Where did bustedspoke go?
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I am not sure what happened. It is disturbing though.
this is bugging me and making me upset...where did it go?
Same here, I have it as my homepage and check in multiple times a day. My guess is that it's related to the recent upgrades they've been doing to the site.
bustedjoke ??
The only site you haven't got banned from?
That and Hcor, but it seems almost impossible to be banned there!The only site you haven't got banned from?
especially considering they have what, 4 members on Hcor and all they do is insult eachother? It's worse than pinkbike.That and Hcor, but it seems almost impossible to be banned there!
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It's pinkbike with a 30-something homoerotic attitude!
Regardless of what anyone thinks of Hcor, it's one of the last "public" forums where free speech is still valued.
Didn't pay the hosting bill or they where a part of the datacenter that blew up on June 1st?
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/01/1715247
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/01/1715247
And they have Hcor Day at Whiteface.
http://www.downhillmike.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=41
yeah, valued by all 5 of it's members maybe. Just because you have the right to say whatever you want doesn't mean that you should. free speech, hate speech; what's the difference, right?
Opinions. That's all they are. Like it or not everyone has them and some people like to express them.
Just like your opinion seems to be that people shouldn't necessarily express them.
What's the difference?
Just like your opinion seems to be that people shouldn't necessarily express them.
What's the difference?
I wish to give props for this -- I cannot locate the icon.
meh..
I smell - everyone knows it -- pass it on.
BustedSpoke is back up finally. I am now looking at moving the server that the site runs on to a more "customer friendly" hosting company. I am also going to get a second server and load balance the site across the two so that if one of the servers ever goes down, the site won't go down.
That's true, kind of like Plattekill, actually. Where else can you burn pallets and sleep in the parking lot without being arrested?
I love when people get serious about riding a bicycle. Hcor is a place where people that actually ride their bikes post instead of going thru countless threads about trying to lose those last 15 grams off their downhill bikes from kids.
If it is immature, then perhaps you need to lighten up and quit worrying about whether or not to get a V-10 or an M6 or go with Highrollers or Minions or whether or not to get a boxxer or Fox because on Ridemonkey for every person that has heard that something sucks, there's another one that says it is great. Politics on a mountainbiking website???...c'mon.
Although I did find a good thread on the leatt brace yesterday here.
Yeah, I've been angry for 36 years and I'm still waiting for it to subside, but my buddies are a hell of a lot more fun than 99% of the people on this site.
If it is immature, then perhaps you need to lighten up and quit worrying about whether or not to get a V-10 or an M6 or go with Highrollers or Minions or whether or not to get a boxxer or Fox because on Ridemonkey for every person that has heard that something sucks, there's another one that says it is great. Politics on a mountainbiking website???...c'mon.
Although I did find a good thread on the leatt brace yesterday here.
Yeah, I've been angry for 36 years and I'm still waiting for it to subside, but my buddies are a hell of a lot more fun than 99% of the people on this site.
You are a REBEL!
But then you meet him in real life, and he acts like a snuggly 'lil teddy bear (with a crew cut!)Do you have a newsletter I could subscribe to?
Well put.
I fail to see why you continue to visit a site where you don't agree with the content and find only 1% of the people to be interesting. Are you masochistic? For instance, I think the Pinkbike forums are generally made up of a bunch of immature and disrespectful punks who have nothing intelligent or interesting to say. As you can see, though, I am not posting that on their forums because I do not visit those forums.
There is such variety of sites out there to suit anyone's taste. Hanging around a site that is not to your taste is a lot more ridiculous than having a politics forum on a mountain biking website, in my opinion.
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Well, I don't agree with Fox news, but I still look at occassionally. There are rare snippets of information to be had. Maybe he follows the same philosophy?
Good analogy really, HCOR is like the Plattekill of biking forums, land of the free, home of the depraved. :biggrin:
I'm definitely not down with the term 'hate speech', once you start categorizing speech, you're one (big) step closer to banning types of it.
I may not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
I think that's even worse
. At least a message board is actually going to contain distinct information from board to board. Anything particularly noteworthy is going to eventually be reported on by a reputable news agency.I just think the chest thumping is silly, that's all. Wasted energy. If you're so stuck on people going out and riding instead of posting, go out and ride instead of insulting an entire message board that you're a member of and post on.
