I’m not here to crash the party…

[Trek420]

To post the content of a private message is very inappropriate.

Well, granted I have never quoted a PM here or on any board. Nor would I quote an e-mail without permission from the writer (I think I quoted an e-mail once with someone's ok)

But this is not dealing with the fact that if someone here feels that his post was not appropriate we do not "flame" here.

This is a "discussion forum" not a "flame board" or at least has been till now.

There are admins who are highly paid...or maybe not paid but anyway there are admins here. If one feels something is wrong flag the thread or post or person. Don't get a response? Well maybe the Admins feel there is nothin' wrong or maybe they are out on a ride. Meanwhile one is free to ignore the author, the post or even the whole thread.

But I hope it remains the norm here that we are a diverse and global community. We don't agree on much 'cept we loooooove cycling....and beer...and really good chocolate....

And I hope that remains our strength and the character of this board.

Here we find communality with people who in "real life" we would probably never meet whether separated by geography, race, class, politics, religion or simple riding ability and I could go on but here we find we are somehow the same.

As one who's faced discriminaton IRL I'm aware when we start tossing people out "my kind" are often the first to go.

Long live TE!!!