Eegore wrote on 07/28/20 at 16:44:18:


Let me get this straight; you are in some type of leadership position that requires you travel to various places across the world where you have some input in policy decisions for whatever organization you work for which seems to involve the military in some capacity. Perhaps you are in the military, I’m not sure.

However, if you were in some type of position like that, surely you know these are not random kidnappings, but rather an effort to apprehend key suspects when they are away from a crowd of rioters who would certainly attempt to intervene and things could escalate.

You mentioned once before you’ve shown these threads to some type of class you were teaching, the exact details of which escape me as fodder for class discussion.

So, either this moral quandary you say you are having is a manipulative attempt to create feedback from this forum so you can use it for this class....or...... you do not really have a position as you’ve hinted at.....or.....you do have such a position and are foolishly relaying events that should remain private within your organization.

eau de sauvage wrote on 08/01/20 at 03:13:03:




Oddly GSTwin does have a political section - Its called Tard Farm - except its not one where there is a lot of posts, and GS500 has been not made since 2009, and its not been sold new since 2012 and that forum is super super low activity nowadays - back in the heyday 2004-2008 it used to get a lot more posts and so did tard farm (including where members would cat call women - if they complained it would get deleted and even hand the user a ban, if they say its OK, good fun, it would get tossed in the TF) and I would sadly say, one more reason GSTwin is low involvement other than the bike being out of production is that it has no political branch that assumed a life of its own.
The closest I can compare to this forums political section was the XS650 one. And when they took that political part out, its overall traffic plummeted.
There was another diet based forum a pretty famous one (Mark's Daily Apple - a Keto diet millionaire author etc etc now) that was unmoderated cos the mods lost their password. A massive fight broke out between - get this vegans, fasters (intermittent vs long term), carnivores, non GMO's etc etc of all political angles on any thread anywhere in the forum. You post a recipe there would be someone bashing Trump 3 posts later and someone else bashing apples and a third one bashing black people. It was just hilarious. Traffic was massive and the owner monetized it well by selling the forum along with the related business line.
Of course we all were fed up and abandoned that forum and moved onto another forum only to face iron fisted moderation - you even open your mouth to say fasting, or GMO or whatever the heck they thought was ideal to do and you get warned. Traffic got to near 0 and the clueless clowns were very happy with that.
Anyway there is very very few fora that I'd say have no political section and good traffic - all 3 are audio related (that I know of) Audiokarma, diyaudio and a Klipsch run forum called community.klipsch.com - its owned and administered by Klipsch officially.
In short, cut off political and your traffic will plummet, that also means fewer passarounds creating new members and keeping old members cycling around.

Cool.
Srinath.

eau de sauvage wrote on 08/01/20 at 09:26:42:




Pick this zit also all you want ... last year GS500 was made is 2009 in spain. It may have been lying around in 13, even later ... sorry 09 was when it was made.

Cool.
Srinath.

Three points to the noob that just pwned you...  

Serowbot wrote on 08/01/20 at 13:22:38:




3 cheers to your minime from me too sew baby.

Cool.
Srinath.

Dude I am an admin on GSTwin ... I am seeing the traffic die day by day.
If they're both 30yr old bikes ... Then you're proving my point that savage forum is alive and gstwin isn't - basically the biggest difference is this branch of the forum.

Believe it or not - 90% of the time, 90% of us aren't looking for tech, or mods or anything about bikes. I haven't looked at the tech forum in a few days ... I go on GSTwin cos I am a sort of keeper of the flame over there, but I make 1-2 posts a day there ... savage will get the same treatment if not for this sub forum.

Cool.
Srinath.

Lol, it's the 2021 GS500!

eau de sauvage wrote on 08/01/20 at 18:04:13:


Harms the entire site? So you want this part shutdown then?
Because you can't stand all the free speech and personal opinions you want this taken away to censor us?
Typical libtard cancel culture tactic. Are you planning to send complaints to the site's hosting provider?

What I think is more hurtful than anything else is your constant insults and labeling directed at the rest of us.
You add nothing to the topics, you don't engage in anything resembling discourse you just spew negativity at us and derail the topic.
If you were on my Xmas list I'd get you a label maker and a box of label tape. Then you could go out in the real world and label people there too.

If anyone here is a troll it is definitely YOU.
Go pass judgement elsewhere you lousy troll.