Wilbur ★ Posted May 4, 2018 Share #1 Posted May 4, 2018 What led you all to flee The Love Forum? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentonMakes Posted May 4, 2018 Share #2 Posted May 4, 2018 For me it was a combination of two things - a general sense that the mood/personality in the place had changed for the worse; and it was a time in my life when I didn't have time (or didn't make enough of an effort) to ride. I didn't really "flee" the Love Forum, I just stopped visiting. There was probably a 6-year hiatus between when I stopped visiting the LF, and when I joined SW. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted May 4, 2018 Share #3 Posted May 4, 2018 I was invited by SW, and I signed up. At the time I posted at the old place, the LF (love forum). But I realized more peeps were posting here so I transitioned over and I'm glad I did. I can't recall exactly why the demise of the LF, but others here do. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted May 4, 2018 Share #4 Posted May 4, 2018 18 minutes ago, Wilbur said: What led you all to flee The Love Forum? Lack of moderation of personal attacks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Wilbur ★ Posted May 4, 2018 Author Popular Post Share #5 Posted May 4, 2018 1 minute ago, jsharr said: Lack of moderation of personal attacks. Just cause everyone hates Texicans doesn't make it personal, OK? 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted May 4, 2018 Share #6 Posted May 4, 2018 The atmosphere at the LF could be a bit toxic at times. Lots of great time and posters there, but a few of them really knew how to put you down and make you feel unwelcome. I remember SW getting a bit of a hard time when he first arrived there. When he decided to start his own forum with the hope of a friendlier experience, I joined. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted May 4, 2018 Share #7 Posted May 4, 2018 I didn't spend that much time in the LF at the beginning of my tour of duty over there. Mostly the maintenance and riding forums. Some people were annoying but what the heck? You go with the flow and hold your own. I didn't join the mass exodus and ended up having a pretty nice time with the people who remained and those that visited from time to time. I met my current wife, @Razors Edge, over there so it was pretty good overall. I came over here because they closed down and SW invited me to join here. He caught me at a weak moment in my life. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted May 4, 2018 Author Share #8 Posted May 4, 2018 2 minutes ago, donkpow said: I met my current wife, @Razors Edge I would so ditch that.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted May 4, 2018 Share #9 Posted May 4, 2018 1 minute ago, Wilbur said: I would so ditch that.... I would but he makes tons of money and is rarely home. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted May 4, 2018 Share #10 Posted May 4, 2018 I started posting because a number of the posters that I liked from the LF moved over here and I missed them, but I kept up visiting the LF from time to time until they closed. But I liked the friendly atmosphere here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted May 4, 2018 Share #11 Posted May 4, 2018 Someone kept posting "Hockey sucks" 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy Posted May 4, 2018 Share #12 Posted May 4, 2018 For me, the biggest push was the switch to that disaster format that was hoopla. It gave me a headache to try to read it, the format was that bad for me. Then you add all the functionality issues and I was pretty much forced to either quit posting or move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy Posted May 4, 2018 Share #13 Posted May 4, 2018 That and I was trying to away from IU fans like @Parr8hed 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 4, 2018 Share #14 Posted May 4, 2018 2 hours ago, bikeman564™ said: I was invited by SW, and I signed up. At the time I posted at the old place, the LF (love forum). But I realized more peeps were posting here so I transitioned over and I'm glad I did. I can't recall exactly why the demise of the LF, but others here do. This Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted May 4, 2018 Share #15 Posted May 4, 2018 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12string Posted May 4, 2018 Share #16 Posted May 4, 2018 I thought the LF was just fine until my wife @Razors Edge left me for some unknown reason so I came here. Yeah, guess who was here, but oddly, things just haven't been the same 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ralphie ★ Posted May 4, 2018 Popular Post Share #17 Posted May 4, 2018 Mainly just lack of traffic for me. I tried bike forums briefly but felt lost in the crowd there. This is like Cheers. Yes, I am old. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy Posted May 4, 2018 Share #18 Posted May 4, 2018 And it was the Hoopla software change that caused this place to be created in the first place. I believe I was the third person to join because @Randomguy drug me over here after SW got it setup. While the general attitude on the LF did change over time, it's now what was the driving force behind this place being created. People complain about Steve and his moderation, but I thought he did a good job. He tried to stay out of the fray and compared to BF and the disaster that place was with moderation, I much preferred Steve's approach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy Posted May 4, 2018 Share #19 Posted May 4, 2018 1 minute ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said: Mainly just lack of traffic for me. I tried bike forums briefly but felt lost in the crowd there. This is like Cheers. Yes, I am old. Well, you wouldn't have felt that way but most of us were banned from BF for dumb jokes, or in my case a Dum-dum joke, never could figure out how someone could be so anti-suckers to ban someone over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital_photog ★ Posted May 4, 2018 Share #20 Posted May 4, 2018 I registered here the first day but didn't totally leave LF till my log in quite working and I couldn't get it fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted May 4, 2018 Share #21 Posted May 4, 2018 1 hour ago, Digital_photog said: I registered here the first day but didn't totally leave LF till my log in quite working and I couldn't get it fixed. ...this makes me feel like you asked three other girls to the prom, and they all said no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted May 5, 2018 Share #22 Posted May 5, 2018 From what I gather, it wasn't about "cycling" as much as about "love". Naturally, as a serial polygamist, I was destined to land here at the SWC & the Cafe, and I have already begun the wooing process of a few of the folks here. Keep in mind, you can never have too much love in the world. The rapid implosion of the Bicycling forum didn't help, either. Like here, though, the actual "cycling" forums seem to struggle to get folks' attention or threads to be created. