I'd like to point out one self-contradiction and one outright outrageous
assumption in this post.

"Doug Haluza" wrote in message
oups.com...
The OLC is intended to be a public forum. One of the main
purposes of the OLC is for pilots to be able to share their flight
experiences with the entire worldwide soaring community (and anyone
else who may be interested).

This contradicts the following:

I suspect that there are a lot of competition pilots who have received
penalties in contests that they didn't think were fair.
[confronting people] is not intended to be a punitive action to punish the
individual, it is
intended to protect the integrity of the competition.

So is OLC a public forum, or a competition? If former, you will do the
public a huge favour if you quit "protecting" forum's integrity. If latter,
then yes, it should be controlled more strictly, but then don't call it
"public" anymore -- only a fraction of pilots are interested in real
contests.

The control that SSA began to exercise over the OLC-US (called SSA-OLC
now -- note how OLC used to come first) pushes it towards the contest side
of it. Why? Or, more relevantly, what for? If you wish to run it this way,
don't be surprised if it becomes as popular as other SSA-sanctioned contests
in this country.

Some of these people may not realize that
they should not emulate your bad behavior because they are dumb like a
post. Others will do it to try to beat you because they are dumb like a
fox.

Aside from these two groups, do you think there are any intelligent people
left around? Because for a second you sounded as if, one way or the other,
everybody is dumb around you -- like a post or like a fox. Maybe you are
spending too much effort protecting us from us.
--
Yuliy

P.S.: "This is by far the hardest lesson about freedom. It goes against
instinct, and morality, to just sit back and watch people make mistakes. We
want to help them, which means control them and their decisions, but in
doing so we actually hurt them (and ourselves)." -- [apparently by Ernest
Christley]