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James
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 Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:31 pm Post subject: Which forum is best? |
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Just been thinking about which forum is best?
I reckon Velo Riders is, you can say what you like, whereas on the CTT there's half a million mods on there that delete a loads of posts when they feel like it. Are they traffic wardens in the day, and mods at night? Plus there's that verification stage you have to go through, where you need a passport photocopy to prove who you are.
So it's no surprise there's people rebelling on there wanting a new forum. I say ship 'em all over here. Best forum on the web by far  |
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Hans Datdodishes
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| The mods on the ctt site (bar one young lady) do come across as a bit *CENSORED*. |
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Thomo
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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| timcooper wrote: |
| The mods on the ctt site (bar one young lady) do come across as a bit *CENSORED*. |
You might just get banned after all Tim... 
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Hans Datdodishes
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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It is cr@p now though, ain't it Thomo?
Did the CTT hand the board over cos of fear of litigation?
Quite ironic if they did... |
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PNuT
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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this site is by far the best & will slowly take over  some testers are against change
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PNuT
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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It is cr@p now though, ain't it Thomo?
Did the CTT hand the board over cos of fear of litigation?
Quite ironic if they did... |
i believe thomo was away on holiday & the change was made without consultation 
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Thomo
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:53 pm Post subject: Re: Which forum is best? |
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| James wrote: |
Just been thinking about which forum is best?
I reckon Velo Riders is, you can say what you like, whereas on the CTT there's half a million mods on there that delete a loads of posts when they feel like it. Are they traffic wardens in the day, and mods at night? Plus there's that verification stage you have to go through, where you need a passport photocopy to prove who you are.
So it's no surprise there's people rebelling on there wanting a new forum. I say ship 'em all over here. Best forum on the web by far |
Please note that it is NOT the CTT forum.
There are 8 moderators. (how many on VR???)
How many posts get deleted on here? (I know for a fact that very few do on the Time Trial forum).
Can you really say what you want on here? I very much doubt it. Perhaps one of the 12 or 15 moderators that are on here 24/7 can let us know?
For all that people do complain on the TT forum, they are still coming back and contributing to normal threads as usual. It just happens to be the 'in thing' to moan that the moderators are meddling, whereas we do not do that much different to the one or two from before - there are just a few more regular posters doing it (how strange - just like on VR!)
As for the ID approval stage, it was because of one or two users trying to register litrally hundreds of 'fake' ID's, and also one or two others who used it as a way of posting abusive items or plainly trolling for reactions. If that sort of thing happened more often on here something would get done about it - much in the same way that they stopped 'Guest' posters for the very same reasons.
So for me - they are both excellant and I use them both a lot. I actually find VR to be a little less interesting than a few months ago or last year, but then who knows, it may get better. The TT forum has come on to be a much better place since I started using it 2 years ago, when it was still quite young.
Paul
(PS - is this the sort of reaction you wanted?) |
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Thomo
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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It is cr@p now though, ain't it Thomo?
Did the CTT hand the board over cos of fear of litigation?
Quite ironic if they did... |
I do think that the moderator bashing is cr@p - it is just not warranted & very wrong what is being claimed.
I do not have any idea exactly why the board was handed over by Keith - it wasn't ever owned directly by CTT anyway.
As for the litigation part... As far as I am aware, there hasn't been any hint of litigation needed as a result of anything said on the TT forum? If there has it's news to me!
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Hans Datdodishes
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I don't mind the meddling to be honest Thomo - I got told off for swearing which was fair enough and I apologised to the teller-offer, but then that bloke who runs it started a 'how dare you?' thread after the event.
Theres too much self important posting, like "we've had 26 applications for membership at the moment which we are considering" - just let them in *CENSORED*.
One of the mods even made a joke on there about a woman who might be a man - Jennie Longo - anyone else would have been slated for doing that.