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted May 5, 2018 Share #23 Posted May 5, 2018 4 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: From what I gather, it wasn't about "cycling" as much as about "love". Naturally, as a serial polygamist, I was destined to land here at the SWC & the Cafe, and I have already begun the wooing process of a few of the folks here. Keep in mind, you can never have too much love in the world. The rapid implosion of the Bicycling forum didn't help, either. Like here, though, the actual "cycling" forums seem to struggle to get folks' attention or threads to be created. Tom The forum actually was aboot love of cycling, but you can only say how much you love bikes and biking so many times. So the descent into drivel was not a big surprise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted May 5, 2018 Share #24 Posted May 5, 2018 5 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said: but you can only say how much you love bikes and biking so many times. You don't know Tom. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted May 5, 2018 Share #25 Posted May 5, 2018 Just now, donkpow said: You don't know Tom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted May 5, 2018 Share #26 Posted May 5, 2018 5 minutes ago, donkpow said: You don't know Tom. You, me, Page, and then a bunch of sporadic posters venture beyond the "Off Topic" confines here. Tom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted May 5, 2018 Share #27 Posted May 5, 2018 2 hours ago, Razors Edge said: You, me, Page, and then a bunch of sporadic posters venture beyond the "Off Topic" confines here. Tom You mean the requests for forum changes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted May 5, 2018 Share #28 Posted May 5, 2018 1 hour ago, maddmaxx said: You mean the requests for forum changes? Give him a few more months, he grows on you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tizeye Posted May 6, 2018 Share #29 Posted May 6, 2018 For Razor Edge's birthday, my present to him was #1 ranking as I walked away. The history on it. several years prior, Tom was aggressively posting and leaping over everyone with his quest to be #1. He made the mistake of saying Tizeye would be his next victim. I don't think think so, but the challenge was thrown. I think we were ranked in the 90's at the time, and I consistently out did him as we both rose to #1. At one point he complained to the moderator about somethin not bein fair, and hike 'liked' him, giving him a nice bump. That only educated me about the system...so I created 3 puppets who liked me accelerating my assent. Also, as he would get close to overtaking someone who was relatively inactive or had left, such as velobro1, dirtyhip, johnnypeds and FY, while I couldn't be as brazen as to like them, one or two of my puppets would and they would either increase their lead or jump back in front of him. I don't think he ever figured it out...until reading it todayn as it never was a subject of one of his complaints. I would also aggressively post as well, at times trying, and succeeding, with filling the page where I was the last poster. Likewise, when I had multiple photos, instead of a single post with all photos, would do multiple posts adding an individual photo. Finally, after I reached #1 (I think he was #4) grew tird of the challenge as I had succeeded. He kept asking people what they were going to get him for his birthday. I told him I would LET him be #1...and walked away. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted May 6, 2018 Share #30 Posted May 6, 2018 1 hour ago, donkpow said: Give him a few more months, he grows on you. Does Roundup work for that? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted May 6, 2018 Share #31 Posted May 6, 2018 15 minutes ago, Tizeye said: I told him I would LET him be #1...and walked away. The final top twelve 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted May 6, 2018 Share #32 Posted May 6, 2018 We need to get Akirasho to join us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted May 6, 2018 Share #33 Posted May 6, 2018 That was a good avatar. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted May 6, 2018 Share #34 Posted May 6, 2018 1 minute ago, donkpow said: That was a good avatar. Snarky's was good too, especially when compared to what he has now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tizeye Posted May 6, 2018 Share #35 Posted May 6, 2018 1 hour ago, Road Runner said: The final top twelve Out Riding was one of my puppets, as was Western Rider and I forget the female name right now. They probably had a total of 50 post between them. It is weird, when I came back to look around a year or so later, Rodale had changed the system again with new signon/password system. It wouldn't recognize Tizeye. Somehow in trying to sign back in, it switch user names. I am thinking that I used different browsers for each to keep straight and in frustration to inability to sign in tried different browsers. May have used the Out Riding browser which it picked up on through cookies or something and switched user names. Even more frustrating was trying to change it back in profiles and would tell me Tizeye was already taken. Oh...and here is the avatar. