the party (forum) to promote your company and attract clients (advertisers and subscribers), maybe having boors hang around is bad for business if it makes you look like you're happy to accommodate them.
I don't know.
Especially if they try to avoid swear filters and other "hot" words.
I had to sit on the naughty seat for a week or two last year for evading the swear filter, which I have to admit I didn't know was actually an offence (I mean, if it doesn't trip the filter, doesn't that mean it won't get the office-bound reader in trouble?) but it's their rules, so fair enough.
But weirdly enough there is a lot of swear filter evasion that goes on that doesn't seem to be problematic, and the thread I had been posting on at the time was one of those "bashing" threads so...anyway, not that anyone cares at this point.
I think the fact that this isn't the first thread running into 5 pages about him goes some way to explaining why he was banned. He's too much trouble, causes them too much hassle, and is something they probably have a much easier life without.
I would like to say that he is NOT BANNED from the Big Bike Bash even after the 'Fred-gate' incident in the chalet bed.
BigBikeBash - MemberI would like to say that he is NOT BANNED from the Big Bike Bash even after the 'Fred-gate' incident in the chalet bed.
WGAF.
Well judging from the fact that were nearly on 200 posts, quite a few people, actually.
KingTut - We he does for a start and anyone who can generate 5 pages of threads simply by not being here 'might' means someone Gives A F
Well judging from the fact that were nearly on 200 posts, quite a few people, actually.
I was referring to the (yet another) cheap plug.
