What makes road.cc toxic?

I doubt anyone’s blocked you.
I doubt anyone’s blocked you; there’s only one poster on my list. If I wanted an echo chamber where people with dissenting viewpoints are suppressed, I’d post on Reddit.

(I hate Reddit so damn much.)

As for groupthink, there’s definitely going to be a certain left-wing bias in cycling circles that those on the right are going to find distasteful. This is basically a specialty forum at its heart, for those committed enough to cycling to bother following it. That selects for certain types of people.

As for politics, it’s a constant subject because utility cycling in the modern world is so heavily intertwined with and affected by it, from justice system bias to provision of infrastructure to public hostility to climate change to public health and beyond. I’d certainly love a world where I could ride my bike without constantly experiencing incidents that remind me of the present political problems, and post here without giving a damn about politics, but I don’t think that will be avoidable for many years yet, if ever.

Oi, watch it sunshine

Oi, watch it sunshine

I closed my Facebook account
I closed my Facebook account a couple of years ago (definitely a good move); I’ve got an unused Twitter account or two, but Reddit is a really good source of computer information and there’s no problems in the techy sub-reddits. (I used to frequent SlashDot, but that’s been a cesspool for years). I was shocked to hear that Reddit are re-writing their history to blank out Aaron Swartz, though.

Rich_bc wrote:

Rich_bc wrote:

There is a significant element of thinking on this forum.

Fixed it for you, you’re welcome 😉

And this is it. I’ve wasted

And this is it. I’ve wasted more time than I wished responding. The only way to deal with them is to ignore. If you can’t ignore (which can be very difficult, as evinced by my inability to keep my trap shut), don’t take their posts seriously – hold them up to ridicule (their posts are generally ridiculous). Laugh at them. Just do it within site rules.

There is absolutely no way that you can debate with them, they’re playing to their own rule book for their own ends. Their motivation is not to enighten or be enlightened, to make friends, or even to sharpen their own debating skills. It is just to troll.

Thank U

Thank U

One of them actually does

One of them actually does occaisionally in the forums and usually posts good advice which is why I tried to engage more. It is just that not many here do look or comment there much anyway. 

The other one has posted in the forum rather then the news once about how great it was that 4×4 offroaders could drive anywhere slowly and belching out fumes when trying to be banned by Horse riders, walkers and cyclists. Suprisingly really when they are massively in favour of reducing fumes and slow car driving on normal roads. One is definitely more of a troll then the other one although the latter is trying more. 
 

There are two haters (we all

There are two haters (we all know who they are) who constantly post provocative, contrary statements to create a ‘storm’. Like yesterday’s comment about the SUV driving into protestors in NYC as having the ‘right’ to use the road and the right of way or BJ commenting in a rude tone how everyone in London is rude. Just ignore them. It can be that simple. 

It’s true that they rarely (ever?) comment on bike clothes, cargo bikes, cleats, equipment, tyres etc. Cos there is no controversy there (and probably because they don’t ride cycles) and no opportunity to wind up others. If the article is about infrastructure, helmets, close pass – you can bet that he / she / it will pop up with a juvenile attempt to cause offence.