Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
I'm agnostic to a "block" feature.
That being said, it still blows my mind that some self-professed adult professional pilots who fly big jets and are spoiling for a fight with the Company are also afraid to participate on a message board because, what, somebody might be mean to them on the internet? IGNORE THEM!
As per above, good for you if you can ignore some frothing-at-the-mouth lunatic suggesting that you eat babies for breakfast if you don't automatically agree that that the Bilderbergs run the universe and/or vaccines cause Carl Icahn. The numbers are in, though, and a very small number of IPA pilots participate in the IPA run (and funded) message board. Why do you imagine that might be? I mean sure, maybe we're all lazy and wouldn't be there anyway, but at least for my part I don't put my oar in the water very often because it's like asking for four or five totally insane but very persistent stranger-enemies forever with no upside, since (as Russel points out), any legitimate question is liable to get buried in the same old Nickelback, over and over again.
You're right that there is good info on the B&G. I still browse. But the signal to noise is ridiculous, and I think it's totally reasonable to expect for it to be better. Better than it is, currently, isn't a big ask, and it would bring back all of those people who sniffed the poison and said "no, thanks". We want everyone involved, right?