Sabremech wrote:
Hi Mark,
I did what you're contemplating doing and deleted my photobucket account because I got upset. I regret it now and am contemplating rebuilding that thread as I have all of the F86 photos still.
I know the thread your talking about that got you all riled up and to be honest, it was fine until you jumped in on a high horse. Contrary to what you think, that thread is not running off WIX members in droves.
If you feel you must go, well go. I hope the best for you, but I won't buy into begging you to stay.
David
"... it was fine until you jumped in on a high horse. "
I'm pretty new here, and that is my assessment, too.
I've had a trying few weeks and a just a day or so ago buried my father, I came to WIX for some light relief and was pretty much stunned by the over-the-top commentary. I've had 'run-ins' with a few of the folks in the relevant thread, but I learned long ago just to let things go, I've seen threads in some parts of the Internet where antagonists have been 'having-a-go' for years, no solutions, no advancement of ideas or position, just two or ore people wasting their lives -for Lord's sake, it is the Internet, not real life.
Sure my dander gets up at times, but I am adult enough and mature enough to eventually 'get' that I am not going to change a view or convert someone even if I tie the adversary up with piano wire and pull their fingernails out...so getting angry at a keyboard is pointless.
The easiest thing to do with a thread you don't like is ignore it, I was amused by Mark's criticising the existence of the thread then increases its post count, I have not been here long but Mark's contribution has been noted eve by me, so it would be a shame if he left and took his contribution with him.
That thread was just bumbling along, pretty insignificant in the WWW really, and Mark made errors in his comments -eg, thinking that no critic of THAT organization had the balls to confront the organization itself, which was plainly wrong to anyone who had read the whole thread...he originally admitted to not reading the whole thread -that is ALWAYS setting oneself up for a fall.
I do feel his reaction over-the-top, and, with a tinfoil hat on, I do wonder the real motivation to critique the thread and its posters, and leave WIX. Hearsay has it he is using his removal of contribution as a threat/blackmail/bargaining chip -I have no idea- but the situation is of his own making, he chose to go into that thread guns blazing, accusing people of not confronting THAT organization directly, when that is exactly what has been happening; critics of THAT organization are here because there is no peer-review on their site, you toe-the-line or get banned.
We all have our own view, sometimes I do wonder why there is a thread about a civilian Electra in a forum for military aircraft -although I guess David Billings East New Britain hypothesis has merit in that it could have been a military plane the Diggers found lol
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I couldn't help but laugh my butt off !! 
