So many points... so little time... *AND* I have to watch what I say...
Hmmmmmm... Let's start here - Bones, Acacia, Arkline, et al...
Thank you very, very much for your kind compliments. I appreciate them, and I can only hope some certain other folks will read them.
CycleRob...
I also appreciate your... well... I don't know whether to call it a compliment or what. Maybe one day I will get to tell you about the oval piston "mule" engines with one rod, and maybe even about the other one that had *NO* separate rod and piston and whose cylinder bores, vertically, were hourglass shaped (i.e. the piston not only went up and down, but rocked fore and aft, too!). But not here... Nope, this is first and foremost an R-1150-R site. That, above all else, even if you don't own one.
But interestingly enough, you contradict yourself in your post above... First you champion NoRRmad post, and suggest it is the best course of action for all of us...
Only to then turn around and say this about your Vegas trip posts:
I reluctantly did not put it in the Group Ride section, where it belonged, because, seeing the invisible, I knew ahead of time almost nobody would see it there.
And left it at that, quickly changing tacks and talking about Darth's and your sig lines...
But interestingly enough, your reasoning above is
EXACTLY the reason I did not put my "Trivia" bike posts, or the Honda posts, in the "Off Topic" section... Nobody ever goes to that section!!! Just take a look at the hit counts and reply numbers on threads in the "Off Topic" section if you want confirmation...
You didn't put your Vegas trip posts in the "Group Ride" section because you were concerned nobody would see it, right?
Well, exactly why is that okay for you, but not for others?
Nobody wants to post anything in "Patrick's Playhouse" because that has become nothing but a war zone for right and left wingers to duke it out endlessly about the same old, tired, belabored subjects. Any post about anything other than politics drops down the page so fast it disappears from view in less than 24 hours.
I'm afraid I have to side a bit with Darth here... Something else is going on here, and though I think I know what it is I can't say it under the current circumstances. Rob, you have come up with a myriad of ever changing possible reasons why certain things have been going on, but no concrete evidence. Maybe with your close relationship with Doug you can find out for us.
As Bones said earlier in the thread, and Dean affirmed, it is tiem for the moderators to give us some clear direction here. Should threads about filtering in traffic, squiddly police riders, cleaning goretex, Dennis Noyes MotoGP article, Ducati Supermoto, questions about riding in Canada, somebody's last ride of the season, or pics of the Baja 1000 be on the Main R1150R board or in the "Off Topic" section, or the "Great Rides" section, or where???
Is a Ducati post on the main board okay, but a Honda one is not? If so, why?
Or does all of this really have more to do with exactly "who" is doing the posting, and therefore actually different rules for different folks...
I better stop right there...
Dallara
