A Google Groups alternative to rec.aviation.piloting?

buttman wrote in
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On Aug 14, 6:53*pm, Jim Logajan wrote:
I note that some people who wish to migrate to a more controlled
aviation forum have a couple issues with the alternatives such as
AOPA and POA. Th
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first being that they appear U.S. centric. The second that the layout
is actually a backward step in user friendliness.

While it isn't as good as some of the classic threaded newsreaders,
it occurs to me that creating a "Google Groups only" (non-Usenet)
forum migh
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help a little toward addressing the two main issues (that I'm aware
of, anyway.) This is Google's info on creating a group on their
systems:

http://groups.google.com/intl/en/goo.../overview.html

The third issue is who would most people feel comfortable with as the
PIC of such a group?

That would be worse. The reason this group has degraded is because of
ad-hominem arguments. Notice I didn't say ad-hominem attacks. In my
opinion more damage has been done to this group by allowing
"annointed" people free rides and giving "non-anointed" people attacks
regardless of what they say. The way it should be is that if someone
like Dudley says something stupid, he should get called out on it. If
MX says something, he should get called out on it. If Dudley says
something great he should be praised for it. If MX says something
good, he should get praised for it. But thats not how its done here.
No matter what MX says, he'll get ribbed. No matter what Dudley says,
he'll get praised. If you have a group of people officially annointed
as group moderators, this effect will only be magnified and the
discussion will be even less useless.


Awww, Maxie... You feeling left out because you're an idiot?

Bertie