This needs a meme.I hit 53 this year and bought an Audi, an e-Bike, and did a 80+ mile road ride. I feel I could revive the forum all on my lonesome by announcing these facts as individual topics.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's STW man! The world's crappiest superhero! 😉
I hit 53 this year and bought an Audi, an e-Bike, and did a 80+ mile road ride. I feel I could revive the forum all on my lonesome by announcing these facts as individual topics.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's STW man! The world's crappiest superhero! 😉
Tw*tman.
Jamie was the freeloader tag owner. Nice fella.
To all above who responded to my post above - all fair points and well made.
It's more the toxic combination of not having any interest/contribution related to cycling AND also regularly acting a knob that I was reacting to.
But I could have thought about that a bit more and explained it better.
Disappointed - my 'tag' or nickname was still in my profile until recently - just checked and it's gone.
Was baldfatb***ard or something like that. Cheers guys 🤣
Jamie was the freeloader tag owner. Nice fella.
What happened to Jamie? Always seemed to be a cheerful soul. Hope he's doing well
He eventually sold his Volvo.
There also seems to be a lot of folk on here who don't actually ride anymore, and seem to stick around not for any love of cycling, but to make snarky comments act holier than thou or generally stir shit up. They contribute nothing interesting, cycling related, so far as I can see. This is both strange and annoying, what with it being a forum that is supposed to be about cycling.
To whoever Cinnamon Girl is originally quoting:
That’s why there’s two fora, a cycling one, for cycling, and a chat one, for everything else. As it happens, when I was doing a lot of cycling, I was hardly ever on the cycling forum anyway, because I had little of any interest to talk about, because I just went out riding my bikes.
I stopped cycling after a cycling-related incident caused a knee injury that’s left me with a permanently debilitating knee condition, resulting in a complete loss of confidence on a bike.
Now, I’ve actually got one of my bikes in the shop being serviced, along with the forks, and my other single-speed will be joining it shortly.
The funny thing is, I’ll still have sod-all to talk about on the cycling forum, because I don’t do Strava, or anything performance related, I do archery for that; I ride my bike/s to get out into the countryside without using my car.
You seem to be relatively new here, otherwise you’d realise that those of us who’ve been here since before the Great Hack* have ALWAYS talked about every subject going other than cycling.
*That’s over twenty years, for those paying attention. And that comment was really very condescending and patronising.
If you want the cycling chat, go to the cycling forum, where all your needs will be addressed.
😘
You seem to be relatively new here, otherwise you’d realise that those of us who’ve been here since before the Great Hack* have ALWAYS talked about every subject going other than cycling.
CG has been here a very long time, and The Great Hack was 2009?
What happened to Jamie? Always seemed to be a cheerful soul. Hope he's doing well
CG has been here a very long time, and The Great Hack was 2009?
I Think CZ was talking to...
To whoever Cinnamon Girl is originally quoting:
I don’t use the forum anywhere as much as I used to as it basically stops my laptop from running when I have a forum tab open. Chrome can show resource usage of inactive tabs and Singletrack is typically over 800mb.
Please see my previous post up there to clarify slightly what I meant but, well, erm...
There also seems to be a lot of folk on here who don't actually ride anymore, and seem to stick around not for any love of cycling, but to make snarky comments act holier than thou or generally stir shit up.
Ahem
(Edit: it's me you're quoting, here since 2001/2, baby. 🤟)
A long read on the current state of forums https://www.hagerty.com/media/great-reads/did-facebook-kill-the-car-forum/
Interesting read.
Is STW on Discord?
Perhaps the forum could be parsed out to searchable lump and moving onto to something else.... Or back to a BBS ?;-)
What about Reddit ?.... But it all belongs to someone 🙁
I tried to log back in last year, but couldn’t recall my deets, so signed up again.
How about an e-mail to tech if it's the password that's a problem. And even if you can't remember your pseudo you can probably remember some old threads you to contributed to and Google those to find yourself. Or is it that you'd rather that those of us with good memories don't remember who you are and you'd like to dissociate yourself from all that stuff you posted that hasn't aged well? Or was provocation such as:
being interested in politics is a mental illness btw
I doubt I'm one of those you remember as "decent spuds" 😉 I'm trying to remember someone who posted 18 times on their own thread before it even made a page.
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/off-topic/forum-question-mark/#post-13585603
Welcome back all the same. 🙂
Euro and Euro II, logical enough 🙂 In answer to one of your questions the search sort of works and you can even find posts by member name so it's easy to find your old self - the first thing I found you'd posted was about accidentally using a blue golf tee instead of a medical applicator or something like that - I thought it best not to look further. The pic had better be good after all of these teasers ! 🙂
Ive gotten a little* better at reading the room
You reckon?
However, I’m still here to ‘talk crap and make fun of ****
Ever met anyone with cerebral palsy? Ask them what they think of that word. ISTR there are people on here with the condition or spouses or parents of those that do. Just a thought.
That's the kind of half apology that frankly I detest. Putting the emphasis back on the person who'd been offended because they should have a thicker skin.
