[Closed] When folk leave here where do they go?

maybe they just get bored and stop posting?
I have been on here for a long time, and it has got gradually worse imho, I can see why people would do so.

Most seem to wander in from the vw/Audi forums... Buy an orange 5 or some trail enlighting enduro bike then pootle away to avforums listening to £300 headphones whilst trying to figure out how long they take to burn in.

I guess it's a bit like bike mags. After a couple of years of reading them it's just the same old stuff. This place is a lot more varied though so probably takes a lot longer.

Come back here under a different alias.
And deny it when pointed out. (the two lovable bighitter/master trolls i have in mind have had at least four each and not even through being banned iirc).

"Here" is just somewhere to hang out in between real things happening.
Yeah sure, there's the occasional group reacharound when "something bad happens" but in fact it's anythingbutreallifetrackworld these days
(IMO) and obligatory smiley disclaimer 😉

cloudnine - Member

Most seem to wander in from the vw/Audi forums... Buy an orange 5 or some trail enlighting enduro bike then pootle away to avforums listening to £300 headphones whilst trying to figure out how long they take to burn in.

Genuine LOL, good stuff sir!

I have been on here since GoFar & still read a lot, but post a lot less. As has been said up there ^, it's all been posted before really.

Cheers.

Rehab

I think I'm gradually leaving... It'll be cold turkey, I reckon. What's the point of other forums?

Camo16, sounds like we're in a similar place.

Jeez, just imagining a rehab full of former STWers.

problem now, is every post turns into a argument. not a lighthearted pisstaking like it used to, but a proper argument.

it is no longer fun.

Sleep ...

Mr AWESOME went to a VW California site and posted today on the SSB.

I've been here on and off for two years. In the beginning it was funny, then it was helpful, then it became argumentative. Now it's so familiar you can write whole threads in your head as soon as the OP OPs.

without bromancing too much, there's a few people on here I'd miss though.

problem now, is every post turns into a argument. not a lighthearted pisstaking like it used to, but a proper argument.

Nah, it was like that before too. Which is why TJ&co. are no longer here.

They all get minced up and made into pies.

TJ and Onion
Creamy Cressers and Leak
Surf Matt Pastie
Fred and Kidney Pudding
Don Simon Empanada

Binners then eats the pies.

😆

without bromancing too much, there's a few people on here I'd miss though.

Me too sweetcheeks!

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Came here from Pistonheads as it's too much of a rapha loving, sportive riding, wallet waving kind of place.

Lunchtimes and time to fill between doing real things like work/eating/riding/racing.

TJ and glupton fill up my facebook feed with epic 300 post arguments

Back to work?

Camo16, are you me?

You might get banhammered ....but you never really leave

Rather like Donnas kids in that episode of Doctor Who set in The Library, when you're not on here you don't actually exist.

And then you logged on again....

cloudnine - Member
Most seem to wander in from the vw/Audi forums... Buy an orange 5 or some trail enlighting enduro bike then pootle away to avforums listening to £300 headphones whilst trying to figure out how long they take to burn in.

problem now, is every post turns into a argument. not a lighthearted pisstaking like it used to, but a proper argument.

it is no longer fun.

See what i did there please mods!

I just go to the kitchen and make a cup of tea.

Some return to their wives and children

hang on, there's an option to leave???? 😯

i see it as a red dwarf "better than life" scenario as, just when you think you've made it to the exit something piques your interest and before you know it 12 months have passed by and you've forgotten why you were leaving in the first place

Don't have an answer to your question but I have lost count of the advice/solutions to problems that I have read on here.

From bad knees to dodgy chimneys, trails in faraway lands to scrappy bits of singletrack round Halifax. Where else am I going to get that from?

Ok I have to put up with a lot of socialist, handwringing claptrap to get it but it's more than worth it 😉

I just "dip in and out now" To many people on here know nothing about bikes, and as you say, its all been said before.

From bad knees to dodgy chimneys, trails in faraway lands to scrappy bits of singletrack round Halifax. Where else am I going to get that from?

