[Closed] Talkemada - Blocked

Maybe I'm mistaken ton...I always thought you were a reasonable chap, but not to be messed with, if you know what I mean 😉

"a lot of the 'active' mods are volunteers"
How were they chosen?
This is not a democracy.

aracer - some things are worth getting banned for. This is just an internet forum, after all.

What's a cock-monkey anyway?

If anyone tells me to look in the mirror, I'll be dealing with them à la ton. 🙂

Ton - on the gypsies then perhaps I have confused you with someone else in which case I apologise.

as for racist stuff. here is one thread of yours that was closed for being racist. However I couldn't find the thread I was looking for and I can't find bombadillo at all

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/blokes-from-china-or-some-****ing-whereo

[i]Quite amazingly, mobile phones can be used nowadays to access the internet. Yowsers, what next eh?

Surely that doenst make a difference, you would still have to be on to STW all day whether it is via your phone/laptop/pc.... 🙄

teej, where on that post do i say anything rascist.

hes a bulb end but i like him 🙂

teej, where on that post do i say anything rascist.

ton, stop frickin' splitting hairs will ya!
(and please don't come round and beat me up for that 🙁 )

Ton - if you don't understand as you clearly don't then I cannot explain. The entire tone is racist.

A I said tho - I may have been confusing you with someone else so as well as what you have done you get the blame for others sins as well as your own. For that I apologise.

You did use another user name to troll in a possible racist and certainly xenophobic fashion which is very much against the rules. You have had multiple threads closed for breaches of the rules. You are still here.

Fred has broken the rules far less but gets banned

teej...........by the way.
you still could not ride down nunns chuff........... 😆

I think the mods are kinda scared of ton.

With good reason.

Ah Fred - The serial thread killer - STW is a better place with out him turning every thread he posts on into an argument.

As mentioned above he soon got all uppity when someone (with good reason) called him a * or a * or a * or a **** etc. But if you read his posts no end of times he called many on here thick or unintelligent (just because he couldn't understand that they have a different point of view to him) racist, blah, blah.

Good riddance to the annoying, attention seeking, little * STW is a finer place without - Hell we may even be able to have a funny thread or two now

I think the mods are kinda scared of ton.

With good reason.

Good god. The impression you get from the forum is that Ton is the lovechild of Van Damme, Arnie, Stallone, and a really angry yorkshireman.

I suspect the reality is that he's just a big bloke.

Fred has broken the rules far less but gets banned

The problem is that when Fred does kick off, it all gets very nasty, very quickly. The thread in which he recounted the story of his dad in the pee souper was a classic example.

I don't mind the guy TBH, but I'm not sure someone with such an apparently fragile state of mind should be jousting on here 18 hours a day. It may do him good to have a forced break for a while.

Good riddance to the annoying, attention seeking, little ****

That's not very nice now, is it?

He/she certainly seems to have a lot of issues . . . .

talkemada who?

[i]How were they chosen? [/i]

They are known by the staff and are pretty sensible headed people.

barnsleymitch - Member
ton - we've been there before. I dont give a fiddlers **** whether he was elected, we both know that it was done dishonestly, we both know he's a lying nazi tossbag, and what I dont get is why you seem so keen to defend him.

Because people bite,but I would imagine you know this by now.

BTW; Does anybody actually know Fred/taka?

thing is they all look the same, surely it is not the same blokey

They are known by the staff and are pretty sensible headed people.

BTW; Does anybody actually know Fred/taka?

[i]DOUBLE FAIL for me then [/i]

Well glad you can make a better decision then without knowing who these people are.

junkyard - I think he meant talke(mada) rather than taka.

Blimey. I seem to have started something of a poo-storm. 😳

[IMG] [/IMG]

Effin hell, did he buy that hair from the 80s?

It was a bit of a troll, wasn't it, Harry?

Isn't Fred/Talk/Rude/Bra the bloke who sh@t himself at the BBB last year?

probably best to ban people like that 🙂

We do seem to have this thread a lot.

Well glad you can make a better decision then without knowing who these people are

Ton is just a fairly good Troll tbh. He does seem to single out TJ more than others which in my mind makes him a bit of a bully but then maybe he just likes to throw his weight around as he has some form of notoriety on here.

I don't know what I've done wrong but my tags are getting mod-ified left right and centre. It seems this is a very sensitive thread so tread carefully everyone
😯

Troll? I always just thought Ton was a bit simple...

Interesting slant though - it probably required quite a lot of intelligence to troll really well.

So which is it Ton? 🙂

Isn't Fred/Talk/Rude/Bra the bloke who sh@t himself at the BBB last year?

Yup - can't hold his beer, can't hold his tongue 😆 🙄 😆

They are known by the staff and are pretty sensible headed people.

For the most part, these days. I seem to remember a couple of years ago one mod (Polly?) who banned everyone and everything during long winter evenings.

TBH, I don't think what Talkefreda has done is worth a banning - all part of the rich and varied microworld that is STW.

