delbiker1 

The back and forth bickering between some posters, members or not, has gotten a bit ridiculous. It seems to me, until serious name calling and on line harassment occurs, the mods seem to be hesitant to address the issue. In the meantime, I believe that behavior harms the Forums and the members. I understand this is a public forum, people have egos and opinions they want to state, but the childish arguing is really stale. People that participate in this type of behavior are just showing their self-centeredness, and their own insecurities. This is all just my opinion.

Trakhak

When you see an example, click the report button (red button, bottom left in the offending post) to draw the moderators' attention to it.

dedhed

New here? In my decades on BF I've found the volunteer mods to be fair & reasonable. Herding cats on multiple sub forums with posters worldwide, varying experience/knowledge, and personalities is not an easy gig. Somehow the forum survives.
In almost 20 years here I have no one on ignore, and just scroll on by rather than take umbrage

wheelreason

I find it mildly entertaining, but it does seem that the same couple of guys have a need to be right, even when they are wrong...

indyfabz

Note that the button is not red on all devices. Look for the triangle with the exclamation point inside.

cb400bill

Thread moved from General to User Assistance.

3alarmer 

...so basically my drunk ex father-in-law ? If I could endure him in person, tuning these guys out on the internet should be a snap. It would be nicer here if I could look forward to a holiday dinner, though.

3alarmer 

...pro tip on the ignore function: the scrolling goes much quicker if you have two or three people in a thread on ignore.
I am old, and if I can save a few seconds here and there, I can spend it contemplating my own mortality.

dedhed

I'm not as old as you (yet) so have the time. I suppose if I posted in P&R (or the 41) instead of just visiting, it might be different.
I'd be curious to see what the numbers on ignore to eventually banned are.

spclark 

There's another public forum I used to spend a lot of time perusing, but after a time the same characters, repeatedly beating the same horse time & again, soured my interest. I don't go there much anymore.

Seems to be a common phenom with 'public' venues these days (why I dropped F*book a few years back) once the constant display of human frailty becomes too apparent. My biggest gripe isn't the 'public' stuff itself, it's when this becomes a constant in so-called news media that should instead be free of bias.

This Internet thing is as much a tool now as it is a weapon.

datlas 

Maybe there is a baseline level of bickering, but I have not seen much over the line lately. Notice no bans in over two months! That could be a record around here.

indyfabz

Should I try to reverse that trend?

big john

The banned list is only updated randomly.

RB1-luvr

I belong to another bicycle forum where this zero bickering, insulting, negativity, politics, alcohol talk, religion.... it's refreshing. Just bikes, occasionally other hobbies, and only positivity.

delbiker1 

Yep, I belong to another, and the ongoing bickering and harassment between individuals does not happen. There are disagreements, but I have yet to see them deteriorate to the child like level. Why that is, I cannot say.

indyfabz

Is it a relatively small forum?

Keep in mind that this is the self-proclaimed “leading online discussion site for avid cyclists”.

ACA’s forum is pretty civil, although it has its share of what appear to be would-be spammers every now and then. A few “eccentrics” as well. But the activity is minimal compared to BF.

3alarmer 

...on my curated ignore list of something just over 50 users, six of them are banned, and another 7 haven't posted in over a year.
The rest of them are still here, happily going about their business irritating other users. But I don't usually see what they write.

Call me unreliable.

datlas 

You sure??

My impression is that it’s updated whenever a user is banned. It sometimes happens with high frequency but none lately.

We can bicker about who is right if you wish.

datlas 

Just because you CAN do it does not mean you SHOULD do it.

wheelreason

Chubby chicks at the bowling alley need loving too...

big john

Quite sure. If you want to bicker we should probably start a new thread. Question is, where should we put it?

ahsposo 

Nobody I know is as old as 3a. He claims to have invented the wheel...

3alarmer 

...nobody else has claimed credit for it.

dedhed

I think it's pretty close between him & his buddy Onbike

Chuck M 

I don't mean to bicker, but I'd rather scroll by petty arguments than a thread where four people quote the OP with 8 photos when their reply doesn't even depend on the photos.