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rudebwoy - Member

was rudeboy a professional antagonist

rudeboy, under his various aliases was, unfortunately, subject to the raging effects of ADHD which led to him eventually, after several bannings becoming offensively abusive to one of the mods.

Execution swiftly followed.

You can still follow his rants on FB and Twitter, apparently...

WHihlst I'm on and thinking about it... Why indeed not have some sort of L Plate (as mentioned) for newbies.. we can then single them out for ridicule.. perfect.. and deffo a "yellow card" for those on some sort of warning.. we too could point at them and giggle.. quite possibly a dunces hat or a virtual "corner of a room" where we could indeed look at them and laugh.. THen perhaps we could have a good boys and girls section for those that sit at the front, take notes and perform well in exams.. and what about the creative types, those that aren't quite as akademik as others, you know a sort of Art Skool area..
Can we have a restaurant section too.. lets fill it with coffee and biccies and cake.

What an odd topic to bring to the forum.

Still not sure how GW gets away with it tho.

🙂 that comment is almost a funny as Valverde complaining about riders cheating in the Vuelta

Get away with what Al?
Oh.. and 2003? You aint really a BIG anything, you're a bit of a noob here really 😉

TimB - I remember you, CoyoteDH3 around 2001, eh?

Ps. Was 2003 pre or post log-in req to post?

Bring back tags, a post count / member since / avatar thing would be OK, (as long as the avatar is a small, ideally non-animated image). This labelling* thing would be divisive, and probably lead to more people leaving.

* apart from 0-50 posts = newbie, 50-1000 = ... etc.

TimB - I remember you, CoyoteDH3 around 2001, eh?

TBH GW, not really 😳 though it does form some kinda recollection, sorry 'bout that. Much has happened on all levels for me since '01.

I do remember a chap called Alex (Leith?), top dude and good riding around the Chilterns, he also had a SC Superlight at the time - they were rather niche back then 😉 Thought I saw him in an MBR ride guide thing a little while back in the South West IIRC.

Coulda been TimD 😉

Instead of an actual post count in numbers, you could have a little bike next to your name, increasing in size or number, depending on how many posts you make.
So if you are new, you get a small bike or maybe just one bike, then the more you post you get a second bike, or a bigger bike, depending on which works best, up to a maximum of say 5 bikes for the people that post the most.
Then when you have your maximum number they change colour!

It could encourage people to make more posts as they want to see their bike grow or get more bikes.
But it also shows other members if somebody os new or less experienced on the forum.

So we all end up on 29ers?
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Hi GW - * waves *

You're more obnoxious than anyone on here at the moment Gary, don't pretend otherwise.

RD your record is stuck, whine at someone else, eh?

Saucer of milk?

RD your record is stuck, whine at someone else, eh?

But no one else of importance apart from cynical exsists on this forum if we read your posts correctly

Maybe "approved by cynical" next to forum names would be a good idea? I fear the list of users would be short however

Saucer of milk?

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Is it just me, or do tags work?

As a Premier user, you can still Tag - but only when you post. This makes it easier for the mods to trace the tagger.
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Hi GW - * waves *

As a Premier user, you can still Tag - but only when you post. This makes it easier for the mods to trace the tagger.

As a Premier user, you can still Tag - but only when you post. This makes it easier for the mods to trace the tagger.

Surely the fact the tag is linked to the poster in your database (hence you can delete your own tags on a thread) makes it very easy for the mods to trace the tagger without having to guess based on who posted when? Or does Tom's software not allow you to do that (maybe he should be working on that than adding flags for troublemakers)?

I can kind of understand the point of only allowing tagging when you post, as that prevents tagging without contributing to the thread, but it's killed off tagging, as generally you don't think of a tag at the same time as you post. I suppose it depends what the mods think the point of tags was anyway - for many of us it was a bit of harmless fun, but it seems they're only supposed to be for serious purposes. The irony is that I did sometimes used to go onto threads just to add useful tags, but can't do that any more.

You could always just get rid of the tags altogether if they're so misused - or if abuse via tags was such a problem just ban people from tagging.

Two hundredz.

The irony is that I did sometimes used to go onto threads just to add useful tags, but can't do that any more.

+1... very annoyed about it, but not enough to want to become a "P"

The posters I most enjoyed conversing with have been banned or stopped posting (which means they have been banned without me knowing or simply lost the will to post). E-mails I get from the mods are ruder than anything I've ever posted myself. It would appear people capable of independant thought and the intellectual agility to defend their views are not welcome here.

I've just been reading some Conseil de l'Europe documents, notably the "Convention pour la protection des personnes à l'égard du traitement automatisé des données à caractère personnel", Tom (it's currently undergoing a rewrite and my rights are becoming clearer). How about we cut a deal: You erradicate all trace of me and my posts from STW and your company data bases, and in return I do nothing at all.

Deal?