Lot of double standards on there at the mo. |
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PNuT
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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ive tried not to slate the mods on there as everyone seems to kick off when i do
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Thomo
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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I don't mind the meddling to be honest Thomo - I got told off for swearing which was fair enough and I apologised to the teller-offer, but then that bloke who runs it started a 'how dare you?' thread after the event.
Theres too much self important posting, like "we've had 26 applications for membership at the moment which we are considering" - just let them in *CENSORED*.
One of the mods even made a joke on there about a woman who might be a man - Jennie Longo - anyone else would have been slated for doing that.
Lot of double standards on there at the mo. |
But the whole point is that you might not mind what is put on the posts, but we do have to mind.
I explained the situation with the multiple ID registrations (& if I remember, it was 62 registration applications in the space of 10 or so mins? Remarkable when an average day has at most a handful, and often none. So clearly something was not right and that was a good way of letting the users know that it was happening).
And I think you are rather clutching at straws with that last comment, and you know it.
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Whippet
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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there's a real "in-crowd"/"everyone else  off" feeling about the place, the laughing emoticon is sooo annoying and the is nowhere near as good as this one here >>>.
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PNuT
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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paul, you mention the 62 applications....
i believe before techno took ownership ov the forum there was around 750(guess) registered users.....he then took over did a bit ov cleaning for what appeared to be no real reason & made it permission to join only by moderators permission!! i believe it went down to around 570....
so .... in short, 2 years & around 200 bogus(which included accidental/users that no longer use etc) & after technos meddaling you get 62 in one day...
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Judith
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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| there's a real "in-crowd"/"everyone else off" feeling about the place |
Yeah I agree. I gave up on it as I got the impression I'd been sent to Coventry which I guess might have been something to do with having been involved in silly exchanges about cakes with someone who supported someone else who's opinions were deemed not OK. Bizzarre. I was pleased to see that this forum has a non-cycling related topic area which included hot topics about cakes |
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Des
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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Just the "CTT" forum boring most of the time, same topics keep cropping up, and they all seem to moan about losing D/C's without getting off the keyboards and doing anything about it 
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qcscmh
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 8:57 pm Post subject: Re: Which forum is best? |
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| James wrote: |
Just been thinking about which forum is best?
I reckon Velo Riders is, you can say what you like, whereas on the CTT there's half a million mods on there that delete a loads of posts when they feel like it. Are they traffic wardens in the day, and mods at night? Plus there's that verification stage you have to go through, where you need a passport photocopy to prove who you are.
So it's no surprise there's people rebelling on there wanting a new forum. I say ship 'em all over here. Best forum on the web by far |
James - I hope your running the same poll on the CTT forum so you can copare the results of the poll
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James
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 8:59 pm Post subject: Re: Which forum is best? |
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| James wrote: |
Just been thinking about which forum is best?
I reckon Velo Riders is, you can say what you like, whereas on the CTT there's half a million mods on there that delete a loads of posts when they feel like it. Are they traffic wardens in the day, and mods at night? Plus there's that verification stage you have to go through, where you need a passport photocopy to prove who you are.
So it's no surprise there's people rebelling on there wanting a new forum. I say ship 'em all over here. Best forum on the web by far |
James - I hope your running the same poll on the CTT forum so you can copare the results of the poll |
I don't get on the CTT forum much, probably get banned now anyway! |
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woolly willy
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As long as you write sensible things you are ok. And as long as you acknowledge that Thomo knows everything then that is ok.
if you deviate from the norm you are 'black-balled'. And told of.
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bonger
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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| I pretty much stoped using this forum, the road and track forum might be ok, but there's alot less knowledge on the TT forum compared to the "CTT" forum. |
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PNuT
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 3:31 am Post subject: |
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| I pretty much stoped using this forum, the road and track forum might be ok, but there's alot less knowledge on the TT forum compared to the "CTT" forum. |
nonsence.... Me You & Thomo all use this forum & all three ov us know everything anyway..... so the other knowledge is just duplicated & rather irrelevant anyway
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