Babes thread kybosh.

[Chuffy]

That thread had been running for over 15 months. You had enough rope and you hung yourselves guys. Go buy a copy of Nuts and polish your headtubes.

 

[ElChingon]

Can't wait till they have their website finances meeting.

Manager: Why are we seeing a reduction from our hit counts?
Lacky: We closed down the most viewed/clicked thread on the forum.
Manager: WT...!!!!

 

[Anonymous]

Way to go TFF.

derailing your own thread!

Yea, it needed some fresh blood. Getting mad about no more chicks wasn't topic enough...

 

[nowhereman]

Let the Gnomes Begin!

BTW, did your last Gnome already have protruding Breasts??? This is not heading in a good direction!

 

[Anonymous]

God, you are all pathetic, working yourselves up as if soft porn with bikes was a human right. If your girlfriends are away, why don't you just go to redtube.com and do a search on "bike". And get it over with.

Well, since you know about that site, and your avatar suggests you are a "chick," why not post a video of yourself there to help us along...I mean, you made the suggestion. I say, put up or shut-up.

 

[Siriuscat]

Pretty disappointing that this thread has turned into what it has.

Babes on Bikes did no harm whatsoever, it was not soft porn, it was not denigrating to women, it was not what normal people would call offensive. However, the mod/admin has made a decision and to be blunt guys and gals the only thing that'll suffer is your hits as has been alluded to.

Gnomes are not that interesting!

 

[nowhereman]

Pretty disappointing that this thread has turned into what it has.

Babes on Bikes did no harm whatsoever, it was not soft porn, it was not denigrating to women, it was not what normal people would call offensive. However, the mod/admin has made a decision and to be blunt guys and gals the only thing that'll suffer is your hits as has been alluded to.

Gnomes are not that interesting!

Hey you! Whaddaya mean, "not interesting"???
How's this for interesting???

How's this for shapely?!
modified for modest

 

[red_flanders]

That thread had been running for over 15 months. You had enough rope and you hung yourselves guys. Go buy a copy of Nuts and polish your headtubes.

It wasn't closed for going overboard. It was closed, I'd guess, because a mod finally got tired of hearing someone complain about it.

Fine, but just call it what it is. The idea that it's somehow become too much all of a sudden just comes off as the BS that it is. Just say why you did it and take the heat, since we're all going to moan anyway.

 

[AussieGoddess]

It wasn't closed for going overboard. It was closed, I'd guess, because a mod finally got tired of hearing someone complain about it.

Fine, but just call it what it is. The idea that it's somehow become too much all of a sudden just comes off as the BS that it is. Just say why you did it and take the heat, since we're all going to moan anyway.

hmm - perhaps so many complaints were received because it was going overboard and was offensive to some?

As for why not close the cafe and the multitude of other non-cycling threads - they arent offensive!!!!

Seriously - has no other thread ever been closed for being deemed not appropriate?

 

[Anonymous]

hmm - perhaps so many complaints were received because it was going overboard and was offensive to some?

As for why not close the cafe and the multitude of other non-cycling threads - they arent offensive!!!!

Seriously - has no other thread ever been closed for being deemed not appropriate?

Exactly how was it offensive? Sorry, but I am a man and not a woman. I don't want to act like a woman. I don't want to think like a woman. I am sick of women who believe they are the arbiter of a man's behavior. I am not sure if you know this, but there is a difference in the sexes, and it is that way for every species of animals. In humans, men are visually sexually oriented. It is a natural and normal thing for them to view women (if they are heterosexual), and for that viewing to be pleasurable (meaning that there is a release of chemicals in the brain that is there for a PURPOSE) to them. What is UNNATURAL is for a woman to try to dictate what is and is not acceptable to them when there is nothing abhorrent or outrageous about what they are viewing.

You post is EXACTLY what I was certain drove the closing of the thread. I have a suggestion to you: Don't open the ****ing thread if you don't want to see what is in there. See how easy that is?

A woman who thinks she should tell a man how to act is a woman who needs to deal with her own life and leave the life of a man to them. Period.

Sorry, but the offense you took was stupid. Tell you what, I will not tell you what should go on in your life, and you leave mine the **** alone too? Sound fair?

 

[bobs nob]

You're out of order! You're out of order! The whole website is out of order!

ehhh....seems over the last few months the moderation has taken a turn for the humorless.

It (babes thread) certainly did get loads of page views, and isn't that what determines where most people are going? Which is not to say that that is the sole determining factor on a thread's worth, but apparently it was pretty popular and if people don't like it, I can't really see what trouble that causes for the rest of the site.

This forum, imho, IS the site. Most news items are just a re-hash of stuff already posted elsewhere. I could be wrong, I am sure your servers generate very fine (granular) reports showing precisely where people go once they get here (cn). But seldom do I spend a lot of time elsewhere on cn.