Ok I have to put up with a lot of socialist, handwringing claptrap to get it but it's more than worth it

I wonder if people move on forums where there is more of one and less of the other? I guess you could move on to a forum with hundreds more specific subsections but then you'd miss out on a lot of the variety that makes this place great.

I lurk as much as I post 🙂

Well I really like the forum. I've only been a member for about 4 years or so but the wide range of knowledge and expertise on here is often astounding. You can nearly always find the answer to something on here, although some of the bike knowledge is a little suspect. I enjoy reading the arguments but I don't really involve myself, I have enough arguments in the real world without needing to have them online.

Generally though it's still a good forum, plenty of knowledge, lots of good debate with a wide variety of opinions. I personally don't want to just read/hear from folk who have the same POV as I do.

I just "dip in and out now"

Me too, but the blue pills help.

I've drifted over here from BR after spending about 5 years drifting around there from commuting to road to MTB. Still pop back there occasionally, it's a bigger site though so gets a lot of noob traffic and a lot of discussions are the same. Bit more variety in here.

I go on the chase trails forum too a fair bit, but I think I'm only one of about 6 people that does 😀

[quote=prawny ]I've drifted over here from BR ..... it's a bigger site though Really? I thought STW was the "largest"?

Dunno? Maybe, I discovered BR first though, by about 4 years. Possibly because I was googling dull stuff like, what hybrid for a 20 mile commute etc

i see it as a red dwarf "better than life" scenario as, just when you think you've made it to the exit something piques your interest and before you know it 12 months have passed by and you've forgotten why you were leaving in the first place

must dig out RD/BTL and have another read 🙂

TJ and glupton fill up my facebook feed with epic 300 post arguments

Don't forget molgrips, GW and druidh - though I like to think I also helped out with TJ's epic one. Was really quite funny as we were all consenting adults and knew exactly what we were doing so all pretending to get wound up whilst having a giggle. Whilst I think TJ should be allowed back here it's not going to happen (and I know for a fact he won't be setting up a new ID to come back), I actually get on a lot better with him on FB than I did before when the arguments on here did sometimes get a bit serious.

Fred mind you is a completely different matter <waves - I know you'll be reading this>

Fred, I met him once on a Swinley ride I think. He was riding a nice little Rock Lobster. Nice guy and surprisingly exactly what I'd have expected!

I come and go on the forum really. Would have gone a couple of months without having a read or posting. The threads move fast. Recently I have been on more one thread in particular has been a personal help.

Surely Jamie's a good one to answer this. He saw the bright light at the end of the tunnel...then returned...

ton - Member
problem now, is every post turns into a argument. not a lighthearted pisstaking like it used to, but a proper argument.

it is no longer fun.

Give me a forum that isnt like this though! Every forum has it to lesser or greater degrees.

IMHO STW is a beacon in the dark with a refreshing mix of diverse topics, hilarity, genuine help and fast moving topics, you only need to check out some of the other biking forums of which the flaming/trolling/butthurt goes to another level in comparison! 😆

I guess it's a bit like bike mags. After a couple of years of reading them it's just the same old stuff. This place is a lot more varied though so probably takes a lot longer.

Like a lot of people who've been on here a very long time, I tend to be far more selective on what threads I open and post even less as time goes on.

Is a natural maturing process involving the site and long time users.

Still a great site though and remains my first port of call when browsing.

I kind of miss that fake scottish chap and the bloke with the fastest diesel estate in the world.

Like a lot of people who've been on here a very long time, I tend to be far more selective on what threads I open and post even less as time goes on.

Probably true. Been at a bit of a loose end this week so I think I've been dipping into threads I usually wouldn't bother with.

Still a great site though and remains my first port of call when browsing.

Here here!

I kind of miss that fake scottish chap and the bloke with the fastest diesel estate in the world

[quote=Woody ]
Like a lot of people who've been on here a very long time, I tend to be far more selective on what threads I open and post even less as time goes on.This is a real shame. The folk who've been around for a while tend to have built up quite a bit of knowledge and I always saw forums as a way of exchanging knowledge - hence users are often called "contributors".

I miss the time when your posts were funny

I miss your posts being impossible to read due to dodgy spelling and grammar 😉

I miss the time when your posts were funny - what day was that again

Mañana amigo, mañana.