Cycling UK Forum

The matter is being considered.

Here's how I see it, having been involved (but not as a day-to-day moderator) with this Forum for many years now. These are "big-picture", "long-term view" comments. The Moderators of this Forum have done an excellent job, completely voluntarily, for many years. As a result the o...

What might happen if there were no moderation? 1) There would soon be more posts trying to sell you dodgy stuff than interesting posts. Spammers are constantly trying to get in. 2) Many discussions would descend into pointless, childish, abusive name-calling. Goodwin's law [https://en.wikipedia.org...

I'd just like to point out that this Forum works well only because of the constant work of the Moderators. They have a difficult and time-consuming task to keep out the spammers and abusive messages, and adjudicate in disputes. They get nothing in return other than a sense of pride in a Job Well Don...

The problem is as follows: Emails from the Forum are sent "From" <mbadmin@cyclinguk.org>, as that's the best address to handle any replies. Emails from the Forum are sent by <forumbounces@fonant.com> (the "Envelope sender" or "Return-Path") because that's the best addre...

I've contacted Cycling UK again, in the hope that we can sort this out.

I think the same thing as a "spam folder" or "junk mail folder".

I'm not aware of any specific moderation changes that might be needed because of COVID-19.

What did you have in mind?

That's very useful, thanks! Looks like the messages are now failing DMARC validation, because the message isn't signed by the outgoing mail server (my server, not Cycling UK's one). Because cyclinguk.org now has a DMARC record, asking for failed messages to be quarantined, it ends up in the Spam fol...

Easy to opt out of analytical tracking, if you want to. I recommend uBlock Origin, but there are many tracking blockers available. I don't actually run Piwik/Matomo on the Forum any more, so there's only the Google Analytics analysis used by Cycling UK. The tracking you should mostly be worried abou...

Yeah, it's impossible to stop banned users from coming back with a new username.

If they behave themselves this isn't a problem. If they continue to abuse then they'll find their new account blocked pretty quickly.

Whichever the person requesting a change of username prefers. The first option requires an admin to do the change, the second can be done by anyone. We generally don't allow username changes, because it confuses other Forum users and is sort-of "rewriting history". But we do allow changes ...

You can turn user signature display off.

1. Click your username
2. User Control Panel
3. Board preferences
4. Edit display options
5. Display signatures: No.

Two ways this could be done:

1. Change the username for the account
2. Create a new account

If the username is changed for the account, all posts from that account will show the new username.

If you get blocked again, please could you let me know your IP address (ask Google) _before_ you restart your router? Then I can look to see what your IP address has been requesting. Might give us a clue why you're having these "too many requests" problems. Reconnecting your router will (t...