Logan contest reporting now only on Soaring Cafe

On Jul 26, 7:37*am, "Ken Sorenson" wrote:
Ted,

My understanding is that the contest organizer, who has responsibility for
the contest reports, asked the SSA webmaster to remove the reports, which he
did. The decision to remove the reports was made by the contest organizer.. A
posting elsewhere in this thread by Tim Taylor explains their rationale.

As you know from your own experience as a contest organizer, putting on a
contest is a huge amount of work, usually done entirely by a small group of
volunteers. Those of us who are privileged to fly these contests really
appreciate the effort put in by all contest organizers, however imperfect
they may seem at times. It has become increasingly difficult to find the
volunteers needed to host, organize, and run contests. Hopefully the folks
who have become wound up over the handling of Frank's entertaining reports
will give the contest organizers, and the SSA volunteers, the benefit of the
doubt on this matter. The last thing we can afford to do is to run off the
few SSA volunteers and contest organizers we have. *There is no "them", its
just "us".

Ken Sorenson

"Tuno" wrote in message

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Although I personally disagree with this decision, it is within the
purview of the on-site contest management to decide who posts to the
SSA website.
QT
Rules Committee

And as reported by Ken Sorenson, "Logan, UT contests have apparently
elected to change reporters at the contest".

All that is clear, and no argument from me, but none of it explains
why SSA removed the old posts. I would like to know why that
additional step was taken.

2NO

2NO,

The removal of the reports we done by the contest organizers, in fact
I performed the actions after ALL of the contest organizations agreed
to the action. There was no involvement by anyone at the SSA. We
understood the risks of our decision and actions.

Ron Gleason

Thank you Ron and Ken (and Tim) -- I am fine with all of these
explanations. It just strikes me as a bit extreme that the posts were
removed.

While I have experience as a contest organizer and manager, my
sensitivity on this topic stems from much longer experience as a field
reporter in sanctioned contests (both USPA and FAI). I wasn't in Logan
of course, and I don't mean to second-guess the organizer's actions,
but if I was doing the field reports and the organizer didn't like
them, I hope I'd be given the opportunity to make a correction, as
opposed to being censored! That just makes everybody look bad.

2NO (suffering from lack-of-flying syndrome ... and looking forward to
flying at Logan someday)