Do we not deserve our bad rep?

[Bollo]

Guys, what are you doing!?

Lee is a troll. Pure and simple. He has even admited as much (i.e. that he is on the wind up) in other threads. Ignore him. His position in untenable, but that's the challenge for him. To defend the undefendable. He's a debater for the sake of debate. Nothing else.

At university one of the debates teams jokingly referred to themselves as the massed-debaters. I wonder if this applies here...

There are some threads where its just not been worth feeding him, but this thread has enough interest to try and burn through his static.

 

[Bollo]

Lee, I saw this cartoon and thought of you. I really did. Wishing you the best of luck with stage 2!

 

[col]

Dubious techniques? Example? Else we haven't a clue what you're on about.

Ah of course notIf i placed myself in a position on the road so it causes a motorist to adjust theirs just so i can prove a point,or instead of pulling over when i could and blocking in some way,then this is dubious,this is just a small example,but im sure you know what i mean.

 

[col]

Lee, I saw this cartoon and thought of you. I really did. Wishing you the best of luck with stage 2!

This is trolling isnt it?Being argumentative even if i am wrong isnt,unless you use that term when you dont like some dissagreeing?

 

[hackbike 666]

Funnily enough so has driving while using your mobile phone in motoring culture, no great comparison I know, but just as lazily self absorbed and ignorant.

There are a lot of comparisons between the two.Both are dangerous and irresponsible to other road users and peds.(also illegal)

 

[magnatom]

Only in that thread mag, not in this one.

That might be true, but do you see why, if you troll once, it can be very difficult to take you seriously again?

 

[hackbike 666]

This is the way Lee sees it.

 

[bryce]

Guys, what are you doing!?

Lee is a troll. Pure and simple. He has even admited as much (i.e. that he is on the wind up) in other threads. Ignore him.

+1. I thought everyone knew this. Why hasn't everyone just put him on their blacklists? Why haven't the mods removed him? This whole thread has been hijacked by him. 1,500 posts in a month says it all.

 

[dondare]

Forum sites which discourage controversy and lively debates are as boring as hell. I never ignore anyone and I think that banning should only be used on spammers.

 

[Bollo]

This is trolling isnt it?Being argumentative even if i am wrong isnt,unless you use that term when you dont like some dissagreeing?

Lee is a troll. Its open season.

 

[magnatom]

I certainly wouldn't want him banned!

However, personally I think this argument is going around in circles. It is obvious that Lee will never change his mind, so it is probably best to leave him to it.

 

[swee'pea99]

I don't think Lee is a troll. A troll, as I understand it, posts purely to provoke. I don't think Lee does. I think he enjoys stirring it up a bit, but I don't, for example, think he posted all that insane gibberish about riding without lights purely to wind people up. I think he genuinely believed what he was posting. Which means, as far as I can see, that although he's a bit of a WUM - 'he loves to tease' - he's not a troll (who, by definition, does it only to tease).

 

[BentMikey]

I do love how he changes his tune after getting loads of abuse, albeit only very slightly.

 

[Tynan]

it's a fine difference between provoking and stirring it up a bit

seems to me there's no genuine posting, only ritual argument, not always of a sensible kind, that's well on the way to troll or at least trolling for me

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

I honestly don't think it will make a blind bit of difference. To many cyclists to influence and RLJing has in some respects become part of cycling culture now.

True. If you're a complete muppet with no respect for others on the road.