I think this has merit.

I nominate myself to have the power to delete threads.

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Striving to have sex more than 66 times per year

I second Andrew J's concept, subject to Dan's review and approval.

A forum by the people and for the people. Good idea Andrew J.

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

I nominate Hazen.

Thanks Tom

There is too much good in here - to let crap like this negatively impact everyone.


Welcome home - hope the break was restful!

yes, he would be good :-)

then I would be banned from ST also.

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Striving to have sex more than 66 times per year

Andrew--Are you referring to your Happy Birthday Kittycat thread, or your Bunny movie thread?

bunny video

yes - it should have gone into the Lavender Room

Kittycats birthday wish - well - that's marginal - she's a celebrity here on ST and is a contributor on a lot of levels.

Not saying that every post I have made should have stayed on the front page - but mine have been completely mild by comparison - in terms of the OT- and importantly - never slanderous

agreed

Oooops.... LOL...

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smartasscoach.tri-oeiras.com

That was the idea behind the "Move to Lavender Room" button I suggested in this post:

http://forum.slowtwitch.com/...der%20button;#648772

Your variation of having it restricted to a core group would keep that idea from being abused.

same desired result - hopefully Dan can look into it

Dan?

I don't think this is neccessary and I really hope it doesn't happen. No need to overreact. We don't need to create a police state around here.

I'm sure Dan will pull the thread or send it to the Lavender room once he sees it, but even if he doesn't, those who don't want to be involved with that kind of crap will just avoid the thread. Very simple. We're all adults here, we can handle it.

it is sad but I think that the rules of the forum get broken and abused and sadly too little happens - maybe this is a chance for Dan to swing the axe (deservedly) and eliminate an ST'er

m

Well if he decides to do that, that's his right. I just don't think it's necessary to appoint Slowtwitch Police - unless I'm one of them of course ;-)

hilarious

It's fairly obvious that the people that continue to post OT stuff in the main forum will continue to do so because THEY want it HERE and don't give a poop what Dan (the owner) or anyone else says about it. The OT stuff is increasingly 'character assassinations' which may, at some point, come with some consequences.

It's hard to believe, but grown adults are going to have to be "forced" to follow one simple forum rule. The owner of the site has said something and the posters have said "we don't like that or agree with it, so we're going to do what we want".

I'm thinking ... if I am Dan ... and I have a business to run, decisions to make, a life to live, do I really want to even worry about monitoring adult behavior and conversation on a website? Why? Do I even want to go to the trouble of setting up "Jedi" to watch the site for me? Wouldn't I rather just be done with it and focus on what I enjoy doing?

Every forum I have ever been to has either been a model of entrophy (steady decline to disorder) or too much admin. The process is cyclical, new site get's started and is awesome, and is soon over-run by trolls, trouble-makers, bitchers, whiners, complainers, and similar negative personas. Someone gets frustrated, starts their own forum, process repeats ... or the alternative is to run a site that features 3 people talking on topic about the same four topics with never a curse word or a semi-complain, and absolutely never anything that might be construed as a quasi-insult to anyone else in the world, etc (okay, I exaggerate a tad).

If I'm Dan, I cut the forum loose. I still have a business, website, articles, etc that I can use to express my thoughts. I don't need the hassle of monitoring adult behavior and conversation. I also don't need the hassle of setting up "Jedi" to do it for me.

At some points, forums become more hassle (negative) than they are worth (positive) and need cut loose.

The triathlon world will not die w/o the ST forum, and the die-hards will eventually find somewhere else to spend their days. Honestly, after a week, some will realize how much time they've wasted having the same conversations about topics they have no influence over and be thankful it's gone.

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This is a good plan which works for me too.

DUDE YOU FREAKIN STOLE MY IDEA!!!

OT Police Now Recruiting Edit | Delete | Quote | Reply
With the off season upon us, more and more OT threads are springing up in the Triathlon Forum. To combat this mad outbreak I think that we need to call up a OT Police { I, Aerojunkie2 will lead, if no one has any objections } and find and label all OT threads. Submit your interests in joining this fine team to me on this thread.




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No, I'm not Normann Stadler and am not selling his bike, so stop asking.

I don't know about all of that, but I notice that the 'Hateful Thread' thread has already went bye-bye, maybe. Was it my observation (with explicit examples of the swear words typically used over there?) that the Lavender Room is where all of that stuff needs to go?

T.

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Is that not where you spend all your time anyway? Is that why you ant it to move there?

I really don't care one way or the other where it goes, I just made the observation that one of the threads over here may have already bitten the dust. I went back over there, and it's not present in that forum, either, so I'm already wrong about that.

I like both forums equally. Sometimes, especially after an especially heated debate over there about some inane topic or another, I prefer to spend more time here. And vice-versa. After all, one can only talk so much about resting heartrates and bike frame geometries before going batty. The same goes for the endless discussions about George Bush and all that other dreck over there, too.

Tony

I feel the same.