Important - Doping Speculation - please read

Beasty

We now have around 15 posters seeing out bans for the rest of the Tour as a result of doping speculation, and tbh a lot more who are very lucky not to have been banned

Please note the forum rules on this topic were drawn up to comply with wider Boards rules and this is not something the local mods have discretion over

Please do not complain when a thread gets closed as a result of rampant doping speculation. The mods have a difficult enough task as it is, but the action taken on yesterday's thread almost certainly avoided much more mod activity and sanctions against posters. Mods do not want to be forced to close threads but were left with little choice yesterday because of the behaviour of a significant number of posters.

There will be zero tolerance on the subject, and a repeat of what happened yesterday will result in further mod actions (including bans) and likely thread closures. If you wish to speculate on doping do it on a site that allows it (thus avoiding problems for users of this forum and facilitating discussion for those posters who are prepared to abide by the rules)

If anyone has any questions PM the mods - do not start discussing mod actions or the relevance and/or application of rules in-thread

Beasty

For everyone's info, there is a Feedbacjk thread here if anyone wishes to discuss why we are required to apply such rules (please don't name names over there though as the same principles can be expected to be applied)