Rusty A300
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">go back and read my postings again. I'm sure you'll find there's nothing offensive or selfish about them at all.</font>
Really ?? This next quote might seem a tad offensive to some who give up their time and effort to keep the board running the best they can for the benefit of everyone. Especially to those of us with links to Zimbabwe.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">What are we running here, a one-party-state? Oh darn, a question. And it's not even about a rumour or news. I guess you'll have to move this one too! Or even better; why don't you just have the last word and then close the thread, Robert Mugabe?</font>
For every one who complains about the locking of threads, we have at least another one (and probably a lot more) who take the trouble to e-mail the crew at Admin and tell us how they feel the Rumours & News Board is being diluted by irrelevant threads. What was the registration of the rusty A300 at Kinshasha ? Which is best, Airbus or Boeing ? That sort of thing. These questions can quite clearly be answered by the people on PPRuNe, however they ain't necessarily Rumours nor News, so they get moved to a Forum more in keeping with their genre. The vast majority have asked for a focused R&N Forum and (by listening to them), that's what we try to achieve. We're not foolish enough to think that we are 100% successful, but by and large things get moved for a good reason. As you can read on other threads, quite often this is done quickly, or when suffering from jet lag, and laborious explanations are not always provided as to the reason for the move. That, unfortunately, is sometimes the only way that the moderators can get through the entire site and have at least some semblance of a social life.
I take RD's point about moving the threads lock, stock, and barrel as a possible way forward. The only potential downside is more threads from people saying 'Where's my thread gone ?'
That could be solved by his suggestion of re-directing and it sounds good to me if it can be automated. I certainly don't want to start having to write out the new URL manually. Perhaps PPRuNe Dispatcher can come up with some clever solution to that one.
Bonaero
I think you'll find that we don't throw people out just because they disagree with us, that's not against the rules of the site. The very few that we have thrown out have been for things like posting links to porn sites or inciting racism or intolerance. Differences of opinion are inevitable, that's life. Indeed, it would all be a bit sterile if there wasn't two sides to most of the things we see here on PPRuNe.
Comments are always welcome, though please don't be too offended if we don't always agree with them. That's OUR part of this democracy. And everyone has the ultimate freedom of choice in visiting the site. Nobody is forced to stay, but nor are they forced to leave.
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