Le Chaud Lapin wrote:
One of my first posts to this group was essentially a re-examination
of whether backwash causes lift.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...5a49e900a0c791

There were numerous subsequent ad-hominem attacks by many licensed
pilots in this group, which, by definition, makes that post
inflammatory.

Okay...

I took the trouble to review that thread up to a point, and could find
no ad-hominem attacks against you in the first 107 posts (in the order
given in that link). Some posters who I would loosely categorize as
"does not suffer fools gladly" such as perhaps Bertie, actually posted
useful followups (4, 9, 20, and 86, among others). There were attacks
against Mxsmanic, but that's an ongoing thing unrelated to your initial
post.

You didn't start getting personal nits until your post at 91 of that
thread in which you state "Let's face it. A large pecentage of people
walking this planet think there is a "suction" force."

That was essentially an attack on "a large percentage of people." If I
had been a co-moderator of a moderated piloting group with that thread,
I'd probably have approved your post 91 and Bertie's followup post at 92
because his "lost cause" statement was basically a statement about why
he'd not be trying to answer any further. But I might have included a
moderator warning of some sort.

The first real insult against you appears to be at post 108 by Bertie.
But it is response to post 107 by you in which you basically engaged in
a personal attack against two unnamed CFIs. Post 107 of yours was
borderline inflammatory - had you named names I'd have rejected it.

Under the rules you write above, would that post have been accepted or
rejected in a moderate group?

Other than the attacks on Mxsmanic, I saw lots of reasoned posts
directed in response to your post and from you in at least the first
100+ posts. People appear to have put a lot of effort into their
responses but you insisted on both claiming in need of some intuitive
understanding on one hand but on the other hand claimed to already
know all the physics and intuitively knew what was going on.
(A confusing mix of hubris and humility.)

Basically you appear to have been claiming knowledge and understanding
on one hand but claiming you needed help in gaining that very same
knowledge and understanding on the other. That in summary is possibly
why you were eventually pegged a troll and then personally attacked.