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How do you feel when you create a new thread in the forum only to see it plummet to the end of the first page, then the second and then slowly but gradually disappear never to be see again?

 
Posted : 27/01/2016 9:53 pm
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Posted : 27/01/2016 9:55 pm
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Bump 🙂

This feels like keepy uppy.

 
Posted : 27/01/2016 9:57 pm
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You ok hun?

 
Posted : 27/01/2016 9:59 pm
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I hate it when something's really active for a day or so then just stops. I'm fine with a total failure or a couple of posts because it just proves what a beautiful and unique snowflake I must be 😉

 
Posted : 27/01/2016 10:10 pm
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No one in the real world gives a shit, so I have no delusions that anybody would really care here.
If you come across someone with the same interest.......bonus

 
Posted : 27/01/2016 10:15 pm
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Just start a thread about how amazing VW vans are. That'll keep you busy for a week.

 
Posted : 27/01/2016 10:16 pm
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Does it come with a crown race?

 
Posted : 27/01/2016 10:20 pm
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I was actually expecting no responses at all as a joke but this..

You ok hun?

...has made me worry now. I can see how it can cause concern. Don't worry I'm fine 🙂

 
Posted : 27/01/2016 10:22 pm
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my posts do it all the time.......because i spout shit.

 
Posted : 27/01/2016 10:26 pm
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Their loss, the clip I posted earlier helped me forget the shitty weather outside.

 
Posted : 27/01/2016 10:31 pm
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I feel nothing......not anymore.....feelings are for people who get replys 🙁

 
Posted : 27/01/2016 10:33 pm
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Only time I've been annoyed was when I posted pics of a prototype full sus fat bike from Intense (I don't even like the bloody things), no one showed any interest and it disappeared without a post. Several weeks later, someone else posted about it and loads of people were all over it like flies. The temptation to post a link to my previous lonely 'single' thread was strong, but like a man, I let it go. 🙂

 
Posted : 27/01/2016 10:33 pm
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Hoof her in the pudding!!

Or something like that

 
Posted : 27/01/2016 10:35 pm
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No slats!

 
Posted : 27/01/2016 10:39 pm
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Anyone recommend a lock?

 
Posted : 27/01/2016 10:42 pm
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I was going to say we should link to the threads concerned, like [url= http://http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/isadore-soft-shell ]this[/url] but some some pillock posted on it. 😀

 
Posted : 27/01/2016 10:44 pm
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Anyone recommend a lock?

Giggling like a lunatic at this! Brilliant! 😆

 
Posted : 27/01/2016 10:44 pm
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I really wish no one had commented on this.

 
Posted : 27/01/2016 11:10 pm
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Rolex Vs. Casio

Lets settle this once and for all.

 
Posted : 27/01/2016 11:19 pm
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My 9yr old decided, off his own back, to ride the 26 miles along the canals to Brum; to raise money for the MS society (his Uncle is a sufferer). He asked me to post a link to his JustGiving page. Don't think it got a single hit. ?
Tight gets.

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 12:42 am
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It is when you are a thread killer that gets me down.

You post something insightful, or witty, and nobody replies after it.

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 4:11 am
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Mods - can you make this a sticky? 😆

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 4:25 am
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There's a page 2????!!! 😯

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 6:02 am
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It's not without a little trepidation I reply to this as not only do a large percentage of my threads disappear without a single ****ing reply but me replying to thread is usually a que for the tumble weeds to descend....

However one small recompense is I was able to sneak in a tattoo thread the other week without any of the usual mayhem ensuing (and my question answered to boot!)

Us tiny hitters need to stick together.

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 6:23 am
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http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/holograms-from-phones

I thought this thread would get the geeks of STW going ooh.

Instead it vanished into the night.

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 6:27 am
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Of the last ten posts I've made, six have had no subsequent replies. I'm a pretty good thread killer.

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 7:04 am
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I will save you this time

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 7:05 am
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Posted : 28/01/2016 7:07 am
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I feel your pain. I started an awesome thread once, all about how the current Syrian President looks like one of the chefs off Ready Steady Cook. I predicted at least 20 pages
Not a single reply or message of support.
Tough crowd.... 🙂

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 7:22 am
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It is when you are a thread killer that gets me down

That's me.

I'll post something relevant and that's it. End of thread 😕

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 7:47 am
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Quirrel -

It is when you are a thread killer that gets me down.

You post something insightful, or witty, and nobody replies after it.

Or when you are just too far ahead of your time. That's my personal curse. Post a thread about something no one's heard of, but you know in a years time there'll be a hugely successful thread about it.

And where will the [b]"[i]already a thread bout it, try using search[/i]"[/b] pedants be then? Nowhere. They won't help.

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 8:00 am
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My contributions are so insightful and complete there's seldom much to be said after I've posted.

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 8:16 am
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If two thread killers post on the same thread will stw implode?

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 8:19 am
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I like the idea that l might one day become a "tiny hitter"!

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 8:20 am
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Rolex Vs. Casio

Lets settle this once and for all.

Tudor.

Ooh, we're on page two!

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 8:22 am
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On the subject of threads fallinf away, I take it Classified threads are designed to just die off? Bumping doesn't seem to have any effect. What's the etiquette on starting new ones but not spamming?

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 8:38 am
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I think it's worse when you get one response and it's something along the lines of

Despite the fact that your post was only two lines long I haven't actually read what you wrote. However, I did scan it and picked up on a couple of words I recognised so here are my thoughts on those words even though that's not what you asked.

You then reply saying "Thanks but that's not actually what I asked." and then your thread disappears never to be seen again.

