Originally Posted by
Lithobraker
I have no ongoing beef with these two forums, nor with the AMA, I just disagreed with some of the language being used on a specific AMA webpage. Being a moderator is a difficult role and I'm not surprised that when my first post after lurking for two years is a long rather undiplomatic one on a charged topic suspicions were raised. To be honest biggest thing I have a problem with is that my admittedly verbose writing style could be confused with that of someone who unironically uses the phrase "The actions of fragile minds!"
Trust me, this isn't about you. I'm not, and have never been, a member of RCG and I still get called out and abused over in that forum. In fact, one of the "so called" members actually refers to me as "Soggy", but only because I run R/C boats. From what I can tell, being a non-member, those that hang out in the AMA area at RCG can't stand anyone to think differently than they do. Worse still, exf3bguy, known over here as speedracerntrixie, sent me a PM saying how we could be friends and then went over to RCG and was ripping my posts(which he cut and pasted or screen shot) apart.
And then, we have Coupez. Here's a cut and paste of a post in which he called me out as "Soggy":
Sorry for the repetition, guys; but I just have to share this one from one of f_m's minions. I'll call him "Soggy" because he plays with boats.
Quote: ...when I said "logging battery changes would be ridiculous since they get changed after every flight", I was referring to an aircraft specific log. If it was me, I would number the packs and keep a log on each showing:
when it was charged
when it was cycled
amount of time used per run/flight
charger indicated pack condition. Well gee, Soggy - I've got seven different 6S 3000mAh packs for that SE-5a I wrote the sample safety incident report on (do be sure to share that one with Franklin, too). That makes EIGHT separate books I have to lug to the field for that combination.
And I didn't just take one plane to the field that day. Matter of fact, it was four different planes and a whole ammo box full of batteries. Seven 6S, six 4S and five 3S. With the four planes, that makes 22 log books just to go have a day's fun at the field!
Now to be fair, my flying field car is the Traverse. But if Soggy got to be National Safety Chief, I'd still have to build a trailer to haul my portable library!
How would he know I have boats unless either he was coming over here and reading the posts or Speedracerntrixie told him. I'm not going to go over and join that forum to correct him on a minor point, that being I BUILD AND RACE BOATS, I DON'T PLAY WITH THEM, as he put it. Hell, my boats are probably more expensive than most, if not all, of his planes are, considering my engines are over $800 each new, including the tuned pipe and header, while the servos I use for the rudders are over $125 each. That roughly $1,000 is only a fraction of what I spend to build a boat. It's too bad that I could buy between 3 and 5 foamies for that same cost.
As you can probably see, it's not those of us here that are the problem. It's the "self righteous" AMA faithful at RCG that are the problem. Maybe, as an admin, you could do something about them and their flagrant rule breaking since, as I've been led to believe, personal attacks are forbidden but appear to by allowed by a special few over there