This site is getting more and more ridiculous!

[LookingForAJob]

Earlier today there was a thread running in R&N about hot air balloon safety to which I contributed. OK, it's not mainstream and it's not really R or N - and now the thread has disappeared.

But out of curiosity to see if all traces have been erased for some reason, I did a search. And the thread still exists - it's just in a forum that doesn't exist! I wonder how many other forums exist but no one knows about?

It's bad enough that the quality of the aviation content often attains a level lower than seemed possible just a moment before I read a message. And the moderation is hard to understand much of the time. But it just seems crazy that the people who run the site - and who should know how to set the software up - appear to have created at least one forum that isn't listed for the average and common user that I am.

Or am I having finger trouble?

And why do I even care???? :ugh:

[Saab Dastard]

LFAJ,

You are quite right, the forum to which that thread was moved is indeed inaccessible to the general public. This was as a result of the last site re-organization last year.

The thread was moved there in error, and will be re-instated to a visible forum once the moderator involved recovers from the 1000 lashes he has received as punishment for his oversight.

SD

[lomapaseo]

will we have to guess where it is finally moved or will some sort of remnant be left behind in its initial resting place?

[Saab Dastard]

It has been moved to Non Airline Transport Stuff and the forum resurrected such that it is now visible.

The moderator involved is recovering well from his punishment.

SD

[lomapaseo]

I can only imagine what goes on behind the scenes of moderators.

I was given the keys one day to be a moderator and I was totally at a lost to many of the new buttons that could be pushed.

Just to learn I would try some out and more than once the site went down. Fortunately the site owner never managed to figure out who pushed the wrong buttons.

[Saab Dastard]

Fortunately(?) the majority of moderators don't have administrative access, so it's difficult for us to break things, despite fervent button-pushing.

SD