10 rules to (sic) riding a fixie

It has moderators and rules about insulting other members. Most of the regulars on here would be banned within minutes, mainly for insulting each other.

I did that on a previous fora I ran. The problem with it is that it's very very easy to not call someone a cunt, but instead for you and your mates just to make sarcastic and snide comments which all individually cannot result in any action by moderators but collectively do indeed hurt the victim/s quite badly. What you end up with is a forum in which the bullies remain and the weaker elements get slowly run out of town. The mods also end up with a shitload of animosity thrown at them for having to attempt to enforce practically unenforceable rules.

If LFGSS became anything like that description, I'd shut the place down and move on.

I much prefer that there is no censorship, that there are by and large few rules (guidelines really because they're mostly not enforced) mostly based on etiquette and that we don't have moderators applying their subjective interpretation of the rules.

BikeRadar is a publication in essence, they've made themselves liable for what is said on the forum by having a moderation process that results in an editorial policy (what you can and cannot say) being applied and enforced.

LFGSS on the other hand is a communications service, and you are liable for what is said in your posts and I offer no editorial process whatsoever.