F. Baum wrote:
On Jun 9, 3:10 pm, Dudley Henriques wrote:
These two forums I have mentioned seem to be extremely well run and
controlled by very nice, involved in aviation at the ground root level,
people; in one case, a very nice family. These people have put up the
forum as a public service to aviation and as far as I can determine, are
anything but "Big Kahunas".

Dudley, I have made a couple of passes through the POA forum and the
knowlege base seems to be pretty shallow. Whats worse is that POA
appears to be moderated by a couple of very inexperienced pilots.
Nothing against inexperience of course but should they be calling
shots with debates involving CFIs and ATPs AIs etc ? The strict
conduct code over there seems to result in watered down small talk. If
I want to disagree with someone and post an oposing view I shouldnt
have my post edited or deleted by someone who is not qualified to make
the call. Good luck over there and I will check out your other link.
Thanks
FB

So far, this has not been my experience, but time will tell.
Don't know where you got the stats on the forum moderators. I don't have
that information.
I think you have the wrong perspective on how these forums are moderated.
I've yet to see a moderator on either forum edit or delete a post based
on the moderator's judgment on who is right and who is wrong. Only
obvious bad behavior, vitriolic posts and ad hominem attacks are
"moderated" by the control board.
As far as I can determine, you can agree or disagree with anyone on
these forums with free abandon as long as you do it politely and in a
friendly manner.
Can't address the registration problem except to say that POA was hacked
yesterday and they thought they sorted it all back out last night.
All is perfectly normal on my end and I'm having no issues today at all.
Personally, I've found the experience quite satisfying so far.
You'll have to make your own assessment of course.

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Dudley Henriques