JT!

There's no mixed feelings about trials uk on here at all. They're shit and the guy who runs it is incompetent at running a trials shop. The good things you've heard is the lucky people who've actually got their order. Don't judge a shop buy the good orders, judge them by how they handle their bad orders / problems. You've got first hand experience. 3 weeks to tell you something is out of stock that should have been listed as out of stock on the website is appalling.

I can't remember the name of the guy, well known rider but doesn't post here much, it seems like he rounded up a few people who'd had issues but I'm not sure how far it went.

I don't think Tom has set up any of the groups, sin bin vote functions etc so I guess they haven't been restricted to post in forsale either.

Over the last few years there's been dozens of people complaining about trials uk. Do not use them under any circumstance. Try get a refund if you can.

I wonder how many people have this set up so that when you take a pic it automatically uploads to an image hosting site. And I wonder how many of those people have accidentally taken a picture of their penis.

I don't think I've seen anyone mess up images as much as that... You have some friend requests BTW.

Could do with a little more color.

Blurays 'work' on any TV don't they?

Prefixes aren't working in clubs/comps in chrome. It just refreshes the page.

Seen a few posts about Minecraft here and there so I decided to see what all the fuss is about. Started up a game and didn't know what the hell I was doing until I did a little reading and now I'm hooked. I'm currently digging down for the past hour and no idea how I'm getting back up. Anyone else play?

Can't see any means to edit.

Any thought on scrapping the FAQ section? Most of the info in there is more than 6 years old now and pretty much redundant.

The watched topic box shows topics with new posts only, but there's a button you can click to show all your watched topics.

We've had a watched topic box for months now. See the thread in 'News'.

Skins have to be updated every once in a while to allow for new features. And then all the magic add-ons that Tomm makes have to be re-made every time there's a new skin. So from the looks of it, every time there's a new skin, there's a bunch of other stuff that comes with it.

There's an orange button to the left of the topic title when viewed from the sub forum main page, not within the topic its self. If that's not there there's no new posts on the topic.

Quick work Tom! Bike pics is NMC can go now can't it? Seing as though we have a sub forum for it. Am I right in thinking we can't sin bin people at the moment? Looking good on the whole though.

My wife has the dell 101z. 1.7ghz 2gb ram. It's pretty slow. Hers is good for the very basic stuff, to if you started using photoshop or any video editing software it would just grind to a halt. If you're going to go with that you'd have to get th 1.3ghz 4gb ram version. Let me know if you want to know anything about the laptops physical stuff.

Eaaaaassssssssy Tom. He was just joking. I don't think there's anyone on this forum who doesn't appreciate the effort that goes into the place. The problem with the current system is that people don't want to do favors for people. There's no incentive to actually go into New Members Chat and actually validate people - so people don't do it. I like the idea of people being flung straight into Full Members as I remember when I first joined it was ridiculous how long it took for me to get validated. People are going to vote people to the sin bin like crazy, but will rarely vote people back out. I like the idea of the first sin bin vote being a warning shot. But having that warning means you have to think about a bunch of other things such as would there be a time frame where it would give the user chance to edit, like if he makes a shit post, then heads offline, he could easily get two sin bin votes within a minute in a popular thread which would lead to him coming back online and having a warning which he can't do anything about. It's easy to come up with solutions to make it fair, but it just depends what limitations the board has and how much work'll go into it. Ideally, a person should get one warning that comes with a 24 hour posting ban, or 24 hours in the sin bin, they'll also receive a warning to read the rules of the forum to find out what they've done wrong (see further down about member comments). During this 24 hours, a member can't vote to kick to sin bin again, and will never be allowed to vote to send to sin bin from the same post, or an earlier dated post. When the 24 hours is up, he's back to where he started, if he gets voted to the sin bin again, he's there until he gets voted back out. Now that's a nightmare to implement I would have thought (with my zero computer skills in this area) so it might just be easier to have a zero toleration policy. If you post like a gimp, straight to the sin bin untill you get voted back out again. The number of votes it to send someone to the sin bin would have to be thought out carefully, too many and people aren't going to see any result and not bother. But too little and you're going to get people taking advantage of the situation and/or people ending up in the sin bin because voting members don't understand the rules themselves. Allowing users to comment on why someone has been voted to the sin bin would be good. There's no point punishing someone if they don't know what they did wrong. However, allowing TF members to speak their mind freely to new members might not be such a good idea so maybe a drop down box of rules / forum netiquette such as: txt tlk Bad grammar Bad spelling Pics in sigs Advertising Being Pete Wright Offensive posts Overly posting Wrong sub forum etc etc ...would be better. They would then show up on a message / email and fully explain why they're there. One thing that must be done though is it needs to be made very clear what the forum rules are, is it ok for the grammar to slip a bit. If someone refuses to use capitals at all is that worthy of a vote to kick them to the sin bin? Random thought: Maybe have a new group in between SM and Member called 'Janitor' and allow only those trusted people to send people to/from the sin bin with only one vote? (Obviously there'd have to be a fair few Janitors). The advantage to this is that you wouldn't have to set up a system where'd you have to account for people abusing it (as much) because you've be able to chose the members. You could also allow Janitors to move topics now that we have a fair few more sub forums people seem to be making a few more errors. Obviously SM, mods and admin would also be able to solely send people to and from the sin bin as well. Anyway, members who've signed up should be allowed to post in the wanted section, but not the forsale section. The only thing a buyer can do to piss someone off is say 'I'll take this' and not then sending any money / finishing the deal. It's annoying, but no money / parts are lost. This also allows new members to have access to the 2nd hand bikes that new members are looking for (this was always a big concern for me stopping new members from buying as it makes no sense, now the forums are split we can go back to at least allowing them to buy). A beginner discussion section to replace new members chat (or even keep is as new members chat for that matter) is an excellent idea. About the sin bin its self, I don't think the sin bin should be a physical forum. All that would go on in there is bitching really, and there would be no where for them to post in a worthwhile thread to show they're back on track. Maybe give them the group name 'sinner' or 'restricted member' and then only allow them to post topics and posts in new members chat (or whatever it'll be called), then it would end up like how it is now, if they still plan on doing more damage, it's confined to NMC until they're banned, if not, at least they'll have some decent-ish topics to post in until they start posting decent again. The new NMC would be for beginner trials related topics only though, not a general forum like it is now.

Welcome back F-stop Junkie, where did you vanish off to over winter?

It's ok if you re-post.... ...Jim'll fix it for you.

Didn't anybody record it?