Originally Posted by
Senior Pilot
Much the same as a few years ago: whilst this is entertaining to those involved your spotters threads are turning into a parlour game with only a few participants.
Up to all of you to share with other PPRuNers or face the chop. I expect to see at least 24 hours between new entries to give those outside the UK the chance to feel part of this forum; the same applies to the other two spotters threads.
I do feel rather disappointed by Senior Pilot's comments that "
whilst this is entertaining to those involved your spotters threads are turning into a parlour game with only a few participants." and I find the terms used (emboldened by me) to be quite offensive!
The subject aircraft are not the type found in airport Spotters Recognition Books and considerable historical and technical research is required, both to select them for a challenge and for the viewing PPRuNers to try and identify! It is quite a difficult quiz, not a frivolous parlour game!! It is true that there are few participants, but this is the nature of this level of quiz, but challenges or Open Houses are often left up for the "night-shift", so we are far from excluding non-UK PPRuNers. Also, I must point out that there are many, many
viewers, who do enjoy following these quizzes from comments that I've heard and I'm sure a lot of these are outside of the UK.
Well, it has been over 25 hours since I declared OH "
to give those outside the UK the chance to feel part of this forum" as INSTRUCTED by Senior Pilot above! I'm not sure why he feels we are not giving PPRuNers worldwide a chance to participate!
This is a relatively new thread and in only 14 pages to date, it has had contributions from the USA, Canada and the Netherlands. There is a similar if not larger ratio of non-UK posts on the other two of these quiz threads, so just what is the problem?
I cannot see that any house rules have been broken (apart from after re-reading those rules, that I may have broken one of them by posting links to a relevant picture on a popular aircraft site rather than wasting bandwidth/storage space here by uploading said images). The only objection seems to be the perceived hogging of the threads by a few participants, but there is and always has been plenty of opportunity for others to join in and they are never met with hostility and are always made welcome!
So what effect has Senior Pilot's intervention had? There has been no flood of overseas contributions to this or the other two threads, in fact a complete absence of any posts at all from anywhere on any of the three Quiz threads!! However, from the "View" figures, over 600 interested, probably disappointed PPRuNers have come and looked at these apparently stalled threads.
I do not feel inclined to take up my own Open House at this time, but will leave it OH, so that others may avail themselves for a further period!
What would be really nice, is that some of the many viewers or would be contestants would leave their (respectable) views on the situation regarding the interest and value they see in these threads so a reasonable and impartial judgement can be arrived at!
Thank you for your time, TC