Beaver
In a post on the 'American crew' thread I stated that the UK vs USA battle should continue on JetBlast. It was adding nothing to the thread and the signal was clearly beginning to become drowned out by the noise.
This advice was unheeded not only by you but by others from the opposition view. I think I deleted two of your posts, but I also deleted four from the UK/Europe side of things. I chose an arbitrary point in the thread history to start this otherwise to be fair I would have to end up deleting every comment not related to the issue. Believe me, I would much rather be doing other things on the site than clearing up squabbles which belong in the playground.
In the same vein, I am not particularly bothered who started it. I
am bothered that none of the antagonists on either side had the common sense to call it a day and continued to post peurile comments slurring each other and other races/nationalities. Since you (collectively) could not demonstrate that the hint had been taken, the post was clearly going to continue spiralling downwards. So I closed it.
Rumours & News has created high expectations from the people who use the site. If they want to trawl through banter and posturing, then that can be found on JetBlast. Time is precious to many of users and as a professional site we should all do our best to make posts in a suitable manner. That means, post in the right forum, obey the rules which Danny has published, and act professionally (except in JetBlast !!).
For the record I am Europe based but get on well with Americans, professionally and socially. Especially over a beer or two
Professor Tailspin
Although we have named moderators for most areas, there is a core group who also have full access rights to all areas of the forum. Given that many of us work strange shift patterns or are constantly jetting off around the world, we tend to keep an overview on most of the site and jump in even if it's not our named Forum.
PS Anyone got any good rumours ??
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