I get the fact that you are trying to dampen the flaming that regularly occurs (and btw, as I write this there is currently a raging inferno going on in the thread about wada dropping a bomb on Lance).

I don't really get what the long term view is, or maybe there is not one. But the moderation here makes some really peculiar moves. I am not trying to come off as angry or hostile, but it's a little underwhelming.

 

[patricknd]

hmm - perhaps so many complaints were received because it was going overboard and was offensive to some?

As for why not close the cafe and the multitude of other non-cycling threads - they arent offensive!!!!

Seriously - has no other thread ever been closed for being deemed not appropriate?

no one was forced to view that topic. pc assholes got it closed and the nutless mod knuckled under. try minding your business in the future.

 

[pedaling squares]

...Serious case of shutting doors long after the horses have all left, had children of their own and been turned into burgers.

You eat horse burgers?!

Tired old face, nasty breasts, and that hat looks like a penis in bondage. That is pornography. Bring back BoB, this forum is going to hell.

 

[usedtobefast]

all i can say is i am severely disappointed. one guy gets to close a thread that so many enjoy? one guy. please.grow up folks. so weak. i must admit that my respect for this site has dropped severely there is a lot of humor in that thread.
the reason given is baffling.

 

[krebs303]

all i can say is i am severely disappointed. one guy gets to close a thread that so many enjoy? one guy. please.grow up folks. so weak. i must admit that my respect for this site has dropped severely there is a lot of humor in that thread.
the reason given is baffling.

absolute power corrupts absolutely

 

[pedaling squares]

In 180's defence, he did say this was the right move in his opinion and that it was open to discussion. I don't agree with the decision but it's not like he's profiting off the closure of the thread. I think it will get reopened, if only to stop the gnomes from populating the forum.

 

[ElChingon]

If it was open to discussion why was the thread locked? It is not open to discussion because its locked.

 

[Martin318is]

If it was open to discussion why was the thread locked? It is not open to discussion because its locked.

That is patently ridiculous logic.

It is clearly open to discussion because we are right here discussing it now.

You don't have a conversation of this type inside the thread itself or you end up destroying the thread anyway. You open a new thread to discuss it. TFF has done this (and other people have created other threads to express their own interpretations of the issues)

 

[HL2037]

I'll try to explain something, even though I don't expect you guys to be able to see through your self righteous rage right now.

So why do I have a problem with b.o.b. thread, even though I never open it? That's because it influence the way women in cycling are seen. You sit here on cyclingnews.com and confirm to each other that it is ok to view cycling women as objects who only exist for you to have something to **** over. Weather you are concious about it or not, that attitude will transfer into how you act towards women that you meet out on the road.

I don't want to judge over anyones fetisch, and there are probably many places on the internet where you can share it with others. I just don't think that a serious site like cyclingnews should support that view on women, and I am glad and relieved that they closed the thread.

 

[nowhereman]

Exactly how was it offensive? Sorry, but I am a man and not a woman. I don't want to act like a woman. I don't want to think like a woman. I am sick of women who believe they are the arbiter of a man's behavior. I am not sure if you know this, but there is a difference in the sexes, and it is that way for every species of animals. In humans, men are visually sexually oriented. It is a natural and normal thing for them to view women (if they are heterosexual), and for that viewing to be pleasurable (meaning that there is a release of chemicals in the brain that is there for a PURPOSE) to them. What is UNNATURAL is for a woman to try to dictate what is and is not acceptable to them when there is nothing abhorrent or outrageous about what they are viewing.

You post is EXACTLY what I was certain drove the closing of the thread. I have a suggestion to you: Don't open the ****ing thread if you don't want to see what is in there. See how easy that is?

A woman who thinks she should tell a man how to act is a woman who needs to deal with her own life and leave the life of a man to them. Period.

Sorry, but the offense you took was stupid. Tell you what, I will not tell you what should go on in your life, and you leave mine the **** alone too? Sound fair?

Could not have been said better! Amen to that!

 

[BroDeal]

I'll try to explain something, even though I don't expect you guys to be able to see through your self righteous rage right now.

So why do I have a problem with b.o.b. thread, even though I never open it? That's because it influence the way women in cycling are seen. You sit here on cyclingnews.com and confirm to each other that it is ok to view cycling women as objects who only exist for you to have something to **** over. Weather you are concious about it or not, that attitude will transfer into how you act towards women that you meet out on the road.

I don't want to judge over anyones fetisch, and there are probably many places on the internet where you can share it with others. I just don't think that a serious site like cyclingnews should support that view on women, and I am glad and relieved that they closed the thread.

