As a recreational cyclist, you get accused of doping! What to do?

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PaulB

Legendary Member
Location
Colne
On a forum I go on dedicated to another sport (my football team) there is a particularly odious waste of DNA who scuttles about on there. He has another partner-in-crime who work together and try to discredit anyone with a point of view different to his. Well during the Tour de France, he came on to post one of the stupidest things you tend to see on such forums (fora?); he came on to say he didn't like cycling! When pointed out that was like going on to a heavy-metal forum to say 'I don't like heavy metal, me', he got into a huff and claimed everyone took drugs.

Move on a few weeks and a simple posting of mine about football, brought the claim that I only posted as I was confused over all the 'bike drugs' I took! I asked him to do one of two things; apologise or substantiate the claim. His response? A laughing face symbol. He has failed to do either other than that and his pet Meerkat who usually jumps in on the failed DNA's behalf, has stayed out of this so he has no back-up. The site mod has actually stated that I would be in the right to go down the legal avenue and of course I have zero intention of doing so but it's noticeable that his prolific visits have reduced to a trickle and all away from that thread.
 

ASC1951

Guru
Location
Yorkshire
Move on a few weeks and a simple posting of mine about football, brought the claim that I only posted as I was confused over all the 'bike drugs' I took! I asked him to do one of two things; apologise or substantiate the claim. His response? A laughing face symbol. He has failed to do either other than that and his pet Meerkat who usually jumps in on the failed DNA's behalf, has stayed out of this so he has no back-up.
What to do, you ask?

Grow up. The argy-bargy area of an online forum is just a school playground, ffs. If haven't realised that nothing posted on it actually matters, well, you are too naive to be wasting your time there.

And don't rely on the mods for legal advice. You can't defame people who are anonymous.
 

XmisterIS

Purveyor of fine nonsense
PaulB - Just ignore the troll. Simples.
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vernon

Harder than Ronnie Pickering
Location
Meanwood, Leeds
Hang on. You proudly boast on this forum about your sexual prowess experiments with illicitly obtained Viagra yet whinge about a vague unfocussed accusation levelled against you.

if you can't take the heat stay out of the kitchen.
 

Vapin' Joe

Formerly known as Smokin Joe
Grow a thicker skin.
 
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