Dont **** off or criticize the retired deltoid. You will be banned faster than a premium pickup disappearing.

 

Retired Deltoid uniform

 

Where’s their hat???

 

Hat is a bad habit.

 

Which mod? PM is fine.

This is a community where most people fall under the bell curve of good intent and sound judgment (even if most of you are wrong!! ).

 

There’s a retired deltoid moderating the United forum? That explains a lot.

 

THIS^^^

thank you

 

Yep.....

This place loves to give out tickets for 5 over.

 

that was pretty good!

 

The rules here, posted in a somewhat convoluted way, are pretty simple. If you’ve been on here any length of time, they should be obvious. These are the majority of infractions:

1. Don’t flame someone, usually by insults. (And/or profane name-calling).

2. No profanity, or disguised profanity.

3. No nudity, whether PG or full pornhub.

4. No Politics. I think we collectively view this as as being of a specific nature; either extolling or eviscerating of particular pols or parties.

5. Religion. As 4 above.

This site was started by two airline pilots. It was and is moderated by current or former airline pilots, save for one.

If you didn’t know, the Mods are just volunteers who were regular posters like you. We were asked to Mod because other Mods felt our posting histories were generally within the Terms of Use, coherent, and free from vitriol.

The site was sold to Internet Brands (IB) a few years ago. Administration, as well as legalese matters regarding the publishing of the rules, has become more difficult for the Mods. Further: the one Employee of IB we had contact with for help and guidance was suddenly terminated two years ago....with no replacement. This rudderless ship is kept afloat by the collective efforts of the Mods.

With maybe one exception, none of the Mods have met each other, spoken by phone, or even know what they look like! There is no formal “training course.” We have PM discussions, and there is general consensus and uniformity to our actions.

Perfect? Hardly. There are grey areas. If you use profanity to insult someone, I’ll clobber you hard. If it is used to emphasize a frustration with a system or process, I might let it slide...although f-bombs and s-bombs get particular scrutiny. Politics: if you say we have a bicameral legislative process with three branches of the Federal government...duh!! That’s OK! But endorsements or castigations of candidates and parties? Nope.

Other grey: a guy who is technically inside of the rules...but is constantly beating the hornet’s nest. I can think of a few. Don’t be a Richard Cranium.

I peruse this site a couple of times a day. If somebody has reported something, I’ll look at it. If a clear violation: no problem. If not so clear? I ask the other Mods.

In the decade-plus I’ve been on this site...there has been a steady erosion of decorum, manners, the polite art of arguing with logic instead of emotion, and just following of the few posted rules. Internet generation and the “I can say what I want on the internet!” syndrome? Maybe. But it doesn’t fly here.

Lastly: if you think a Mod has acted inappropriately, you can PM an Admin or other Mod. But if you think you can denigrate a Mod by beating around the bush and try to publicly throw stones at him?

You’ll get yourselves banned by the other Mods. Guaranteed.

It’s simple. Stay inside the rules. And don’t be a jerk.