^^^ Bingo!

sore ace.

No kidding, though: since about a couple of months ago, my riding got less comfy: for some reason my arsh gets sore quite easily. Doc said I have too little fat tissue (i.e. basically none) and this problem can't be solved. He discouraged me from eating like a pig. I could as well take up octopus magic's little creation and slap it in my sig.

Wow case in point regarding the quality of post in this forum. Starts off well and then turns into a misguided teenage playground.

http://aycu28.webshots.com/image/279...6053877_rs.jpg

Is this you?

to the o.p.

basically, 90% of the questions that can or will be asked in this forum have already been answered. those answers are readily available with a search. there are members who answer questions respectfully and accurately. there are also members who are just so jaded by the incessant redundancy, that they try to have a little bit of fun. it gets out of hand on occasion, but for the most part things settle down and the answers are always out there.

lighten up. if your time and thoughts were so valuable, you wouldn't be wasting them on the internet.

No, that's Nicole Ritchie after a breast-enlargement operation.

Hey, I don't have an eating disorder or too thin, I just don't have fat tissue. Not happy about it, but what can I do.

Props to all my virtual homies. You're all high quality to me.

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Ok, fair enough. When we do that, however, people start freaking out about how fascist we are and how we need to leave SSFG alone. We're damned if we do and damned if we don't. What would you suggest? I have to be honest with you, there's a group of SSFG riding ladies in the Women's Forum who have interesting and cool threads about stuff that really ought to be discussed here. They'd truly like to have them here, but they're sick of the bozos, too. So they go to Women's instead. They know they won't get shat on there.

What do you want to see be different? What will (all of) you do to help change things? We can moderate until we're blue in the face, but it will all remain the same if everyone keeps posting the S.O.S.

Just keep doing what you are doing. Those of us with a little patience and maturity will continue to brush away the crap and enjoy the good parts of ssfg without crying. The rest will stamp their little bootied feet and threaten to leave for ever and ever because the majority of people posting are big, mean, stupid, stinky doody-heads.
I agree that the situation will remain the same no matter what you do but that's the nature of the beast.

As for the women afraid to post here because of the possibility of being shat on; I don't buy it. Newbies to FG seem to be treated with a certain level of respect if they have done their homework and aren't posting 'which color deep-V's' threads. You may get one or two dickbags acting like asses in an otherwise decent thread but like I said before, you just gotta brush away the crap. Not only that, but people in here seem to get kinda excited about chicks on fixed gears, they'd probably be well-recieved.

It took you three months to figure out that most of the advice on Bike Forums is "cr@p"? Don't feel bad...I was reading the "road bikes" sub-forum for several years before I figured out that those guys who post "I have trouble hearing my IPOD when I am cruising along at 40 mph" might be not quite the "speedsters" that they claim to be...heck, I'm beginning to doubt those guys even own a bike.

Wait a second - it's not true you can't find good advice on bikeforums. You can! In the right thread, of course. If you have a question regarding bike mechanics (including frame painting, geometry etc.) you go to the bike mechanic's forum. You'll get plenty of high quality advice there.

On SSFG you don't come to get good advice. You come here to relax. You know? R E L A X

Now this is a good thread. Civilized, mature, and informative: http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?p=5447361 (From Long Distance Cycling).

Still, i enjoy this forum. There is a lot of good information among the nonsense, and the nonsense is fun too. If the environment were more female friendly/ less aggressively sausagey that would be nice.

Well, I'm new here, but I think ya'll are doing fine and it's mainly up to all of us. I do like it when ya'll more experienced members chime in. I only had a brief I'm-sick-of-it period but now a enjoy cruising through again. Would having the control panel visible to unregistered users but, when you clicked on search, you get a "please register" msg, help? I know when I joined, I expected to find a search function; but, by the time I joined, I was so used to the top of the window, I didn't notice it (I know, if it'd been a snake, it would have bit me). That won't decrease flame, but maybe it'd decrease the opportunity for it.

LOLZER
this thread is so funny!!1

Seriously, A question on a new thread usually gets answered within the first few replies. If it doesn't, it was a stupid question or it could have been easily answered by searching. Then we screw around and make some jokes and go on tangents. What is the problem?

The thing is, ss/fg are pretty simple bikes and that means a lot of the questions regarding them have already been asked and answered. Which leaves us with a lot of free forum room to **** around.

I heard that if you want intellectual discourse you should go to pbnation. I hear that place is like a think tank compared to here.

It's really no skin off my nose one way or another. I've learned a lot about FG from the Women's Forum. :)

If nothing else, you guys should be grateful that Donna's not KB.

I'm just sayin'...

Please, I dare you to go into the Small Talk forum there. We could probably make a pretty amusing thread about all the ridiculous posting that goes on over there. I'm so glad BF has replaced PBN as my homepage.

That said I'm really surprised at how many people here are familiar with that ****hole.

I'm a total biter.

I'm grateful that I'm not KB. I'd have a perpetual headache, I'm sure. :D

WE should be grateful? What do you mean? That we should not have fun, or that we should behave ourselves, or else the great privilege of posting in bikeforums.net will be withdrawn?

This is not directed to you personally, but I did notice this kind of attitude creeping up from BF mods: the feeling that we, the users of bikeforums, are here for bikeforums. Let me remind you that bikeforums.net would be NOTHING without us, the puny little insignificant users. It's BF that needs US, not the other way around, remember! I can decide to never read or post in BF ever again, and will do fine. But if all BF users turned the back to BF, this site would go to sh*t.


Just sayin'

We own this site. :)