Stop arguing on the forum

[just jim]

A lot of it is the usual fare - e.g P.S launching another ****- stirring anti-Scots thread (but unusually no mention of "the Buckie" this time), and has done so since the C+ days. It' usually settles down but I agree parts of the forum can make for uncomfortable reading.

 

[MissTillyFlop]

Maybe we should have a place called The War Room, where no fighting is allowed?

 

[yello]

I mentioned this very point to lukesdad in chat last night. CC does seem to be going through one of it's aggressive phases, I don't know why.

Tbh, I've been considering taking a break. Not only does it give me a chance to breath and change focus but also the forum has changed by the time I come back.

 

[Zoof]

I agree with you crak sarcasm and put downs are just not working.

Comedy is the best way most of the time to defuse a situation.

Why not get together a crack team of comedy warriors to swat the fly's on the horse-shoot!

 

[Crackle]

I mentioned this very point to lukesdad in chat last night. CC does seem to be going through one of it's aggressive phases, I don't know why.

Tbh, I've been considering taking a break. Not only does it give me a chance to breath and change focus but also the forum has changed by the time I come back.

I did that for the very reason I didn't want to get drawn in but I come back and nothing much has changed.

It could be my own sensibility levels have been reached rather than any fault of the forum which may just be running at businesss as usual levels. This thread was a little test to see if it was my sensibilities or others thought the same.

Perhaps it's time to pack in forum life for me, it's reached full circle. I don't want to be one of those pub bores who's been in the corner of the local for more years than you can remember and is now beginning to look as sad as he's actually always been. The hard bit is breaking the addiction.

Just musing.

 

[NormanD]

I don't want to be one of those pub bores who's been in the corner of the local for more years than you can remember and is now beginning to look as sad as he's actually always been.

That's my corner, will you please refrain from sitting in there in future


I'm still blaming him though in my other post

 

[Grizzly]

Why does other people arguing bother you? I cant understand why people get so aggressive either but there is no point in letting it get to you, some of them probably have mental issues or were abused children so you cant really blame them.

 

[John the Monkey]

I mentioned this very point to lukesdad in chat last night. CC does seem to be going through one of it's aggressive phases, I don't know why.

Tbh, I've been considering taking a break. Not only does it give me a chance to breath and change focus but also the forum has changed by the time I come back.

I limit myself to know how and beginners when I feel like that.

It's less fighty in there, as long as you don't talk about chain maintenance regimes.

 

[Panter]

Have to agree really, I don't know if cyclists are particularly argumentative but it has gone a little bit OTT in my opinion.

I have been winding down the time I spend on here (although it was way too much tbh) and may take a short break. CC is a fabulous forum and I don't want to get bored with it.

Peace and love to all!

 

[Red Light]

There does seem to be an awful lot of posts that are nothing to do with cycling and a lot to do with politics that seem to get really steamed up. I wonder if antagonism generated there is then being carried over into other interactions on the forum?

I must say I was suprised when I first arrived how much content had absolutely nothing to do with cycling and how it was much more wide ranging debates/arguments in which cycling sometimes featured. I am not sure really why it allows itself to become PoliticsChat or EmploymentChat or any of the many other TopicsChat and would not mind it being focussed much more on cycling related comment with the occasional drift off topic as you might expect in pub conversations after a club ride.

 

[Crackle]

Why does other people arguing bother you? I cant understand why people get so aggressive either but there is no point in letting it get to you, some of them probably have mental issues or were abused children so you cant really blame them.

Some of them probably were. I refer you back to my last post. Perhaps my personal sensibility levels have been reached.

 

[lukesdad]

I mentioned this very point to lukesdad in chat last night. CC does seem to be going through one of it's aggressive phases, I don't know why.

Tbh, I've been considering taking a break. Not only does it give me a chance to breath and change focus but also the forum has changed by the time I come back.

I didn t argue with Yello, by the way Crax .

 

[Dan B]

I must say I was suprised when I first arrived how much content had absolutely nothing to do with cycling and how it was much more wide ranging debates/arguments in which cycling sometimes featured. I am not sure really why it allows itself to become PoliticsChat or EmploymentChat or any of the many other TopicsChat and would not mind it being focussed much more on cycling related comment with the occasional drift off topic as you might expect in pub conversations after a club ride.

Someone will be along in a minute to say "be the change you want to see", bt I've always found that somewhat facile.

But I don't have a problem with PoliticsChat or EmploymentChat or whatever else: I see no reason that we shouldn't be just as able to constructively discuss any of these other subjects as we are able to discuss cycling -after all, it's not as though we all agree about cycling either. Deliberately misrepresenting someone else's opinion (for example) is point-scoring whether it's their opinion about the appropriate use of primary position or the nature of capitalism.

 

[lukesdad]

Have you called that Assasin off yet

 

[Red Light]

But I don't have a problem with PoliticsChat or EmploymentChat or whatever else: I see no reason that we shouldn't be just as able to constructively discuss any of these other subjects as we are able to discuss cycling -after all, it's not as though we all agree about cycling either. Deliberately misrepresenting someone else's opinion (for example) is point-scoring whether it's their opinion about the appropriate use of primary position or the nature of capitalism.

Politics is a whole lot more of an emotive topic than most of cycling - Campag-Shimano and a few other topics excepted. There are plenty of other fora where people can discuss politics or world economics or the benefits and problems of capitalism so I'm not sure why they need to be discussed here, although I am as guilty as most in that respect.