Nursery for New Members

Not in Beverly Hills, then?

No, since the forum made me rich I had them change the name to that of my Year 2 Maths teacher.

which side of Iran? Either way it wraps around..

Exeractkly!

Hi all,

Well, my chap (Tea_Bee) signed me up, so I suppose I had best put some words down.

I'm Nikki, and I don't own a Single-speed, or a Fixed Gear Bike. I own a Pashley Princess Sovereign. Hence my user name... ;-)

I've been riding for a couple of years, mostly just to do the commute to work (Which is very dull, as I work in ICT) and a little nipping hither and yon about town.

No "serious" about my riding at all, I'm a pootler, a dalli-er and hopefully soon, I'll be breaking out the summer riding cullotes ;-).I also have a back issue which means that the Up-right stance of my lovely Princess is perfect.

Thus, as I have a back issue, I just don't get what seems to me to be the insane desire to put your hands/head lower than your arse, even though I understand the aerodynamic principles behind it.

I live in London, and the other reason that my lovely chap signed me up here is that Tea_Bee persuaded me to join him at South-East London Beerz and I'll be popping in there regularly with him, and also to rant about my recent service debarcle at On Your Bike.

But, as I need to make more posts that this one, I'll save that rant for somewhere else.

Great idea

Anything interesting ever get grown in this nursery? I could do with something to calm me down after this afternoons hub trashing ride :-(

Balki is interesting, he also has sweets.

and a van...

and ants in his pants

And brewers droop :(

and ants in his pants

I thought the nursery was for noo b's, not ants.

Hello!

Back at ya.

and a van...

Ooooh, you show me yours and I'll show you mine............

nice work. really like the site.

Peace and bikes.

Okay
seems cool to me

for real?

Shut up

Jonnysingle seems to have not read this… ForumFail

Nursery for New Members

So you've just joined and you're wondering what the hell this nursery thing is all about and why this site has it when few to no other sites you've visited have such a thing.

Please read all of this post!

We had a few problems in the past with things like:

• **Spammers **signing up and posting adverts

• What makes a spammer a spammer when there's a classifieds section? The difference is whether those posting items for sale take part in the wider community... if they are doing that and the majority of their posts are not spam, then they're not a spammer... if all they do is sell stuff and have no interest in the community, then they're a spammer.

• **Spammers **signing up and **sending PMs **to 60 or so people

• Invasions from other forums, so basically mass trolling

• Individual trolls

• New people asking **questions that have been asked and answered **what feels like a hundred times already

• New people starting little flame wars against themselves by asking such **stupid questions **that a quick search would've saved them embarrassment and spared their reputation

Those are a wide and varied set of problems, and we worked out that nearly all of them could be stemmed by just putting up an artificial obstacle for those joining the forums.

Effectively there is a cooling-off period in which new members should get acclimatised to the forum and get to see how it works, and the forum should get a moment to become familiar with the new person. We are basically forcing you to ease yourself in gently... but honestly, doing so is better for you, this place can be harsh so just go with it.

The name for this artificial period is "the nursery". Until you learn to walk here, you can't run.

And what does being in the nursery actually amount to?

Well members in the nursery can:

• Search the forums
  
• Reply to existing threads
  
• Upload a profile picture (non-animated)
  
• Join an existing social group
  
  

What nursery members can't do is:

• Start new threads
  
• Use Private Messaging
  
• Have a custom avatar
  
• Upload a animated profile picture
  
• Edit their posts (they can't undo what they say)
  
• Rate threads
  
• Give reputation
  
• Post on polls
  
• Anything else not explicitly granted to them above
  
  

What defines a "nursery member"?

It's pretty simple, you are no longer in the nursery when you have both:

• Posted 5 3 times
  
• Been on the site for 48 24 hours
  
  

And this is an automatic thing, as soon as that threshold is passed the system will promote you to full membership within an hour or two.

Now, a lot of people don't like the nursery. And that's very understandable, but let me just underline some qualities of this site that don't really exist elsewhere.

Next up, jostling. Every forum has it's fair share of new members being initiated by the old timers by some friendly ribbing. But sometimes this can go too far, especially if (without searching first) you ask an oft-repeated, tired, or dumb question in your first post. It's not pleasant to watch new members get ripped to shreds, and really I'm doing you the biggest favour by forcing you to search first and look around before you ask... the guys here can be merciless towards the new, so say hello first and search thoroughly before you ask stuff. The result, yeah there's still some jostling, but not much, and the place is a hell of a lot friendlier for it and that is priceless.

** Can you evade the nursery period?**

Don't try. Really. It's a public forum which means everyone can see you do it, and if you post 5 meaningless posts in an attempt to sidestep the nursery chances are that someone will report you... when that happens, I will ban that account permanently. You're free to register again, but then you start the nursery again too. So don't try, we're not that dumb and as this is our one piece of moderation it's purposefully harsh, really, don't try.

5th post!

Woo!

I can post anything now!

Woo!

Hello, I've been looking at this site for some time now and have decided now is the time to show my head in the scary place that is the LGFSS forum.

Please dont hurt me, I'm delicate.

Hello fixedlover. Don't be afraid. Balki will be over with a bag of sweets to look after you in a minute or two.

On second thoughts. Be afraid; be very afraid.

He had already tried to get me to put my hand in his pocket to stroke his puppies, which I thought was a bit strange.

Thanks for saying hello cliveo.

He had already tried to get me to put my hand in his pocket to stroke his puppies, but hey its Balki and he is strange.

Thanks for saying hello cliveo.

Fixed

Welcome.

I haven't even meet Balki so couldn't comment really. But hello and thank you for the warm welcome.

No one has actually met Balki. Or rather, those that have don't like to let on that they have.