You created an entire thread once to make fun of some army guy's bike.

youve been served!

Right. And tell everyone why you're back now.

Holy edit batman!

Where did your other ridiculous reply go?

I will continue to have a good laugh.. thanks!

I have to feed my ant farm

Wow this thread took of twice as fast as the one that got deleted.

I personally believe that some threads like the one recently post are needed. Hell bike forums would sure get old answering question after question, and many member would therefor leave. I can clearly see that bikeforums is in need of new member through many of the posts made my some of the mods, hell just look at Expat's signature.

Ok now that the ant farm is fed...where were we?
Oh jeeze...I'm gonna call the waaaaaaaaaaambulance!

Um, most of the mods are taking that sig. It's Joe's. New members are always welcome. Troublemakers are not.

And that is great!

This forum wouldn't be as fun without the drama, but I'll admit that at times it can get out of hand and may discourage newcomers. I know there are a few here that try to answer newbie questions so as long as we take the time to answer some of the newbie questions every once in a while, I'm sure it will all balance out in the end.

And who's this Pete guy everyone's talking about?
https://bikeforums.net/member.php?u=9040

Oh, let's not go there, Santiago. That's starting to name names again. I'll echo something that mikejo mentioned (waaayyy back on page one ) - - I still feel like an interloping outsider on this forum sometimes and I've been here long enough to know better and not take things too personally.

I'm continually amazed by the questions asked here - - things that I take for granted - - and it's real easy sometimes to think "huh? you've got to be kidding me." But their questions are genuine and really deserve genuine answers. I'm glad the mods are trying to make things more 'newbie friendly.'

There's a line between drama and looking for trouble. That line is divided by a glass wall. Some people like to throw stones at the wall and see how big of one it takes to break it. Others shoot the wall with a cannon. And yet others can see the other side of the line and realize it's not a place that they need to go to. Guess which one we'd rather have around?

hint: mods hate picking up shattered glass.

What....why?...

Maybe it was a crime aginst comedy?...

geez, the mtb area is like family ties.

Ummm, D? I think if you had mixed in a few more metaphors you might have made it easier to understand. lol

Even the mods are entertaining here.

there are 3 kinds of people in the world
people that make thinks happen
people that watch things happen
and people who wonder what happened
now...... what happened?

entertaining metaphors is what you get when I've been awake for 18+ hours.

It was funny when you posted in it though, no?

I didn't see any instances in that thread where anyone was made fun of for posting a well-thought out, well researched question. It seems that those are the types of new members that it would be beneficial to acquire and retain.

gastro is so wise...

yeah, wise like a potato chip.

Who?

What?

Yes, I thought it was funny as well and I am just as guilty as anyone else. However, having a funny thread at other member's expense isn't something we should strive for. Now, having fun within a thread where everyone can see it's just plain fun, that's another story.