Site Rules & Socials

Rules of the Blog

If you are commenting or contributing there are only a few guidelines.

• Be nice.
• Be respectful.
• The odd swear is fine in context. An unnecessary string of angry swears will be moderated.
• There will be no trolling.
• If you want to be anonymous I’m sure you can think of a psuedonym rather than using ‘Anonymous’.
• This is a personal blog not a content farm.
• I am not trying to ‘grow my website’. I don’t care about page views. I’m not trying to ‘get my name out there’. I am not a ‘wannabe journalist’. I just want to watch racing and write about it sometimes.

Social Media

Somehow I’ve accumulated a lot of followers on Twitter. But then Twitter became X, and X became a cesspit filled with non-stop commercials, promoted content, right wing nonsense, racists and nutjobs.

So I don’t use it any more. I have maintained my profile but essentially I am domain squatting so nobody can pretend to be me.

I have migrated to Bluesky. It takes some work to build from nothing, it takes even more work to weed out the people who only want to talk about US politics. The reward is interesting, in-depth discussion about racing and a whole load of shitposting and memes, which reminds me of Twitter from 2010-2015.

I am also on Instagram which I mainly use when I’m at the track. Maybe I’ll use it more.

Anyway here are some rules I used on Twitter and I’m sticking to them:

• I use @toomuchracing to follow people who talk about racing. If I follow you based on that, but you don’t talk about racing I may unfollow you without saying so. It isn’t personal.
• I don’t care how many followers you have and neither should you.
• I won’t retweet your plea to reach a particular follower count.
• ‘Please RT for x,y,z!’ No. Stop begging.
• I’m not a journalist or a reporter but it is important to get things right. Mistakes happen incredibly quickly and easily in social media and I try not to rush on to bandwagons but it is very, very easy to do so and mistakes are made. I’m not immune and neither are you!
• If I share work by others, including videos or articles, I will have watched or read it first.
• Similarly, if you’re expecting me to share something of yours, give me time to read, listen, watch.
• I type quickly. I try not to flood your feed but it is easy to get carried away.

Personal Account

I also have personal accounts on Bluesky, Instagram and Mastodon (and X and FB). Followers are welcome but don’t expect chat about racing. I am not currently active on Threads.