- Sep 16, 2010
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Is there something that can be done about the formatting when someone quotes a whole post that itself contains quotes? (I know that quoting a whole post is supposed to be against the guidelines but no one seems to want to encourage people to follow the guidelines.)
In the quote that appears in the new post, the embedded quotes in the original are deleted.
For example, in the following quote a number of embedded quotes have been automatically deleted, and the text that ran between them has been automatically squeezed into a single, senseless paragraph, with an unintended emoticon appearing because of the way the text has been collapsed by the forum software:
In the quote that appears in the new post, the embedded quotes in the original are deleted.
For example, in the following quote a number of embedded quotes have been automatically deleted, and the text that ran between them has been automatically squeezed into a single, senseless paragraph, with an unintended emoticon appearing because of the way the text has been collapsed by the forum software:
I wonder if you are even capable of telling fact from fantasy:They go on to say:And the kickerlease note the use of external experts there - are you going to tell us those people provided their services pro bono?
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I'm going to refrain from making fun of fmk_Lol and for once will sympathize with the issue being raised. If I was a genius, there is no way in hell I would want an emoticon attached to my message.
- May 5, 2010
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Did both the "Sexiest rider" threads - men and women - get completely removed from the forum, not just sent to another sub-section?
Oh, come on...
Oh, come on...
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I wonder, have there been complaints by riders or relatives of riders? Honest question, I wouldn't know.
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I have thought about it, also about whether I wrote something I better shouldn't have... maybe I did. But apart from a few posts that then got deleted anyway I didn't find it disrespectful. The pictures were mostly head and shoulders, and there was no rating, no dismissing, no talk about body measures. So I think it was either because of the general GRAPES rule, or because someone affected was not okay with it.
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I don't think it was that long from BR's post - in the men's thread - about how we shouldn't get too much out of hand, till just... poofff... gone! And no "getting out of hands in between.
It's just harmless fun.
- Jul 25, 2012
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Afraid I don’t know. They weren’t deleted by the mods, which it wouldn’t be fair for me to elaborate on, they were deleted by a senior member of the CN team.
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Ironically I am probably more likely to get bored and masturbate without having those 2 harmless threads to amuse myself with.
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What is happening here?
Anyway... I think what annoys me the most about the removal of those threads is the no-warning thing, and the fact that the decision was clearly made before there had been any time to see whether or not those threads would actually be problematic in the long run.
Anyway... I think what annoys me the most about the removal of those threads is the no-warning thing, and the fact that the decision was clearly made before there had been any time to see whether or not those threads would actually be problematic in the long run.
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We tried that remember and failed
But this upcoming year brings promise of a new one.
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I would assume that they decided the threads, no matter what was posted in them, do not fit with their vision of what is acceptable on this site.
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Since usually nobody is answering when you have questions or suggestions regarding the forum I suppose they aren't interested in the forum at all, but they are afraid that problematic topics/ posts may appear which would put them into problems. In a way I can understand it, the operators of a site are responsible for such things. So I guess it was pretty proactive in order to not having to watch every post.
(The honest question is whether it wouldn't be better to have another cycling forum than this which seems to stand on fragile feet at the moment.)
- Jul 25, 2012
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I'll play the mind reading game but I would guess that you're probably as capable as I am. My suggestion would be that objectifying people, whether the comments are perceived as nice or not (and to be clear some weren't and these continued before I had chance to come back and check after my initial posts) is irrelevant to discussing cycling and something that, especially in women's sport, is detrimental and something people have been fighting against for a long time.
- Sep 16, 2010
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When this conversation started last week I hoped that the soul searching engendered by the deletions might lead to enlightenment. But it's clear in the most recent contributions that that's not going to happen and we're back to the usual playbook, seeing ourselves as champions of free speech oppressed by tyrannical rulers, even down to sophomoronic references to Orwell (was Winston Smith really chucked in Room 101 cause he was perving out on people in Lycra? I seem to have forgotten that chapter).
That being the case:
View: https://twitter.com/dnlbenson/status/1455945638496063489
If you are unable to learn from cases like Nassar, Bracke et all why such threads are problematic, if you are unable to see how such threads damage the ability of CN to report on such cases, that explanation isn't going to lead you to enlightenment, I know. But be clear: you are not the ones being oppressed.
That being the case:
View: https://twitter.com/dnlbenson/status/1455945638496063489
If you are unable to learn from cases like Nassar, Bracke et all why such threads are problematic, if you are unable to see how such threads damage the ability of CN to report on such cases, that explanation isn't going to lead you to enlightenment, I know. But be clear: you are not the ones being oppressed.
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