All I hope to do with my annoying "sick of" topics is keep the focus on the problem many people complain of around here in the hopes a solution will come to the top if by nothing more than simple peer pressure. Many people are tired of the cycle around here, have said so, and yet the message has not sunk in.
This cycle was most brilliantly laid out by Brian
http://www.bikeforums.net/showpost.p...&postcount=36:
Originally Posted by Brian Ratliff
Read through the entirety of the Bike Lane thread if you don't believe me. Look at the date of the first post. Graph where the arguments start to escalate and where everyone gets tired or goes on vacation. Then see the arguments reset and the cycle repeat.
These polls by HH are simply an extension to this. You, yourself, can probably predict how each and every one of us who is a regular here responds to them simply by looking over the previous arguments we've had. We are getting to the part in the cycle where everyone is getting a bit tired from our last reset which happened when HH got back from his winter break, and we are about to have another. Look for things to die down for a week or so, then for someone to post the latest newspaper article, the thread turn back toward bike lanes, and the debate to start up again.
Oh, and you will find similar groupings of polls just before every reset, all started by HH, and all oriented towards attempting to make his arguments stick through popular appeal. When he gets in a tough spot, he starts getting testy and he drops the thread he was posting on and starts several polls.
Stop the cycle! I don't mind any of the actual topics themselves, it is the sheer volume, the way so many topics get morphed and dominated by a single individual and his agenda.
I like this forum because it's not about "what should I buy?" There are so many interesting things happening in bike advocacy. Why can't we share those instead of reducing it all to lanes and positions and how we ride our bikes. Let's get beyond the how and talk about the what: events, reaching goals, actual advocacy issues being worked on in your town.