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  • June 12, 2019 at 7:39 am #29743
    redrobot

    hadnt given it much thought until now but this site is basically an advertising hub based on cycling. take out the adverts and the advertorial and the news lifted from the net and you have a video of a near miss and a forum.

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  • June 12, 2019 at 4:12 pm #943625
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    alansmurphy
    redrobot wrote:
    the world is full of people who dont like constructive criticism. they are vain and proud enough to think i’m insulting them

     

    Sorry, I seem to have missed the constructive criticism. Red, you are a twat. 

    June 12, 2019 at 3:34 pm #943623
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    dave atkinson

    redrobot wrote:

    redrobot wrote:

    i dont need that kind of advice. i read lots of things i dont agree with. if you want me off yr forum just shut the account and make up a reason

    okay

    June 12, 2019 at 3:17 pm #943621
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    Anonymous

    « this site is basically… »
    « this site is basically… »
    So what? We’re all adults, if we want to come here it’s up to us

    June 12, 2019 at 2:36 pm #943619
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    redrobot
    simonmb wrote:
    A final note to @redrobot: when you’re paying for something, you buy the right to complain. What has road.cc ever cost you? 

     

    right to complain costs money??? do you need me to explain to you how crass that argument is?

    June 12, 2019 at 2:18 pm #943617
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    hawkinspeter

    I think you’re missing the

    I think you’re missing the subtle sub-texts hidden in the lengthy arguments for and against helmets, which is really just a proxy for arguing about how much we want to follow a leader versus forging our own destiny.

    If you don’t read between the lines, then you’re just consuming propaganda.

    June 12, 2019 at 1:52 pm #943615
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    simonmb

    road.cc has been part of my

    road.cc has been part of my cycling world for the past ten years. During that period I’ve been on (and subsequently off) a number of other cycling websites, but I always keep coming back here. 

    I don’t come back here for breaking news, I don’t come back here for incisive and data-driven tests of bikes, tyres, and equipment. I come back because it’s a bit of real-world cycling shite (in a good way) with a bit of (mostly) well-meaning banter thrown in.

    To me, every time I open the site, it’s like walking into a favourite café filled with familiar faces. Some I like, some I don’t. Some are knowledgable, some spout nothing but bullshit. But it’s real, and doesn’t try to be anything other than what it is.

    If I didn’t like it, I’d quietly move on somewhere else in the same way as if I didn’t like a café I’d walked into.

    I can’t see the sense in standing up and complaining about the coffee or the customers. Where’s that going to get you @redrobot? Find a new café, or open one of your own.

    A final note to @redrobot: when you’re paying for something, you buy the right to complain. What has road.cc ever cost you? 

     

     

    June 12, 2019 at 1:38 pm #943613
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    luiandlui
    peted76 wrote:
    @redrobot, you sir or madame, are typing shite. Go ride your bike.

     

     

    He (or she) would, if he (or she) had one. Which he (or she) doesn’t.

    June 12, 2019 at 1:36 pm #943611
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    peted76

    I just think that your 20

    I just think that your 20 post contribution on this site is not actually doing you or anyone reading the site any good, but hey, it’s’up to you boss, you carry on shouting into the clouds.

    But wouldn’t it feel better to just get out there and ride your bike as opposed to talking about coco island domain names and making up stats. 

    June 12, 2019 at 1:35 pm #943609
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    brooksby
    redrobot wrote:
    brooksby wrote:
    I disagree.  I like the news on road.cc and even some of the so-called advertorial.

    Yes, some of it is scraped from other news sites, but its all in one place.  I don’t have my own AI to run around the intreweb and hoover up relevant news for me, so Dave and the team will do just as well! 

     

    the thing about advertorial is that it masquerades as news when it’s really a sales pitch. the thing about repeating news from other sources means yre not writing news yrself. that’s not journalism. it’s the job of a filing clerk. road.cc is 75% adverts, 20% stolen news and 5% forum / near miss videos 

     

    rhetoric …

    it’s not ‘so-called’ advertorial. it *is* advertorial. look it up.

    ‘some of it is scraped from other news sites’. not ‘some’, most / not ‘scraped’, trawled

    no 

    June 12, 2019 at 1:24 pm #943607
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    redrobot

    the world is full of people

    the world is full of people who dont like constructive criticism. they are vain and proud enough to think i’m insulting them

    June 12, 2019 at 1:20 pm #943605
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    Drinfinity

    Redrobot, do you ever find

    Redrobot, do you ever find yourself walking into a pub for the first time, pontificating loudly about how you don’t like the decor, the beer, the menu layout, the people drinking there, the elitism of ale drinkers in general, and then ask for help to get your car started? How does that go down?

    June 12, 2019 at 1:14 pm #943603
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    peted76

    @redrobot, you sir or madame,

    @redrobot, you sir or madame, are typing shite. Go ride your bike.

     

    June 12, 2019 at 12:11 pm #943601
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    ktache

    At least your made up

    At least your made up statistics add up to 100.

    I like it here.

    June 12, 2019 at 12:01 pm #943599
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    redrobot
    brooksby wrote:
    I disagree.  I like the news on road.cc and even some of the so-called advertorial.

    Yes, some of it is scraped from other news sites, but its all in one place.  I don’t have my own AI to run around the intreweb and hoover up relevant news for me, so Dave and the team will do just as well! 

     

    the thing about advertorial is that it masquerades as news when it’s really a sales pitch. the thing about repeating news from other sources means yre not writing news yrself. that’s not journalism. it’s the job of a filing clerk. road.cc is 75% adverts, 20% stolen news and 5% forum / near miss videos 

     

    rhetoric …

    it’s not ‘so-called’ advertorial. it *is* advertorial. look it up.

    ‘some of it is scraped from other news sites’. not ‘some’, most / not ‘scraped’, trawled

    June 12, 2019 at 11:55 am #943597
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    brooksby

    Quote:

    take out the adverts and the advertorial and the news lifted from the net and you have a video of a near miss and a forum.

    Do that to sites like the DM and you’d be left with a photo of some Z-list starlet with her top off.

    But I digress.

    I disagree.  I like the news on road.cc and even some of the so-called advertorial.

    Yes, some of it is scraped from other news sites, but its all in one place.  I don’t have my own AI to run around the intreweb and hoover up relevant news for me, so Dave and the team will do just as well!  yes

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