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[peasea]

Well I developed a bad case of can't be f'd with bike chat for awhile there with my accident and come back to find a lot of old regulars having a lot less to say. I must have missed all the fireworks, seems fairly banal but civil of late.

Civil?
We can change that in a nanosecond if you wish...........

[Reckless]

I second that opinion, the crap to good stuff ratio has slid downhill in a big way

For those that get pissed off with all the crap there's the ignore button. That way you can turn a shit hot forum into a boring one. For me I just love it the way it is. This forum has everything. Info, ideas, Bike news etc. And some bloody good humour. So the language gets a bit ripe, so what. No ones complaing about the chick giving some bike a blow job on the home page.

Seems to me some of the moderataors are trying to turn this forum into a vehicle of their own. It's a bikers site not croquet club. Get with the programme J2 and stop trying make us into some thing that we are not.

Skyryder

Well I developed a bad case of can't be f'd with bike chat for awhile there with my accident and come back to find a lot of old regulars having a lot less to say. I must have missed all the fireworks, seems fairly banal but civil of late.

Generally agree with the above comments!

I'm only a very new, low posting member but even in my short time things have changed.
All sums up to one thing for me you guys seem to have banned the big bangers that waded into a thread and said something like "awww comon mate don't be a pussy" or "just thrash the crap outa it". Its just like taking rucking outa rugby your only left with the guys lying all over the ball. The colour has gone. I didn't agree with them most of the time but admired their guts and most of all they where bloody funny!!! NO one got offended, cause they offended everyone.

Bring back the rucking! This is a bikers site!

[Jantar]

Generally agree with the above comments!

I'm only a very new, low posting member but even in my short time things have changed.
All sums up to one thing for me you guys seem to have banned the big bangers that waded into a thread and said something like "awww comon mate don't be a pussy" or "just thrash the crap outa it". Its just like taking rucking outa rugby your only left with the guys lying all over the ball. The colour has gone. I didn't agree with them most of the time but admired their guts and most of all they where bloody funny!!! NO one got offended, cause they offended everyone.

Bring back the rucking! This is a bikers site!

If it was just as you say, then it wouldn't have been a problem. Unfortunately some people on here got overly offensive, and in a couple of cases even threatened other members. Standards were set by SpankMe when the site was first set up, and over the years those standards had slipped badly. All that has happened is that the standards have been enforced without favouritism.

[Reckless]

If it was just as you say, then it wouldn't have been a problem. Unfortunately some people on here got overly offensive, and in a couple of cases even threatened other members. Standards were set by SpankMe when the site was first set up, and over the years those standards had slipped badly. All that has happened is that the standards have been enforced without favouritism.

Agreed Jantar, If its abuse, Racial, sexual or personal go for it. But i've been havin a bit of a laugh in a couple of threads. The last one I read 300 odd posts and went to compliment posters on 3 posts, it was my first post to that thread and its deleted. There is one of your mods hacking pages out as fast as it can be done. And reading the drival page they seem to be in context with similar posts. And people apart from me are complaining.

[Jantar]

Agreed Jantar, If its abuse, Racial, sexual or personal go for it. But i've been havin a bit of a laugh in a couple of threads. The last one I read 300 odd posts and went to compliment posters on 3 posts and its deleted. There is one of your mods hacking pages out as fast as it can be done. And reading the drival page they seem to be in context with similar posts. And people apart from me are complaining.

If it is some posts that have disappeared then they will have been moved to http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=49155 . This happens when the posts are meaningless to the topic.

If there are enough drivel posts in a thread then the whole thread is moved to PD. I can assure you that nothing is deleted.

[Reckless]

If it is some posts that have disappeared then they will have been moved to http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=49155 . This happens when the posts are meaningless to the topic.

If there are enough drivel posts in a thread then the whole thread is moved to PD. I can assure you that nothing is deleted.

ok so i should have said moved instead of deleted.
In future I'll only post to "my gearbox is broken can anyone help" type threads.. If that is the way you new mods want to shape this forum it's your party.
Nuff said I don't want to get myself banned as in the short time I've been here I've gone out a riden with some good guys.

[kro]

I have a hard time dealing with people who take on a Jeckyll and Hyde approach to forums/face to face interactions.

If I start going hammer and tongs at Jim2 about his opinions sucking harder than a Dyson on NoS, then what do I achieve?.
If Jim2 is worth his salt, his differing opinion will stay as such, regardless of my relentless attacks, on his ideas/person, and thus I will achieve a wastage of time, and perhaps get myself in a royal little tizzy, and say something really off.

