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^^^ He's the gaffer. He can check the IP and MAC addresses you're connecting to the site from.
And thank you for suggesting I'd use a sock puppet Velocio! That one cut deep.
I've used the interwebz for years. I remember the days when the WWW was pretty useless and Usenet was where all the action was. When one of the most useful resources on the Net was an FTP site with a text file containing the locations of (count them) two and a half THOUSAND websites. I was as cool as fuck - I had an EMAIL ADDRESS!! Yeah. I saw someone with a T-shirt that had his email addy on it - that was genuinely geek-chic. It makes me feel old sometimes. But this isn't the first website I've ever used. Or the first bunch of people I've ever interacted with. This isn't the first argument I've ever got into. I might be new to this site but it would be a mistake to assume that all new people on the site are complete "n00bs". I don't need sock puppets to make or carry an argument - I can do that very happily all on my own. Sock puppets..? They're for the weak. Oooo, that stung.
Seriously though, I think it's a valid point. There's loads of cries of UTFS, but have you tried reading some of those old threads? Some of them are dire. Wading through pages and pages and pages of out of date comedy. You can see it was obviously amusing at the time - that's one of the things I like about this forum is the banter - but trying to read it as some kind of library of information or help is like wading through treacle. Which, if that's a fetish of yours, then good luck to you. It's just not something that I'd do as a hobby.
Take the helmet threads... Come on, ANY of them. How many useful posts do you reckon there are as a percentage of total posts? Because you can post pictures on this forum (which many don't let you do, you can only post links), it means that all threads about helmets descend into 5 pages of people posting the most outrageous pics of helmets they can find. You KNOW what I'm talking about...