Private message board. Just like private businesses. Free speech doesn't apply, and just like any business, a board is going to cultivate an atmosphere and is going to encourage or discourage certain types of posts.
I've had an account here since 05 and I have never posted, but I thought this needed to be said. It's funny that springfish is the sole person defending hcor and he is responsible for maybe 90% of the homoerotic material that is posted on hcor.Do you have a newsletter I could subscribe to?
Well put.
I think this world would be a much better place if people didn't take themselves so seriously. "Inappropriate" material is super funny to me. If I'm the only one who laughs, I'm still one person laughing.
If Viciousdher were here he'd surely defend hcor to the end.
That guy is such a douchebag....
Funny you should say that. There are in fact quite a few useful threads about the Leatt brace on here, bustedspoke, mtbr, and descent-world. There is a Leatt thread on Hcor too but unfortunately the subject is about "how g@y" it is if you wear one for DH.
i'd post the link, but see below
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Really? explain to me then why shortly after posting my comments about Hcor I can no longer access the site from my home computer? This happens rather regularly to users who they don't like. bigotry and homophobia are valued just as long as you don't say anything bad about Hcor itself. it's fine with me actually, my first visit in months (i was magically unblocked when a video of my brother knocking himself out at the Open was posted there) confirmed that nothing has changed and if anything has gotten worse. Keep access limited if you want, but don't pretend it's the last bastion of 'free-speech' on the internet when it most certainly comes nowhere close.
Hah. I have to interject here. There is no conspiracy keeping you off hcor. There are a lot of people, myself included (I can get on from work, but not home), who are unable to access the site because the amount of redirects involved. It's been mentioned several times in threads, Taz hasn't got around to troubleshooting the problem. Heck, for a while it was redirecting me to disney.comReally? explain to me then why shortly after posting my comments about Hcor I can no longer access the site from my home computer? This happens rather regularly to users who they don't like. bigotry and homophobia are valued just as long as you don't say anything bad about Hcor itself. it's fine with me actually, my first visit in months (i was magically unblocked when a video of my brother knocking himself out at the Open was posted there) confirmed that nothing has changed and if anything has gotten worse. Keep access limited if you want, but don't pretend it's the last bastion of 'free-speech' on the internet when it most certainly comes nowhere close.
Wow, I didn't really mean to stir the pot. So, yeah, 99% of this site sucks, but the 1% (the leatt brace thread) is useful to me. So with 2 kids a wife and a job that keeps me on the road 70% of the time, the threads about sub 40lb. DH bikes and the like are silly.
I'm not a big poster (you can tell by my post count, how much time do you have to waste to get like thousands of posts?...anyway...), but you would probably have noticed that my post last night was at 11:40pm. I don't usually ride that late, so I was doing this. Incidentally, I spent 2 hours on my trail bike in 90 deg heat today..did you or were you here posting?
So personally, I am serious enough worrying about my family, work, etc. To try to be serious about my hobby which is BIKE RIDING just seems silly to me. I race Expert DH, I have a few bikes, I've spent as much money as anyone else, but it's a hobby and is really made better by my friends.
Anyway, be serious, call the stuff they do immature, judge them, but I guarantee they are having more fun than you. Isn't that what most things boil down to?
I'll try not to judge you.
I'm not a big poster (you can tell by my post count, how much time do you have to waste to get like thousands of posts?...anyway...), but you would probably have noticed that my post last night was at 11:40pm. I don't usually ride that late, so I was doing this. Incidentally, I spent 2 hours on my trail bike in 90 deg heat today..did you or were you here posting?
So personally, I am serious enough worrying about my family, work, etc. To try to be serious about my hobby which is BIKE RIDING just seems silly to me. I race Expert DH, I have a few bikes, I've spent as much money as anyone else, but it's a hobby and is really made better by my friends.
Anyway, be serious, call the stuff they do immature, judge them, but I guarantee they are having more fun than you. Isn't that what most things boil down to?
I'll try not to judge you.
You got it Jim.
Well, even if you rack up 1000 post a year that works out to less than 3 a day. I've answered at least 3 emails of longer length than your average RM post before 7:30 each morning so it really isn't that hard to find the time.
I timed it, this post took 1 1/2 minutes. So basically i need 4 1/2 minutes every day to get 1000 posts annually
You're right, grown men treating a mtn. bike message board like a middle school boys' locker room is in fact the path to happiness. What else could possibly be that much fun?
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