I would definitely not be afraid to ask questions. And I wouldn't worry about posting something that's redundant, particularly given the spottiness of the search function.

However, if you have a question, sometimes poking around this site or the internet in general a bit first may help you phrase, and focus your question, which will end up getting you better responses to your question.

I think a lot of the threads that meltdown quickly, without the OP getting any useful information, are at least in part the result of not much thought being put into the question.

Just remember. There are no stupid questions -- only the ones you ask.

Seriously though, it pays to organize your thoughts and provide relevant details if you want a serious answer. If people have trouble figuring out what you're trying to do, it's a lot harder for them to help you.

not a surprise

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like casting pearls to Razor.

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Be very afraid.

Well, I think I probably should apologize to all the girls anyway.

So to Tulex, LawnChair, Velo Gator and any other girls I may have offended with my ill chosen words I offer my apologies. :(

I really meant to point out that there seems to be a double standard when it's obviously a female OP. A recent case in point isjennifersmith23's post titled "I want to like cycling but... " and it features six pages of generally polite advice. If, say, Collin2424 had posted that he would have gotten maybe eight replies asking him what size is the bike and is he gonna put it on craigslist, one well thought piece of advice (probably from cdr) and the rest would have poked fun at him for a total of less than a page.

I'll admit I will try to make a lazy, thoughtless, misspelled and un-grammatical poster sorry he (or her) ever touched a keyboard. And I have regretted doing it on occasion when I realized the poster was sincere and "differently-abled" from the majority.

I am ashamed when a new member is intimidated, but in the heading to this sub-forum they are clearly warned it can get rough here. Asking thoughtful, clear questions on road cycling always seems to work regardless of sex.

tulex is a woman?

never realized. explains quite a bit of her posts.

;)

Apology accepted. Wow! Girls are treated better. Might have to change back though, I'm having an issue with peeing.

I thought you were some kind of male stripper?

On the internet you can be whoever you want to be. On a rare occasion I pose as a cyclist.

This is where I quit reading the thread when it was current. This answer completed the thread, IMHO. Everything written after it was going to be redundant, frivolous or off point.

Normally I go for all that but I was feeling out of sorts those days.

She definitely got an easier ride than is typical here, but sometimes that just happens.

However, not everyone gets sent through the ringer. When people genuinely appear to be trying to figure things out, people go much lighter on them. Other things that helped Jennifer included being very clear about what she didn't know and wanted to learn, leaving out bravado, being aware of the normal BF response, and nicely asking for something else. She included details that helped people understand who she was, and left out irrelevant ones that are fun to jump on. Writing in a style approaching standard English didn't hurt either.
And you'll notice she made none of those mistakes. Most people do at least one of those things, and most of the posters here are guys. If the women get easier treatment, part of it is that a number of them don't do the sort of things that normally provoke the regulars into having a field day.

Jesus wept.

Diego can't believe it.

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Someone should at least photoshop that extra hand out.

I am not a woman, but I have it on high authority that in the women's forum they strip down to their underwear and get into pillow fights nightly.

Me too, shame on me. Even LawnChair. I guess I should go to Foo once in a while but it's almost like gate crashing a party. I am already ignored at the Addiction thread :(

But what is highly irritating is the one that opens up intelligently but will argue endlessly if they do not get the the answer that they expected.

You to what, you are a woman?

By the way, I don't think anyone gets ignored in addiction, man or woman.

You misunderstood, me too like botto did not know you were a woman. And LawnChair as well - I thought was a man. Hence shame on me.

Addiction has an undeniable core group and that is all good. What I said was tongue in cheek. I usually look for amusing coasting and VeloVol banter once in a while and was at one point curious how long that thread could get.

do we know what happened to your thread? that night i rode my rollers and realized i needed a trainer. ...aaannddd it wasn't there.