Drac - Member

Well he's be banned several times now under different accounts so once they know it's him they seem to ban him again.

Did they really take that long to cotton on who he was?

Shame, he seemed rather a lot less abrasive to others this time round.
Oh well, he will get all sorts of other things done whilst he is unshackled of the chains of internet blathering for a while. 🙂

LOL, just got an email from Fred denying the incident I mentioned above 🙂 Good to see he's keeping an eye on things 🙂

Don't worry Fred, I was just stirring. No idea whether it is actually true or not

Ive not been here long so I dont know talke from before, but he seemed OK. Bit sensitive on certain issues, but aren't we all.

[i]no I meant I am not known to them nor am I sensible headed ...it was a joke at my expense, that I will never be a mod , sorry for confusion. [/i]

Oh! Sorry missed that. 😳

[i]Did they really take that long to cotton on who he was? [/i]

Probably not but maybe they gave him a small chance but once the seen he was being a bit of an agitator again they decided to cul now.

[i]For the most part, these days. I seem to remember a couple of years ago one mod (Polly?) who banned everyone and everything during long winter evenings[/i]

Moderator 69 wasn't she? Polly is no longer around these parts.

i alway's liked fred........still do.

talkemada seemed very confrontational tho.......kinda made me feel a bit worried.

🙄

i can be scary too!

grrrrr

see?

well i like the little hairsuit steptoe, and yes I've met him a few times IRL

The very fact that this is far from the first thread on the topic over the past few years is a good enough reason.

Well, I quite liked him - at least from his posts.
As a non-regular can someone tell me is "Fred" his real name or a previous login name?

Shame he's been block in my opinion.

I'm sure if you ask him, he would blame the police ...

I'm glad he's gone, in particular after "the guy falling off because of a farmer thred".

I thought he was an ignorant prat.

Mixed feelings really. A divisive sort of forum dweller - some posts were interesting and positive, but on the other hand many seemed to encourage discord.

His post/thread rate was extremely prolific to say the least. He must have enjoyed very accommodating employers/friends/partners etc.

His general 'rage against the system' ethos used to make me smile and I echo what Nonsense said.

Clearly he will be back under another guise but no doubt will be unable to restrain his wide, unequivocal views on all sorts of matters and will again be found out.

I sort of liked him actually. Wonder what his new name will be and what will the prize be for the first person that unmasks him?

That Talkemada was Fred?!
I found sometimes he spoke out against some one side opinions while everyone remained silent.

Sometimes funny but I tend to avoid the arguements.
I didn't see where he went overboard but the mods are not that bad (are they?)

Maybe a yellow card system or a one week ban would be better to teach the culprit to take it easy.

Personally I think there could be loads banned for causing problems but Fred always seems to be caught out by people moaning to the mods. Was he banned last year for the Man Utd footy thing when someone called someone a name, Fred stood up and said it was not nice and got banned.

Again I think one sided views to ban one person is a joke. Sorry Mods but if you are going to ban someone then you need to ban loads like him and change the rules to make STW are nicer/polite place to visit like it used to be back in 2003 without people saying sorry tyre question-no need for sorry its a bike forum.

Fred -He'll be back lol.

Houns +1 😆

Reading through this thread, the one thing that always amazes me is that people end up becoming well known enough on here to be 'identifiable'. It's sort of counter intuitive to the idea that there is anonimity on the internet, hence why so many people end up sharing quite extreme views they perhaps wouldn't voice in person.
While I recognise a lot of the sign in names, the only person I would be able to actually identify is TJ but it's only because his views are sooooo different to mine (and I think the world is more colourful as a result :wink:)

Somewhere to the left of Tony Benn, now that was funny.

The lad's a bulb end, as I'm sure he'd tell you himself. No real problem with it myself in isolation, but you get 3 or 4 such attention hoors on a forum, posting all day and every day, and things start turning to ratsh_t.

This forum works (for me) because of the low-key moderation, it looks after itself by and large. If the mods are having to intervene and lay down the law in thread after thread I don't think I could be ersed with it. They probably couldn't, either, so have gotten rid.

Singlespeed_Shep - Member
I thought he was an ignorant prat.

Ignorant, he is not.

As a non-regular can someone tell me is "Fred" his real name or a previous login name?

He's certainly ignorant of how to conduct himself on an internet forum so that his presence doesn't detract from others using it.

What Gary_Lager says about attention seekers is spot on. It spoils things when someone squats on a thread, purposely walking the line.

He'll love the fact there is an ongoing conversation about him. That tells you all you need to know.

The forum will be the poorer for his passing.

If I want boring predictable forums full of solemn questions about cycling or the best way to learn knitting, then there are lots of those around.

f I want boring predictable forums full of solemn questions about cycling or the best way to learn knitting, then there are lots of those around.

