Question on "Like", "Dislike", & "Elite" post options.

[mstone]

It can be used literally or pejoratively, and can refer either to the poster or to the subject of the post. It’s just a fun button.

[dasgeh]

Or you can have friends that you always ELITE because they beat you up the Lee Hwy hill

[PotomacCyclist]

If you’re a hipster, use it ironically.

If you’re a speedster, use it as a term of praise.

If you’re a bike commuter, use it based upon the weather that morning.

If you’re an avid forum poster, change the way you use it on a daily basis. Just to confuse everyone.

[rcannon100]

LIKE: You like it (but have little more to contribute other than mindlessly mashing a button in order to inform the NSA of your views)

ELITE: You deem the post of a spectacular quality worthy of a cyclist who thinks it owns the road. It is the type of post by a cyclists who yells “left” with great expectation that all the little people (cyclists, joggers, tourists, small children, squirrels, bad karma) will just get the hell out of his way.

DISLIKE: In your opinion, the forum poster has crossed that well-defined line between good and drivers of white Lexuses.

LIKE + DISLIKE: You have empathy for a poster who has posted the tragic, especially if the cyclist has posted a story of woe, accompanied with color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining how each photo is evidence of the tale.

LIKE + ELITE: The poster is a spandex-king among men, who has suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune along the trails, and bares the mark of many a successful KOM.

DISLIKE + ELITE: No man is an island, but you wish this cyclist was on one.

LIKE + DISLIKE + ELITE: Supreme confusion. A mixture of passion and ambivalence. The post compels you, but not in any manner that is really worth discussing. It marks a post that is filled with sound and fury yet signifies nothing.

[Hancockbs]

First time I realized you could do more that one!

[Hancockbs]

@rcannon100 65603 wrote:

LIKE: You like it (but have little more to contribute other than mindlessly mashing a button in order to inform the NSA of your views)

ELITE: You deem the post of a spectacular quality worthy of a cyclist who thinks it owns the road. It is the type of post by a cyclists who yells “left” with great expectation that all the little people (cyclists, joggers, tourists, small children, squirrels, bad karma) will just get the hell out of his way.

DISLIKE: In your opinion, the forum poster has crossed that well-defined line between good and drivers of white Lexuses.

LIKE + DISLIKE: You have empathy for a poster who has posted the tragic, especially if the cyclist has posted a story of woe, accompanied with color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining how each photo is evidence of the tale.

LIKE + ELITE: The poster is a spandex-king among me, who has suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune along the trails, and bares the mark of many a successful KOM.

DISLIKE + ELITE: No man is an island, but you wish this cyclist was on one.

LIKE + DISLIKE + ELITE: Supreme confusion. A mixture of passion and ambivalence. The post compels you, but not in any manner that is really worth discussing. It marks a post that is filled with sound and fury yet signifies nothing.

This needs to be a sticky/FAQ for all the neophytes like myself.

[mstone]

point of order: he is not the Arbiter of ELITE, that title currently in abeyance

[jrenaut]

Just be careful – if a post gets enough dislikes, it gets hidden.

[cyclingfool]

@rcannon100 65603 wrote:

LIKE: You like it (but have little more to contribute other than mindlessly mashing a button in order to inform the NSA of your views)

ELITE: You deem the post of a spectacular quality worthy of a cyclist who thinks it owns the road. It is the type of post by a cyclists who yells “left” with great expectation that all the little people (cyclists, joggers, tourists, small children, squirrels, bad karma) will just get the hell out of his way.

DISLIKE: In your opinion, the forum poster has crossed that well-defined line between good and drivers of white Lexuses.

LIKE + DISLIKE: You have empathy for a poster who has posted the tragic, especially if the cyclist has posted a story of woe, accompanied with color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining how each photo is evidence of the tale.

LIKE + ELITE: The poster is a spandex-king among men, who has suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune along the trails, and bares the mark of many a successful KOM.

DISLIKE + ELITE: No man is an island, but you wish this cyclist was on one.

LIKE + DISLIKE + ELITE: Supreme confusion. A mixture of passion and ambivalence. The post compels you, but not in any manner that is really worth discussing. It marks a post that is filled with sound and fury yet signifies nothing.

This post requires its own new button underneath for forum members to press: Epic!

[baiskeli]

@Hancockbs 65605 wrote:

This needs to be a sticky/FAQ for all the neophytes like myself.

Good idea. We do have a forum dictionary thread for this sort of thing.

http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?2783-Forum-Dictionary

[DismalScientist]

Elite <> ELITE

This is the origin of term ELITE: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?2684-Dear-ELITE-biker

[kkentium]

my missed connection post about getting run off the road got all dislikes. i feel bad for posting it now.

[KelOnWheels]

@kkentium 65921 wrote:

my missed connection post about getting run off the road got all dislikes. i feel bad for posting it now.

Well we dislike it when you get run off the road! We like you OK though.

[rcannon100]

@kkentium 65921 wrote:

my missed connection post about getting run off the road got all dislikes. i feel bad for posting it now.

Please know that my “Official” Lexicon was utterly fraudulent. It was about as reliable as a cable network news report. And Kel is right…. It is a community of empathetic fluffy bunnies following the mantra and teaching of our grand poo-bah, IamDIRT. (We dont like it when you get hurt).

[KLizotte]

@kkentium 65921 wrote:

my missed connection post about getting run off the road got all dislikes. i feel bad for posting it now.

I think we should have a condolences button; that way we can send condolences for accidents, stolen bikes, etc. Hitting the dislike button is too confusing/ambiguous for people new to the forum and if there are too many dislikes the post is automatically hidden.

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