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kudos100, I think that's the problem.
You can moderate against swearing and outright abuse. It's a lot harder to define the sort of behaviour that discourages people from posting here and stop it.I realise a lot of it is banter, KingTut got a comment aimed at me deleted. I knew it was joke, but someone else obviously took it seriously and thought I needed protecting
It is more difficult to define, but I don't think it that hard to stop.
I'm all for banter, forums are dull without it, but there is quite a clear line between banter and being a t**t. The latter seems to happen on here constantly and allows people to get away with behaving like cocks because they can pretend it is banter.
In real life, if you aggressively jump down some ones throat for having an opinion that is slightly different to your own, the chances are you would either be ostracised or get into a fight. We don't speak to strangers like this is real life, so why should people get away with it on the net?
Someone voices an opinion about something: reply, "how dare you have an opinion on something, what makes you the holier than thou?"
Being a cock.
Someone posts a new bike: reply, "weeds need doing, tyre logos aren't lined up, I'm offended"
Banter.
Not that hard. I agree that sometimes the line is blurred and that is what good forum moderation is about and is much tougher. Stopping people behaving like children is not that difficult.
It's a form of therapy.
We've become so PC as a society that when we get unleashed to say what we think (sometimes without thinking....) then we take it.
I blame the uneducated working class on here that has no sense of humour. People need to accept that they are low lifes and stop getting uppity when someone else makes a joke they can't understand.
[i]People need to accept that they are low lifes and stop getting uppity when someone else makes a joke they can't understand.[/i]
*lack of a smiley leads to some confusion but settles on 'he was probably joking'*
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I blame the uneducated working class on here that has no sense of humour. People need to accept that they are low lifes and stop getting uppity when someone else makes a joke they can't understand.
Okay then, sorry.
*reported bullheart's post for bullying*
Actually MTBers are perfect targets, so stuff it 🙂
I shouted 'f*** me it's the cast of Westside story' out at a bunch of MTBers that stood and watched us pass. Strong silent types in Oakleys they were.
I got told off for that?
But I like shouting at other cyclists anyway, that and licking lamp posts when it's icy out.
*reported bullheart's post for bullying*
Thank you.
but there is quite a clear line between banter and being a t**t.
Not so easy I fear. One person's banter is another's offending remark. I call my first witness to this inquiry, a Mr J. Clarkson.
Being an oldgit has its perks
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I think it's a tricky tight-rope to walk though, and a very subjective one too. Personally I find plenty of other forums fantastically dull because of zealous-moderation leading to a culture of only the most benignly insipid views being expressed.
It's very true, that. I occasionally use a US based forum where all mentions of shops and suppliers are banned. It's awful.
I was also banned from the UK (Ducati) Monster Owners Club forum for calling someone a cock when he went on a rant about cyclists. I did mean it though.
Not so easy I fear. One person's banter is another's offending remark. I call my first witness to this inquiry, a Mr J. Clarkson.
AY sums it all up really as to why offence is taken/given and why given numbers there will be some friction
Ps he is a ****
*reported bullheart's post for bullying*
DANGNAMMIT!
*reported again for swearing*
#ihavethestrangest
Anyone know which forum has so many of life's winners on it?
I fancy hanging out with those cats for a while. 8)
I suspect if you have ask where the winners forum is it's too late to join 😉
I suspect if you have ask where the winners forum is it's too late to join
Fair point. I'd settle for a forum populated only by those with regular and inexplicable cravings for Rolos.
mmmm.........rolos
Pure silky gorgeousness in a lovely, considerate gold wrapper that made you feel like a winner...
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* sighs and craves *
Anyone know which forum has so many of life's winners on it?I fancy hanging out with those cats for a while.
Find out which forum Surfmat went to, it's bound to be AWESOME. 8)
You're already on it.
Though, you misspelt "wieners".
We are all losers. Its my birthday today and I thought 'what have I achieved so far in life'?
Nothing. I haven't found a cure, killed many men/Civilians on the battlefield, I'm not fantastically rich or hold multiple Directorships, I'm not an CEO of a PLC etc.
Happy Birthday Hora.
Now go out and treat yourself to a nice packet of Rolos. 8)
I come here for because no other forums will have me.
I came along here from another forum (windsurfing) cos I was riding my bikes more. I got here and pissed myself laughing on my first read of one of Elfin's posts..
Then I got stuck in when he did his Architectural Threads and that was it, been here ever since.
I have been close to the knuckle once, Mods pulled me up on it and that was enough for me to shut the fekup.
Though I really miss the pee taking, the stuff that went on a year ago, I often giggled out loud in the orrifice, now though it's much tamer.
I'm not too sure I like it too tame.
I thought I saw you the other morning on the commute. Black Dahon. No helmet. Jeans and olive-coloured baseball cap?
I'm amazed that a thread about "life's losers" got to the 4th page without a mention of this prize helmet:
RealMan - Member
Oooo- he who must not be named!!
But is allowed to carry on as normal here as if nothing had happened?
LOLZ at Losers.
Realman might be bad egg but he won on that deal, didn't he?
Anyone who posts on an internet forum is a loser by definition
Oh...hang on 😳
Especially the ones with "P" by there names 😉
I am a loser 'cos I am posting outside of work hours. Look at the weather; I SHOULD BE ON MY BIKE!
You know that the 'P' just denotes proficiency in appropriate use of their and there, don't you? 😉
Can you see what I did they're?
This isn't like real life
In real life people can see the people they are talking with and usually make a choice to be in their company.
The comfort of strangers has it's attractions but never mistake it or apply real world logic to it.
wwaswas - Member
Your amazing ! 😉
I thought all the "P's" were silent and your all could rick 😉
See what I did over there 😉
*reported again for swearing*
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this forum absolutely sickened and enraged me when I first started using it..
it seemed like some weird online fetish club for socially inept Tory Boy characters to come together and bully strangers with jeering and pedantry and sarcasm.. I hung in though because I was completely intrigued, I figured that the utter bellends were probably just a few bad apples, and I really needed to learn from some realworld experience on a couple of MTB related topics..
now I casually log on daily and behave exactly like the bellends that so repulsed me.. usually over my cornflakes without a care in the world..
hivemind, borg, STW.. call it what you will, this place is very very unsavoury and you WILL be assimilated..
Out of interest, and veering slightly off topic, who else checked the thread to see if it was about them?
😳
But is allowed to carry on as normal here as if nothing had happened?
Obviously not 🙄
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I only come here to reinforce my sense of superiority. Think of it as the online equivalent of a trip to Asda, you can't help but come away feeling better about yourself 🙂
I checked out of curiosity and found that one off the cuff remark had caused the OP to start up a whiny rant and called me a loser because he's a bit thin skinned. 🙄
Oh, and freetard? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Freetard
Sound like anyone on here?
bless...
Did I miss something? Neither of countzeros posts in the linked thread seemed aggressive or a problem in any way? Does someone have their hormones in a twist or did i miss a deleted post?