However, the presence of an individual on a mountain biking forum who didn't post about biking and just wound people up about non-biking subjects is better than knitting? Why not start a blog celebrating his uniqueness?

luked2 +1
Fred is a nice guy who speaks his mind. I disagree with banning him, if he were over the top the forum would ignore his presence. The mods got it wrong IMO but as it's their playground...

If you want forums full of bedroom dwellers posting mediocre pish from their Mum's PC all the f-Kin time then there's lots of those around, too.

The point is that STW is a good balance - you can ask dry cycling questions, knock about the issues of the day, take the piss, ask personal stuff etc etc - whatever you want and whole thing breathes on it's own. Shrill bulb-ends jumping up and down shouting me me me are just a chore and make the forum less interesting.

Frikkin hell are we still going on about Talkabloodymada...fred...rudeboy...whoever, there must be a couple of threads doing the rounds about this bloke right now, it's academic really as he'll be back under a different guise by the end of the week.

I love this forum, and its gentle moderation, I'm a member on another forum non cycling related and I've had two warnings about minor stuff and I'm not normally someone who argues or bothers other people.

The moderation is a pain and very depressing, after being on here for so long, the other forum feels like living under a labour government. 😉

mmmm smee is in a happy place ...

look forward to see if hes trained hard for our audaxing trip in a couple weeks !

talkie toaster was annoying at times but there are worse still here thats for sure !

oh dear

I'm glad he's gone, in particular after "the guy falling off because of a farmer thred".

How is Smee? He was the grumpiest driving instructor I'd ever met, went all the way to that Scotland, did Innerleithen, and he was there at the bottom of Caddon Bank scowling away!

Tell him we did the Peebles-Cardrona-St Marys Loch-Moffat-Peebles road ride I asked him about, and it was as good as I hoped.

[i]The forum will be the poorer for his passing.[/i]

Well it was a good place before he joined as has never been any worse on he's previous absence, in fact usually much better.

Shame, I was glad to see him back. Certainly he could be confrontational, but often because others chose to keep on at him when he asked them to stop, as in the peasouper story. Persistently casting doubt on his dad's story when a brief google check would show the veracity of the story was just plain rude and Fred/Talky asked them to stop. There are, indeed others who have deserved bans a lot more and who have gotten away with stuff. Certainly TalkyFred seemed much more relaxed about things, so I for one am disappointed.

Well I like him. He did get a bit overexcited, but then people did wind him up.

But I realise that not everyone cares about finding the good in people as much as I do 🙂

He's certainly ignorant of how to conduct himself on an internet forum so that his presence doesn't detract from others using it.

whilst I wouldn't agree with stifling your personality for the purposes of posting on a forum, I do agree that Fred's posts were destructive
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the guy's clearly got things going on in his head that need sorting out professionally - whether it's good for him to be banned or not, I don't know

he never troubled me. but then none of you trouble me. it's just a 'net forum, not real life.

'Tis a shame that this community hasn't got space for society's more colourful characters.

aracer - Member

I'm glad he's gone, in particular after "the guy falling off because of a farmer thred".

Well I thought he talked a lot of sense on that thread - though I suppose as a farmer you'd be irritated by anybody suggesting what farmers did might be wrong.

He was right like i said about THAT farmer in question being in the wrong, It was all the offensive comments that went along with it that got my back up.

As mentioned above he soon got all uppity when someone (with good reason) called him a * or a * or a * or a **** etc. But if you read his posts no end of times he called many on here thick or unintelligent (just because he couldn't understand that they have a different point of view to him) racist, blah, blah.

Good riddance to the annoying, attention seeking, little * STW is a finer place without - Hell we may even be able to have a funny thread or two now

Tend to agree with that. Everyone on here is entitled to their opinion but it was the sheer volume of his posts, clogging up almost every remotely interesting thread (well it seemed like that at times) which I found most annoying.

There must be loads of other forums out there more worthy of his perceived superior wit and political wisdom. Lets hope he finds them and stays there.

What utterly amazes me is that people take how people act on an internet forum as given.

Esp you Fred or whatever your name is, why do you want to argue with everyone?

Just chill and enjoy a forum for what it is, a place to get advice and also royally say things you wouldnt say in real life.

Sheesh.

The best thing about him being banned is now we get to play another round of 'Find Freddy' with the new posters 😆

Fred would be the first to admit that he can be a right pain in the backside at times. What is confusing is that he got banned, yet there are still people posting on here that hold far more worrying viewpoints. I suppose that's just life, but it hardly seems consistent.

I think it was the increasing amount of negative posts (that were getting painful).

I only got to chat with him this last week.. and he royally tried to rub me up the wrong way... and by his arrogance he succeeded.. and he got the right hump when given a taste of his own medicine.. but at the same time he also managed to find it in his heart to be humble and complimentary and genuine and kind when he felt it was appopriate.. (possibly shortly after a warning from the mods?)
I loved to hate him this week and bore his boorish banter with a begrudging bonhomie..

eulogy over... as others have said that he will probably be back soon so I say the pratt is dead... long live the pratt...

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