If I remember correctly, a lot of your early posts there were on its helmet board. That tends not to be a board where it's easy to form friendships, no matter your view, and I think there is understandable suspicion of people who seem to be there mainly to post on it, more than discuss tours or bikes or campaigns. I'd made over 150 posts before daring to post there!
Not that it excuses bullying. The mods on there tend to be fairly right/libertarian/laissez faire IMO and used to be more so a decade ago. It has a board that's a talking shop for the Tea Party, for heaven's sake! Currently telling us who will win the 2029 election(!)
I'm not at all sure what to make of this.
Yes, I joined a discussion about helmets. I did not make a lot of posts on the subject but innocently entered a discussion. From what I recall three individuals rounded on me and treated me in the most appalling fashion. I have, in the past, noticed similar behaviour on here.
Reading around the CTC board/forums suggested this wasn't unusual behaviour if an individual didn't conform to a particular view. I should say at this point I did nothing more than explain why I feel helmets are a benefit to cyclists. It was around the time I had crashed, through no fault of my own, smashing a one week old helmet in four places.
The behaviour of some individuals on the forums was so appalling it coloured my view of CTC as an organisation. The moderators apply, or should, the organisation's standards. If this behaviour was acceptable to CTC moderators then it was obviously acceptable to CTC.
I wouldn't go near CTC or CUK as a result. Such members ruin an organisation for the majority.
