Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
I've been on this board for a lot of years but don't keep up with it all that consistently anymore, so maybe I missed something. But I don't see the discussions taking place the past few days/weeks to be any different than any number of discussions we've had over the past years. It appears to me that a lot of the complaints about this thread the past couple of days are really just an attempt to silence dissent.
If you guys want to turn it into strictly a rumor thread, answer a few questions, post a few pictures, exchange BBQ recipes, etc., then I guess that's fine. It'll be one less thing to occupy a slice of my time... which is probably a good thing. Think about it. I can live with whatever you guys decide.
DAL,
I don't think that is what is going on here. I have been on this thread for years also and every once in a while it takes a downturn. Page after page of back and forth with insults, condescension, and degradation thrown in old can get old real fast. (I am not talking about anyone in particular here - see below regarding nuance).
Dissent is needed on this thread. It would be pretty boring with everyone agreeing with each other. What a lot of guys, including myself, don't like to see are the personal insults.
A lot of communication is nonverbal - we lose that on an internet forum and often guys go high and right at the drop of a hat and then berate and belittle fellow DAL pilots. Sometimes this is out of genuine disagreement, but sometimes it is from the lack of nuance we have on the forum. I don't understand why oftentimes many are not willing to give a fellow DAL Pilot the benefit of the doubt.
In either case it is wrong to get personal, and most guys will not even read these posts past a certain point. The poster who sticks to the facts with a well thought out and analytical post will be the first to change anothers opinion on this forum (if that is even possible
).
I really appreciate the divers points of view even though I don't always agree with them.
Scoop