Could LFGSS still work with a "no asshole" rule?

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i need to stop holding back with the content of my posts. i haven't been mentioned in any of the 'these people are arseholes' posts in this thread.

You were being very rude to luddites in the broken campag thread.

You and others. It was like gang rape in there.

i have no idea what you are talking about, damo.

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yeah, i am the master at it.

You could ban people from certain forums, if there's a dichotomy between their 'fora persona'.

I've tended to be more sociopathic in 'general' and 'misc', but behaved better in rides and races, for example. I don't bother with 'mechanics' these days unless I've got a question, as I've seen most of it a billion times and find it hard not to just call people cunts indiscriminately.

*I'm aware that I've used both forms of plural for 'forum'. Fuck off, cunts.

^ Cunt

^ Bully

^ and Cunt

When some illiterate hipster moron comes on here and starts impatiently and rudely demanding things or gobbing off about a load of rubbish, I want to be able to call them a twat without repercussion of being banned, I want to be able to say exactly what I would say in "real life".

If we are forced to treat idiots with kid gloves and pander to the ungrateful then it's a sad old day.

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If your forum name is just letters (ie RPM), does this make you an STD?

I am putting myself forward to take on the role of 'final decision maker'.

One vote for BRM

i need to stop holding back with the content of my posts. i haven't been mentioned in any of the 'these people are arseholes' posts in this thread.

You're less of an arsehole more of a wanker.

I am putting myself forward to take on the role of 'final decision maker'.

Any excuse to put this up again:

Velocio, what constitutes being an asshole enough to have something done about it?

I'm sure he's not suggesting we get all Bikeradar up in here, so we need some guidelines perhaps.

I think the aholes that have been outlined in this thread are amusing even though I've been victim to some aholishness. They help make the forum the addictive place it is, IMO.

So will this mean the one who gets taunted or the taunter? Never bought a van to drinks, until reccently and it was the Hire van that was going out of my to help someone I said I would help. Yet the van misnoma stayed. The more than constant snipes from people that are supposed to be funny but clearly not taken that way? Does it mean the snipper will go or the snipee?

Meh your playground do what you want. PS david I will reply to your PM soon.

You were being very rude to luddites in the broken campag thread.

You and others. It was like gang rape in there.

This is where it becomes tricky

You have people spouting nonsense out of ignorance.

So were mrsmyth and myself assholes for pointing out the idiocy and ignorance of the posters? In which case ignorance and stupidity prosper and flourish. This does not benefit anyone.

You're less of an arsehole more of a wanker.

i guess it's better to give than receive.

Clive, enough has been through yours already.

ftfy

So will this mean the one who gets taunted or the taunter? Never bought a van to drinks, until reccently and it was the Hire van that was going out of my to help someone I said I would help. Yet the van misnoma stayed. The more than constant snipes from people that are supposed to be funny but clearly not taken that way? Does it mean the snipper will go or the snipee?

Meh your playground do what you want. PS david I will reply to your PM soon.

Lynx, I'm one of those who has probably perpetuated the van myth. You did drive to Camden after the lowpro ride (alright in a car), in a gorilla suit and gave a couple of people a lift home - it was funny (given the theme was clowns), it got exagerrated, it stuck...

Sort of like Joe got snapped walking his bike, ever since when there has been a stream of jokes about him walking not riding...

To be honest I am surprised that no one has mentioned Skully. Surely if anyone is an asshole, arsehole or good old fashioned bumhole, it is that pint sized gurning homunculous.
Harsh words you might think. But for several months now he has been posting some of the most vicious, twisted and plain *evil *stuff that this or any other forum, including forums dedicated solely to evil, have ever witnessed. Surely I am not the only one who has noticed?
In person he can be affable, charming and even possessed of a bashful sex appeal but no sooner has he won you over than he is boasting about his latest 'exploit', larding his descriptions with a sickening tone of gloating and self satisfaction that would turn the stomach even of hardened forensic psychologist.
When he writes of having abused, beaten and mocked other cyclists how are we to respond? Are we to say, well, boys will be boys? He's a character? The forum would be a duller place without its psychopaths? Or should we speak up? Should we say, no, this will not stand. You cannot go around hitting nodders with a long handled soup ladle. Not on this forum sonny Jim.
It seems to me that Skully (if that is his real name) condenses in to one cuddly, chuckling, chubby-cheeked form the many dilemmas we face. As to what I think, well, all I can say is Kristelnacht. I think the point is well made.

has this been resolved yet?

You were being very rude to luddites in the broken campag thread.

You and others. It was like gang rape in there.

fuck off. i wasn't being rude, i commented on the vacuousness of overprivileged hipsters and their need for a good shoeing.
i even complemented a new forum member on his efforts.
Prick.

There's a broken campag thread...?

How do you break a thread?

overtighten it

Or make it in Italy according to some....

The moment this thread started I was in touch with velocio, concerned that yet again a thread was descending into being about me (i dont mind when instigated by me but...)

Strangely it was made clear that for once this one was not about me.

So does that make every nearly every person who has raised my name an asshole? I feel aggrieved and demeaned to have been everyone's favourite whipping boy yet again.

I am actually concerned that the asshole rule would quickly eliminate the likes of mdcc_tester who in my opinion has probably added more bike knowledge and obsessive attention to detail than anyone else.

I find his knowledge fucking scary, but would be pissed off if we lost a resource like him.

Additionally the caustic wit of pistinator, mrsmyth, rpm make me smile and chuckle. I feel the place would be a much duller place without them.

Do we want this place to descend into bikeradar for hipsters?