Originally Posted by Full of Foehn
You yourself said this forum welcomes those other than "aerospace grownups." And how did the nature of this thread fall outside of the definition you offer above? I agree that this forum is well run and very useful; however, that does not mean that the moderators are faultless in their duties, nor does it mean that they are without bias.
It just seems that this thread was not allowed to run its course. If it was so bad, why not tranfer it, in its entirety, to "Jet Blast?"
It's a forum for "aerospace grownups", that doesn't mean that it doesn't welcome others - only where the culture and rules get set. I think that we'd all accept that moderators get it wrong - you should see some of the occasional, err, discussions on the mods forum!
I should emphasise that I'm only expressing a personal opinion here - I don't moderate this bit of Pprune, merely participate.
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