One thing I know I will achieve is, that it will make it damn hard to meet the guy face to face, having torn strips off him, over some petty, inconsequential argument, and perhaps in doing so, lose the opportunity to make the aquaintance of a top bloke, all because I viewed my opinion as gospel, and his as horse poo.

Its one thing to throw an opinion into the ring, but it's another to flog a perfectly innocent dead horse.

[doc]

Nice thought. Wont work.

You know why? Because unfortunately there's people on here (myself included) who have small pecker syndrome and enjoy mercilessly ribbing others who also have small pecker syndrome.

And some of them have nothing to like.........

Yep this is what I'm here for mostly entertainment sort of like Grafitti. It's dropped of a bit since some of the amusing ones have been binned or whatever. Some people take it a bit seriously. I sort of think that they would't say boo in public but if this wasn't here "Talkback Radio would be busy. I just noticed that this thread started 18 months ago. Who dredged this up ? Too much going on daily to be going back looking over past topics.
The other problem is school holidays it sems to get busier, and I think some of them stay here. But I must declare that I have never met White trash and compared "peckers" I just hope mine is bigger than his.

P.S. If you give it you've got to take it.

[Conquiztador]

Most sites I have been on have had the same issues. "All the good guys are going because the site has turned to shit". "This is my last post as this site has gone to the dogs". "I was away for a short while and this is not what it used to be" "There is too much/too little moderation". "Why can you guys not be civil about it". "Ppl should be/not be banned for saying whatever" and so on.

If U don't like what is happening U have two options:

1. Move on
2. Change it.

But it is the way things go. A new site U find has heaps of attraction in the beginning. How many of us have not become a member of a site, spent hours on it, and then after awhile dropped out. Same is happening on KB. I can easily see that after been here for a very short time.

Yes, I do not agree with all that the moderators are doing. But it is their job. And I have no interest in it. I wont loose any sleep over a thread or two ending up in PD. But I have a opinion about it, and I will for what it is worth, offer it.

Good ppl (and azzholes) move on and new even better ppl (and bigger azzholes) sign up. And I am OK with that.

[Reckless]

I've had an idea! I emailed Jantar but haven't had the time to put it in writing. I had it when a mod was pulling page after page to the Drival pit.
In the mods defense, it was drival, it was off topic, but it was also fun light hearted boy type banter! I don't think it deserved what it got.

Whats if there was a place, within this place, for the people with "small pecker syndrome" or who wanna do a babe on bike thread or when a thread drifts of into inuendo and joking or to another subject it those pages could be placed and it carry on. It is often the way of normal conversation anyway. You start talking about something 10 minutes later................

Would this be a good idea or don't I need to waist my time giving it structure and writing it down.

[onearmedbandit]

You already have said place, in the Pointless Drivel section. In there you can have banter with the people with "small pecker syndrome", you can have your 'babe on bike thread', go for it. I really fail to see how people can not understand that that part of the site is actually 'part of the site' where you can continue posting. No one who participates in those forums is going to report abuse, unless it is really out of hand. So there will be little need for moderator attention. However the usual standards still apply, for example nothing illegal.

[Reckless]

You already have said place, in the Pointless Drivel section. In there you can have banter with the people with "small pecker syndrome", you can have your 'babe on bike thread', go for it. I really fail to see how people can not understand that that part of the site is actually 'part of the site' where you can continue posting. No one who participates in those forums is going to report abuse, unless it is really out of hand. So there will be little need for moderator attention. However the usual standards still apply, for example nothing illegal.

As only a 180 odd poster I didn't realise that I thought it was the dustbin. Saves me a job then thanks

[onearmedbandit]

Fair enough. People may view it as the the trashbin of KB, that's all down to perception. The sheer fact that it's not a locked section of the forum shows that is available for use by all. Some very funny occassions here arise out of PD.

[peasea]

Fair enough. People may view it as the the trashbin of KB, that's all down to perception. The sheer fact that it's not a locked section of the forum shows that is available for use by all. Some very funny occassions here arise out of PD.

PD. A place to dwell, to pontificate; to do as you will.

Juat watch for soft-cock mods, that's all I have to say

[Winston001]

I've had an idea!

Whats if there was a place, within this place, for the people with "small pecker syndrome" or who wanna do a babe on bike thread or when a thread drifts of into inuendo and joking or to another subject it those pages could be placed and it carry on.

Good idea - cut out the OT posts and place them in a separate PD thread so they can continue. That way interesting discussions don't suddenly disappear.