I've just been reading some Conseil de l'Europe documents, notably the "Convention pour la protection des personnes à l'égard du traitement automatisé des données à caractère personnel", Tom (it's currently undergoing a rewrite and my rights are becoming clearer)

Ooh. Get her.

mm Cliquey would be my first reaction. Followed by what happens if someone makes a data protection request and asks to see your labelling.

Danger!!

(Tin Foil hat for me please).

+1 for eradicating Edukator.

I've just been reading some Conseil de l'Europe documents, notably the "Convention pour la protection des personnes à l'égard du traitement automatisé des données à caractère personnel", Tom (it's currently undergoing a rewrite and my rights are becoming clearer)

Ooh. Get her.

Are you referring to the 1984 Act? It is worth remembering that what you post is in the public domain distributed worldwide, however we do treat personal data seriously; requests should be directed to me or the office.

I was reading this thread during a very dull call and nearly spat out my coffee on finding

I do remember a chap called Alex (Leith?), top dude and good riding around the Chilterns, he also had a SC Superlight at the time - they were rather niche back then Thought I saw him in an MBR ride guide thing a little while back in the South West IIRC.

*waves* - Hi Tim. Crikey that was a long time ago. Superlight died on Les Gets DH course in 2003, Route guide was prob exmoor or Malverns both in What MTB. Blimey it's like Friends Re-united before Facebook. How are you?

*sorry please have your thread back*

*sorry please have your thread back*

Oh, no! You keep it. You touched it, you bought it.

Are you referring to the 1984 Act?

I assume, (and of course you know this, don't you?) that you mean the 1998 Data Protection Act, which replaced the 1984 Act.

French data protection is a minefield you really don't want to get bogged down in! CNIL....Argh!

It was adopted by the council of Europe in 1981 and includes 47 countries included the UK. A username should be considered personal data. I can therefore ask you to delete it whereever it appears. There's also the right to ammend information concerning you and information provided by you. That'll be everything I've posted then.

On the understanding that we are talking about a complete eradication of everything I've contributed to STW, known as "bozoing" then yes, I'll contact you at the office. If my posts remain visible then I wish to retain my right of reply.

however we do treat personal data seriously; requests should be directed to me or the office.

So it is possible to find out what labels the mods can see by putting in a request?

This might be a good time to thank you for the Ski and Snowborad threads, Flash. One part of STW that has always remained positive despite differences of opinion. Proof that threads can be self-moderating, especially if the contributors feel some affinity with the OP (or CT in this case).

Let me state clearly that the mods do not 'label' or otherwise classify beyond the obvious, nor do we automatically do so. There is no secret list. We record your warnings, bans, posts, which in theory you've seen, and other obvious things. We have a mailing list for discussing bans and suchlike.

[i]So it is possible to find out what labels the mods can see by putting in a request? [/i]

I suspect a data protection request would only show data specifically related to you rather than all of the data available to users of the 'application'.

I guess if you try and hit as many of the moderators triggers as possible you'll be able to see a lot of the user tags they use 😉

What does the first part of this mean then?

Let me state clearly that the mods do not 'label' or otherwise classify beyond the obvious, nor do we automatically do so. There is no secret list.

To help the moderators we are adding various reports and warning signals to identify suspect troublemakers. You won't get to see these

?????

Let me state clearly that the mods do not 'label' or otherwise classify beyond the obvious, nor do we automatically do so. There is no secret list.

But yesterday:

To help the moderators we are adding various reports and warning signals to identify suspect troublemakers. You won't get to see these,

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It seems Mark isn't the only one at STW towers to contradict himself within the same thread (though his was in the same post: on the one hand bragging about how traffic was up and there was no evidence that any posters damaged this, then going on to say he had very real proof that some -ve use had caused people to cancel subscriptions etc)

EDIT: pwned x3

I'm on STW records as a "bully" then as that's how I was refered to me in one of your e-mais, TOM. No court in the land would consider linking a poster's own threads to be bullying. I'd like that removed along with everything else.

...I suspect that in actual fact, discussions about particular posters on your private mailing list would also come under Data Protection.

Edukator - this is quite an elaborate flounce!

I'll just quote this so it doesn't get lost when [img] [/img] is sucked into the ethereal void:

This might be a good time to thank you for the Ski and Snowboard threads, Flash. One part of STW that has always remained positive despite differences of opinion. Proof that threads can be self-moderating, especially if the contributors feel some affinity with the OP (or CT in this case).

{Note: consider this a new derivative, modified variant of the original work for the purposes of criticism or satire. As such it is not subject to deletion when the original work is removed} 😀

What does the first part of this mean then?

[i]I'd like that removed along with everything else. [/i]

leaving the forum would probably do that?

Maybe we should get together and between us quote all of a certain poster's posts so that the information is retained for posterity...

leaving the forum would probably do that?

As discussed, unlike EvilFaceBook, there isn't actually a way to remove your account from STW. Something that under data protection laws is quite possibly illegal [i]if[/i] the admins won't do it manually when asked