 

[AussieGoddess]

Exactly how was it offensive? Sorry, but I am a man and not a woman. I don't want to act like a woman. I don't want to think like a woman. I am sick of women who believe they are the arbiter of a man's behavior. I am not sure if you know this, but there is a difference in the sexes, and it is that way for every species of animals. In humans, men are visually sexually oriented. It is a natural and normal thing for them to view women (if they are heterosexual), and for that viewing to be pleasurable (meaning that there is a release of chemicals in the brain that is there for a PURPOSE) to them. What is UNNATURAL is for a woman to try to dictate what is and is not acceptable to them when there is nothing abhorrent or outrageous about what they are viewing.

You post is EXACTLY what I was certain drove the closing of the thread. I have a suggestion to you: Don't open the ****ing thread if you don't want to see what is in there. See how easy that is?

A woman who thinks she should tell a man how to act is a woman who needs to deal with her own life and leave the life of a man to them. Period.

Sorry, but the offense you took was stupid. Tell you what, I will not tell you what should go on in your life, and you leave mine the **** alone too? Sound fair?

ACtually - I didnt open the thread because I would have been offended by it. I didnt report it either ... so had nothing to do with its close. I am simply stating that I am in agreement with the decision to close it - and why.

I'll try to explain something, even though I don't expect you guys to be able to see through your self righteous rage right now.

So why do I have a problem with b.o.b. thread, even though I never open it? That's because it influence the way women in cycling are seen. You sit here on cyclingnews.com and confirm to each other that it is ok to view cycling women as objects who only exist for you to have something to **** over. Weather you are concious about it or not, that attitude will transfer into how you act towards women that you meet out on the road.

I don't want to judge over anyones fetisch, and there are probably many places on the internet where you can share it with others. I just don't think that a serious site like cyclingnews should support that view on women, and I am glad and relieved that they closed the thread.

exactly. thank you.

 

[nowhereman]

I'll try to explain something, even though I don't expect you guys to be able to see through your self righteous rage right now.

So why do I have a problem with b.o.b. thread, even though I never open it? That's because it influence the way women in cycling are seen. You sit here on cyclingnews.com and confirm to each other that it is ok to view cycling women as objects who only exist for you to have something to **** over. Weather you are concious about it or not, that attitude will transfer into how you act towards women that you meet out on the road.

I don't want to judge over anyones fetisch, and there are probably many places on the internet where you can share it with others. I just don't think that a serious site like cyclingnews should support that view on women, and I am glad and relieved that they closed the thread.

That is a total bunch of nonsense, and you have absolutely no proof that, that is true. I thought the thread was a lot of fun, and I do not display any dysfunctional behavior towards women. As long as the thread was overseen to avoid/delete some over the top posts it was great fun. TFF put it perfectly, I suggest you read his last post over and over until you get it, because it very simply outlines the fact that we don't need to close something down just because some people don't like it.
I despise Geo Bush. Do I go to the "W rides a 29er" thread anymore, NO. I did, I said my piece, and I will no longer visit that thread, but I won't be clammering that it be shut down. I just don't go there anymore. Got It??? Maybe you should have just ignored the BoB thread, in fact maybe you should ignore this one too. Your "theories" on the profiles, and motivations of the men who liked this thread are useless and unfounded, and I find them offensive.

 

[HL2037]

That is a total bunch of nonsense, and you have absolutely no proof that, that is true. I thought the thread was a lot of fun, and I do not display any dysfunctional behavior towards women. As long as the thread was overseen to avoid/delete some over the top posts it was great fun. TFF put it perfectly, I suggest you read his last post over and over until you get it, because it very simply outlines the fact that we don't need to close something down just because some people don't like it.
I despise Geo Bush. Do I go to the "W rides a 29er" thread anymore, NO. I did, I said my piece, and I will no longer visit that thread, but I won't be clammering that it be shut down. I just don't go there anymore. Got It??? Maybe you should have just ignored the BoB thread, in fact maybe you should ignore this one too. Your "theories" on the profiles, and motivations of the men who liked this thread are useless and unfounded, and I find them offensive.

Some would think you are being quite rude and condescending right now

 

[Ferminal]

I'll try to explain something, even though I don't expect you guys to be able to see through your self righteous rage right now.

So why do I have a problem with b.o.b. thread, even though I never open it? That's because it influence the way women in cycling are seen. You sit here on cyclingnews.com and confirm to each other that it is ok to view cycling women as objects who only exist for you to have something to **** over. Weather you are concious about it or not, that attitude will transfer into how you act towards women that you meet out on the road.

I don't want to judge over anyones fetisch, and there are probably many places on the internet where you can share it with others. I just don't think that a serious site like cyclingnews should support that view on women, and I am glad and relieved that they closed the thread.

I completely I agree.

I suggest that any males who have sinned by viewing the Babes on Bikes thread at one point, undergo an intensive rehabilitation.

http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?t=10707

If we all view that thread over an extended period of time, hopefully our attitude to women who we meet out on the road will be restored to a socially acceptable level.