If you started moshing at a pensioner's tea dance and caused a load of injuries would you say it's their fault because you can mosh at a death metal gig and no-one gets annoyed? That it's their problem for not being more able to withstand the bumps?
Thanks @theotherjonv. And thanks to the mod who has seemingly now added that word to the swear filter. Normally I think the swear filter on here is a little OTT when it comes to everyday expletives we all use. When it comes to perjorative words for those with disabilities or serous health conditions, not so much. The idea that people with a disability should just develop a thicker skin when others bandy about insults mocking that disability is incredible to me.
I’m glad a few words can get you worked up.
People went to prison a few months ago because of a few words. They're not harmless.
You probably will be able to wind me up, by being a bit of a **** - I tend to bite at that. That's not swear filtered BTW, allowing you to choose your own word to go in there.
The bit in aquamarine is an allegory more than an analogy, suggesting that because you or you in some environments can say things that people don't find offensive doesn't mean they aren't offensive in others. And saying they are only offensive because people should have thicker skins is like saying it's the pensioners faults for being frail.
How long till we need Euro III I wonder?
Did Mark track down and hire Euro to bring back some of the old spice to the forum? If so he's getting his moneys worth and reminding some of the old giffers that them old days maybe weren't as rosey as they remember 😀
Still awaiting their response.
Sorry to disappoint, I don't see that going anywhere useful. No offence 🙂
That’s a long winded response for someone who is thick skinned.
In the two weeks since this thread started I’ve been looking a bit more critically at the forum. I think it is in a very healthy state, d.i.y. enquiries, mechanical help, legal assistance, choice of cars, wildlife, nice photos, politics, mental health are just some of the topics that have been covered.
Perhaps someone could start a thread on the side effects of strong pain medication too?
Just to be clear, I didn't take offence at your comment, I didn't see it before it was bleeped and while I can guess, I don't know.
My contention is with the non-apology type of apology, which you said you understood. The rest, basically about an intent to pick fights and wind people up, that's what you got warned for.
thanks to the mod who has seemingly now added that word to the swear filter
It may have changed with the new forum, but on the previous incarnation the mods only had read-only access to the filter, changes had to be made by tech / admin.
(can’t see the reacts and I’m not bloody paying to see them).
This being a paid feature is news to me. As is the existence of a "flounce emoji"
The bottom line is that deliberately trolling to provoke a reaction is against the forum T&C's and will net you a warning in the first instance and a ban if you persist after being asked to stop. The perceived or actual dermatological depth of the recipient is not relevant, it's the site rules.
There are long-serving users for whom debating with each other is basically sport, but this is entered to with agreement and concession from all parties concerned. If you stroll into a pub you haven't been in for 10 years and shout "you're all bastards!" then it's only ever going to go one way now, isn't it.
Just checking..... the last page and a bit of this thread is just an example of why people think this forum is dying, yes? Trolling, people taking offence at non-apologies, sanctimonious posts, and all without being even vaguely interesting. If we could just get a bit of an argument debate in here about, I don't know, helmets or dogs, then I think we could just close the door and turn off the lights on the rest of the site.
All we need now is a summary of the thread in the form of a haiku containing fish puns and the journey will be complete.
All we need now is a summary of the thread in the form of a haiku containing fish puns and the journey will be complete.
Chat GPT, write a haiku containing fish puns!
Deep in the sea's depths,
fin-tastic waves ebb and flow,
scale new heights with gills
There are long-serving users for whom debating with each other is basically sport,
Which is one of the things I find bloody tedious..... TJ v Ernie springs to mind.
Just don’t look at threads that annoy you? There’s plenty of variety and choice!
There are long-serving users for whom debating with each other is basically sport,
Which is one of the things I find bloody tedious..... TJ v Ernie springs to mind.
I have recently stopped doing this by and large. One answer and shut up
Ok, well I came to say I find the forum to be slow and sometimes difficult to navigate.
I've not been around here long enough to know if it's dying or not, always seems to be someone around to answer my inane questions and posits.
Cheers guys
I think I am off. I have got increasingly irritated by the car club. I don't see the point in spending time being annoyed by the views of people who would be better off on Piston Heads.
I used to use the forum a lot, and was a subscriber for a few years. I've not really been riding bikes beyond the odd bimble and have focused on other hobbies for the last couple of years. I'm due to move house soon and will hopefully be doing a lot more riding so I've dipped my toe back in to see what's what these days...
I don't want to shit on what the mag/forum staff do - I know they all work incredibly hard to keep the lights on, providing us with content and a platform for discussion. BUT, the forum is virtually unusable for a non-subscriber, on PC or mobile device, it's so slow I usually give up after a minute, and the ads (which I know are necessary) completely kill the experience.
Or they could moderate out posts about dangerous driving behaviour and speeding.
It's not appropriate on a cycling forum.
Or they could moderate out posts about dangerous driving behaviour and speeding.
It's not appropriate on a cycling forum.
Sounds interesting...can you link to it?
