time to put the cat out and turn off the lights?

so, is Aus.Motorcycles officially dead? shall we call in the Doctor to
check for a pulse?

nothing much but xcrossing fuckwits and most of what you could call
regulars don't talk much about motorcycles if anything at all


mh
(waiting for Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum to get on their soap box
acting like they own the place by telling me I don't own the place)

 

I agree. There's not much of pulse left here ...

 

The Doctor said he'd come as soon as he's finished designing his new range
of Ducati inspired merchandise
Which he will complete after finalising sponsorship contracts with every
Italian firm that had a gross value over 20 million Euro last financial
year.
This will immediately follow the final negotiations with his preferred firm
of accounts and the Italian Tax Dept.

Europe is in financial crisis and Vale's will soon be getting the annual
income of a small African country each week

At least his rooting for the right side, wonder how much he pays for
headlight shells and blinkers.

Capt A. L.

PS Do the Greens favour the reintroduction of capital punishment? If so
maybe they should hang one of their own supporters to set a precedent

 

But of course it's not the tweedlers fault. They're tweedlers; that's what
they do (and takes only two clicks to make them quiet).
It's all the fuckheads who kept replying to the tweedlers that ramped up the
noise-level and drove off the bike contributors.

 

<golf clap>

mh

 

no , but brown is a nancy boy
If so

 

I think I only check this news group because I'm a creature of habit,
there's seldom anything original in here any more.

And most of the motorcycle content is cut and pasted from various web
forums.

Not that I've got a problem with off topic discussion but of late even
most of that has been more troll than discussion...


G-S

 

Perhaps you are right, but this chart of the number of aus-moto posts
suggests Aus-Moto peaked in 2002 and has been in decline ever since:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ftz09pzp5z2n8cz

based on this data from Google:

http://groups.google.com/group/aus.motorcycles/about

This decay in the number of contributions and the increasing incidence
of off-topic posts matches Usenet in general. Without the contributions
of those you call 'tweedlers' the number of posts to Aus-Moto each month
would probably not exceed 300, about the level of end-1995.

Since there isn't a cat, there aren't any lights and there isn't even a
door lock, you don't have to stick around, hoovering up the scraps. Just
go. Ausmoto on Facebook only has 56 members, for a start.

--
Regards

Andrew

[Picks up cat and releases snib on the latch]

 

Yup!

We need an official diagnosis.

If not yet dead, it is a bit on the poorly side. :-(

If you ask me, the whole thing started a downward slide when commercial
ISPs started up. ;-)

At one time, a virtual bike club, aus.moto might continue, as a sort of
virtual old-folks home.

<sigh> It's a pity, but, modern folk basically can't type, don't have
enough attention span to do anything more than post a URL, have no sense
of humour, can't live without a singing dancing avatar beside each of
their comments, and, probably, their mothers wear army boots.

Just to speed things up...... You don't own the place, Marty.

As for you, Andrew......."Ausmoto on Facebook only has 56 members, for a
start.".... hell will freeze over before I get tangled up with Facebook.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

hell will freeze over before I get tangled up with Facebook.

Interesting statement! I had a stalkerbook account for about a week,
never saw the reason to tell everyone every move I make.

 

It's not dead.... it's just resting.

The x-posting fuckwits do seem to have increased.... I keep wishing ppl
would just ignore them, but that's about as unlikely as me winning the
aus.moto tipping comp *sigh*

Oh shite - speaking of which, I bloody forgot to put my tips in altogether
this week. Hmm.... given my success so far, that mightn't put me at any
disadvantage....

betty
back to marking Yr 9 assignments

 

I was a bit bemused at this also.
Andrew; are you making some sort of comparison between ausmoto-ausmoto
and ausmoto-facebook (and saying that you only need 56 posters to
function) or are you encouraging ausmoto posters to post in Fecesbook
instead? (or did I miss the point ENTIRELY)?

Is ausmoto-facebook entirely populated with "went to McDonalds and got a
cheesburger (animated smiley) *LOL*, now watching Glee " messages like
the other 99.9999% of facebook is?

 

More like -:

"went to Starbucks and got a coffee (animated smiley) <insert BigIain
picture of better coffee than Starbucks>, now watching GP "


G-S

 

OK, I'll admit that the term 'cut and paste' wasn't the correctly used.

But 'bike related content' that appears on here often appears on web
sites first and is then repeated here (often by the same posters, many
of whom frequent multiple web sites as well as here), so no... not 'cut
and pasted'... technically.

And sure... there's original content; it's just that most of that
original content isn't very bike related (or very interesting if it's
Off Topic these days to be honest).

You're entitled to a different opinion, if you still find the
conversations here interesting then good for you but I've found the news
group increasingly irrelevant over the last few years (which is a shame).

G-S

 

I'd contend that it's endless cascades of Nev and YOU, giving an excellent
impression of a pair of 8-year-olds in the middle of a "Yes it is"/"No it
isn't" battle to exhaustion.


BTH

 

You missed the point ENTIRELY but that was because you didn't have
sufficient information. The ng aus.motorcycles (this one) is the
original. It spawned the Facebook version in, I dunno, 2007? While a few
people contribute to both, in the main the Facebook version is populated
with refugees from this ng. I'm guessing they're refugees because they
want to chat about motorcycling in a convivial atmosphere without being
obliged to listen to debates about religion or politics, or put up with
xposting nitwits from aus.cars.

The point I was making was that the Facebook Ausmoto *only* has 56
members, and if Clem is sufficiently irritated by the majority of the
posters here that he has to killfile them and be whacking the 'Ignore
Thread' button on every second thread, well, there's an alternative that
has plenty of room for additional members.

 

seeing there have been about 25 post/reply on there since 2007 I think
your argument is a moot one

ausmoto on facebook is there to promote this NG and the IRC channel...
nothing more and nothing less


I say most people have moved onto web based forums for many different
reasons

or just moved on as people do with life

mh

 

Clem

its a open, unmoderated forum, you cant really tell what people can
and can not post to.. when the numbers are large and 99% of the
posters are on the same wavelength you can weed the tod sploggers out,
but this place is now too small and the noise is too large for that to
happen

mh

 

Yes, I was wrong about Facebook. You're probably right about where
people have gone.

Top 7 posters on this ng this month:

63 George W Frost
61 Diogenes
60 Nev ..
38 Kevin Gleeson
31 G-S
22 Theo
22 LC
21 Zebee

Clem probably thinks the first two are entirely noise, and since most of
Nev ..'s posts reply to one or other of the first two, let's make the
value for noise 184. Count the remainder as signal, value 134. Signal to
noise ratio 0.73. Not very good.

My own view would be different.

 

And when you consider probably half of what I have been talking about
in the last month is politics, it makes that S/N ratio worse.

Facebook has its place and I use it a lot to promote music gigs.

But I think aus.motorcycles is on its last legs. Shame, but that is
the way things go.

UKRM is stil going strong but they have a highter population base to
keep that discussion diverse and alive.