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tizeye Posted May 6, 2018 Share #36 Posted May 6, 2018 3 minutes ago, Tizeye said: Oh...and here is the avatar. TO assure you that I didn't lift it from the earlier graphic posted, here is the base photo used in an iPhone app, Outcolor 2 which provides the frame and background choices. Masking with a thumb on the phone screen isn't that accurate, and I did clean up the fine detail in Photoshop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted May 6, 2018 Share #37 Posted May 6, 2018 19 hours ago, Razors Edge said: The rapid implosion of the Bicycling forum Rapid? It was dying for years! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted May 6, 2018 Share #38 Posted May 6, 2018 26 minutes ago, Randomguy said: Rapid? It was dying for years! I won't mention any names, but there was one guy that several of the holdouts blamed mostly for the initial exodus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted May 6, 2018 Share #39 Posted May 6, 2018 37 minutes ago, Road Runner said: I won't mention any names, but there was one guy that several of the holdouts blamed mostly for the initial exodus. @Razors Edge? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted May 6, 2018 Share #40 Posted May 6, 2018 21 minutes ago, donkpow said: @Razors Edge? No, I am referring to someone who was blamed for leading the exodus, not for creating it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted May 6, 2018 Share #41 Posted May 6, 2018 1 hour ago, Road Runner said: I won't mention any names, but there was one guy that several of the holdouts blamed mostly for the initial exodus. They had problems assessing reality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted May 6, 2018 Share #42 Posted May 6, 2018 7 minutes ago, Randomguy said: They had problems assessing reality. Reality can be a bit elusive at times. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted May 6, 2018 Share #43 Posted May 6, 2018 I had numerous issues but was one of the hold outs. I couldnt log on except for an old PC, the place was dying and one particular person was expediting the demise. I bounced back & forth for a while but there was more dialogue here so I was mostly here up till the other place died. Im glad many of the hold outs joined us here after the demise of the old place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted May 6, 2018 Share #44 Posted May 6, 2018 16 hours ago, Tizeye said: For Razor Edge's birthday, my present to him was #1 ranking as I walked away. The history on it. several years prior, Tom was aggressively posting and leaping over everyone with his quest to be #1. He made the mistake of saying Tizeye would be his next victim. I don't think think so, but the challenge was thrown. I think we were ranked in the 90's at the time, and I consistently out did him as we both rose to #1. At one point he complained to the moderator about somethin not bein fair, and hike 'liked' him, giving him a nice bump. That only educated me about the system...so I created 3 puppets who liked me accelerating my assent. Also, as he would get close to overtaking someone who was relatively inactive or had left, such as velobro1, dirtyhip, johnnypeds and FY, while I couldn't be as brazen as to like them, one or two of my puppets would and they would either increase their lead or jump back in front of him. I don't think he ever figured it out...until reading it todayn as it never was a subject of one of his complaints. I would also aggressively post as well, at times trying, and succeeding, with filling the page where I was the last poster. Likewise, when I had multiple photos, instead of a single post with all photos, would do multiple posts adding an individual photo. Finally, after I reached #1 (I think he was #4) grew tird of the challenge as I had succeeded. He kept asking people what they were going to get him for his birthday. I told him I would LET him be #1...and walked away. I gotta say, that was a fun period. Certainly part of the post-exodus period where the LF started to decline in activity in leaps and bounds. I was more in the other areas - gear, beginners, pro racing, etc., but did pop in there periodically. Anyway, I noticed as folks dropped off, my activity rank was going up. I used to post a warning to the folks directly in front of me that the steamroller was coming and they better watch out. That worked for quite a while as I climbed from the 100's into the mid top-100 range. THEN I posted a warning to Tizeye, and that wise mofo smacked me around big time. As I rose, he rose quicker. He was a machine. I didn't know about his "socks" but regardless, it was an education. It was also awesome because someone actually gave a shit and posted more often - maybe just one word nonsense replies - and the LF had a brief gasp of life again. I was very sad Tizeye actually dropped off. I don't mind playing second fiddle to someone who is actually playing the game too. Huzzah to Tizeye, and thanks for that fun bit of time in the LF. Tom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tizeye Posted May 6, 2018 Share #45 Posted May 6, 2018 46 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: THEN I posted a warning to Tizeye, and that wise mofo smacked me around big time. As I rose, he rose quicker. He was a machine. I didn't know about his "socks" but regardless, it was an education. It was also awesome because someone actually gave a shit and posted more often - maybe just one word nonsense replies - and the LF had a brief gasp of life again. I was very sad Tizeye actually dropped off. I don't mind playing second fiddle to someone who is actually playing the game too. Huzzah to Tizeye, and thanks for that fun bit of time in the LF. Tom Ahem...none of my posts were one word nonsense replies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted May 6, 2018 Share #46 Posted May 6, 2018 ...you people are sick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tizeye Posted May 6, 2018 Share #47 Posted May 6, 2018 3 hours ago, Road Runner said: No, I am referring to someone who was blamed for leading the exodus, not for creating it. Yeah, the nerve of that guy. Went off and created another forum. Then went back and recruited people to come over. Also at about the same time someone else started a couple of FB groups which are still active with some of the same members as here over there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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