locked treads on IL-2 Sturmovik Forum

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

So far the new il-2 forum has been a pleasant place to visit. I hope the more rigorous moderation will continue and that it will help re-educate the community and teach them to conduct themselves better. I don't know why the moderation here has been so very poor for so many years. Whether it was laziness, personal agendas, or whether they just weren't sophisticated enough to make good decisions. Whatever the reason, there is ample evidence to show that they have failed in their duties. The degree of bullying, slander and relentless goading that goes on daily here is truly shameful. The forum seems to bring out the worst in every personality, and not a single one of us is free of blame for that. I'm just as dismayed by the demise of Cliffs' as anybody else, but one upshot of the entire debacle is that we might one day be able to put this place behind us.

The moderators had a really difficult job here. I think their over-riding concern since the launch was to allow for free speech and honestly expressed opinions as much as possible. It was a thankless and near impossible task. Whatever they did they would annoy someone or other. People were banned when they really over-stepped the mark, as Tree's repeated absences showed.

If they had clamped down really hard a year ago there would have been a backlash with (some) people complaining of over-zealousness and blocking of free speech.

Maybe with hindsight (?) that would have been a price worth paying? But I don't think it would have changed the final outcome.

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

'bullying, slander and relentless goading',

I usually have taken a stance of either accepting people's right to express what they feel or have tried to respond respectfully and carefully with reasoned arguments where I may disagree, BUT recently it has gone beyond where this is an adequate response, with certain people repeatedly attacking forum members and other sims in the most personal, unbalanced, aggressive and unreasonable way, despite having their 'points' repeatedly shown to be unfounded.

When logic doesn't work and when they won't stop trying to shove you around it is finally time to start pushing back in the same manner they use...
or walk away completely...something that may yet be the best idea.