Let's move on

As I've mentioned on other threads, I REALLY like the AOPA board (I
have not tried out POA or the purple board). I agree that the
interface is not nearly as good as some Usenet clients out there
(though I just use Google Groups due to Time Warner dropping Usenet,
and their interface ain't all that great either).

terry writes:

I joined POA ( I am an Aussie also for those that dont know), and
while there is certainly no discrimination against non americans, I
find that interesting aviation discussions are few and far between
amongst the general chit chat. Its more like a social chat board than
a genuine aviation discussion group. I guess thats what you might
expect to happen when you have strict rules about how people have to
interact with each other, the friendly types stay around and become
good friends, nothing wrong with that of course but I already have
enough friends ( 3 counting my wife) and I just want somewhere to go
and talk technical stuff about flying.

Talking about serious issues on which people have strong opinions tends to
lead to arguments, and many poorly moderated forums get around this by
simplying outlawing any serious discussion. They don't do this in so many
words, but the character of the moderation is such that nothing but friendly
small talk survives.

The fact is, when people discuss conflicting and strong opinions, most rapidly
resort to personal attacks, degrading the quality of discussion. Few people
can remain objective when defending their own opinions or when addressing
other opinions with which they disagree. Social chit-chat avoids this,
although it's not very interesting. People who have opinions that they've
adopted wholesale from others (that is, opinions that they have not arrived at
through personal reflection, which makes the opinions impossible to defend)
are particularly prone to fall prey to emotion in very short order.

This is why moderated forums are relatively free of stressful flame wars, but
are also generally very boring and uninformative. Conversely, this is why
unmoderated forums can cover fairly weighty subjects, but at the price of very
high noise levels and extremely acerbic personal flame wars.

Anthony has a penchant for stating the obvious, but never acknowledging his
own errors. He never substantiates his outlandish claims with actual
citations. His own warped sense of reality is simply based upon playing a
computer game.

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:52:34 -0500, Viperdoc wrote:

For the real pilots and students, I suggest joining Pilots of America, a
moderated group. It is what this NG used to be, before it was ruined by
Anthony and his likes.

I donno... web based forums suffer from being slow and cumbersome to use.
Besides, the couple of times I've been there, I didn't see any familiar
names and just never got excited about what was there.



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Dallas

In article ,
Dallas wrote:

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:52:34 -0500, Viperdoc wrote:

For the real pilots and students, I suggest joining Pilots of America, a
moderated group. It is what this NG used to be, before it was ruined by
Anthony and his likes.

I donno... web based forums suffer from being slow and cumbersome to use.
Besides, the couple of times I've been there, I didn't see any familiar
names and just never got excited about what was there.

well, there are currently more on-topic threads than in the rec.aviation.* groups

(ps - I much prefer the usenet gui - the web-based stuff is worse than
cumbersome).

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Bob Noel
(goodness, please trim replies!!!)

Dallas wrote:
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:52:34 -0500, Viperdoc wrote:

For the real pilots and students, I suggest joining Pilots of America, a
moderated group. It is what this NG used to be, before it was ruined by
Anthony and his likes.

I donno... web based forums suffer from being slow and cumbersome to use.
Besides, the couple of times I've been there, I didn't see any familiar
names and just never got excited about what was there.




I now have filters that excludes the known troll traffic. (and Bertie
has shown he can defeat it). I do like this forum for its ease of use. I
like the suggestion to just ignore and do not respond - never, ever. If
it is a safety issue then start a new thread and discuss the topic.
Hopefully, the old regulars will check and migrate back. I would like to
see more discussion on R.A.O.

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Regards, Ross
C-172F 180HP
KSWI

The GUI of POA is cumbersome and hard to follow. It's main advantage (and
it's a big one) is that Anthony is not there!