do all scooter members really owns a scooter?? By LUKE (Read 2,043 times)

[LUKE]

or just uploaded pictures from the computer??
guys, i came across this site, and as i browse on it, i recognize some familiar pictures of scooters posted on some scooter forum. /and some familiar pictures of the members too.
hmm ,question arises,, are these familiar scooter really owned by them??or just uploaded and they don't really have a scooter??
here's the site..tell me who you recognize.. jiz ,,can't believe what i saw.
waiver: i do not own this site/and i have no power to incorporate any pictures on it/nor influence anybody to do it for me.

i meant no offense to anyone recognizeable on these pictures..i'm just simply shocked. ...i maybe wrong,,i mean..yah know.

www.google.com/images?hl=en&expIds=17259,17315,18167,23628,23670,26637,26761,26849,26869,27087,27113,27126,27219,27357,27360&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=air+scooter+avatar&cp=14&rls=ig&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=Q9bQTPShOpS-sAPjws2mCw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCIQsAQwAA&biw=1600&bih=683

[4denise]

Very pretty. I might pick me out an avatar soon.

I would suppose that someone who doesn't want to or can't take a picture of themselves and/or their scooter might use something like this, but to not disclose it is a little dishonest, I think. I wouldn't ever actually accuse someone of lying about having a scooter, but it is possible. Maybe some people would lie to gain access to the social aspects of the scooter community. I think it more likely that people are just taking advantage of the stock pictures instead of taking their own, though. I wouldn't find it too offensive, but they should admit it if they are doing it.

[4denise]

I found a cute avatar. I'm going to check to see if it has a copyright on it.

[4denise]

By the way, that is an image search. It is also quite possible that the images you are seeing are being picked up from the originals you have already seen. To find out, click on the image and then on the link below the image on the enlargement. This should take you to the site the image is actually on. That is how I followed the avatar image I found to the site where it is from. When they let me contact the "owner" of the image, I'll ask if I can use it.

[ccprof]

I don't see me or mine. I have seen some of the images before over on SD. I also saw a picture of Ginny - Imagesinthewind.

[Bashan]

A lot of times I will put up an avatar for a new member to make them feel more welcome and dress up the site a little. That's always been a pet peeve of mine, that empty avatar space. Anyway, I was getting one of those confused, jumbled up Photobucket albums filled with avatars, half of whom didn't stick around. So I started snagging images off the web for a new member's avatar until they get their own together. That may one reason that you see familiar images. We've been pretty slack about actually having a scooter to belong. I think as long as the member has an avid interest in scooters, has something similar to a scooter, or plans on getting a scooter, we should welcome them. If we start veering off into cars, boats, or politics, I'll put the skids on it. Rich

[kz1000st]

I don't know how I got there, or if it's worth suing for some kind of cyber theft, but that picture of me sitting on my W650 next to my house is actually me!!! If you look at my avatar here you can see the logs of my house and my stone chimney. I use that avatar in four places so somebody grabbed it from one of them. If I was going to steal one I'd certainly find somebody younger and better looking.

Wait! It says they got it from SD and that I joined in 2008. They must have lifted it recently since I only put that one in there in September of this year. I see Ginny and Jayhawk's avatar also.

[kevinharrell]

"If we start veering off into cars, boats, or politics, I'll put the skids on it. Rich"

So, using this as my avatar would be dimly viewed? (Especially with the political bumper stickers on the back.)

[Bashan]

I would be PROUD to have that avatar on this website! Seriously, I was referring to the main thrust of the forum. We talk about all kinds of things but at the end of the day it's a scooter forum. I guess I'm kinda sensitive to this as I belonged to a motorcycle forum that slowly degenerated into a constant political discussion with members becoming more and more polarized. These things can spin out of control pretty quickly. Rich

[Bashan]

Yep....he's still Lucy....

[LUKE]

but is that site owned solely by one person?..he must be crazy, he copied pictures of scooters,faces,horses,birds,babies etc. ..i've had pictures of my morph all over the web but ,it wasn't copied. ..he must have a bad taste in scooter..LOL

[runningslow]

Nov 3, 2010 12:48:56 GMT -6 LUKE said:

but is that site owned solely by one person?..he must be crazy, he copied pictures of scooters,faces,horses,birds,babies etc. ..i've had pictures of my morph all over the web but ,it wasn't copied. ..he must have a bad taste in scooter..LOL

Luke, I can't tell if you're being serious or not...

You posted a link to a Google Image Search... so, of course not one person has all of those images. If you look at the individual links to all those images, they're mostly to sites like ImageShack, Photobucket and I saw plenty that linked to ScootDawg. So, since most images on those sites are publicly visible and searchable by Google, they're going to appear in a search for "air scooter avatar".

[madcollie]

Yesterday *Luke* wrote:
do all scooter members really owns a scooter??
« Thread Started Yesterday at 10:32pm »

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or just uploaded pictures from the computer??

OK *Luke*, I'm BUSTED. No I don't own a scooter, my avatar is from off the web, and right now my ride resembles a mangled pile of parts next to an old bike frame.

Does this mean I'm not good enough? Should I not post here? Do I have no friends out there in scooter land? Should I tuke tail and go away? I'll leave it up to you *Luke*, if you say go so be it.

SAY IT AIN'T SO, please.

M/C

[LUKE]

joshua, nah that's just part of the joke package...it's not serious.


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Maddy!!

nothing personal, like iv'e said i was just shock, and amidst awe..
i remember in one of the morphous group i belong to, the founder who used to lecture a lot about the morphous do's and don'ts ,maintenance and God knows what else, happens to be guess what?? yup, not owning a morphous at all., gosh,for cryin out loud.
..nope Madcolie, you are staying in the forum,,eventhough you don't own a scooter, the fact that you like my egg recipes,....,your'e in!!!

[LUKE]

ha ha ha,,oh cum on jr,,i'm not a chinese trying to steal a chinese scooter... LOL..and i must admit,i'm really insulted by the first photo,,my head doesn't look like a coconut cut into half..lol