The "Do Not Ride With List"

More righteous??? What's that supposed to mean?

This thread is for people to vent. Period.

Don't like the ride, pass it up. Don't like the passenger, pass them up. Period.

There's no point in trying to resolve the rantings of those who feel aggrieved by whatever irked them in some specific moment of time - too many variables are in play. Too many people take this stuff way too seriously.

Bottom line: You slug - you take your chances.

So sd&sr, you intend to solve that here, in this forum? ...by registering riders and drivers? ...by publishing a book of rules? ...by logging complaints and linking them to registrants? ...by acting as a morality judge? And then what? Would you issue citations? Would you turn them in to the Police?

Two observations: 1.) what you propose contradicts the very nature of this forum and of slugging in general. It's annonymous and voluntary by nature. The system self-polices itself. You can't change that, and if you try, you you may injure or ruin the slugging system as it is (which, by the way, works just fine, thank you very much, so please don't mess with a good thing!). 2.) you cannot legislate behaviour when participation is voluntary. Those who choose not to participate, like me, will simply ignore you, begining now!

Wow, sd&sr is a former English teacher! Now I know where the authoritarian bent comes from.

You know, there was this guy who walked the Earth a couple thousand years ago who lived for others, thought about them above his own comfort and survival. Sure he got trampled on for it, but he pretty much rocked the world by being a servant to all mankind.

IF we chose to emulate his mannerisms, character and attributes in our daily lives, we'd achieve what some would try to mandate through rules, regulations and ordinances. I've only seen human nature rail at all the guidance once can publish because we're all "lawyers" at heart and are on a never-ceasing quest to find the one loophole (at least) that exists in any manmade system.

sdsr, I still have an open mind about what you're trying to do, but I have this pessimistic bent that says regulating a successful grassroots activity is akin to polishing the struts on my car...lots of activity & effort for very little productive return on your investment.

NoSb

SOV because you can, HOV because you care!