What is the best thing about pprune for you ?
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I could never understand why forums which are not exactly short of moderator manpower allow personal attacks, and obvious trolling. Pprune is not the only one that allows it; most do.
Cynically one might say it is done because it greatly improves advertising revenue, but is that really the reason?
Cynically one might say it is done because it greatly improves advertising revenue, but is that really the reason?
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What is the best thing about pprune for me?
Pace, I'm glad you asked that! Pilots just love to talk about flying, I just love sharing my adventures. People not interested in flying seem a bit dull to me now. I only found out about Pprune when Sully went splash a few years back; some newspaper mentioned the P word, I looked it up, and after being flamed a couple of times for inappropriate contributions, am still yakking away on line.
Other forums exist, eg. the glider pilot one, or Flyer Forums, but neither work as well in layout and presentation and ease of use. And both can be quite childish, and pedantic. So can ppruners, but it is a broad church with a lot of variety of experience and good sense. There are a lot of good people out there who are getting on in years, like me, who make extraordinry contributions; particularly PJ2.
But I do miss Ghengis the Engineer.
Other forums exist, eg. the glider pilot one, or Flyer Forums, but neither work as well in layout and presentation and ease of use. And both can be quite childish, and pedantic. So can ppruners, but it is a broad church with a lot of variety of experience and good sense. There are a lot of good people out there who are getting on in years, like me, who make extraordinry contributions; particularly PJ2.
But I do miss Ghengis the Engineer.
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I came to PPrune via Cockpit Conversation (adventures of a Canadian Aviatrix.)
Apart from an interest in Aviation and things floaty and BROOOM,BROOOOM
Its the general level of intellect, the cameraderie, the broad spectrum of backgrounds,technical knowledge and debate. The banter, Jet blast......
Like Mary, I've made the odd (very!) post which was ill-advised and been jumped-on....but, hey , it's the internet!
GTE is alive and well and this particular web of intrigue will, no doubt , eventually come into the public domain..through his ban, i found Flyer, so, another gain for me!(and a lot of familiar names there!
A few bolshie professionals,very up themselves (see heli/crane thread in Rotorheads) but the vast majority tolerate and engage with the likes of me and my ilk,hopefully to the benefit of us all.
did I mention the "anything(almost) goes that is Jetblast?....it is what it is, even if the likes of Slasher does get kicked off for a while,-but his outrageous, irreverent and politically incorrect (verging on obscene
) posts are always good for a chuckle.
Even stuff like the "buggger, I've got cancer" thread....little Aviation content, but brings humanity to the screen-names
Yes! Mods can appear over-zealous at times,but they're volunteers at a thankless task,so when I get another post deleted, ...well,it's just a virtual conversation,in a virtual club, that got a virtual ignore.
All in all, a good forum, populated by a good bunch of regular contributors.
Apart from an interest in Aviation and things floaty and BROOOM,BROOOOM
Its the general level of intellect, the cameraderie, the broad spectrum of backgrounds,technical knowledge and debate. The banter, Jet blast......
Like Mary, I've made the odd (very!) post which was ill-advised and been jumped-on....but, hey , it's the internet!
GTE is alive and well and this particular web of intrigue will, no doubt , eventually come into the public domain..through his ban, i found Flyer, so, another gain for me!(and a lot of familiar names there!
A few bolshie professionals,very up themselves (see heli/crane thread in Rotorheads) but the vast majority tolerate and engage with the likes of me and my ilk,hopefully to the benefit of us all.
did I mention the "anything(almost) goes that is Jetblast?....it is what it is, even if the likes of Slasher does get kicked off for a while,-but his outrageous, irreverent and politically incorrect (verging on obscene
) posts are always good for a chuckle.Even stuff like the "buggger, I've got cancer" thread....little Aviation content, but brings humanity to the screen-names
Yes! Mods can appear over-zealous at times,but they're volunteers at a thankless task,so when I get another post deleted, ...well,it's just a virtual conversation,in a virtual club, that got a virtual ignore.
All in all, a good forum, populated by a good bunch of regular contributors.
