Originally Posted by overstress
Yes, I do think your comment about risking 'a whole community' is a bit of an over-reaction
Ok, true, as basically all those not egligible for the hallowed halls would still be here.
As Flying Lawyer alludes further above, professional pilots are a patient lot, willing to explain to the interested. I think that perhaps that patience was squeezed to the limit recently when those qualified to comment were frustrated by a continual bombardment of ignorance.
I don't think there's any danger that members of the proposed forum would entirely vacate these hallowed forums, but you might find that a serious thread on, say, B744 flight continuation policy,
might end up with only MS Flight Sim protagonists involved.
And what good would that do? By moving the "quality posters" as you call them out of sight, you'd basically leave this place here to exactly the people you don't want here. And they'd be the only ones visible to the outside, as the elite plays elsewhere and outside the public eye... Now what's more scary?