Originally Posted by
prj71
Jim from Boston...
Have you ever been told that your posts are an eye sore to read?
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
Yeah, lots of times, in particular,…
Originally Posted by
prj71
So you acknowledge it but don't care to change it so that people might want to read what you have to say?
I have posted on several threads over the years:
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
(in 2008)...I have been perusing this site for a few weeks and
I have had several comments to make so I hope to make useful contributions to future discussion threads, as well as glean from the comments of others.
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
(in 2014) I have been an avid cyclist, as a lifestyle since about 1972; …I happened serendipitously on Bike Forums in 2008, and it was frankly incredible to find a community that shared so many concerns I had kept to myself as a lone cyclist.
This enthusiasm has definitely increased my enjoyment of cycling. As far as improving it, what I have gotten directly from BF [include]:
- the opportunity to post and literally "journal" my thoughts and activities about cycling and lifestyle (even if nobody else reads them), but which I wouldn't write down otherwise
Originally Posted by Jim from Boston
(from a now-closed thread in 2018)
For me the heady days on the Forums were from about 2008 to 2016, in particular participating in the Fifty-Plus Annual Rides, which have since disappeared.
I think I have absorbed all the good advice I can for a complete and agreeable cycling lifestyle, and recently I have clicked on many fewer threads than before.
In the past I have offered IMO several useful suggestions about cycling, particularly for winter and urban cycling, to multiple repetitive threads. They are usually lost in the morass of often scores of replies, both in agreement and dispute with mine.
I’m not especially motivated to read or write about rides in areas I will never visit, or bikes I would not buy. Other cyclists’ biking stories are often meaningful to me, but usually not consequential enough for a reply.
Frankly, now my main enjoyment is reading the personal clashes on the various threads, such as these current ones: "I work with a moron", or ”How often do you check your mirror?.”
Originally Posted by
Phamilton
(from last week) I appreciate Jim from Boston’s posts.
The Forum is a really limiting means of communication. It’s harder to create context. Jim makes it work. I guess to some people it might not make sense, but I get it.
So. back at'ya.
PS: Note that I have over 6000 posts in the past 10 years, FWIW.
Last edited by Jim from Boston; 12-12-18 at 05:35 AM.
Reason: added PS