Topic: Cigarette butts at 45 mph suck.

[Glenn Stauffer]

We'll post something more about this in the near future.  We are intentionally slow to police the Open Forum because it is meant as a place where people go to let off steam and talk about whatever you want and that creates an atmosphere where there will occasionally be contentious arguments.   But, there are limits and Silicondoc crossed them a couple of times and could not heed our warnings to him to keep his postings civil.  Basically, we're going by a three strikes your out rule.  First strike, a warning.  Second strike, posting privileges suspended for up to 30 days.  This is the first time we've had to ban anyone.  It won't be the last, I'm sure, but I hope that situations like this are rare.

[Gordon]

This is the first time we've had to ban anyone.  It won't be the last, I'm sure, but I hope that situations like this are rare.

That statement right there is amazing!  Considering how long this group has been around and how many members there are now, the fact that only one person has been banned shows just how rare of an on-line experience this forum is.  In our local yahoo classic bike group I've already had to ban a few people, and we only have about 60 members! 

Now let's please all do our part and forget this guy ever existed.  He can still read the forums without a membership, and people like him will view any discussion about him as an invitation to re-join under another email/ user name and start all over again.  When forced to deal with this type of personality,  if you ignore them, they will lose interest and go somewhere else. 

Thanks!    

[seaweb11]

Just another Happy Camper here.

Glad to know I won't be running in to any more of that morrons replies to posts that I am reading.

[74cb750]

Well,
Terry, when they yell anti-Japanese expletives as they're throwing beer bottles, yeah, I kinda
go t the impression they were showing me their NYC manners.

As my karate teacher told me,
"The smart man always knows when to walk away.
The dead man never can show pride."
peace,
michel

[cbjunkie]

I'm not a web-geek by any stretch of the imagination, but can't the mods read the ISP address of his computer and just ban that? ...anyway a rose by any other name will smell as sweet, or in the case of SD, an ass by any other name will leak the same drivel - shouldn't be too hard to spot.

ha-ha - "cockoff" is funny...

junkie out

p.s. oh yeah, cig butts are bad.

[Terry in Australia]

Well,
Terry, when they yell anti-Japanese expletives as they're throwing beer bottles, yeah, I kinda
go t the impression they were showing me their NYC manners.

As my karate teacher told me,
"The smart man always knows when to walk away.
The dead man never can show pride."
peace,
michel

Oops, forgot the smilie mate, sorry about that, no wonder you couldn't work out that I was just pulling yer chain, ha ha! Your Karate teacher told you that? Well, I suppose it would sound a lot better coming from him, imagine if it was your Ballet teacher? ha ha, Cheers, Terry.

[Terry in Australia]

And speaking of trolls, this guy SiliconDoc is a serial troll.  A quick google search for his handle brought up over 1000 hits.  He's been banned from more forums than Gary Busey's been kicked out of bars.

From Wikipedia, for the uninitiated:

In Internet terminology, a troll is someone who comes into an established community such as an online discussion forum, and posts inflammatory, rude or offensive messages designed intentionally to annoy and antagonize the existing members...

Inflammatory, sarcastic, disruptive or humorous content is posted, meant to draw other users into engaging the troll in a fruitless confrontation.

the common troll does not understand the words 'opinion' and 'leave', meaning that it feels it has superior opinions and will not quit until reaching its own trolling satisfaction.


Zeke

Hey thanks for that Zeke, I'm not computer-speak expert, so I had no idea what a "Troll" was, but you're right, by definition, that's exactly what that wanker is! I wonder who he's gonna hit next? Is this how serial killers start? Poor buggers....................

[Zeke]

Glenn:

No worries.  I agree we need some moderation but everyone here is a volunteer and we're all too damn busy fiddling with carbs and valves to be on the internet reading every single post.

I think the report button is enough.

Terry:

Yah, no problem.  I don't frequent more than 3 forums very frequently, but I post once in a while on maybe 6 forums.  Most of them are popular like this one is as of late, and that's when trolls start showing up more and more frequently.

Darn, too bad all his posts were deleted, as I'll bet there were some good ones I didn't get a chance to read, haha!

out,

Zeke

[tramp]

ouch i got hit in the helmet by a bird once doin about 50mph ,was enough to knock my head sideways

same thing happened to me, thought it was a 747 coming in for a landing

[Raul CB750K1]

Who was this silicon doc? The guy with a gunbarrel's pic on the avatar? That was self-explanatory, wasn't it?

Back to the topic, I admit that when I was 18 and haven't become a biker yet, I found funny to adjust the wiper cleaning jets in such a way that I sprayed all the bikers that tailgated me from the right. Some of them were so naive and nice that helpfully told me my jets were badly adjusted and I was not cleaning my windscreen at all... like if I didn't knew HAHAHAHA


Raul


P.S. I'm so ironic and controversial at times. Am I a troll?

[Bob Wessner]

Am I a troll?

Maybe, but you seem to be on your way to being rehabilitated. 

[ProTeal55]

Just finished reading htis topic, and I am very glad indeed that that guy "SD" is long gone.
Kinda upset that I couldnt get in on the "fight" so to speak..

Cig butts hurt, as do june bugs, rocks, and empty cans of soda 

[Zeke]

Just finished reading htis topic, and I am very glad indeed that that guy "SD" is long gone.
Kinda upset that I couldnt get in on the "fight" so to speak..

Cig butts hurt, as do june bugs, rocks, and empty cans of soda 

PT you ain't kidding.

Back in the midwest I used to get hit by june bugs all the time.  They hurt like hell at 75mph when they hit you in the chest and all you're wearining is a tshirt!

Better than a junebug to the face shield though -- that's a mess!

Zeke

[joeson]

thats funny I take my bike every week to the six nations reserve in Brantford to buy my smokes at a third of the price of major brands because driving my truck uses too much gas . My windjammer has a cigarette lighter but no astray WTF

[Terry in Australia]

thats funny I take my bike every week to the six nations reserve in Brantford to buy my smokes at a third of the price of major brands because driving my truck uses too much gas . My windjammer has a cigarette lighter but no astray WTF

Well with all the money that you're saving on smokes mate, I reckon you can now afford one, ha ha! Cheers, Terry.