All,
Here’s the announcement which you all may (or may not) have been waiting for. We were unfortunately forced to remove the BoTM thread following the actions of one user. He shall remain nameless here, however it won’t take Miss Marple to figure out their identity. The aforementioned user entered his bike and subsequently registered 15 further users to rig the vote and to cause trouble on the original BoTM nomination and voting threads. His actions and those like it will not be tolerated – needless to say this has resulted in a ban of this user and the 15 aliases we have tracked down to date. Let’s not forget the contest is a bit of fun - actions like this spoil things for everybody.
Following these unfortunate incidents the BoTM Rules have been amended as follows, updates are in bold.
1. Keep all comments and criticism constructive, avoid personal attacks.
2. Entries are accepted from all parts of the site. MTB, Road, BMX, Cyclocross, whatever.
3. It is strongly suggested all bikes are placed in the reader’s bikes section prior to entry into BoTM. In this way a bike can under go a more gentle critique prior to the spotlight and interest of BoTM. More detail and extra pictures can be added here.
4. If you aren’t prepared that your bike undergo criticism as part of BoTM don’t enter it. We have many 1000s of views on this thread in a month – make sure both you and your bike are ready!
5. Don’t register extra users to vote for your own bike and for trolling purposes. This will result in a ban from retrobike.
6. Bike must be complete.
7. Bike must be currently owned by site member / nominee. No selling the bike whilst the contest is running if you want to remain in the contest. This goes for entering the bike with the intention of selling.
8. Two pictures per bike only.
9. Judges decision is final.
10. Bikes can only be entered once (special months excepted)
11. Don't take it too seriously
The voting thread will be back up later tonight or tomorrow with the offending users pride and joy removed. We have also removed speedplay’s RTS at his request (bike is on ebay) and have added Void’s stumpjumper. So, get voting
Here’s the announcement which you all may (or may not) have been waiting for. We were unfortunately forced to remove the BoTM thread following the actions of one user. He shall remain nameless here, however it won’t take Miss Marple to figure out their identity. The aforementioned user entered his bike and subsequently registered 15 further users to rig the vote and to cause trouble on the original BoTM nomination and voting threads. His actions and those like it will not be tolerated – needless to say this has resulted in a ban of this user and the 15 aliases we have tracked down to date. Let’s not forget the contest is a bit of fun - actions like this spoil things for everybody.
Following these unfortunate incidents the BoTM Rules have been amended as follows, updates are in bold.
1. Keep all comments and criticism constructive, avoid personal attacks.
2. Entries are accepted from all parts of the site. MTB, Road, BMX, Cyclocross, whatever.
3. It is strongly suggested all bikes are placed in the reader’s bikes section prior to entry into BoTM. In this way a bike can under go a more gentle critique prior to the spotlight and interest of BoTM. More detail and extra pictures can be added here.
4. If you aren’t prepared that your bike undergo criticism as part of BoTM don’t enter it. We have many 1000s of views on this thread in a month – make sure both you and your bike are ready!
5. Don’t register extra users to vote for your own bike and for trolling purposes. This will result in a ban from retrobike.
6. Bike must be complete.
7. Bike must be currently owned by site member / nominee. No selling the bike whilst the contest is running if you want to remain in the contest. This goes for entering the bike with the intention of selling.
8. Two pictures per bike only.
9. Judges decision is final.
10. Bikes can only be entered once (special months excepted)
11. Don't take it too seriously
The voting thread will be back up later tonight or tomorrow with the offending users pride and joy removed. We have also removed speedplay’s RTS at his request (bike is on ebay) and have added Void’s stumpjumper. So, get voting
