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CaptHadley wrote:Is it better? No, to be blunt it sucks compared to when it was a paid membership site. Case in point the non-aviation section. You'll have someone sign up, post hundreds of things related to one subject, drumpf, then disappear. Those of us with half a brain realize it's the same person. This place will never be the same until they return it to a paid membership.
CGIES wrote:Have been reading the forums and using this site for many years and used to spend hours reading the forums, loved trip reports. Well I’m sad to say this site is nothing but a shadow of its former self. Don’t know why exactly - trip reports I guess fare much better on YouTube but the forums are just, well boring now and not that easy to navigate. Massive topics seem grouped together and everything is so US centric. I would have thought the whole point of the internet is to see quick up to date info easily accessible but it just isn’t on this site. Just some mega posts if you can face wading through them. I get the content is only as good as us contributors but it doesn’t help how that content is accessible and grouped. It’s also tedious reading about the same US majors and whether x is better than y. I used to spend maybe 2 or 3 hours a time on this site occasionally but now it’s never more than 5 minutes. Personally I think it’s time to let the forums die and concentrate on the photo library which is still an excellent asset. It’s a shame, I really miss the airliners.net of old……. These days much more interesting are Instagram/ YouTube channels. Airliners.net I’m sorry is a stuffy, dusty library in comparison. No malice intended and just how I feel as an individual.
HAWK21M wrote:Ive been visiting this forum from 2001, however with more options on Social media over the years & work , the time devoted to A.net has reduced.
Also since 80% of my posts were in Tech/Ops Forum , I have noticed a decline in quality of the experienced Aviators there over time.
9w748capt wrote:HAWK21M wrote:Ive been visiting this forum from 2001, however with more options on Social media over the years & work , the time devoted to A.net has reduced.
Also since 80% of my posts were in Tech/Ops Forum , I have noticed a decline in quality of the experienced Aviators there over time.
The India related discussions are 1% of what they used to be. Did most Indian posters move elsewhere? Or just on to better things in life?
HAWK21M wrote:9w748capt wrote:The India related discussions are 1% of what they used to be. Did most Indian posters move elsewhere? Or just on to better things in life?
I guess they moved on to other Social media options.Although Some have moved on from Aviation too.
atcsundevil wrote:HAWK21M wrote:9w748capt wrote:The India related discussions are 1% of what they used to be. Did most Indian posters move elsewhere? Or just on to better things in life?
I guess they moved on to other Social media options.Although Some have moved on from Aviation too.
For several years, those discussions often become — let's just say, problematic. There were a number of users who seem to have joined around roughly the same time, and they would absolutely go to war with each other in those threads. I think it got to the point that several of them were warned or banned on so many occasions that they either gave up and went elsewhere or weren't permitted to return. Discussions on Indian aviation are unquestionably some of the most impassioned and heated discussions I've ever seen on this forum. There's nothing wrong with being passionate, but unfortunately that can cross the line into becoming personal, which it often did in those discussions. They seem to have calmed down about two years ago, and now it's rarely an issue for us. Certainly our intent was never to stifle discussion, but when people are turning to disrespectful language, we have no choice but to step in. That's the only reason I chose to become a moderator years ago was to at least attempt to make this place a little bit more positive.
HAWK21M wrote:Moderation can be tough, but at times a troublemaker posts a controversial post in a good debated thread & the moderator instead of realising the troublemakers intent to block the thread and only removing the offending post sadly blocks the entire thread killing a good debate & demotivating others
atcsundevil wrote:HAWK21M wrote:9w748capt wrote:The India related discussions are 1% of what they used to be. Did most Indian posters move elsewhere? Or just on to better things in life?
I guess they moved on to other Social media options.Although Some have moved on from Aviation too.
For several years, those discussions often become — let's just say, problematic. There were a number of users who seem to have joined around roughly the same time, and they would absolutely go to war with each other in those threads. I think it got to the point that several of them were warned or banned on so many occasions that they either gave up and went elsewhere or weren't permitted to return. Discussions on Indian aviation are unquestionably some of the most impassioned and heated discussions I've ever seen on this forum. There's nothing wrong with being passionate, but unfortunately that can cross the line into becoming personal, which it often did in those discussions. They seem to have calmed down about two years ago, and now it's rarely an issue for us. Certainly our intent was never to stifle discussion, but when people are turning to disrespectful language, we have no choice but to step in. That's the only reason I chose to become a moderator years ago was to at least attempt to make this place a little bit more positive.
eta unknown wrote:I agree several of those users were very angry people- I remember the Aeroflot Moscow transit fiasco for Indian nationals and the venom that spilled if you tried to explain that what was alleged and what was shown in a clipped video were not necessarily the same story from the same point of view- I'd never seen anything like that before and hope to never see it again!