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It's because people who ride bikes are tired of getting injured and killed and watching silently as others are injured and killed by people driving cars all while being told they don't deserve safer infrastructure and that they are entitled whiners when the meager infrastructure they have is occupied by parked vehicles.

Most people who bike are asking for safety. That's it. The refusal to back down is being falsely painted as a culture war by people who'd prefer the status quo where people on bikes should not expect safety.

>we're in a world now that is in many ways broken because many can't work together on common problems.

You weren't trying to solve a problem or work together with people. You were trying to silence a conversation. I get that some people go too far, but moderating civility is different from what you were doing. This was acting on a vendetta, which is as slippery a slope as there can be.

If your unable to recognize that mistake and own it entirely without trying to walk the apology back within the apology, it's probably best you hand over the reins. Kudos for recognizing at least that much.

/r/fuckcars /r/walkablecities /r/notjustbikes

It sounds like both you and the mod are having real life conflicts with people that you want to moan about passive aggressively on the internet. And both are shocked to find that there are people who respond negatively/counterproductively to that. As for your description of the people with whom you have conflicts, online or offline, I guess it sounds a lot like you want this to be a culture war since you believe you know exactly what's in the minds of others. You're really bringing this ugliness on yourself, in that respect, which puts you in a pretty bad spot to then complain about it.

You are the only one making personal attacks by banning active members and making a simple discussion into a one way conversation if you wanted to be less toxic you should have banned everyone mentioning cars.

Wait a sec, now calling out toxicity is toxic? Come on. I think you just don't want to hear any dissent. If there's nuance here somewhere, I'm not hearing it. The toxicity I replied to was a bunch of sarcasm and snide for no purpose. People genuinely don't understand why there is so much bicycle anger. I myself am deeply upset about climate issues, but I know who my enemy is on that. They're not for the most part my fellow Cantabrigians.

Better moderation in place dude you are the mod.

I’m somewhat new to the sub, but not new to the city. What’s all this about? Is it just cycling related friction?

Mods asleep? That's prime bikeposting time

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funny!

Sounds like maybe it shouldn't be up to you since you have a bit of a bias towards a lot of the things this city and sub agree with.

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Biking in Cambridge is great

Correct, I moved for work recently. Good sleuthing. Cambridge was one of my all time favorite places to live. I miss that shitty walkup with 6' ceilings.

😂 Yes I’m here for it

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I can't believe this post has been up for 47 whole minutes!?

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Please tell us more about the nature of discussions in this sub. Oh wait, you live in San Francisco and only have been commenting here since you found out about the mod’s post.

Edit: of course they blocked me for calling them out for brigading and not being from Cambridge.

Take my upvote, and have a lovely evening

It’s truly remarkable that you have yet to admit you massively overstepped and overreacted and apologize. You keep dancing around that reality with “let’s move on”. Maybe you haven’t noticed, but there is no moving on until there’s contrition. But keep on digging my man, this could reach legendary Reddit status

So glad to hear you had a good experience! Were you working primarily with the OBs or the midwives? I know that's an option there.

Sorry to hear that! Glad you followed your gut!

This thing got buried, but your post just put a huge smile on my face. Thank you for that, len