Gordon,

Yes. I do see some of our points. I do hope that my posts did not indicate that I was endorsing or refuting any claims that were being made against Tamjets or his products. I do not have all the necessary information at my disposal to make that determination either way.

When these cases come up we rely on the companies to point out that a post is untrue, cannot be backed up and is damaging. In those cases we gather the evidence and we also defer to both the jet moderators and often a group of active jet modelers in here to confirm if the posts are factual or if they are false. If they are proven to be false we remove them. False statements and bad information help nobody. If the posts are true or likely to be true we will let them stand regardless of whether damaging to a company or not. The goal here is to get accurate info out and keep the false info off the site.

Next, some of the material I would have preferred to communicate in private but when certain issues or claims bubble up in these public threads towards RCU or me that are not true I do feel the need to address them in here because once somebody reads those posts then this thread is the only way to communicate to the masses what is true and what is not. If I took it all private many would be left with information I know to be false which is potentially damaging to RCU's reputation. I have in my possession all communications by all parties involved to backup everything I've stated here. I only want people to know the truth regarding what was said as it related to RCU.

The matter of Tam pulling the plug and the post that upset him which started this snowball is yet to be determined but my lines are all open if Tam or any of his reps want to supply us with additional information regarding which posts were made along with any backup information to show why the post(s) was/were not factual as Tam has stated.

What is difficult for me is that either me or one of the senior moderators here gets charged with playing judge and jury. None of us like being in that position. If you make a mistake and remove a post that might have been true you could risk loss from safety issues that could have been avoided. If you leave a post that is false you could damage a company from a post with no merits and also if bad advice somebody could get hurt.

Perhaps a board of advisors of 7-10 jet guys that everyone agrees on in here could be established to vote on "problem" posts and whether they should be removed when these problems should arise? That way any decisions are by way of a larger consensus of modelers in the thick of things. Since many feel that everyone has their bias here the panel would have to be a cross sectional representation of all vendors in some way. However this is something to discuss in another thread. I would like to keep this thread on the original topic and if a panel or something seems to be a good idea then we can pursue it in another thread.

FYI, I will say this sort of thing on all of RCU is a pretty rare occurrence in the scheme of things. Vendor complaints of false statements do happen but if I had to count them all up I'd say less than 20 or 30 per year max. It isn't a frequent occurrence. Half the time the reports are accurate and we pull the plug and the other half we keep them as they are substantiated.