Everyone in here needs to rachet it down a couple of notches. Some of you probably need to take it down three notches.

I don't care if you love or hate RoF and/or OFF, you need to stop the jabs at each other and resorting to elementary school name calling about whichever sim you do not care for.

It's fine to discuss each sims benefits and weaknesses, but some of you are carrying it to an extreme.

Second that!!!
BadBud
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I second that aswell.
Never understood the hate between people of different simulators. After all, we all love flight simulation!

I think its because people are frustrated with the game and vent at each other, I know I have been guilty for this and I'm sorry to those who I have vented at.

One other thing I think there should be is Middle ground. You automatically get put into a catogory of either a fanboy or you hate the game...

Why do we need to pick a side? I get flamed for being a Rise of flight hater, because I get annoyed at bugs and such. I would like to see some middle ground, I like the game, dislike the pay per plane system, and dislike the bugs. I don't hate the game.

Moderators should be more active inhere, That is the problem here!!!!!

Active or not active, I think that if the community were happy you would see few conflicts in online forums. I don't think moderaters can change this, if the game gets better, people are going to be happy. Happy people are less likely to curse at each other.

But you know, we can't win for losing. If we clamp down we're accused of being heavy handed censors and worse. If we let things go, then it's why don't we be more active.

I, and others on Staff, watch this forum and others on site. My goal is to let people talk, within the bounds of being civil to one another. When the insults start to fly, we step in. Sometimes this is not black & white. There's no book to say what is an insult and who finds things insulting when another doesn't. Everyone is different and their perceptions are as well.

Please do not take it personal and I'm not meaning you are lazy, but if you take a look at RoF-Nq; Combatace and Simouthouse forums you will notice more respect to each other!! Reason is that moderators are more active in communicating to the topic starter / replier, even remove the hole topic or ban the person for a time.


Respect you all
Dutch

Thanks Dutch, no I don't take it personally. Got a pretty thick skin after all the years on these boards.

Without getting into the site versus site comparison, sure, there are different ways to do it. We used to be pretty strict in our moderating (there were reasons for it), and got called jacked booted thugs, Nazis and other nice things. We were accused of wanting a shiny happy place where no dissent was allowed. Well, even then we allowed dissent, we just wanted people to be polite about it.

Fast forward to today. Can we just start banning and editing and deleting threads? Sure. We still have those powers and we use them when the occasion dictates. But we'd rather have a place where people can say what's on their minds without fear of getting thrown out.

Caveat: Don't start abusing and attacking your fellow members. That is a judgment call we make and will make.

Hope that makes sense. Send me a PM if it doesn't.

Make perfect sense to me. Allow active debate and discussion if the poster do not call each other names and attack fellow posters.