Actually i'm going to agree with you guys, it seems we're getting somewhere.

Potenz makes some good points, as well as Yellopaw and Jimko. Ironically enough, in the end it seems it's our inability to not feed the trolls that starts the downward spiral of "forum dueling".

Reminds me of something i read by a poster in SimHQ once: "The forum is a place where real-time virtual pilots come to play turn-based verbal combat" :-P

Because at the time I didn't realise I could - it's not in the help pages. If you read the whole of my post you'll see I mention doing that.

The poll seems to indicate that something needs to be done but I'll just search Oleg's answers.

Agreed!

...and he's also on my Ignore list, because he can never find it in himself to post anything civil.

There should be two links in each update thread, the update itself then being locked after Oleg has posted his update..

1st link: contains Oleg's statements, questions made directly to Oleg, and Oleg's replies. This is a pure update link.

2nd link: A discussion of the update, and comments made about questions made to Oleg, and any post made in the first link which is not a direct question or suggestion to Oleg - they should be moved here. This is a discussion link.

I believe the moderation of update threads is woeful.

Can't understand why ban hammer is not being used.

Anyone posting anything controversial that is unrelated to the screenshots should get a week ban instantly, and anyone responding should get a one month ban. How hard is it?

Maybe I'm just a bit too old, but isn't "more severe moderation" an oxymoron? (Or, worse yet, a political position?)

Maybe just bad english. Apologies for that.

My feelings are that we should be allowed to discuss all things aviation wise.

Some of the subjective stuff (colours, landscape, smoke etc) is ok but ultimately down to personal preference.

Posts which use one screen shot to highlight a 'problem (when there are several other shots that dont) should be deleted.

Political debates such as the Poland discussion in the current update thread have no real place in a thread to do with development updates.

Overall I'm quite happy with the moderation although I have seen some very petty/childish posts from at least one of the moderators in the past.

Ulitmately it's down to the poster to self censor and to consider what effect what they have to say will have on the thread. Plenty of times I've written out a 'you're wrong' post and then not pressed submit because it would have just kicked off.

Definitely more strictly moderated. Repeat offenders should be banned as written down in the forum rules.