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 8:46 am
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You then reply saying "Thanks but that's not actually what I asked." and then your thread disappears never to be seen again.

Not seen the body fat % thread then!

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 8:53 am
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[i]What's the etiquette on starting new ones but not spamming?[/i]

No more than once in 24 hours.

For ever if necessary...

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[since comments on the classifieds have been restricted there's less advice/insults/arguing when stuff's been posted at a high price daily for 3 months with no buyers]

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 8:54 am
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My Desert Island discs thread about Keith Richards, not one stinking measly reply, nothing nobody care were you interested oh no not high faluting enough for you lot well sod you all a pox on you you will all pay a heavy price

Climbs a bell tower with a sniper rifle, strips off covers himself in ketchup takes aim and ..................

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 8:59 am
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😆 great thread!

I thought it was only me that was a thread killer.

+1 on this too:

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Only time I've been annoyed was when I posted pics of a prototype full sus fat bike from Intense (I don't even like the bloody things), no one showed any interest and it disappeared without a post. Several weeks later, someone else posted about it and loads of people were all over it like flies. The temptation to post a link to my previous lonely 'single' thread was strong, but like a man, I let it go.

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 9:01 am
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I feel worse if there's been a thread running for three pages and i add a comment that seems to kill the topic completely.. Nope i'm not paranoid at all no siree.

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 9:03 am
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You and me kerbdog - /endthread

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 9:20 am
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I feel worse if there's been a thread running for three pages and i add a comment that seems to kill the topic completely..

Sometimes I actually don't reply just in case I'm left with another thread killer comment...

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 12:57 pm
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+1

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 12:58 pm
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Is it worse than often being the last poster on a previously popular thread...
I am the death, the destroyer of threads. Look upon my comments and despair

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 1:13 pm
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I am the death, the destroyer of threads. Look upon my comments and despair

You are become DaRC L , the destroyer of quotations.

You've got yer Oppenheimer and yer Ozymandias all mucking fixed up again.

edit: That's killed that thread. My work here is done.

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 1:16 pm
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Blah blah blah blah blah.

Let's wind this up now and start a thread about pussies or kung-fu.

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 1:20 pm
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Let's wind this up now and start a thread about pussies or kung-fu

Now we're talkin.....

[img] http://www.omgsnap.com/post-images/2009/kung_fu-cat-kicks-dog_lg [/img]

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 1:23 pm
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If you wait long enough (7 minutes) Saxonrider will start one 😉

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 1:28 pm
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I feel worse if there's been a thread running for three pages and i add a comment that seems to kill the topic completely..

I take it as a compliment that my answers are so perfect and inarguable that no one can improve on them.

I even killed this thread, he's not posted them again, I got bored looking how long he's been trying to sell them, seems to be at least daily for a month.

http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/fs-replay-jeans-reduced-5

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 1:45 pm
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😉

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Posted : 28/01/2016 3:00 pm
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If you wait long enough (7 minutes) Saxonrider will start one

Says the guy with more than 100 pages of contributions in excess of Saxonrider's. 😀

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 3:07 pm
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"Now I am become death, the destroyer of threads"

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 3:36 pm
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You've got yer Oppenheimer and yer Ozymandias all mucking fixed up again.

It's a mash up, I'm getting darn with da yoof

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 3:52 pm
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Define contributions 😛

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 3:53 pm
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What tyres for a thread that should be defunct?

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 4:08 pm
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This is becoming that thread that went on for about 3000 pages because non one wanted to let anyone else be the last person to post.

random image.

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Posted : 28/01/2016 4:11 pm
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Magneto Dog's let himself go a bit ^^^

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 4:13 pm
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Hope i don't get caught.

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 4:13 pm
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[i]Magneto Dog's let himself go a bit[/i]

Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams
But Emily loved him

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 4:14 pm
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Is that a border terrier?

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 4:38 pm
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I see threads that slate the average stw user.. (driives an audi/works in IT/ rides an orange) and I would love to contribute. Then I realise I am Mr Average STW. 😥

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 4:40 pm
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Posted : 28/01/2016 4:45 pm
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Just ignore this post. You usually do. Boohoo hoo.

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 6:29 pm
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This thread makes me feel so

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and i'm not ashamed to say it

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 6:39 pm
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up up and away in a beautiful balloon................

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 7:04 pm
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I went for a ride on my bike this morning.
It was a road bike.
Just saying.

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 7:19 pm
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Should i get the audi in white?

 
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I went for a ride on my bike this morning.
It was a road bike.
Just saying.

Heathen!
Burn him, burn him now!!

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 7:30 pm
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My contributions are so insightful and complete there's seldom much to be said after I've posted.

That's what I thought was happening, then someone posted this:
I am the death, the destroyer of threads. Look upon my comments and despair

and realised the awful truth.
Then remembered my conspiracy theory thread is still trundling along, to my surprise, which made me feel a bit better. 😀

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 7:34 pm
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Can you tell a raisin from a sultana?

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 7:43 pm
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As this thread is three pages long I just skipped to the end and posted this without reading any of the other comments

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 7:44 pm
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[i]Can you tell a raisin from a sultana? [/i]

A raisin is a dried grape and a sultana is the wife of a sultan.

probably.

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 7:49 pm
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Mandarins are mandarins and oranges are oranges. Everything else is a mixture of the two

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 8:00 pm
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[i]Is [/i] Babylon 5 a big pile of shit?

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 8:29 pm
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GET OUT!!!

 
Posted : 28/01/2016 8:38 pm
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Pudding?

 
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