[Closed] Do you ignore certain contributers to this forum?

Who said that?

Does this happen mostly on the "Chat" section?

Most chit chat is posted in the bike forum anyway. I find that more annoying that who's posted it.

I ignore template threads, anything with xxxxxxtrackworld in the title, or "if you only watch one xxxxxx today".

I try to avoid anything by Druidh, as I find him to be a bit of a dick.

However, I really like that scotroutes chap. Seems to have his head screwed on the right way.

Phew! I've a pretty good idea I'm not one of them! 😉

Thank you for your offer 2unfit, may I get back to you please? I'll PM you within the next few days.

As far as OT, it has taken me a while to figure certain online persona's on here and tread with caution with certain topics and posters, to avoid the inevitable 🙂

but then I see the "member" & think better of it

There's your problem; keep your eyes on the screen.

Only the best threads get 'accidentally' posted on the bike forum, but then again this is about the forum & not bike or chat (did I just get away with that?)
Oh & I chuckled at slackalice 😉

This thread would have been so much funnier if nobody had replied! 🙂

I never notice til it's too late and I discover I've replied to 650b-bike-seller or some other ****.

But then who would of known it was ironically funny?

[quote=2unfit2ride ]Only the best threads get 'accidentally' posted on the bike forum, but then again this is about the forum & not bike or chat 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. It does make me wonder why they've singled out STW as a recipient of their utterings - or maybe they also do the same in other subject-specific forums like Railwaytrackworld and Knittingneedleworld.

How strange, a thread with no posts.....

I ignore myself.

I ignore myself, I am full of it.

To provide a sensible answer to the OP; I tend to ignore thread 'types' than posters.

I [i]try[/i] not to judge as some may not have the keyboard skills to convey their real personality, but a very small few consistently and without any doubt, manage to demonstrate they are total morons.

However, they are far outweighed by the very funny/interesting/eloquent folk.

Plenty of the politics threads posted by the angry lefties.

[url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/winter-of-disconsent-approaching-fast/page/3#post-5438255 ]An example. [/url]

Jamie - Member
I try to avoid anything by Druidh, as I find him to be a bit of a dick.

However, I really like that scotroutes chap. Seems to have his head screwed on the right way.

Er, I hate to tell you this......

...but druidh was an excellent contributor to the forum. Newer members likes scotroutes just aren't in his league. IMO.

bearnecessities - Member
To provide a sensible answer to the OP

You disappoint me. I expect better.

Any threads remotely political as STW socialist worker party crew pop up spouting their sixth form Marxism - you know who you are!

I ignore anything by cressers. It's just tired and dull.

Also a lot of project's threads seem to be playing to a stereotype, but when he contributes to threads that aren't about his pet hates he is pretty sound.

Plenty of the politics threads posted by the angry lefties.

The lefties are angry FOR you.

The righties are angry ABOUT you.

I'm really concerned that as valuable a contributor as thatscold is avoiding threads

piemonster - Member

You disappoint me. I expect better.

Get you. G/f back now is she?!

*takes a piss out of bedroom window*

Do you ignore certain contributers to this forum?

While we all have the ability to do that,why bother, life and living is about listening to others,disliking others, sometimes accepting what they say, sometimes disagreeing,but usually a learning point comes out of most peoples comments.

The problem is some people just develop a hatred for others sometimes for no rational reason, then try to recruit other to help them along in their mis guided thoughts about those persons.

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.

Some folk discuss politics, some discuss rugby, some skiing , some tyre size. Its a diverse forum and its pretty easy to avoid topics you have no interest in. I dont feel the need to dis those who use the forum differently from me.

I suspect everyone has posters they would not miss but i read all the posts on a topic but I do boycott topics.

Any threads remotely political as STW socialist worker party crew pop up spouting their sixth form Marxism

I'm really concerned that as valuable a contributor as thatscold is avoiding threads

Ooooh did I touch a nerve darling?

I'm well armed for snacks on this one.

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Also a lot of project's threads seem to be playing to a stereotype, but when he contributes to threads that aren't about his pet hates he is pretty sound.

Aw nice, im not stereo typed with pet hates,im a left wing ex labour,anti capitalist,cycling god,who tries to help everyone and enjoys some banter.

Its a diverse forum

I would beg to differ with that.

I think it's largely male, white and from a broadly christian background.

[i]Within[/i] that demographic though it's pretty diverse.

thatscold - Member

Ooooh did I touch a nerve darling?

3 posts now, of which none contributed anything. Keep it up!

Get you. G/f back now is she?!

*takes a piss out of bedroom window*

She is, but I'm converting the garage into a dungeon as it's below the bathroom.

CaptainFlashheart - Member
An example.

POSTED 16 MINUTES AGO # REPORT-POST

Time was you couldn't drag yourself away from it. No staying power y'see?

[quote=Junkyard ]I am always struck by how folk are puzzled by the diversity on here but decide one type of posting is worse than an other and then pour scorn on the "others". I am also surprised how often the right moan about the left as its a fairly broad cross section on here usually - you should count the high horse and hand wringer digs for example or look at your own post
It would appear that you have completely missed the point of my post. I can surely be "surprised" without feeling it's wrong? I genuinely wonder what brought some of the posters to STW instead of some other place when many appear to show no interest in (or at least express an opinion about) cycling. With one major exception, other cycling forums I subscribe to don't appear to have such a defined split.

Within that demographic though it's pretty diverse.

Damn you and your well made point.

I assume only ernie does this??? he did answer once - I forget what it was but it was something along the lines of he did not care/was not interested in discussing bikes IIRC
As for why who cares tbh he does ride which is more than some contributors do on here which surely must be as "surprising".

Damn you STW I stand doubly corrected now 😳

FLOUNCES

3 posts now, of which none contributed anything. Keep it up

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

I see lots of usual fluffy banter, but no one's fessing up to deliberately ignoring anyone in particular!

That would be against the fluffy rules Rich.
<Quietly steps away from the idiot who started this [s]thread[/s] crap.>
😉

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*

[quote=PePPeR ]I see lots of usual fluffy banter, but no one's fessing up to deliberately ignoring anyone in particular!
And for those that [i]really[/i] 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>

🙁

Oi pepper. I named a name.

I think it's large [s]ly[/s] male, white and from a broadly [s]christian[/s] non spiritual background.

FTFY 😉

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

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

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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. ..

[quote=footflaps ]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.
Whereas the politics threads are always new and invigorating?

😆

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.

[quote=scotroutes said]footflaps  » 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.
Whereas the politics threads are always new and invigorating?

😆

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 ****s!

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 [b]riding[/b] 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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