Bike Week

[bracheen]

Dang.
Dave, I haven't witnessed you poorly wording or ill-placing anything since I've been here.  Quite the opposite you've too often been the still, quiet voice reeling in some of our more rambunctious moments with that reason thing you do so well.  I don't know if you asked for or were approached with the opportunity to become Moder Dave but you did step up and do it well always with respect and gentleness.
Oh, I'm sorry, am I getting off the subject?  I just thought as long as the wet blanket has been thrown I may as well pop in.

[alemberic]

Dave--I know I'm very new around here, but I would like to second bracheen's comment: I haven't witnessed you poorly wording or ill-placing anything since I've been here...I don't know if you asked for or were approached with the opportunity to become Moder Dave but you did step up and do it well always with respect and gentleness...  
 
Please keep doing what you're doing, exactly the way you've been doing it!!
 
Eric
 
(Message edited by alemberic on July 12, 2006)

[90k6259]

oh oh oh Poor Dave, looks how well he's taking it. Come on Kiddies lets all go to his rescue. What a pathetic level this tread has fallen to.
Hey Dave have you had drills on how to handle descent?
(That is really not where I wanted to take this)
However since you insist!  If it quakes like a duck! H'mm. I know that I said I was out of here. However I couldn't resist this one.
 WOW a real live G-man I'm impressed. Welcome Eric! Let me know if I should be shaking in my boots right about now HUH.
Quick Scotty beem me up before they find the feathers.

[90k6259]

Dave our moderator wrote: Well, in the history of our little forum here, I don't think I've chimed in on a motorcycle thread before; but I thought perhaps I might post in response to a couple comments above.  
 
Dave it wasn't a motorcycle tread it was a tread about a bass player and his Alembic at a motorcycle ralley. As moderator it should of been second nature for you to see that the treat had been highjacked.  
please don't you and your buddy's turn this on me to.

[90k6259]

See See I can play the oh poor me card to.
OH oh hear come the feathers. Quick Scotty

[90k6259]

Well Dave must be a Day person OR deep in his bunker planning covert operations.

[90k6259]

Well do you think dave is a day person? Or!! Is he  deep in his bunker planning covert operations?

[90k6259]

Dave wrote:
I was just making some suggestions. Since the subject of hijacking had been brought up, I thought I would share some things I had been thinking of for a while. Hijacking isn't necessarily a bad thing, and it often can turn out to be a good thing, taking a discussion to a subject that can be helpful to members. For instance, a thread on a particular speaker cab might morph into a discussion on ohms and how that relates to matching power amps and speaker cabs generally. So I don't think I meant to lay down any hard and fast rules or to suggest that any posts made in the past were particularly wrong.
 
Now tell me honestly! Is this not the style of a politician ?

[adriaan]

Roy,
 
This is the style of a careful moderator. Some of us here appear to have tempers, and it is very wise of Dave to tread carefully.
 
Mind you, he usually doesn't think twice before adding his .02 to the jolly nonsense.

[90k6259]

Adriaan,
This has indeed gotten out of hand. So I am going to try and reduce this situation to its lowest denominator.
Fact1: It is very easy to get all slap stick all over a post. Makes for a great defense.
or as some would say, turn things into a more lighthearted mood.
Fact2: We have guidlines to fall back on to keep things civil. They are our constitution. They should not be toyed with or manipulated. Not even from our moderator.
Fact3: Dave has taken on a tough job, if he choses to do it in the best interest of all its members.
Fact4:Dave jumped right in and acted like he was just another member having a good time.
Well posting as moderator does not allow you that privilege.    
It would be wiser of Dave to lay down the constitution of this forum. Not play politics
P.S. Dave this is the last time I address you in the third person. I am a fellow club member and demand to be treated as such.
Roy

[FC Bass]

I might be able to eat pizza again (without Cheese)
Cheers!
F.C.

[jacko]

Roy said  
'Fact4:Dave jumped right in and acted like he was just another member having a good time.  
Well posting as moderator does not allow you that privilege.'
 
I really can't agree with this statement at any level. dave has been a member of this club alot longer than most of us here and has as much right as the newest member to post on any subject he has an opinion about. Luckily for Dave, we tend to be a pretty self-moderating bunch and I doubt if I'd need the fingers on one hand to count the number of times anyone has gotten so out of hand he's had to 'pull rank'.  I've read this thread a number of times and really am struggling to see why Roy is getting so uptight - he hasn't been 'moderated' anywhere that I can see. perhaps he just doesn't like Beer, bikes and Pizza.
As for Bike week, for us non motorised cyclists, its Bike threeweeks just now as Europes finest sporting spectacle, the tour de france , enters the mountains.  
 
Graeme

[FC Bass]

I'm not gonna spend much words on this. I've seen some posts by mr. Houck. My conclusion:
Dave rules!As moderator and as a member!

[lbpesq]

Go Dave go!  No problems detected from out here on the left coast... at least for a few more hours ... catching a plane today for NYC ... my 11 year old and I are doing the baseball thing ....Yankee Stadium, Camden Yards, Shea Stadium & Hall of Fame   ... all that and a trip to Flaxland too! ... and not even one planned motorcycle ride!  When we get to Cooperstown, however, we will be searching for birch beer (I went to the HoF when I was about 11 and I remember getting birch beer in town).  So Dave, don't let the upstarts get you down ...  keep on doin' what you're doin'.  My theory is that if no one hired you and no one pays you, that if the job is done gratis, then do it any which way you want.  Up for re-election?  You get my vote (Since I own 3 Alembics, do I get 3 votes?  If it works like that you better get Rami on your side!!!!)    LOL  So long as no one hijacks the thread to Cuba, I ain't got no problems.
 
Bill, tgo

[811952]

Birch beer!  Wonderful stuff, Bill.  I hope you find much of it and enjoy it in good health with your son!
 
John