Recent content by SHaines

Me, personally? No, I definitely am not an expert on professional cycling. Future hired me because I have a proven track record with community forums and moderator comment systems for more than a decade. The volunteer moderators are the ones with a passion for, and deep knowledge of, cycling...

Hey folks, The Community Team at Future (including myself) create the guidelines and ask the Moderators to enforce them. Please don't think the mods are making decisions exclusively about any individual, they've been asked to handle specific issues in specific ways. The decision not to have...

My remark on tone was about conveying that I was being sincere in not intending to seem ruthless. It's very literally always been the case that people can view the guidelines and make a post, with moderation only coming after the post is made. That's just forums. I mean, it's possible that...

I'd suggest folks makes the posts they want to make and those that are over the line will be removed. I can't say whether a post will run into issues with moderation until the post is made. As mentioned, I'm not moderating the forum most of the time, so we're leaving these specific decisions...

I appreciate everyone hearing me out and letting me get more clarity on how folks are feeling. This is one of the many reasons why I still love forums.

I'd love to have the discussion without accusations of ill intent. I'm not moving goal posts, we're just trying to communicate in text and that requires a bit of patience. Please bear with me as I think it's incredibly important that we all come to understand where we're coming from. I have not...

We're going to enforce the policies that are in place for the forums. We're not able to go through all the various hypothetical scenarios of what might or might not be allowed in a given thread. We'll handle things as they come on a case by case basis. There is an active military conflict that...

I went through the thread and identified posts that were discussing the protests and removed them all at once. It's possible that some of the posts I removed should not have been, which is certainly a possibility. As with everyone else here, I am a person and capable of making mistakes...

There's definitely confusion. None of the posts I removed had any other action of any kind taken. Not a single ban or even suspension was put in place by me. Armchair had specific cases where further action was needed, but those were individual circumstances. I went further than folks were...

I absolutely love forums and have for decades. That said, one major drawback is that we cannot convey tone well. I will just say plainly that there's no intention here to be ruthless, but this current situation does feel very different, based on the amount of posts coming in all at once on an...

Have we seen previous protests of this type in recent years? This one is the first to flood my inbox with notifications. The policy to keep political discussions off this forum isn't new, so this isn't a policy change. If I've missed something specific, please let me know.

Can you provide additional context?

Not derailing the discussion, but here's a thread with a comment on our policies.

Hey folks, I'm posting separately from this thread about the ongoing race, so as to avoid derailing it. Cycling has always been more than just a sport — it intersects with culture, history, and yes, sometimes politics. We recognize that certain races or events may naturally touch on political...

Yes. All discussions between individual members have been disabled. Mods and Admin can still directly message everyone and everyone can still message Mods and Admin, but that's the extent of it going forward, unfortunately.