Moderators (requests and notices)

Yup, I didn't quote you for that reason. :)

In the case of the subforum it should never be private as it has become a central London database and we've received information from many people who wouldn't have found us otherwise.

With respect to the Forum Rider Down thread, it was started to reduce the number of minor incident threads. As with everything online, you should assume that people who you don't know will read it and it could come back to bite you at a later date. This would still be the case even if it was in a private area.

Oh sorry, didn't realise there was a separate one for forum people, don't actually read there... Don't mind what you do with that thread!

TM was only asking why this thread wasn't private, not all the threads or the whole forum.

I suppose it was originally intended for minor incidents not necessarily involving forumengers as well as for forumenger incidents, but it's evolved to be almost exclusively the latter.

Exactly...

With respect to the Forum Rider Down thread, it was started to reduce the number of minor incident threads. As with everything online, you should assume that people who you don't know will read it and it could come back to bite you at a later date. This would still be the case even if it was in a private area.

It would be accessible to strangers that are members of the forum of course, but, if I understand how le google works, the forum rider down thread wouldn't generate google results if searched, if it were private. Which is the point I'm raising. Surely these personal matters would be better off protected from wandering eyes.

...going forward...

I find this phrase unacceptable. Its redundancy makes baby jesus cry. Can we ban it?

Do you mean ban it and delete it from all previous posts or try and avoid using it from all future posts going forward?

I think we should ban it going backwards.

Whilst humming a tune.

Undoubtably our blue sky vision going forward, would be to touch base, and unilaterlly declutter ourselves of such terms.

I can see this from 30,000 ft but the granularity of the process is not immediate.

Please can the following posts be merged into this thread?
http://www.lfgss.com/post3843436-12383.html
http://www.lfgss.com/post3843436-12384.html
http://www.lfgss.com/post3843436-12386.html
http://www.lfgss.com/post3843445-12387.html

You'll have to gain stakeholder consensus then leverage programming resource for that.

Sounds like work to me.

I find this phrase unacceptable. Its redundancy makes baby jesus cry. Can we ban it?

Do you mean ban it and delete it from all previous posts or try and avoid using it from all future posts going forward?

I think we should ban it going backwards.

Undoubtably our blue sky vision going forward, would be to touch base, and unilaterlly declutter ourselves of such terms.

I can see this from 30,000 ft but the granularity of the process is not immediate.

You'll have to gain stakeholder consensus then leverage programming resource for that.

Move to here

Move to here

Repost:

Please can the following posts be merged into this thread?
http://www.lfgss.com/post3843436-12383.html
http://www.lfgss.com/post3843436-12384.html
http://www.lfgss.com/post3843436-12386.html
http://www.lfgss.com/post3843445-12387.html

Sounds like work to me.

In all its soul destroying pomposity.

Repost:

It took me that long to gather the multiquotes while juggling phones in the office and pretending to work :( My formatting was superior; does that get me points?

Yes six

minus seven for the repost though

To add to an issue that Object has been pressing for a while. This should demonstrate precisely why comments in the Rider Down section should be careful.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/woman-cyclist-21-dies-after-going-under-tipper-truck-on-city-road-8835838.html

Not just the press, but we've had speculation as to root cause of an incident, and that could affect legal process. We've also had photos posted and the friends and family viewing them and becoming even more upset.

It's just a fact that this forum is large, and people read it. We have some responsibility to not just document things but to present them as they are, unbiased, sans-speculation, and with the emotion we feel.

Anything else... sure post it, but absolutely not in that forum. There are other threads in the General forum for lobbying, the politic side, for speculation about cause and town planning.

What about the forum rider down thread though, should that not be private?

Which thread? URL?

And forum or thread... I basically don't know what you mean.

Rider down should absolutely not be private. Non members view it and benefit from it. We do however have a responsibility as users / publishers for what we say and the impact it has. I see this as a community / personal responsibility and not one which should lead to us going underground with these parts of the site.

My tuppenceworth.