A new moderator joins the fight - Armchair cyclist

[SHaines]

I wanted to take a quick moment to thank @Armchair cyclist for volunteering to step into the role of Moderator! He's been part of the forum community here for over a decade, so he brings substantial experience with this forum to the role.

Please help us out by using the Report option if you see posts that need to be given a closer look.

Welcome, Armchair cyclist!

 

[Armchair cyclist]

So I have offered to step up, and been accepted.
I am still hoping to share the load with others, so maybe the idea that I am here might make it more palatable for you to put your name forward too: @SHaines has been helpful and reassuring. Thanks to @Red Rick and @Eshnar for their work, and their words to me while I have been deciding.

My approach to the board is that it is, like our taking interest in the sport, a diversion that is meant to be entertaining and relaxing, and maybe something we learn from as we go: it exists because it's enjoyable. If that is what it is for all of us, then my role shouldn't be much more that stickying threads. I'm sure most of you will keep it that way. Civility will be my watchword.

My main purpose in coming to the forum will be as it ever has been, to read and join in the threads I am interested in. That's not all of them, so don't expect me to be aware of everything in every thread: you'll have to use the report function to alert me. And don't expect me to react instantly: despite the evidence of the CQ games, I do work and sleep.

And when I am posting other than explicitly as a moderator (and I will always try to make that clear when I am), please don't take it as anything other than what I would have been posting otherwise. The puns will remain as bad as ever, and they are my fault, not that of Future Publishing.

Now, will I be allowed to ban people who don't sign up for the Giro CQ game?...

 

[Netserk]

Thank you for volunteering, @Armchair cyclist!

A pleasant surprise to see a good candidate stepping forward so quickly.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Kudos for stepping up when (so far) nobody else has. Yours seems a safe pair of hands, so in that sense it's doubly good news.

I guess I'll also have to make extra sure I don't post spoilers going forward

 

[hrotha]

My condolences

 

[Eshnar]

Thank you for volunteering and good luck! I'm sure you'll do well

 

[Lequack]

Welcome to level 2!

 

[Red Rick]

Best of luck @Armchair cyclist.

I can go back to being armchair moderator now

 

[RedheadDane]

The puns will remain as bad as ever, and they are my fault, not that of Future Publishing.

Why would you let Future Publishing take credit for your puns?

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Godspeed.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Thanks for stepping up.

 

[ManicJack]

My ignore list is now empty.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Godspeed.

I take it back.

 

[red_flanders]

Thanks for stepping up @Armchair cyclist

 

[Izzyeviel]

Now, will I be allowed to ban people who don't sign up for the Giro CQ game?...

No. Just the ones that beat you...

 

[Armchair cyclist]

No. Just the ones that beat you...

That will probably leave a very small group of entrants for the Tour game.

 

[RedheadDane]

That will probably leave a very small group of entrants for the Tour game.

Clearing the path for my (almost) unopposed victory!

(You could just ban people for a day...)

 

[Salvarani]

I take it back.

We can agree on this.

 

[noob]

Is now the time I say I thought you were a woman. Both you and previously Logic I thought was a woman. 🤣 I guess on the Internet gender really is a social construct

 

[Invicituz]

Fair play and all the best, @Armchair cyclist, in your new position as moderator; it's challenging, but somebody has to do it!

 

[RedheadDane]

Great work with moving off-shot discussions to different threads.