GoldenEraMTB":9rdyu6z9 said:
:shock:
then again, not all that shocking. This thread reminds me of High School...I hated High School.
**Warning!**...Drama-Fishing Comment Detected.
Guys, all of you should be aware that most message boards probably have some type of restricted membership area, the "Lounge" if you will, where those folks that see themselves as the cats tits of the group go to cuddle. I've been active on boards in the past where members who realized that such a restricted area existed and didn't open up the doors for them got all butt-hurt about it. I'm not blasting Rumpfy or anybody else on any boards where that may be the case, and Defiant isn't whining about it so much as asking where his blog traffic is coming from, based on the wacky web-trail it's left behind. Private Boards exist...it isn't just MTBR-VRC, it isn't a new concept, and it isn't going to go away just because you may have finally stumbled across it.
It's like this...special interest group starts a board, invites friends of like interests to join, board gains public exposure, thousands join and the original function of the board gets muddied...initial group says, "remember the good old days when all we talked about was blah blah blah", and the idea for a restricted area is born... It is a sad progression sure...but not out of the ordinary.
In the end, just remember that it's not like your wife and kids built a room on the back of the house, sit out there and won't let you in. It's just a message board or private blog or whatever. Even if all the recent conspiracy theories are true, and Rumpfy and Bushpig and whoever are actually sitting out on a private board rubbing each other with JPGs of Ritchey, Salsa and Potts frames, so what? The conspiracy theories about price fixing are nutty, mostly contrived by those that can't get in "the lounge" somewhere and feel the need to categorize the whole idea as evil. Let it go and move on.
