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Recently, Andreas Tschoeke posted:

Crash Lander schrieb:

I think a lot of the agro towards Mxsmanic is due to the fact that he
doesn't even try to research the answers himself. he just expects
others to spoon feed him the answers.

Hi Crash,

agreed; the manner in which he is posting and the justification of his
posts are quite questionable, but you cannot possibly deny that the
posts he started contain valuable information.

The signal to noise ratio people complain about would greatly
diminish, if those who dislike his 'personality' would simply start
to ignore him altogether, as has been said endlessly already. After
all, most of the 'noise' in his threads consists of the contributions
of peolple discussing the pros and cons of his posts/questions which,
admittedly, has nothing to do with aviation, be it simulated or RL.
This obviously is also true for this very post ...

:-) Andreas

I disagree with this assessment. "Noise" is that which obfuscates the
"signal", making it difficult to determine the true message. In this
context, the "noise" is mostly from Mxsmanic's factually incorrect claims,
as the other posts and OT reponses may have little to do with the message
and therefore won't obfuscate the information. What angers some, myself
included, is that some of the misinformation that Mxsmanic posts as fact
would be quite dangerous for a student pilot to accept as true. OTOH, the
responses from others that reflect frustration in dealing with such
misinformation give "color" to the readers of the thread, and should help
them to catch on that this person really has nothing to contribute with
regard to flying real aircraft. So, over all, the signal to noise is
*improved* by these contributions because they function as a "noise
filter".

Neil