*FLAME-BAIT ALERT*
] 1. The best way to get an offending user dealt with is to send a PM to a moderator.
Sometimes I use the Report Post icon at the upper right corner of a post, to report a post (duh) that’s gone waaay off-topic.
But days later, I don’t scroll back a thread to check whether the mods have done anything, or not, to said post. 8P
] 2. If someone is being a fool, simply ignore them.
ISTR some months ago, two members in this forum were suspended to ROM status (Read-Only Member: can’t post posts (duh)) for two weeks, for them to cool down and decide to continue or not their presences here after the suspension?
Personally, my Avatar (insignia) in the upper left corner of my posts displays my allegiance to a certain air force, but this doesn’t keep me from translating and sharing news of the @#$%^& opposing forces (in Northeast Asia) of said air force. XD
(Besides, this gets my name irregularly published in AFM.)
BTW, I’ve been flame-baiting (especially against certain two or three countries) amongst the soc.culture.* newsgroups in Usenet, only since the late ’80s; so if Gore claimed he helped to invent the Internet, then I claim I helped to make up Netiquette as we were going along. 8P
For (a constructive) example, note my occasional uses of the “*OFF-TOPIC ALERT*” caution in the content or title of a post.
I (attempt to) keep a low noise-to-news ratio here. XD
] Although these forums contain lots of white noise, I like the moderator’s attitude towards it.
IMO, different mods in different forums in this same site have evidently different attitudes (towards my posts in different forums, after I’ve received occasional PMs from a mod or three), and the mods in this “Modern Military Aviation” forum are the most compassionate.
] Indeed I’ve never once seen any racism on this forum which is quite rare on the interwebs to have a forum clean of racist abuse but very good that its not present here at all,
“Dream on, dude.”
Lastly… FWIW, the PLA S-70s are IMO better than the PLA Mi-171s.
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