Do you ignore certain contributers to this forum?

That would be against the fluffy rules Rich.
<Quietly steps away from the idiot who started this thread crap.>
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I ignore posts from a couple of forumites, cos we rub each other the wrong way I reckon
I also ignore posts about certain topics cos they always end with a barney
I don’t have the stomach for barneying nowadays

*ignores PePPeR for caps lock abuse*

And for those that really want to do the ignoring thing, there’s a Chrome Browser add-in that’ll do it for you 🙂

I tend to respond to the post rather than the person which if you think about it is perhaps where a lot of the problems with forum discussion lie.

If I find something I agree with or more commonly disagree with I’ll respond to that.

Disagreement is where its at.

Disagreement is where its at.

Oh no it isn’t!

S’all pantomime, innit.

<Try’s to use eye bleach as far as pictures of Ton’s wrestling on here goes>

<fails miserably & chunders whilst trying to get bleach out of eyes>

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Oi pepper. I named a name.

I think it’s large ly male, white and from a broadly christian non spiritual background.

FTFY 😉

Not only touchy, but someone who struggles with simple counting. Perhaps 6th form was flattery

You would love the politics threads as you could ad hom and goad to your hearts content on there.

My apologies sc-xc, I had read your post and then my mind got befuddled with fluff from the rest of the big hitters flouncing into the thread 😉

Do you guys actually remember who you’ve had a disagreement with?

I can’t remember from one day to the next so each day is like a new day for you to impress or annoy me.

Dance! DANCE!!

S’all pantomime, innit.

Funny you should say that as I am dressed as a woman right now.

Tbh, most the time I don’t even read the names, let alone remember them or hold a grudge.

Funny you should say that, as I am dressed as a woman right now.

ANY PICTURES

I’m a little like uselesshippy, I tend not to look at the names, though I do tend to get the gist of who is talking by the tone of their typing…

There do seem to be an small group of members who don’t appear to ride bikes, or at least don’t have any views on them to share, which is a little odd on a mtb forum.

ANY PICTURES

I avoid STW navel gazing threads.

Except this one?

I only ask as I’m always struck by the number of folk who will always pop up on threads about, say, politics but yet never post on the Bike forum at all.

Once you’ve been riding a few years you realise there’s not nothing really new in bikes and just the same old stuff gets re-circulated on the bike forum year in, year out. Some of us were riding before anyone had even thought of a clunker let alone an MTB…..

I ignore some people’s posts ….some people ignore my posts which are always witty and informative, unfortunately they won’t be reading this. ..

Whereas the politics threads are always new and invigorating?

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I would not infer how much biking forum members do based on how they comment on here. I tend to pay closer attention to the chat forums as I find them more interesting. Fairly laid back on most topics but one.
Try to avoid religion threads as much as possible though.

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I ignore anyone who feels they need to put a sign-off/signature at the end of their posts.

Cheers
Hungry monkey

ignore all the political BS

only individual I would have ignored got himself banned

ignore individuals on other forums though

edit: oh and i’ve blocked friends on farcebook too (mainly due to the flooding of hardcore communo-socialist propaganda by one person and radical pro-teaparty by another)

Whereas the politics threads are always new and invigorating?

I get your point, but in terms of having an affect on people’s lives, I’d say you’d he hard pushed to find something in the bike world to match the 2008 crash..

Unemployment up 20% across Europe vs yet another new groupset from Shimano. I know which one gets my attention.

Wot Footflaps said. I’m not sure what I’d learn from talking about bikes tbh.

I don’t want another bike, I don’t want to upgrade anything. The riding I do is all from the doorstep, and I’m not interested in meeting other folk for biking. There isn’t any mechanical issues I can’t resolve myself.

Edit: not that I use the chat forum for ‘learning’ just to be clear

footflaps – Member

I only ask as I’m always struck by the number of folk who will always pop up on threads about, say, politics but yet never post on the Bike forum at all.

Once you’ve been riding a few years you realise there’s not nothing really new in bikes and just the same old stuff gets re-circulated on the bike forum year in, year out. Some of us were riding before anyone had even thought of a clunker let alone an MTB…..

So lets see whats new in bikes, new tyres still made of rubber, more knobs, thicker, thinner, tubless etc

Frames aluminium,steel, carbon fibre, etc,

Wheels, stil spokes and a hub,

Gears, drive train still a cogged wheel and 2 pedals,

seats still the same basic design,

hardly anything has changed on bikes for years,just adaptations and suspension, where as the big wide world out there is for ever changing and evolving as are a lot of us.

The thing is you learn so much more about anything, on here more than can usually be said about a bike.

Darcy, Stoner & McMoonter – all ****!

Wot Footflaps said. I’m not sure what I’d learn from talking about bikes tbh.

I don’t want another bike, I don’t want to upgrade anything. The riding I do is all from the doorstep, and I’m not interested in meeting other folk for biking. There isn’t any mechanical issues I can’t resolve myself.

A wise man once said, “to be tired of talking about bikes, is to be tired of life”.

I’d say to be tired of riding bikes is to be tired of life

Talking about bikes endlessly is just pretty dull….

The wise man does sound like a terrible bore

Even by my standards

Talking about bikes endlessly is just pretty dull….

I only talk about em 33.3% of the time, the other 66.6% is taken over by 2 far more important things.

lots of threads are dull* and lots of things other people do are dull*.
i dont see what the point is in saying this or thinking they will stop and act just like I do.
Plenty of threads covering all sorts and easy enough to ignore topics you find dull.
* thinks that dont interest me personally is what this really means

The wise man does sound like a terrible bore

OK. What about talking to fellow bikers about riding bikes?

It’s nice to share experiences.

This thread is omphaloskeptical. I’m off to watch MotD instead. And I don’t even like football.

OK. What about talking to fellow bikers about riding bikes?

It’s nice to share experiences.

Well, I may well be in a minority here but.

I don’t ride bikes to talk to people, or meet people.

I ride bikes to be alone, to enable some quietness where I can just have some peace from the noise of the world. There is no conversation to have because that time on wheels is mine and mine alone.

No offence, but you have no part in that, and neither does anyone else. It may sound grumpy but it isn’t, it’s a bit of solitude and peace that brings a great deal of quality to my life.

Tis all.

I don’t ride bikes to talk to people, or meet people.

Word.

I ride bikes to be alone, to enable some quietness where I can just have some peace from the noise of the world. There is no conversation to have because that time on wheels is mine and mine alone.

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