I hope this is the right place for it, as I notice it here in this forum, but the Mods can move it if they feel it is too risque for this board.

So in the past 72 hours, posts by non-novice flyers, non FT newbies have been a bit over the top...a trend that has been going on for awhile.

An airport that has frequent ATC delays, a poster alludes that the carrier doesn't do maint work to weaken the faith in that carrier (unfounded.)

Anyone who defends UA is name called an "apologist". One doesn't have to defend UA, just state that a flyer has some personal responsibility.

A poster who is in a foreign country and doesn't get what he wants claims that those people (geographic stereotype) can't think outside the box.

I post harsh stuff. It's my style, but I don't make up stereotypes, call ames, make up unfounded accusations. I offend, but I do it in a mostly professional way. Sure, I lose some posters just because of my style, but I know that the form a message is delivered reflects on the poster, and that an entire debate can be lost, even if there are valid points, when a poster goes overboard. State a bunch of facts, and put one lie in it, and everything, even the true stuff becomes suspect.


Can we get away from name calling, sensationalistic baseless accusations and stereotypes? For each of the examples above, there are many many more...this is just what I saw in the last 3 days on this forum. Many of the posts no longer exists as they were removed or edited for such content. Do the Mods have to be babysitters, editing out the insults and deleting the responses?