Originally Posted by noimagination

Personally, if I had a question regarding the safety of a bike I would take it to a bike shop to have it evaluated. I would rather not rely on feedback from faceless posters on the internet with unknown levels of expertise based on one photo that does not provide conclusive evidence one way or another. I can look at the photo one way and see damage to the dropout, and if I look at it another way it looks like scraped paint, and if I look at it another it looks like corrosion on the quick release nut. But, maybe the poster doesn't have a bike shop nearby, or thinks that the shop would not be honest in order to sell him/her something, or perhaps there is some other reason he/she does not go to a bike shop.



*shrug* I don't see the problem with this. I also don't see a bunch of meaningless posts in this thread from the OP to try to get their post count up (which is what I would consider "spam"). If you don't want to read or respond to someone's post because you consider it "spam", or because having someone come to the forum to just ask one question never to be heard from again offends you, then just don't read/respond. If they are "treating us like a search engine", then they'll quickly go away. It's not like their posts are preventing others from submitting more meaningful (from your point of view) posts. And there aren't so many posts that the "meaningful" ones get buried. Perhaps you consider this forum to be a "community", whereas I do not. It is a source of information and entertainment, and has changed my mind on occasion, but I don't get a sense that I know anyone in this forum from reading characters on a screen.