Airliners.net Members,

This community exists as a platform to promote and discuss aviation in all facets. This site was built well over two decades ago with the intention of serving aviation lovers of all backgrounds from all over the world.

In recent years, political divisions in the world have spilled over into our aviation community to the detriment of users and countless discussions. Moderators and many users have felt strongly for some time that the Non Aviation Forum has become far too divisive, and has spoiled the original intention for the forum and the site as a whole. A growing number of users in recent years have only joined the site with the sole intention of participating in political discussions, which was never the intention of these forums.

As a result, the Moderators in consultation with the Community Manager have determined that political discussion without an aviation context should no longer have a place in these forums. Political discussions in the Non Aviation Forum will no longer be permitted, and posts made to all forums may only include political comments related to the overall aviation topic. These posts may not be politically biased or intended to be inflammatory — they must be constructive to the topic.

We realize that this decision will upset some users, but we just want to remind everyone that this site exists as an aviation platform first and foremost. Our intention is for this platform to remain as free from divisive political arguments as possible so that everyone can enjoy the site as it was always intended.

These new rules (included below) will be effective as of May 1, 2023 at 00:00UTC. All active political topics in the Non Aviation Forum will begin to be locked on April 24, and new topics should not be created thereafter. Any older discussions should not be commented on in accordance with our six month thread bump rule.

VerticalScope, the site owners of Airliners.net, will be offering a dedicated political discussion forum on another website platform. That information will be provided when it is available for users wishing to continue with political discussions on a related platform.

Regards,
The Moderating Team


Rule Amendment
Rule 1t. Political Discussion
a. As some aviation topics relate to politics, political statements related to aviation are permitted, provided the political discussion is merely to provide context to the discussion. Political commentary without aviation context, with the purpose of being inflammatory or injecting political bias, or comments which are fundamentally a political discussion will be removed in all forums. Political commentary must serve a purpose in all forums.
b. Political discussion unrelated to aviation is not permitted in any forum, including the Non Aviation Forum.
c. Political comments made in any forum which are deemed not to be constructive to the discussion are subject to deletion, and posts deemed to be purposely inflammatory may be subject to a warning or ban.

For those of you interested, here is the link to the political forum:

Political TownHall