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Bob Noel wrote:
In article , Stealth Pilot wrote: I suggest joining Pilots of America Well, from where I sit, the title is somewhat exclusive... ditto Which is more important, the title of the web-based forum or lack of usenet sewerage? (of course, I would prefer to have the usenet participants behave themselves, but I'm not holding my breath...) Can't speak for others, but my experience on that group is that it is NOT exclusive in any way at all. In fact, my impression is that they go way out of their way to make ALL pilots feel welcome there. Of course there will always be those from Usenet who believe that simply because the hosts of this forum are from the U.S. that this means it's an "exclusive" group :-)) -- Dudley Henriques |
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On Aug 14, 5:57*am, "Viperdoc" The ignore approach has been
advocated, but there will always be someone who takes the bait, and this starts the endless cycle again. Sad isnt it ? Agree 101 % that the attention starved doofus would just go away if no one responded. I simply offered the alternative, which is Pilots of America, and other boards, that are actually focused on aviation related topics, and not Anthony. Im gonna respectfully disagree on the POA argument. I have made a few passes through that board (And others) and here is what I have noticed. First, this seems to be a close knit group of mostly East Coast pilots who all get together on occasion . While this is good for them, for the rest of us it amounts to a large quantity of non aviation related "Small talk" amongst aquantances that wouldnt hold anyone elses intrest. Second, the level of expertertise and experience over there seems to be quite a bit lower than over here. Once again, this is good for small talk but if you want meaningfull aviation discussion you might keep looking. You can post just about any response you want on POA no mater how inaccurate as long as you dont flame or use expletitives . In fact, they have their own versions of MX over there. They are the ones who know anything about everything and a couple of them sugest or imply much more experience in much bigger airplanes than what they actually have, just like our well known troll. Take a look at the post counters and you can see members with thousands of posts and many of the high post count members also have the least meaningful (Aviation wise) content. I am begining to think that it is just the nature of these groups. FB |
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Dudley,
Give it a try. I might. Thanks for the explanation. -- Thomas Borchert (EDDH) |
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Thomas Borchert wrote: Give it a try. I might. Thanks for the explanation. Note that you might want to avoid the "spin zone"... I think the default is now for new folks not to be subscribed to it. -- Bob Noel (goodness, please trim replies!!!) |
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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. -- Dallas |
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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). -- Bob Noel (goodness, please trim replies!!!) |
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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. -- Regards, Ross C-172F 180HP KSWI |
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
news Can't speak for others, but my experience on that group is that it is NOT exclusive in any way at all. In fact, my impression is that they go way out of their way to make ALL pilots feel welcome there. Of course there will always be those from Usenet who believe that simply because the hosts of this forum are from the U.S. that this means it's an "exclusive" group :-)) I've been to POA a few times but what I personally dislike is the setup of the forums. With over ten different "rooms" that overlap in subject matter it's hard to get a good picture of what's going on without going into each one. When I do reply and/or post, I forget which room I did it in. Granted, I can find threads through searches but it gets real old real quick. I still find myself going to rec.aviation first. Then again, I've got Mx and others on my ignore list so I never see their threads and most related content. Marco |
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Marco Leon wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message news Can't speak for others, but my experience on that group is that it is NOT exclusive in any way at all. In fact, my impression is that they go way out of their way to make ALL pilots feel welcome there. Of course there will always be those from Usenet who believe that simply because the hosts of this forum are from the U.S. that this means it's an "exclusive" group :-)) I've been to POA a few times but what I personally dislike is the setup of the forums. With over ten different "rooms" that overlap in subject matter it's hard to get a good picture of what's going on without going into each one. When I do reply and/or post, I forget which room I did it in. Granted, I can find threads through searches but it gets real old real quick. I still find myself going to rec.aviation first. Then again, I've got Mx and others on my ignore list so I never see their threads and most related content. Marco The venue is different, that's for sure. Some who are used to Usenet will never like a web forum. I have trouble myself sometimes figuring out who is answering whom :-)) The bottom line for me is that ALL forms of public aviation posting have lost their lustre for me, and I don't post anywhere near as often as I used to. To be quite frank, I'm just tired of dealing with it. I still drop a few lines here and there but I've given up long ago caring who agrees or disagrees with me on anything. They say this comes to all who stay on forums for any length of time. There's some truth to it for sure :-)) -- Dudley Henriques |
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On Aug 15, 12:31*am, Stealth Pilot
wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:57:57 +0200, Thomas Borchert wrote: Viperdoc, I suggest joining Pilots of America Well, from where I sit, the title is somewhat exclusive... 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. Terry PPL Downunder. |
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